BACKGROUND SUMMARY

I am a results-oriented IT professional with expertise in leadership,

software development and systems support. I have successfully leveraged my

background in Engineering, Chemistry and IT to create and deploy numerous

laboratory information management and lab automation systems to over 60

locations around the globe. I have three years experience in managing,

developing and supporting software systems in an FDA regulated pharma

environment and 21 years experience in a non-pharma environment.

I am client-focused with superior communication skills and demonstrable

strengths in taking customer ideas from concept to reality. I am looking

for new opportunities to grow professionally and embrace new skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Bausch + Lomb, INC., Rochester NY Sep 2010-Current

GLIMS Program Lead

As the Program Lead for Bausch + Lomb's global laboratory information

management system initiative, I am responsible for overall project

leadership for all LIMS deployments, management of the LIMS IT staff,

creation of the FDA required project and change management documentation,

and vendor management.

In this role, I have been responsible for managing the development and

deployment of two major LIMS system enhancements (stability and enhanced

microbiology), numerous minor enhancements and the deployment of the LIMS

system to two additional B+L sites.

As part of my responsibilities, I enjoy working closely with the site and

lab personnel to analyze the sites' needs. This close interaction with site

personnel has allowed me to create verifiable and effective LIMs processes

to support the lab operations. I have documented and created user and

functional requirement specifications for the quality labs' finished

product, raw materials environmental monitoring and reporting needs.

Currently, I am redesigning the LIMS environmental monitoring workflow to

create a verifiable and supportable process. Additionally, I am leading the

analysis of the next major LIMS upgrade where B+L will be looking to

improve supportability of the LIMS by replacing as much of the existing

LIMS customizations as possible with out of the box functionality.

AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC., Allentown, PA 1989-Apr 2010

LIMS Subject Matter Expert

(2007 - Apr 2010)

As the subject matter expert, I was responsible for consulting with

internal APCI clients to design and implement enhancements to the APCI LIMS

system. Additionally, I acted as 3rd level support to assure continuity of

support and maintenance of the production systems.

LBShell Development Team Lead and AD Leads Team Lead (2007 - Apr 2010)

LBShell is an in-house developed software suite designed to manage the

logistics of the APCI liquid bulk distribution fleet. The team was

responsible for development and support of the product.

As the LBShell team lead, I was responsible for leading a team of 4 to 9

developers. I lead the team though 10 successful major software releases

which included deployment of the system to 7 countries in Asia, 4 countries

in Central Europe and Brazil. My responsibilities included setting team

goals and deliverables, managing of client and team expectations, reporting

project status to IT management and clients, managing developer resource,

human resource planning, project management, and coordinating 7x24 level 3

support.

As the AD leads team lead, I provided resource management and human

resource planning. The AD Leads provide application development, solution

analysts and project management functions for the new solutions department.

LIMS Product Owner and LIMS Team Lead, WinLIMS (1993 - 2007)

As the LIMS product owner, I lead the effort to implement the first LIMS at

Air Products and, subsequently, rolled out the LIMS to 60 quality assurance

laboratories spanning the US, Europe and Asia.

. Lead a team of three developers (2001 - 2007)

. Deployed the LIMS suite globally to 60 locations globally (US, EU,

Asia).

. Developed, and lead a team in the development of, 40+ instrument

interfaces, data acquisition, data analysis and reporting tools (VB6,

TSQL, Crystal reports).

. Provided server and database administration functions for the 14 LIMS

servers

. Developed software to transfer data between LIMS and SAP, and between

LIMs and APCI production data systems.

. Developed two customize LIMS systems which were subsequently merged

into one global system to comply with APCI corporate implementation of

SAP.

. Ported all functionality from VGLIMS system to new WinLIMS system,

developed 3 VB3 programs to replace the legacy VGLIMS data acquisition

functionality.

LIMS Product Owner and Developer, VGLIMS 1990 - 1993

In response to external client requirements, I worked with the Air Products

Hometown Quality assurance lab management to define and developed a

customized LIMS system to enforce the lab's quality process. The

implementation of this custom LIMS enabled APCI to meet the external client

requirements for analytical data quality and accuracy, and retain the

client's business.

VGLIMS was a commercial VAX-VMS based Laboratory Information Management

System. This system was terminal based and predated client-server

technology.

. Developed customized version of VGLIMS using vendor supplied VGL

programming language

. Developed three custom programs to acquire analytical data from lab

instruments and enforce lab operational standards.

. Deployed and installed LIMS in major APCI quality assurance lab

. Provided 7x24 support

. Performed all system administration and maintenance.

Systems Engineer, R&D Lab Automation Aug 1989 - Oct 1990

As a Systems Engineer working with the APCI R&D community, I developed more

than 12 lab automation applications. These systems were created to address

the need for automated data collection and to support the 24 hr/day

operation of the labs.

Systems Engineer, Liquid Bulk Process Control Mar 1989 - Aug 1989

As a Systems Engineer on the Liquid Bulk team, I developed software for

retrieving and reporting plant operational data. APCI liquid Bulk process

control was based on in-house developed software running on VAX PDP

systems. These systems were used around the world to provide process

control and reporting for the APCI liquid bulk plants.

Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK

1985 - 1989

Research Engineer

As a research engineer, I was responsible for evaluating catalyst for use

in the production petroleum catalytic cracker units, and making

recommendations. These recommendations influenced purchases that averaged

$30,000/day in catalyst

. Managed the operation of a large scale catalytic convertor pilot plant

with a staff of 8 operators

. Managed the research direction and schedule for the plant operation

. Analyzed the plant data and provided recommendations on suitable

catalysts for the Phillips production units.

. Developed models of petroleum conversion process effects of heavy

metals contamination on product yield.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Doctorate, Chemical Engineering 1981-1985

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Thesis: Modeling an Experimental, Updraft, Countercurrent, Moving Bed

Biomass Gasifier

. Constructed and operated a medium scale pilot plant

. Developed a detailed mathematical model of gasification process

BS Instrument Engineering 1979 - 1981

University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX

Awarded outstanding engineering student of the year, 1981

Undeclared minor in Analytical Chemistry

Certificate of Completion, Science 1977 - 1979

Odessa Junior College, Odessa, TX

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

LIMS Labvantage R5 & R6

VGLIMS

Lab Automation LIMSLink

Programming Languages: Visual Basic 6, SQL, C# (IDE 2008, self study), basic

Java

Database Systems: MS SQL 2000, 2005

Application/Toolsets: MS Visual Studio2003, 2008, MS SQL Server Enterprise

Manager, Crystal Reports, WinLIMS

Analytical GC - Chemstation, FTIR - MDGrams, Flow Analyzers -

Instruments/Software: Beckman, Servomax, Teledyne

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