Savvas Kleanthous
Director, Professional Services at ACD/Labs at Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs)- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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ITIL v3 Foundation
-Mar, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
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APMG InternationalMay, 2016- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs)
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director, Professional Services at ACD/Labs
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Feb 2022 - Present
Responsible for the ACD/Labs Professional Services team resourcing development, testing, and deployment for internal and external custom software projects
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Enterprise Solution Project Manager, Europe
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Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
An Enterprise Solution Project Manager, part of the ACD/Labs Professional Services team, responsible for project management, design, delivery and implementation of bespoke scientific knowledge management solutions.
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Imperial College London
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Deputy Head of School Secretariat, School of Medicine
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Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
A diverse role involving the management of software projects to improve student satisfaction, including curriculum mapping and online assessmentsProviding agile support to the Head of School Secretariat to enhance quality management and governance procedures for education within the School of Medicine. A diverse role involving the management of software projects to improve student satisfaction, including curriculum mapping and online assessmentsProviding agile support to the Head of School Secretariat to enhance quality management and governance procedures for education within the School of Medicine.
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LifeArc
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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200 - 300 Employee
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Deputy Head ICT
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Apr 2014 - Oct 2016
Reporting to the Head of ICT, I am accountable for driving strategy, developing and managing the lifecycle of the Drug Discovery IT Infrastructure and services portfolio.• Project managed and delivered an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) with the experience of working with Biovia and IDBS ELN’s.• Project managed, delivered and provided technical support for Drug Discovery databases and applications including IDBS Activity Base; Dotmatics Browser; CambridgeSoft’s Chemical Inventory, Biovia DS/Pipeline Pilot; Schrodinger and ACD/Labs suites.• Owned and developed the Oracle services portfolio to ensure the requirements of Oracle support and the scientific software stack were continually met.• Prepared business cases and managed projects for infrastructure and software up to £400K.• Managed a licence portfolio in excess of £800K covering Discovery services, security and storage resulting in being ranked in the top 1% following an external Oracle licence audit.• Project managed and delivered a Pro-Curo sample inventory service. • Managed teams of external consultants, permanent and temporary staff.• Held a leading role in key IT service management functions across Business Continuity, Incident Management and Change Management.• Implemented a policy driven digital archive service to ingest > 10TB data.• Managed change control processes for a Microsoft Exchange 2003 - 2010 - 2013 migration.• Management of enterprise endpoint security services.
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Senior ICT Officer
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Feb 2009 - Mar 2014
A technical role with ownership of Drug Discovery IT services, including Oracle infrastructure, scientific application portfolio, project management and infrastructure security encompassing; Anti-Virus, Firewall, Disk Encryption and Endpoint Security. • Migrated, upgraded and edition downgraded the Oracle database portfolio.• Designed and implemented an Oracle 12c Cloud Control Enterprise Manager service. • Instigated the increase of storage for raw experimental data through the purchase of a high capacity EMC Isilon system and migrated file shares.• Project managed and delivered a chemical inventory, Dotmatics Browser visualisation and hard disk encryption services for the entire company.• Undertook enterprise security service management including firewall, endpoint security and encryption services.• Managed the instrument software portfolio, Linux modelling cluster with support for Active Directory; Microsoft Exchange, Isilon storage clusters and EMC Documentum.• Upgraded and migrated scientific applications and services including products from Biovia, IDBS, Dotmatics, ACD/Labs, Schrodinger and DNAStar.• Administered and provided technical support for Drug Discovery databases and applications including IDBS Activity Base; Dotmatics Browser; CambridgeSoft’s Chemical Inventory, Biovia DS/Pipeline Pilot; Schrodinger and ACD/Labs suites.
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GSK
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United Kingdom
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Biological Data Specialist
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Nov 2005 - Dec 2008
Part of a global team, working closely with scientists across R&D and other IT functions, providing automated and bespoke data solutions, training and support.• Worked closely with scientists, as part of a global team, across R&D to develop automated and bespoke compound screening data solutions using SQL and PL/SQL.• Conducted classroom lead training and application support to global scientific teams.• Developed a PL/SQL procedure to manage GSK leaver accounts and associated user data.• Persuaded GSK Biopharm senior management to provide scientific resource for the development and evaluation of automated analysis protocols.• Delivered effective, scientifically-appropriate data-validation strategies for GSK projects.• Managed correction of 1,000,000 rows of DMPK data and directed the efforts of a global team.
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Senior Medicinal Chemist
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Nov 1994 - Nov 2005
Extensive medicinal chemistry experience, including structure and property based design, spanning the discovery pipeline from exploratory chemistry through to candidate selection • Extensive medicinal chemistry experience, including structure and property based design. • Therapeutic areas included Cardiovascular, Anti-inflammatory, CNS, Respiratory and Anti-virals spanning the pipeline from exploratory chemistry to candidate selection.• Presented with a 2004 Exceptional science award for FXa Inhibitor design.• Named inventor on 13 Patent applications
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Education
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1991 - 1994
University of Leicester
Bachelor of Science (BSc) 1st Class (Hons), Chemistry
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