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Global:- Design and oversight of global transparency program; conducting "spend discovery" with affiliates; and recommendations for IT solutions;- Identifying requirements and analyzing applicability, in conjunction with Legal;- Driving initiatives to improve the consistency of data across businesses, to support transparency, compliance monitoring, and internal auditing;- Coordinating with other corporate functions such as travel, purchasing, and finance on both process and system changes to ensure transparency needs are addressed during globalization initiatives;- Driving use of new analytics and data visualization tool to support assessing global risks, trends, and expenditures, resulting in substantial financial savings in consulting and IT fees as well as greatly reducing the time and effort needed to develop visualizations.US- Designed and built transparency program, including drafting tracking and code of conduct policies and requirements for IT solution; - Identified need for IT solution to facilitate correction of data loaded to transparency repository, and worked extensively with vendor to develop, starting in 2010;- Created state and voluntary reports from raw data;- Analyzed data, created metrics on timing, accuracy and completeness, and made recommendations/issued requirements for process improvements;- Prepared for and reported data pursuant to corporate integrity agreement;- Supervised and developed team of analysts (1 - 3, at varying times)

Broad regulatory practice, including food & drug, insurance, environmental, non-profit, and telecommunications.

Analysis and development of regulatory-based compliance programs for a broad range of clients including small to mid-sized manufacturing companies and a large privately-funded life sciences research institute.For the life sciences client, developed all regulatory compliance programs from inception and substantially supported for most of 5 years. Programs developed include those to comply with federal research grant requirements (including drafting operating procedures for many committees); embryonic stem cell research requirements; animal welfare laws; environmental laws; local business licensing; etc.)