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On December 8, 2021, Thermo Fisher Scientific completed the acquisition of PPD. Together, Thermo Fisher and PPD share the pursuit of a common goal: to enable customers to make the world healthier by accelerating the development of new medicines.

Manages staff, which includes interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, behavioral and technical coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime. Develops, updates, reviews, and ensures adherence to departmental Working Practice Documents and SOPs. Identifies and recommends strategies to senior management on ways to increase the knowledge base and professional skills of staff in areas including programming technology and techniques, clinical trials, and the pharmaceutical industry through on the job training, mentoring, and internal or external training courses. Informs senior leadership of departmental activities, accomplishments, and needs.Manages resource planning and utilization rate for the department. Ensures that appropriate personnel resources are applied to projects based on global priorities and relative complexity. Liaises with other departments within the company and the client.Prepares bids for business development and represents Biostatistics and Programming in bid defense. Provides project oversight role and consultation for teams projects. Reviews and/or approves documents related to project activities. Delivers general infrastructure support to the department. Examples include giving presentations at department meetings, and contributing to documents or policies, coordinating process improvement, and implementing programming standards.

Managed staff, which included interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, behavioral and technical coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Reviewed and approved time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime. Reviewed and ensured adherence to departmental working practice documents and SOPs and contributed to their development.Recommended strategies to senior management on ways to increase the knowledge base and professional skills of staff in areas including programming technology and techniques, clinical trials, and the pharmaceutical industry through on the job training, mentoring, and internal or external training courses. Fulfilled senior level project oversight roles for studies and/or works directly with project leads and client representatives to assess risks and issues related to project quality, timelines, and budget. Provided general infrastructure support to the department. Examples include giving presentations at department meetings, contributing to documents or policies, contributing to and/or leading process improvement initiatives, and assisting with departmental web page development.

SAS Programming Consultant specializing in statistical and clinical programming for clinical trials.Extensive experience in the system development life cycle of SAS macrosTrained in Quality Management and Six Sigma methodologies for analyzing and improving business processes

Worked collaboratively with Clinical Development staff to meet project deliverables and timelines for statistical data analysis and reporting. Assessed the quality and consistency of analysis data and performed cross-study analyses. Used internal macros or wrote SAS macros to automate study deliverables. Worked as a primary programmer for multiple Phase 1-4 studies. Assisted in submissions of electronic data (e.g., SAS data sets) to regulatory agencies. Independently developed analysis specifications and programs. Identified potential issues in study documentation and proposed solutions.

Ensured consistent implementation of global tools, programming methods and processes.Provided general infrastructure support to the Biostatistics department, including troubleshooting technical problems and interacting with IT and external software vendors to provide technical support.Lead teams that created and implemented global standards.Monitored Compliance and performed internal audits for the Global Biostatistics and Programming Department.Reconciled external audit feedback for inclusion in compliance feedback.Coordinated external audit responses and actions for consistent responses and tracking implementation for follow-up actions.Provided compliance feedback to Local Management Teams.

Communicated priorities and work direction and provided leadership and support to large project teams.Ensured the quality and integrity of deliverables by incorporating quality validation methods in the beginning of a study.Reviewed CRFs, edit checks, mapping specification, SAPs, and specifications to ensure analysis described in the protocol is reflected.Generated analysis datasets, tables of summary statistics and listings of patient data using SAS based on SAP-driven specifications.Performed independent validations of tables, listings, and figures to produce a quality product.Analyzed raw data to ensure the quality of tables, listings, and validations.Supervised employees and assist with career development.Lead initiative teams and participated in various committees within department and across locations.Completed monthly projections and review budgeted hours.Provided technical training to new or less experience staff.Developed global utilities and applications to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.Lead, organized, and facilitated Biostatistics client meetings, correspondence, and relationships.

Supervised employees and assisted with career development.Participated in various committees within department and across locations.Completed monthly projections and review budgeted hours.Served as Lead Programmer for multiple projects simultaneously.Educated and trained new programmers on processes and programming techniques.Coordinated and lead project team discussions internally and with clients.Advised on application and utility development.Developed utilities and applications to make processes more efficient and effective.Created summary tables, listings, and figures based on collaboratively designed specifications.Participated in the review of project related documents to ensure quality data.Performed CDISC SDTM data conversions and the population of key CDISC header and reference variables based on study design and sponsor specifications.Assisted Data Management and Biostatistics with developing tools and techniques for improving process efficiencies.Aided the Executive Director with the recruitment of college graduates for the Biostatistics Foundation Training program.Spearheaded the consolidation of the clinical and statistical programming groups into a single group.

Supervised Associate Level Staff.Reviewed specifications to ensure analysis described in the protocol is reflected.Generated analysis datasets based on SAP-driven specifications.Created tables of summary statistics using SAS to meet client specifications.Generated listings of patient data using SAS. Performed independent validations of tables to produce a quality product.Analyzed raw data to ensure the quality of tables, listings, and validations.

Lead project programmer in neuropathic pain and epilepsy indicationsSupport programmer in Parkinson’s indicationsCreated and maintained Visual Basic macros used in the conversion of tables, listings, and figures to word documentsAssisted in establishing validation procedures for tables, listings, and figuresLead in the creation of project and ISS/ISE directory structure

Reviewed specifications to ensure analysis described in the protocol is reflected.Generated analysis datasets based on SAP-driven specifications.Created tables of summary statistics using SAS to meet client specifications.Generated listings of patient data using SAS. Performed independent validations of tables to produce a quality product.Analyzed raw data to ensure the quality of tables, listings, and validations.

Wrote SAS Programs used for final reports.Generated listings of patient data using SAS.Created tables of summary statistics using SAS to meet client specifications.Performed independent validations of tables to produce a quality product.

Provided programming support in the creation and maintenance of programs used for data management, data validation, statistical report generation, and program validation.