James W. Allen
Mr. Allen has over ** years of experience in the IT industry, including 23
years in the pharmaceutical industry at GlaxoSmithKline. He has versatile
experience
. Developing IT applications,
. Developing IT infrastructure
. Performing strategic planning for IT,
. Developing application development methodologies, and
. Implementing Adaptive Architecture techniques.
Mr. Allen has developed applications for R&D, manufacturing and Sales &
Marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, where he has extensive experience
implementing validated information systems. During Mr. Allen's last six
years at GlaxoSmithKline, he was an infrastructure architect where he
focused on information security, especially PKI. In this capacity he was
responsible for introducing advanced infrastructure technology into a
large, diverse and globally distributed organization.
Some of the major projects that he has worked on/managed include:
. A novel eBusiness application supporting pharmaceutical product
distribution
. A successful, company-wide implementation of LDAP directory services
. A large implementation of PKI for a validated manufacturing
application
. An early corporate implementation of S/MIME
. One of the earliest Database Marketing projects in the pharmaceutical
industry
Mr. Allen has a BS in math from Duke University and is a graduate of the
Burroughs Wellcome Management Institute.