Mary K. Anderson, PhD

***Puritan St., Baltimore MD 21211 410-***-**** 410-***-**** acybzu@r.postjobfree.com

Driven professional with exemplary achievements, pioneering research, and product development projects in the field of bio and clinical informatics. Strong experience providing leadership in academic and commercial laboratories. Regarded as a Subject Matter Expert, leading teams in the development of systems for Clinical and Translational Informatics in Precision Medicine. Expertise managing competitive intelligence for data analysis, data warehousing, and data mining. Advanced knowledge of interoperability standards and metadata for the healthcare industry. Develops and enacts best practice metrics to ensure project and team success, and provides mentorship to team members.

Bio/Clinical Informatics

Systems Development SDLC

Systems Integration

Lean Process Design

Agile Software Development

Scrum Leadership

Backlog grooming/Jira

Competitive Intelligence

Big Data and Cloud Products

Relational, SQL, and NoSql Databases

Standards-based Frameworks

CDISC, BRIDG, HL7, HIPAA

Microsoft Office/Project Proficient

PMP trained

Innovation Leader

Employee, Team Leadership

Client Relationship Management

Project/Portfolio Management

Fostering Collaboration

DevOps/Continuous Integration

Professional Experience

Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 2012-Present

Technical Project Manager

Responsible for the management of a portfolio of projects valued at $500K to $4M annually

Supervise subcontractors and consultants working on clinical and translational IT projects

Directed Scrum with technical lead and team to enable the removal of blockers, backlog grooming, Jira

Fostered Cross-team Collaboration within sub-contracting organizations

Key Achievements

NCI Director’s Award winner for the MATCH project

Delivered critical insight for projects in NextGen Sequencing and Precision Medicine,

including the MATCH trial Molecular Assessment in Therapeutic Choice

Managed the design of MATCHbox, a high throughput system for automated cohort assignment and patient management based on the underlying tumor defects, using DROOLS and MongoDB

Instituted the first full automated Continuous Integration Quality Assurance process, and

supported seamless DevOps over staged tier promotion processes for the MATCH project

Managed the integration of caAERS adverse event reporting system with RAVE Clinical Data Management system based to automate adverse event reporting

Drove the development of the first fully cloud based software installation within NCI CBIIT

Expert on next-gen databases using Object Storage and Semantic search (SOLR, ElasticSearch)

Spearheaded the design of a Big Data Repository for semi and unstructured data types which

will rely on an underlying metadata to develop relationships within disparate data sets

Led clinical informatics projects within the Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI)

Digital Infuzion Inc., NCATS, Bethesda, MD 2012

Sr. Scientific IT Specialist

Provided leadership and oversight of the Scientific IT portfolio within the office of the CIO

Key Achievements

Implemented strategic assessment that defined milestones for research portfolio management

CSC Inc., NIH BTRIS Project, Bethesda, MD 2011-2012

Principal Business Analyst and Genomics SME

Established user requirements linking clinical sequencing data to patient data across domains

Led Design of HL7 listening service for automated data updates

Facilitated meetings with outside subject matter experts on genomics and metadata structure

Mary K. Anderson, PhD

700Puritan St., Baltimore MD 21211 410-***-**** 410-***-**** acybzu@r.postjobfree.com

Healthcare IT, Rockville, MD 2010-2011

Product Manager and Biorepository Subject Matter Expert, Healthcare IT

Directed BIGR and ancillary product lines supporting biorepository management, specimen

accession and tracking, laboratory workflow, and logistics for academic and medical clientele

Evaluated client requirements, and translated them to specifications for product enhancement

National Heart Lung Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 2009-2010

Senior Scientific IT Advisor, Division of Intramural Research

Managed enterprise portfolio of clinical and research informatics projects and systems

Oversaw web publication tools in addition to systems for clinical research management

Delivered expert strategic insight for maximizing return on DIR IT investment

Key Achievements

Integral advisory role in the development of policies for scientific information management

Primary liaison to the NHLBI Center for Biomedical Informatics, and other divisions of NIH

MDLogix, Baltimore, MD 2007-2009

Product and Project Manager

Directed software product line across multiple client projects in Clinical Research Informatics

