Experience

Upsher-Smith

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Project Leader

  • 2012 - Present

  Served as the single point of contact for senior management for all project activities; communicated with all stakeholders on project status; were responsible for project direction, strategy, operations, and all milestone deliverables; made decisions on risk identification and mitigation, budget trade-off, and value creation; partnered with function managers on talent management; nurtured team culture and built high performing teams. Served as the single point of contact for senior management for all project activities; communicated with all stakeholders on project status; were responsible for project direction, strategy, operations, and all milestone deliverables; made decisions on risk identification and mitigation, budget trade-off, and value creation; partnered with function managers on talent management; nurtured team culture and built high performing teams.



Shire

• Japan
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director

  • 2010 - 2012

  Lead an R&D development team for four life-cycle management indications; communicated project status to all stakeholders in a timely fashion; shared project deliverable responsibilities with the Product Team leader; responsible for all project management deliverables. Lead an R&D development team for four life-cycle management indications; communicated project status to all stakeholders in a timely fashion; shared project deliverable responsibilities with the Product Team leader; responsible for all project management deliverables.



Merck

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • 2008 - 2010

  All project management deliverables including project schedule, project scope, risk management, meeting management, communications with stakeholders, and team building. All project management deliverables including project schedule, project scope, risk management, meeting management, communications with stakeholders, and team building.



Merck

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• • 2004 - 2007

  Meeting management of subteam meetings, tracking of all clinical study reports for the NDA, tracking of all project activities of a Phase 3 project including regulatory activities, and maintaining project schedule.

• • 1999 - 2004

  Responsible for advancing a schizophrenia basic research project using microarray technology; the project resulted in two publications and enabled the company to decide on a microarray platform.



Whitehead Institute

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • 1995 - 1999

  Advancing a project as part of a collaboration with Genetics Institute (now part of Pfizer) to identify secreted signaling proteins. This collaboration resulted in three patents, multiple publications, and continued funding for the laboratory at Whitehead Institute. Advancing a project as part of a collaboration with Genetics Institute (now part of Pfizer) to identify secreted signaling proteins. This collaboration resulted in three patents, multiple publications, and continued funding for the laboratory at Whitehead Institute.