Stuart Ward Email & Phone Number

Woking, Surrey, Gb

- Created a team of high-performing Platform Product Managers, which turn company strategy into plans, which evaluate and include modern technologies such as AI/ML, that create valuable solutions for customers and IDBS.- Work with customers and stakeholders at all levels to identify business, regulatory, and market needs, and turn these into product investment decisions that benefit both the customer and IDBS. Use information gained to inform Program Increment Planning.- Use customer insights, market needs, expertise and leveraging partnerships with third-party organizations, including collaborations with Danaher OpCos, to decide the best way to add capabilities to the IDBS Platform and to inform build vs buy decisions.- Prioritize and assess the value and risks of business cases, using tools like Cost Benefit Ratio (CBR) and ToMoRrOw Assessment.- Lead the improvement of Continuous Delivery (CD) practices at IDBS and continue to participate in a Danaher-wide group to develop these tools.- Create marketing materials, thought leader articles, and presentations that show the value of IDBS products and services. Contribute to industry forums such as PHUSE.- Coach and mentor associates as part of the Molecular Devices and IDBS’ DE&I Associate Mentoring Program.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

- Led and expanded a multidisciplinary team of talented product owners, UX designers, technical authors, and instructional designers.- Collaborated with customers and stakeholders to identify and integrate product needs, translating them into strategic product decisions.- Identified and managed regulatory requirements (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11) for software development and deployment.- Led the development and on time launch of The E-WorkBook GxP Cloud and the IDBS Polar product.- Developed marketing materials, thought leadership articles and presentations to highlight the value of IDBS products. Contributed to industry forums such as PHUSE.- Was a member of both Product and Engineering leadership teams. Was responsible for aligning product and engineering strategies to ensure efficient delivery and continuous improvement. This included changing from On Time Delivery to On Target Delivery.- Participated in cross-company initiatives to enhance software time to value, customer outcomes, and user adoption. Was part of the Danaher-wide team that developed the DBS Continuous Delivery (CD) tool and implemented the following tools within IDBS: Accelerated Product Development (APD), Product Planning (PPG), CD, Customer Insight (CI) and Launch Excellence (LEx).- Experienced in both waterfall and agile development methods and led the transition from waterfall to agile at IDBS. Completed Certified Scrum Master training and certification in 2015.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Established a team of talented business analysts/product owners who provided the agile/scrum feature teams with the domain experience and requirements needed for software development in life science. In addition, I was the product manager for IDBS’ E-WorkBook (electronic lab notebook) product. I worked directly with customers and stakeholders, at all levels of the business, to identify product needs, gain consensus and ultimately transfer these needs into product investment decisions that will provide business value to the customer via product strategies and roadmaps.I was also responsible for identifying regulatory requirements, such as GxP and 21 CFR Part 11, that impacted how the software was developed, deployed and/or used, both on-premise and within the public cloud. In 2017, I led the development and launch of The E-WorkBook GxP Cloud - IDBS’ market leading complete end-to-end, cloud-based, research and development platform.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Responsible for defining the product strategy and roadmap for IDBS’ E-WorkBook (electronic lab notebook) product. This involved working with customers and stakeholders, at all levels of the business, to understand needs and drive maximum business value. I then worked closely with the product delivery team to define and create the necessary product features. As new features were developed, I wrote product and marketing literature that demonstrated the business value to the customer.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Managed a team of talented professional services consultants that were responsible for understanding customer business needs and then using this information to deploy and configure IDBS products. I used business analysis and communication skills to ensure that the requirements were fully understood so that the best solution could be achieved. This resulted in strong and trusted business relationships being formed.

I was a research project lead which involved investigating, defining and communicating the strategy for a therapeutic target. Regular reporting to senior management was required. In addition, was responsible for the development and execution of high throughput screening assays in the Molecular Pharmacology group. Whilst at Ionix, I was part of the team that deployed and configured two company-wide enterprise data management solutions used to capture and report on all company R&D data.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Core (Credential Of Readiness)

Phd, Pharmacology

Bsc(Hons), Pharmacology