Experience

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  Centocor

  Nov 1991 - May 1993

  Research scientist, autoimmune disease group

  - Provided key patent support for a therapeutic monoclonal antibody, with studies to elucidate mechanism of action and external collaborations to identify epitope specificity

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  Immulogic pharmaceutical corp.

  May 1993 - Apr 1999

  Senior research scientist and project leader, immunology group

  - Led a cross-functional team that completed a successful IND filing for a peptide therapy in multiple sclerosis, positioning the company for the start of a Phase I/II clinical study- Supervised many of the preclinical evaluations supporting the drug candidate transition to clinical studies, including studies on safety, pharmacology, mechanism of action and biomarker discovery

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  Tibco spotfire

  Sept 1999 - Sept 2003

  Scientific application consultant, professional services

  - Delivered application configuration projects as the Product Manager supporting a large services contract to a pharma client; grew the user base > 3-fold over 2 years through outreach and response to user needs - Supported deployment of the DecisionSite software platform to various pharma clients; prepared data analysis templates and work flows in response to specific customer data mining needs; designed and delivered custom support and training materials - Provided requirements to internal development team to drive product advances through 2 major upgrades Show less

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  Broad institute

  Apr 2004 - May 2014

  - Product Owner and Business Analyst for internal development (modified agile) of a new screening data and user management system; drove design of new business rules and user roles with stakeholders, implementing a staged deployment to replace legacy system; devised creative solutions and negotiated consensus for adoption across 5 research programs having very different data and asset security requirements- Product Owner and Business Analyst for internal development (agile) of a web-based work flow to support data submission to the NIH PubChem database, reducing the effort required to publish data from 8 hours to 2, saving over 1 FTE per year- Configured commercial analytics software (independent contributor) to create an invoicing process that tracked and compiled services delivered by the department's Specialized Services Facility Show less - Appointed and led a team of 6 application engineers (interfacing to end users and the software engineering team), with day-to-day oversight of their work to define, validate, deploy and support critical informatics systems, including 4 custom and 6 integrated commercial applications- Improved the informatics support provided by the group with initiation of root cause tracking and full resolution documentation, enabling shorter issue resolution times; increased adoption of the system 4.7-fold over 1 year through mandated process changes and user awareness Show less

  • Principal Scientific Systems Analyst, ChemBio Platform

    Apr 2007 - May 2014

  • Group Lead, Informatics Application Engineering, ChemBio Platform

    Feb 2010 - Apr 2013

  • Sr Cheminformatics Analyst, ChemBio Program

    Apr 2004 - Apr 2007
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  Siemens healthineers

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2022

  Technical project management specialist

  Proactively seek opportunities to define and implement business information system improvements, with priority to projects that enhance product and process quality, increase organizational efficiency and provide visibility to business value. - Business Analyst and Project Manager for a multi-phase upgrade to an internally-developed Statistical Process Control software, deployed globally across 5 Siemens manufacturing sites; elicit requirements across global teams, author user and functional requirements, validation tests and reports, training materials and quality documentation; transitioning team to agile development approach within a regulated environment- Walpole site Agile Product Owner for a cross-site deployment of Azure DevOps for management of product development lifecycle data; local DevOps power user Show less