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Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Guiding technology strategy and accelerating the growth of human knowledge by helping to build leading edge capabilities to support research through data sharing on the Vivli platform.

• Helping organizations in GxP spaces develop the next generation of GxP compliant software to meet today's needs.
• GAMP consulting and system design
• 21 CFR Part 11 compliance consulting and design
• ICH Q9 / ICH Q10 compliance, management and consulting
• Audit preparation & support
• Audit / CAPA remediation and management

Ann Arbor, MI, US

Leading an amazing team and building a fantastic product that accelerates research and enables clinical study research recruitment and retention.* Recruited development team* Increased revenue by 250% over 2 years* Opened market to enterprise sales by achieving SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance* Increased ACV by 400%* Efficiently grew.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Leading several teams around the world to develop next-generation library management systems. Removing barriers to bring library resources to patrons transparently and efficiently. Responsibilities:
• Direct 5 software development teams across the globe to build best-in-class SaaS solutions with a mix of onshore and offshore teams
• High level solution architecture and technical roadmapping for B2B library management solutions and engagement platforms
• Driving of best-practices from both a software development and process standpoint
• Process engineering to support product management idea pipelines from concept through delivery
• Driving cloud-first solution transitionAccomplishments:

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Responsibilities:
• Managing several dynamic software teams developing and managing amazing products for the ProQuest Pi2 Business unit.
• Responsible for delighting demanding customers while meeting the stringent regulatory needs required for deploying and hosting FDA/EMA regulated software on behalf of top Pharma customers.
• Responsible for budgetary planning, monitoring, and control for the Pi2 Technology business unit. Including managing regulatory compliance, audit support, and process management for validated software.
• Replatformed application from dedicated server-hosted to AWS in a validated context, leading to 50% cost reduction while improving performance and reliability
• Drove a 95% reduction in GxP audit findings through improved development, documentation and testing practices.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Responsible leading a dispersed team in a challenging technical environment into a coherent, agile, and performant unit. Accomplishments:
• Took over an acquired business's software dev team that needed hands-on coaching to come up to speed on modern software development techniques
• Built the team through coaching, recruitment and promotion
• Developed long-term architectural roadmap which allowed refactoring to be progressed without stopping new feature development. Allowed product which had captured a leading market position to continue to maintain that.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Providing technical leadership and building a market-leading application for ProQuest.Responsibilities:
• Leading architecture and design for 6 teams of software developers
• Designing solutions that would both support existing customers and market-share while refactoring for long-term sustainability and growth
• Advance the state-of-the-art for the teamsAccomplishments:
• Refactored core algorithms to support massively higher scalability
• Introduced Amazon Web Services and began an architectural roadmap to leverage it

New York, NY, US

• Team mentoring, system design, and technical leadershipAccomplishments:
• Refactor of custom Lucene searching extensions to create an extensive permissioning system in search
• Increased content ingestion pipeline performance by 400%
• Prototyped several javascript based technologies for long-term migration

Detroit, MI, US

• Built powerful business workflow systems to reduce costs and increase competitiveness through process automation and reporting.Major Accomplishments:
• Designed and implemented extensible rules driven workflow engine to progress business documents through the organization
• Replatformed a large Notes Domino based application to a J2EE based application
• Implemented system redundancy through application load balancers and high-availability database systems

Responsible for maintaining and growing IT infrastructure for a small, rapidly growing companyDevelopment and implementation of 150 user Virtual Private Network based remote access system utilizing Cisco VPN IOS 12.0. Resulting in $40,000/month cost savingsLead programmer and analyst for a $1 million systems conversion from JD Edwards to.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Computer Science