Experienced 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 teams
Project Lead- Precision Medicine/ Genomics, Enterprise Project Management Office
▪ Project Lead for 2 Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence including genomic data management
▪ SME for integration of genomic data into Precision Medicine Analytic Platform (PMAP)
o Advocate for multiple modalities of data analysis pipelines to support different user sets
▪ Led Enterprise-wide roll-out of new software applications across 5 Hospitals and 3 Health systems
Key Achievements
▪ Led a successful pilot implementation of Centrify Privileged Access Management that resulted in the adoption of PAM across Enterprise IT
• Responsible for the management of a portfolio of projects valued at $500K to $4M annually
• Supervised subcontractors and consultants working on clinical and translational IT projects
• Directed Scrum processes with technical lead and team to enable the removal of blockers
o 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 of 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
• 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
• 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
• Conducted evaluation of the upcoming IT needs within the Division of Clinical Innovation
CSC Inc., NIH BTRIS Project, Bethesda, MD
• Established user requirements linking clinical sequencing data to patient data across domains
• Spearheaded the management of documentation, change requests, and other project artifacts
• Facilitated meetings with outside subject matter experts on genomics and metadata structure
Healthcare IT, Rockville, MD
• 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 investments
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
• 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
DCSS LabAnswer, Loudon, TN and Baltimore, MD
• 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
• 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
• 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
Digital Infuzion Inc., NCATS, Bethesda, MD
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
• Conducted evaluation of the upcoming IT needs within the Division of Clinical Innovation
CSC Inc., NIH BTRIS Project, Bethesda, MD
Principal Business Analyst and Genomics SME
• Established user requirements linking clinical sequencing data to patient data across domains
• Spearheaded the management of documentation, change requests, and other project artifacts
• Facilitated meetings with outside subject matter experts on genomics and metadata structure
Healthcare IT, Rockville, MD
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
Bio/Clinical Informatics
Systems Development
Lean Business Processes
Agile Software Development
Scrum Leadership
Competitive Intelligence
Big Data and Cloud Products
Relational and NoSql Databases
Standards-based Frameworks
CDISC, BRIDG, HL7, HIPAA, 21CFR
Innovation Leader
Employee, Team Leadership
Client Relationship Management
Project/Portfolio Management
Fostering Collaboration
Preceptor Certificate.
Recipient of Nurses Loving Nurses award several times for my contribution to the culture of collaboration across the nursing community and our Humana enterprise.
Star Award/Treasure Chest recipient March 2013, April 2014 and October 2014 for keeping the service level standards first class.
Volunteer for the America Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Nate's Animal Rescue, Crowley Museum, and humanitarian mission trips to Honduras.
Inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society of Nursing, 2020.
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