Andrew Smith Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Acted as a trusted advisor to clients across a diverse range of industries and functional units. My role is to assist Senior Executives in creating their business strategies and translate these strategies into business design, in order to drive impact for the organization. This was done while ensuring the appropriate prioritization and alignment of their.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Acted as a partner to pharmaceutical clients, worked across a range of clients and therapeutic areas. My role was to assist managers to execute their business objectives through the design and execution of specific projects. This includes developing a project approach and methodology, creating project plans and execution of the project from analysis to.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Project manager for the development of a novel drug combination platform by scoping objectives, conducting literature reviews and consolidating data. Resulted in a new several candidate combinations for subsequent.
• Dedicated significant time educating elementary and high school students on various scientific concepts through the non-profit "Let's Talk Science"

• Worked as a graduate student at one of the world's most prominent yeast genetics laboratories.
• Pioneered a new drug target identification method known as ‘Bar-seq’ by developing the framework of the study while initiating and then delegating experiments; successfully created a method to discover new drugs
• Expanded the newly developed Bar-seq method by liaising with a major biotechnology company to combine 100 experiments into one, resulted in dramatic cost savings of 90% and an increased experiment speed of 100-fold
• Advised a major pharmaceutical company as a Subject Matter Expert on the Bar-seq procedure, resulting in successful integration of the Bar-seq technique into their drug discovery division
• Dedicated 20-30 hours a month training junior laboratory members and actively recruited new members to the laboratory; helped to contribute to a 400% increase in laboratory size

• Led a team of 6 to develop a vibrant student community at a residence by helping over 2,500 students integrate into university life and by implementing innovative educational and social programs, such as ‘How to find.

• Rapidly promoted to the leadership role of Master Bombardier in 2 years (3 years ahead of peer group); effectively trained and led 60 soldiers as an new instructor resulting in them all pass their weapons safety.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Societies: Ivey Veterans Club, Ivey Finance Club, Ivey Consulting Club, Ivey Golf Club

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics

Thesis - Technology development for next generation functional analysis of bioactive molecules Supervisors: Corey Nislow, Guri Giaever and.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Molecular Genetics And Molecular Biology