Led Scrum with the technical team, streamlining rational schedule for product development

Implemented development timelines and release schedules using Agile methodology

Designed, documented, and tested user stories for both existing and new product installations

Key Achievements

Project managed the Interactive Autism Network and Autism Genetic Resource Exchange

Spearheaded the US Air Force, Medical Research Command Division of Hematology Research

Created beta versions of OLAP data warehouse, and tissue/specimen banking applications with connectivity to EMR through HL7

DCSS LabAnswer, Loudon, TN and Baltimore, MD 2006-2007

Informatics Consultant

Developed functional requirement specifications for LIMS for pharmaceutical and biotech arenas

with an emphasis on GLP and GMP, HIPAA, 21CFR Part II compliant and validated environments

Key Achievements

Proposed business process redesign for customers within manufacturing and research laboratories

Executed comprehensive gap analysis using LabWare LIMS to evaluate customer practice capabilities

LabVantage Solutions, Bridgewater, NJ & Baltimore, MD 2004-2006

Business Analyst

Analyzed and developed functional requirement specifications for LIMS in pharma and biotechnology

Led technical development of customer configurations, ensuring fulfillment of project deliverables

Key Achievements

Created the framework for Tissue Banking, CAPA, and Clinical Sample Management modules

Developed reporting requirements for LIMS configurations using Business Objects, and created

Standard Operating Procedures and training documentation for individual customer configurations

North Carolina State University, Baltimore, MD 2003-2004

Adjunct Faculty in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics

Directed the certification program for methods in bioinformatics at North Carolina State University

Created training materials and learning guides for tools and techniques in sequence analysis

Mary K. Anderson, PhD

700Puritan St., Baltimore MD 21211 410-***-**** 410-***-**** acybzu@r.postjobfree.com

The National Academies of Science, Washington, DC 2003

Christine Mirzayan Intern in Science and Technology Policy

Conducted research on model programs to determine best practices and evaluation methods

Key Achievements

Facilitated an expert panel discussion on “compassionate access” in FDA IND approval process

InforMax Inc., Bethesda, MD 2000-2003

Application Scientist

Planned statistical analysis methods for the correlation of histopathology with DNA microarray

gene expression data for alternative biomarkers for toxicology, in collaboration with TissueInformatics Inc.

Key Achievements

Created an innovative method for protein annotation with incorporated ontology for database curation

Supported technical documentation for software, tutorials, and journal articles, presenting research

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 1996-2000

Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology

Researched transcriptional control mechanisms of retinal gene expression

Key Achievements

Characterized a homeodomain like transcription factor with a novel mechanism

for down-regulating retina-specific genes in non-retinal cell types

Formal Education

PhD in Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2000

“Transcriptional Regulation in the Retina: a Role for Chx 11”

AB in Biochemistry, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Awards and Memberships

NCI Director’s Award, MATCH Development Team

Smith College Club of Baltimore, President 2006-2016

ACTiVATE Graduate 2008, UMBC

Certificate, Smith College Executive Education, Women in STEM, 2008

Certificate in Bioinformatics, MIT Professional Institute, 2001

AAAS Member

American Women in Science

Women in Bio

Publications

Kriete, A., Mary K. Anderson, B. Love, J. Freund, J. Caffrey, M.B. Young, T.J. Sendera, S.R Magnuson, J.M.Braughler. “Combined Histomorphometric and Gene expression profiling applied to toxicology”, Genome Biology 2003 4(5):R32.

Anderson, M.K., S. Chen, D. Zack. “Transcriptional Regulation of Retina Specific Genes: Decoy Homeodomains can block transcriptional activation” Manuscript in preparation, 2001.

Osheim, Y.N., E.B. Mougey, J. Windle, M.K. Anderson, M. O’Reilly, O.J. Miller, A. Beyer, B. Sollner-Webb. Journal of Cell Biology, volume 133 #5, pp.943-54, 1996.

Traktman, P., M.K. Anderson, R.E. Rempel. Journal of Biological Chemistry, volme 36, pp. 214**-*****, 1989.

Rempel, R. M.K. Anderson, E. Evans, P. Traktman. Journal of Virology, volume 64, number 2, pp.574-583, 1990.

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