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Ireland

Ireland

Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Columbia, Md

Columbia, Md

Temporary assignment working with the Life Sciences Practice to review existing documents, identify additional requirements, create high level architecture and prepare deliverables for a large medical device manufacturing client.

Austin, Texas Area

Assisted Senior Director, Global Compliance in establishing, implementing and maintaining an effective compliance program to prevent illegal, unethical or improper conduct. Provided continual risk assessment and assisted in development of comprehensive auditing and monitoring plan, compliance training and internal investigations.Ensured training material was engaging and retained by trainees through leading and participating in sales, marketing, manager, distributor and office meetings.Increased business efficiency by maintaining great relationships with all stakeholders resulting in ‘open door’ culture.Achieved quicker and more effective results for both the business unit and compliance department by collaborating with other departments to direct compliance issues to appropriate channels for investigation and resolution. Identified potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, developed and implemented corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues and provided general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.Continuously increased efficiency and usefulness of due diligence process by overseeing and guiding other regional compliance managers to ensure standardization and relevance to changing enforcement.Increased efficiency of auditing and monitoring processes by coordinating and reviewing activities for all compliance managers globally.Reduced exposure to revenue loss and improved work efficiency and risk reduction by identifying and correcting issues within numerous department processes.

Beijing, China Area

Spearheaded compliance program for entire Asia Pacific region, for both direct employees and 3rd party distributors. Approximately 65 employees were located in China, Australia, Singapore and India, with distributors located in most other countries in the region. Managed all administrative staff and other personnel as designated by Compliance Officer.Increased compliance with various country laws by revising policies and procedures.One of two first ARTC employees in Beijing. Assisted in establishing Chinese operations on various of issues; including logistics, hiring, vendor selection, regulatory and other essential day to day issues.Ensured smooth communication with customers and reduced amount of last minute changes to programs due to compliance issues, by assisting marketing and training teams, outside usual approval process, to ensure all activities were compliant from the start.Maximized revenue retention and minimized region’s risk by instituting and refining all region compliance program policies and procedures. Decreased improper payments and ensured all consultant use was compliant and in line with their contracts by initiating 100% Healthcare professional payment approval, 100% payment run review, 100% Healthcare professional training and marketing event approval and 100% Healthcare professional consultant usage approval.Developed and improved systems and processes for tracking and demonstrating compliance with local country laws.Reduced the company risk and increased efficiency of resource allocation by increasing accuracy of distributor risk assessment tool.Decreased roll out time for new policies by providing on-going advice and resources to management regarding compliance education and working with management to implement needed changes.

Austin, Texas Area

Assisted Senior Compliance Manager in maintaining effective compliance program including reviewing payments and starting 3rd party due diligence process.Developed risk matrix and standardized summary identifying potential risks, resulting in easy and efficient review process for level one and level two due diligences on all international transaction partners Met all deadlines for state and national reporting; compiling data from various sources and ensuring accuracy.

Austin, Texas Area

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Politics And International Relations

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