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MODEL N
- Senior Solutions Consultant
2014 - maintenant
- Support specific sales opportunities by architecting and positioning Model N's pricing and revenue management solutions. This includes understanding customer's "as is" business processes, identifying pain points and value opportunities, and accurately positioning Model N's solutions to address them.
* Drive RFP/ RFI responses encompassing functional fit, solutions proposed, value and differentiation.
* Maintain up-to-date understanding of industry trends and business developments in target markets.
* Effective demonstrations and sales support to convey business value proposition.
* Participate and speak at marketing events, industry associations and conferences as domain expert.
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NOVARTIS PHARMA
- Director, GBS Business & Information Manager
2012 - 2014
- Project lead and Customer Relationship Manager within Global Business Services (GBS). Main project was the conception and implementation of Novartis' product launch sequence optimization and in-market pricing erosion simulation platform used by the Global Pricing and Market Access (GPMA) department.
* Management of vendor (SAS, Wipro) and Novartis internal service providers to build the tool.
* Supervision of the implementation of the custom-built computation engine used to make decisions that directly affect the company's turnover and result by tens of millions of dollars.
* Support of the GBS Planning & Validation team in creating business cases to warrant the consolidation of centralized business services and forecast of the savings potential.
* Management of GBS IT's project portfolio and finances with a 2013 budget of 5.3 M CHF.
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AMARIS / MERCK SERONO
- Senior Consultant
2010 - 2012
- Amaris, a Swiss consulting group in management, engineering and information systems, entrusted me with a long-term R&D IS project management role at Merck Serono.
* Project manager for the implementation of a validated ``Laboratory Information Management System'' (LIMS) for the Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetic (DMPK) department of 80 people. Project was completed within cost frame, on schedule, and successfully passed internal regulatory compliance audits.
* Contractual negotiations with the vendor (LabVantage) and management of the services provided.
* Functional analysis of the requirements, organization of structured user requirements workshops, functional specifications, UML modeling, identification and remedy of workflow constraints.
* Validation plan and drafting / supervision of test script (IQ, OQ, PQ) execution for the GxP system.
* Process re-engineering for the New Biological / Chemical Entity (NBE & NCE) departments.
* Implementation of a global Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) used by 3 sites (Boston, Geneva, Darmstadt) to index, organize and archive data emanating from scientific instruments.
* Supervision of the Request For Proposal process which yielded a 60% discount on user licenses.
* Management of internal resources (3 FTE) for the implementation of the solution.
* Responsibility for all project deliverables including User Requirements, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications, Design Specifications, Quality Tests, User Acceptance Tests, Operational Manual, Service Level Agreement, Standard Operation Procedures and User Training.
* Project Leader for the migration and operational handover of a dozen specialized R&D applications (Biacore, Empower, Biobook, Genedata, etc.).
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Vaxitech
- Associate founder of a Biotech start-up project
2009 - 2010
* Creation of a biotech start-up project whose objective was to finalize a malaria vaccine that originated from the Pasteur Institute and proceed with clinical trials.
* Submission of a dossier for the 2010 OSEO (a government development bank) contest for the creation of innovative companies and application for an Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) subvention.
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SANOFI PASTEUR
- Senior Project Manager
Lyon
2007 - 2008
- Global project manager for the design and integration of a Site Quality Operations R&D LIMS used to manage stability studies and production product assay. Project resources: 2M EUR with 200 end users.
* Management of an international project team of 10 people to define the quality test parameters.
* Supervision of project budget and Steering Committee administration (R&D, Industrial Operations).
* Management of the external consultants (Accenture, LabWare) to configure and develop specific LIMS functionalities including vaccine stability testing and assay analysis.
* Implementation of an SAP-based solution to manage laboratory activity forecast and task attribution.
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SANOFI
- Senior Research Scientist
Paris
2004 - 2007
- Project manager for unifying and optimizing the pharmaceutical screening process used globally throughout the company (≈ 1000 users spread in the USA, Germany and France), following the Sanofi and Aventis merger.
* Management of a 12-person project team composed of laboratory directors representing different entities of the group (High & Low Throughput Screening, DMPK) whose task was to rationalize the screening process and establish the functional specifications of the new process.
* Supervision of the Change Management Process and implementation of the legacy data migration.
* Creation of the validation plan and administration of the Quality Assurance testing.
* Creation of a pharmaceutical target referential used globally throughout the company.
* Definition of the classification data according to an ontological Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) model.
* Development of interface to query bioinformatics parameters: sequence, patents and function.
* Supervision of a full time developer to build the system.
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SANOFI
- Project Manager
Paris
2000 - 2004
- Global project manager for the acquisition, design, development, validation and deployment of several informatics tools: DNA chip analysis, proteomics, human tissue bank, Taqman, clinical trial information management system, experimental imagery. Project resources reached 500K EUR per project.
* Implementation of DNA chip analysis tools (Rosetta Resolver, Gecko) for Affymetrix chips.
* Supervision of 2 FTE for the development of a global proteomic analysis platform (USA, Germany, France) which managed the 2D gel and mass spectroscopy workflows.
* FDA 21 cfr part 11 compliance validation of a system that managed the analysis of genetic therapy clinical samples. ;
* User requirements, request for proposal, acquisition and deployment of a scientific imagery system.
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BRITISH TELECOM
- IT Engineer
1998 - 2000
* Software development for customers such as J.P. Morgan, AC Nielsen and Sanofi.
* J.P. Morgan - technical evolution and support of an in-house software used to evaluate the risk / exposure of traders working on currency markets.
* Sanofi - Validation of a LIMS used for clinical trials. (Assignment led to a direct hire).
