Mary K. Anderson, PhD
***Puritan St., Baltimore MD 21211 410-***-**** 410-***-**** ******@*******.***
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-***-**** ******@*******.***
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-***-**** ******@*******.***
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.