Management Project

Executive Overview

. Focused on delivering practical, valuable solutions as efficiently as

possible in resource-constrained environments.

. Interpersonal leadership skills which encourage rapid team-building,

eager collaboration, and high performance.

. Provides creative solutions to challenging problems.

. Extensive experience creating IT strategy to meet business goals,

executing major IT transition efforts, growing departmental

performance, and leading through difficult times.

. Broad leadership and technical experience covering all functional

areas of IT infrastructure.

. Informatics domain knowledge including life sciences, knowledge

management, and online collaboration, and enterprise.

. Transparent, open communication style that quickly inspires trust

among colleagues and team members.

Professional Experience

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.

May 2008 to present

Director of IT and Data Management

Job responsibilities in this position include identifying, creating and

maintaining the entire IT software and hardware infrastructure from the

ground up, including servers, networking, security, identifying and

implementing business applications, creating and implementing information

protection policies and practices, and managing the company's IT budget.

. Quickly provided a state-of-the-art, yet budget-sensitive IT

infrastructure which delivered high uptime, robust performance, and

low maintenance overhead for the company. End result included server

infrastructure, network infrastructure, security, telephony, remote

access, intranet, extranet, and external websites, document

management, and enterprise and scientific informatics functionality.

. Combined rapid learning abilities with extensive life science industry

experience to identify a lab data management system, provide extensive

customizations on workflow automation tools therein. Saved

considerable man-hours in the lab data analysis workflow for Esperion.

The vendor, IDBS, stated that my BioBook templates were the most

powerful and flexible implementation of their system that they had

seen.

. Developed multiple intranet (web-based) applications on the Drupal

content management platform to provide key business tools such as time

tracking, contact management, purchase order management, and compound

inventory,

IT Strategy Partners, LLC

July 2007 to December, 2008

Principal

Job responsibilities included identifying and executing projects where

strategic IT consulting could deliver value to the client.

. Participated in formation of local biotech startup, creating an IT

deployment roadmap for the new company.

. Completed proposals for full IT audit and web portal development for

various clients

Pfizer, Inc.

October 2006 to July, 2007

Associate Director, Knowledge Management-Online Collaboration, and Esperion

Informatics Site Lead

Job responsibilities included managing a team including programming and

business analysis resources, delivering on knowledge management and online

collaboration goals for Pfizer Global Research and Development. I was also

responsible for Esperion informatics needs, including leadership of IT

transition activities for Esperion site closure in April, 2007.

. Created collective intelligence strategic plan which brought together

enterprise search, taxonomies, tagging, and information sources

including traditional information sources (documents, email,

databases) as well as online collaborative information sources (wikis,

blogs, social network analysis, etc).

. Strategy and leadership for tactical roll-out of Pfizerpedia-Pfizer's

enterprise wiki system. Included integrating data from legacy wiki

systems.

. Influenced strategy for enterprise search, portals, wikis, blogs, and

other collaborative software.

. Spearheaded Request for Information and evaluation of vendors for

Pfizer enterprise search project.

. Strategy contributions for Pfizer global SharePoint portal deployment.

. Managed direct reports through significant ongoing organizational

changes and site closure announcements.

. Successful, timely completion of data inventory and archiving project

related to Esperion site closure.

July 2004 to October 2006

Associate Director, Informatics, and Esperion Informatics Site Lead

Job responsibilities included connecting Esperion informatics and IT needs

with the appropriate resources in Pfizer, leading various site-wide

projects in Research informatics, managing Esperion IT staff.

. During the Pfizer/Esperion acquisition, successfully led the project

to transition of all Esperion data into Pfizer information systems,

resulting in successful reduction of Esperion IT resources and

sourcing those resources from within Pfizer's global support lines.

Esperion was able to replace support headcount with scientific

headcount, thereby focusing on core competencies.

. Serving in the Ann Arbor Biology Data Steward role, I acted as liaison

between Ann Arbor site biologists and the global data warehousing

team. Successfully delivered a major project to transition Ann Arbor

biologists to new global system for integrating high throughput

screening data. Resulted in major cost savings over disparate legacy

systems and provided standardized user experience and results across

Pfizer.

. Hundreds of users who presented with significant change

management issues.

. Leveraged high-level business sponsorship to overcome change

resistance.

. Influenced global application design in response to valid

concerns from end users.

