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East Walpole, Ma

Proactively seek opportunities to define and implement business information system improvements, with priority to projects that enhance product and process quality, increase organizational efficiency and provide visibility to business value. - Business Analyst and Project Manager for a multi-phase upgrade to an internally-developed Statistical Process Control software, deployed globally across 5 Siemens manufacturing sites; elicit requirements across global teams, author user and functional requirements, validation tests and reports, training materials and quality documentation; transitioning team to agile development approach within a regulated environment- Walpole site Agile Product Owner for a cross-site deployment of Azure DevOps for management of product development lifecycle data; local DevOps power user

Cambridge, Ma

- Product Owner and Business Analyst for internal development (modified agile) of a new screening data and user management system; drove design of new business rules and user roles with stakeholders, implementing a staged deployment to replace legacy system; devised creative solutions and negotiated consensus for adoption across 5 research programs having very different data and asset security requirements- Product Owner and Business Analyst for internal development (agile) of a web-based work flow to support data submission to the NIH PubChem database, reducing the effort required to publish data from 8 hours to 2, saving over 1 FTE per year- Configured commercial analytics software (independent contributor) to create an invoicing process that tracked and compiled services delivered by the department's Specialized Services Facility

- Appointed and led a team of 6 application engineers (interfacing to end users and the software engineering team), with day-to-day oversight of their work to define, validate, deploy and support critical informatics systems, including 4 custom and 6 integrated commercial applications- Improved the informatics support provided by the group with initiation of root cause tracking and full resolution documentation, enabling shorter issue resolution times; increased adoption of the system 4.7-fold over 1 year through mandated process changes and user awareness

Cambridge, Ma

- Worked with chemists to generate and standardize the data describing the Initiative for Chemical Genomics small molecule collection; included chemical database management and graph enumeration (SDF/SMILES/InChI)

Somerville, Ma

- Delivered application configuration projects as the Product Manager supporting a large services contract to a pharma client; grew the user base > 3-fold over 2 years through outreach and response to user needs - Supported deployment of the DecisionSite software platform to various pharma clients; prepared data analysis templates and work flows in response to specific customer data mining needs; designed and delivered custom support and training materials - Provided requirements to internal development team to drive product advances through 2 major upgrades

Waltham, Ma

- Led a cross-functional team that completed a successful IND filing for a peptide therapy in multiple sclerosis, positioning the company for the start of a Phase I/II clinical study- Supervised many of the preclinical evaluations supporting the drug candidate transition to clinical studies, including studies on safety, pharmacology, mechanism of action and biomarker discovery

Malvern, Pa

- Provided key patent support for a therapeutic monoclonal antibody, with studies to elucidate mechanism of action and external collaborations to identify epitope specificity

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Immunology

PhD thesis in T Cell repertoire development and autoimmune response. Training in cell biology, molecular biology, in vivo studies.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biochemistry

Research training and undergraduate thesis in organic chemistry. American Institute of Chemists Award for Outstanding Scholastic.

Computer Programming, Specific Applications