John McNeill

Experience

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  Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System

  Jan 1991 - Jan 2002

  • Selected as a subject matter expert for a QI team that developed intraoperative pathways, a multidisciplinary approach to process improvement standardized high quality patient care, staffing, materials usage, and instrumentation resulting in $360,000 annualized labor savings and 2200 recovered operating room hours. Additional implementation of Strategic Sourcing methodology leveraged the Healthcare System’s annual buying power and contract cost containment opportunities without imposing restriction on products required by medical staff while revealing $10,000,000 annualized materials savings. These initiatives resulted in the team earning the 2000 USA Today / RIT National Quality Cup Finalist Award.• Launched a comprehensive tracking database for maximizing Healthcare System efficiencies through standardization of content from disparate databases, enabling medical and support staff to respond more quickly and efficiently to patient and business needs. Show less

  • Information System Specialist, Periop QI/Reengineering

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  • Information Systems Coordinator

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • Intake Specialist

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  • Education Coordinator

    Jan 1991 - Jan 1994
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  Wyeth Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2010

  • Guided business units to contracting solutions and conducted direct negotiations of individual and umbrella Master Service Agreements.• Developed Statements of Work, prepared and obtained quotes for Service Level Agreements, managed purchase orders and work orders for Functional Service Providers.• Worked with the CRO’s to develop Individual Project Agreements enveloping storage fees, report requirements, electronic data transfer requirements, central shipper requirements, incentives for rapid analysis and penalty clauses. Show less • Served as departmental lead through implementation of 21 CFR Part 11 compliant multi-system wrapper solution for managing worldwide electronic data process.• Innovated a time-saving, robust, and audit-trailed barcode specimen labeling system serving all clinical studies worldwide. Led all aspects of development, design, system validation, training and implementation.• Managed Specimen Label/PK/PD/Biomarker data template creation to ensure integrity maintained with Study Database and Protocol via interaction with Clinical Study Team, PK/PD Team, Study Builder, and process-driven QC checks.• Coordinated transmission of PK/PD/Biomarker data transfer from analytical/specialty laboratory vendors and registered files for loading onto Oracle Clinical Study Database.• Managed early phase study contracts, including individual project agreements and confidentiality agreements. Show less

  • Laboratory Services Manager

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  • Laboratory Services Administrator

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2006
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  Pfizer

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  Business Operations Manager

  • Ensured appropriate CRO vendor oversight of 400+ contingent workers.• Worked with Operational lines and colleagues to understand portfolio support sourcing needs and administered budget development, contracting and forecasting activities.• Drove compliance, including the review and assignment of training curriculum and production of gap reports, to ensure partners were fully compliant and inspection ready at all times.

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  JC Music School

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  Business Director

  • Directed all aspects of business operations including enrollment projections, development and adoption of budgets, client contracts, facility maintenance and renovation, review and documentation of educational programs, staff and client scheduling, and maintenance of all business mission, vision and goals.• Built and developed recruitment strategies to bring off-site partners into on-site programming community ensuring program enrollment, retention, and growth.• Cultivated and sustained a client base increase through introduction of new development and curriculum initiatives focused on community engagement, introduction of group classes, electronic music production, and incentive programs. Show less

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  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  Jan 2015 - May 2018

  • Responsible for optimizing $12 million in annual purchased service expenses, including awarding and implementation of contracts and contract renewals. • Through negotiation, competitive bidding, and risk assessment, realized $800,000 in annualized contract savings.• Prepare annual budget for service contracts based on current and future contract commitments.• Meet with customers to review contract performance and provide feedback on options.• Analyze contract metadata to identify renewals, assign risk level and create task lists.• Monitor expenditures to verify service/quantity requirements are met and ensure rebates, credits, patronage fees are received.• Develop and maintain financial dashboards based on established performance metrics. Show less • Prepared detailed and summary financial reports including payments and accruals to track and trend operations. • Provided budget variance reports to department management including supporting information. • Reviewed key financial and performance data as part of a risk analysis review of all Biomedical equipment.• Managed all Biomedical Engineering contracted service agreements. • Annual budget preparation, forecasting of future costs for equipment support based on the evaluation of post-warranty needs, previous year spend, as well as planned changes by biomedical management.• Developed and maintained financial dashboards based on established performance metrics. Show less

  • Contract Administrator

    Jan 2017 - May 2018

  • Business Manager

    Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
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  Fox Chase Cancer Center

  May 2018 - now

  • Responsible for facilitating all collaborative pre-clinicalcorporate sponsored research agreements, academic collaboration agreements,and other pre-clinical research related agreements.• Coordinates workflow and relationships, as they relate to pre-clinicalresearch agreements, with other Fox Chase offices/departments, the Officeof Counsel, peer managers within R&D Alliances, Compliance Offices,Clinical Trials Office, Finance, Office of Sponsored Research, GrantsManagement, Purchased Services, Biosample Repository Facility, CellCulture Facility, Laboratory Animal Facility, and faculty and administrators insupport of Fox Chase goals to strengthen and increase support of pre-clinicalresearch.• Develops strategic partnerships with counterparts atother research institutions, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and diagnostic companies. Show less • Management of the full scope of pre-clinical research agreements in tandem with Fox Chase Researchers, Faculty, Office of Counsel, Compliance Office, Office of Sponsored Research, Grants Management, and Administration. • Responsible for fast paced negotiation of all pre-clinical research agreements including Confidential Disclosure, Material Transfer, UBMTA, Research Collaboration, Sponsored Research, Data Use, Data Transfer and Software Licensing.• Initiation of departmental database and optimization of systemic processes for data analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders to ensure agreement actions are responsive to the needs of Fox Chase Researchers and Research Projects. Show less

  • Director, Research Contracting

    Mar 2019 - now

  • Contract Specialist, Research Contracting

    May 2018 - Mar 2019