. Managed multidisciplinary project team of 3 IT people and 17

biologists.

. Met corporate project goals on time and on budget despite change

resistance and significant global application development

delays.

. Member of Informatics Management Group and Research Informatics

Management Team

. Participated in and influenced global informatics strategy, talent

development, and other governance issues.

. Used interpersonal skills to maximize personal network across

global sites. Resulted in strong, valuable relationships enabling

me to better get things done in a large global organization.

. Member of Midwest Informatics Leadership Team

. Participated in and influenced site informatics strategic and

tactical issues for Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, and Saint Louis.

. Influenced timely approval of innovation projects in Pfizer Global

R&D.

. Participated in performance management discussions for

aforementioned Midwestern sites.

. Informatics Liaison to the Pfizer Global R&D Bioimaging Center of

Emphasis

. Led discussions for software and hardware requirements to establish

informatics strategy for this customer group.

. Storage forecasting for up to 30 terabytes of projected data needs

over next ~2 years.

Esperion Therapeutics-an Ann Arbor biotech company acquired by Pfizer for

$1.3B in February, 2004

April 1999 to July 2004

Director, Information Systems

Job responsibilities in this position include identifying, creating and

maintaining the entire IT software and hardware infrastructure from the

ground up, including servers, networking, security, identifying and

implementing business applications, creating and implementing information

protection policies and practices, and managing the company's IT budget.

. Established a positive, responsive, service-oriented IT culture within

Esperion.

. Technical leadership from the inception of Esperion's network in 1998

(initially as a consultant) through acquisition by Pfizer in 2004,

from the first server and 6 workstations as a consultant in August,

1998, growing to a network of dozens of servers in 4 sites spanning US

and Europe.

. Remotely managed all sites' IT infrastructure from main site.

. Leadership responsibility for all Information Systems operations and

strategy from January, 2002 through Pfizer acquisition in 2004

. Leadership through difficult times including 30% downsizing of

company (March, 2002), SEC audit (August, 2003), Pfizer acquisition

(February, 2004)

. Successful and rapid response to an SEC audit of Esperion's email and

file systems, resulting in a successful response with existing IT and

legal staff while maintaining IT service levels and quality.

. Supported business development due diligence activities in a timely

manner, resulting in optimized presentation of information for due

diligence meetings and rapid response to unexpected IT requests

resulting from critical business development meetings.

. Experience managing geographically dispersed employees as well as

offshore and local contractor relationships.

Dominant Systems Corporation-an Ann Arbor IT consulting firm

August 1997 to April 1999

Systems Engineer

Job responsibilities included recommending and implementing various

Microsoft-based technology solutions for diverse clients and industries.

Summary of Skills

Business/Interpersonal Skills

. Solid understanding of IT functionality required for life sciences,

knowledge management, online collaboration, finance, human resources,

and legal.

. Leadership style which leads to rapid team-building, open

communication, and high levels of trust and performance.

. Rapidly identify, acquire and apply new skills in diverse disciplines

as changing needs arise

. Creative strategic skills.

. Strong communication, interpersonal, and networking skills.

Programming/Informatics Experience

. Java Spring web application development experience.

. Drupal web platform development experience.

. Experience in data modeling, architecture, data flow, ETL (extract,

transform, load), and scripting/programming in Oracle and open source

databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.

. Scientific application development projects including signal data

processing, image processing, data manipulation and visualization.

. Programming in Java, PHP, Perl and some C++.

Infrastructure Experience

. Designed, installed and maintained Windows, Linux, and UNIX based

technology solutions including file servers, messaging servers,

database servers, security servers, and miscellaneous applications for

life sciences and general business needs.

. Designed and maintained LAN, WAN, SAN, backup, and security solutions

based on industry-leading vendor platforms.

. Virtualization experience with Citrix Xen Server Enterprise.

. IP telephony / VOIP experience with Digium SwitchVox and Cisco IP

phones.

. GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA). Also attended GIAC Security

Essentials, Firewalls, and Auditing classes (www.giac.org,

www.sans.org).

Professional Associations

Washtenaw Community College

October, 2005 to Present

Member, Computer Information Systems Advisory Board

. Assisted in curriculum development, internship program development,

and other departmental programs and initiatives.

Education

August 1992 to May 1997

University of Oklahoma-Norman, Oklahoma

. National Merit Scholar

. B.A., History

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