HEALTH, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY MANAGER / DIRECTOR
Provided leadership in Health, Science & Technology for governmental, commercial, and non-profit sectors.
Implemented best practices, improved communication, fostered team work, built consensus, and creating a positive and productive working environment, which resulted in theses achievements:
* Increase of operational efficiency by 150% (CFOs statistics).
* Significantly improved quality of products and services (based on customers' feedback and 80% less troubleshooting requests).
* The team could deliver key backlogged projects on time and on budget within one year of tenure.
Member of Executive Steering Committee and Chair of Redesign Committee, which received the Institute Directors Award for outstanding contributions.
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LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
U.S. Federal Government, Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Program Manager Information Technology (2014-Present)
Hired as federal employee to manage several major IT systems with an annual budget exceeding $33M. Approving Manager for 130+ contractors. Selected accomplishments:
* Provided leadership and technical guidance to program teams throughout the full-lifecycle of releases.
* Chaired the Change Control Board meetings; while supporting critical requests significantly reduced the number of total requests to prevent scope creep, cost overruns, and technical defects.
* Evaluated proposals, mitigated risks, conducted analytical research to resolve problems, and tracked development and testing activities; all of this resulted in timely completion of deliverables with higher quality.
* Collaborated with the VP Budget Coordinator to plan budget and exert budget oversight; decreased mandatory spending by 25%.
* Collaborated with Business, Technical, and Supplier Managers to develop specifications and justifications for securing program funding to prevent future budget shortfalls and contractor work stoppages.
Consulting, Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Program Manager / Project Director (2002-2014)
Through W2 employment contracts, performed health, science, & technology management services. Provided strategic and tactical direction in scientific advisor, program manager, project director, and project manager functions. Selected projects:
PROJECT: For National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK, NIH):
Recruited as contractor by Division Director to lead major initiatives, including the redesign of the Institute's public website.
* Member of Steering Committee / Chair of Redesign Committee. Conducted stakeholder and status meetings. Built consensus among executives, 50 medical & scientific program officers, and senior IT staff.
* Presented complex scientific & technical information to sponsors and secured future funding.
* Received Institute Directors Award for outstanding contributions to the new website.
PROJECT: For the National Cancer Institute (NCI):
Provided a broad range of subject matter expertise and scientific guidance to medical and scientific program and project teams.
* Supported various initiatives including (i) Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MDC); (ii) Informatics for Consumer Health (ICH); and (iii) Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program. In charge of Quality Assurance.
* Coauthored two National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB) reports for U.S. Congress.
PROJECT: Publishing
* Authored scientific review articles about computer-assisted analysis for quality control of biologics and presented at international biomedical & biopharma conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
* Authored article "Tips for Stagnant Projects and Improving Efficiency/Profitability," Project Management Institute Baltimore Chapter.
CADMUS COMMUNICATIONS (now part of Cenveo), Dynamic Diagrams, Linthicum, Maryland
Director, Product Development (1999-2001)
Hired by Chief Technology Officer to spearhead all facets of day-to-day technical product development at a branch location for this #1 producer of scientific, technical, and medical communications, with 3,900 employees nationwide in 2001.
* Managed multiple medium- to large-scale projects across geographically distributed sites, with each project accounts budget ranging from $100K-$1.5M. 20+ direct and indirect reports from senior developers and project managers. Hired and retained highly qualified professionals, provided performance reviews.
* Implemented best practices and performance metrics. Improved operational efficiency by 150% based on the CFO's statistics. Significantly increased product quality and customer satisfaction, as evidenced by customer feedback and 80% reduction of troubleshooting requests.
* Within one year of tenure, my team could deliver key backlogged projects on time and on budget.
* Transferred technology to Dynamic Diagram's new owner.
* Clients included major publishers and associations, e.g., McGraw-Hill (AcessMedicine, AccessScience) and the American Medical Association.
AEROTEK, INC. (now part of Allegis) | $765M NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Program
Greenbelt, Maryland
Team Lead (1996-1999)
Successfully oversaw and managed full-lifecycle Web & software development projects in Science & Communications, Graphical User Interfaces, Usability Engineering, and Technology Transfer & Software Reuse (including legacy software) for this $765 million NASA program (EOS/ECS) at Hughes ITS and Raytheon Systems in Landover, Maryland. Challenge was to engineer computer platforms and software for processing terabytes of data obtained daily from ground stations and earth-orbiting satellites. Integrated cost-effective Web-based training materials for staff and conducted educational seminars.
Additional Experience:
For 10 years, in a pharmaceutical-company-type environment, led cross-functional laboratory research for the development of a computer-assisted analytical technique, first of its kind, for effectiveness & quality analysis of semi-synthetic conjugated vaccines (Haemophilus influenza type b, Hib) for the immunization of infants.
* Developed methods based on physical and chemical characterization, which allowed predicting effectiveness of immunogens within days, not months.
* Collaborated with biomedical engineers, mathematicians, and image processing experts.
* Published analytical procedures in several peer-reviewed papers and presented experimental results at national and international conferences.
* Invited to give lectures at the Max-Plank Institutes for Experimental Medicine and Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany.
* Vaccines received subsequent FDA approval and are presently manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, and Wyeth Lederle.
Tenure as Scientific Project Manager and Scientist for Justus-Liebig University, Biometry; Visiting Fellow/ Associate/ Research Scientist for Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD; and University Lecturer and Research Scientist, University of Hamburg.
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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
* Scientific Ph.D. (Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology) - University of Hamburg, Germany
* Postdoctoral Program (Biomedicine, Biotech, Computer Modeling, Data Analysis) - NIH, USA
* Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification - PMI, USA
* Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (SSGB, Performance & Quality Improvement) - PMI, USA
* ITILv3 Foundation Certification (IT Infrastructure Library) - EXIN, The Netherlands
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AFFILIATIONS
* Project Management Institute (PMI); PMI Baltimore, Montgomery County, and Washington, DC local chapters;
* Technical Executives Networking Group (TENG); Informatics for Consumer Health (ICH) LinkedIn Group;
* American Chemical Society (ACS); Association of German Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ) |
