Michal Niemierko
Westford,MA
Summary
Accomplished IT leader with a Computer Information Systems degree and extensive experience spanning two decades. Demonstrated expertise in the field, with a track record of leading teams to achieve successful global solution implementations, driving significant business growth. Skilled in managing relationships among internal groups, external vendors, and 3rd party suppliers, consistently delivering successful outcomes and fostering effective collaborations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Global IT Director, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Quality Systems
Candela Medical
10.2021 - 10.2024
- Lead and grew team to establish, maintain, and evolve cybersecurity and data privacy policies, procedures, and roadmaps
- Aligned Cybersecurity program to CIS, and Data Privacy program to NIST, both with 3.0+ maturity rating in under 3 years.
- Reduced company Cybersecurity insurance costs by 30% by reducing vulnerabilities, enhancing maturity, and increasing user training and awareness
- Managed 3rd party providers across Cybersecurity and Data Privacy landscape.
- Leading solution design and architectural analysis for enhancement requests, ensuring compliance to change control and SDLC procedures
Principal Business Analyst
Candela Medical
09.2018 - 10.2021
- SPOC and Team lead supporting company PLM and Data Reporting systems
- Project lead on GDPR-compliance initiative, as well as numerous projects to upgrade and move systems into Cloud
- Team lead for 3rd party IT support vendor, resulting in improved efficiency, issue turnaround times, and clearer more organized performance reporting and analysis.
Senior Business Analyst
Philips IT Healthcare
04.2013 - 08.2018
- Collaborated with Business, IT Business Partners, Architects, and Tech Leads to create and define requirements
- Created User Stories within Rally using Agile Methodology across multiple projects
- Primary BA on major initiative to bring in Windchill as Complaints and CAPA system at Philips over multi-year project, working with PTC and other 3rd party vendors on requirements, scheduling, budgets, execution, testing, and post go-live stabilization
- Primary BA for eMDR upgrade project, moving Philips from paper submissions to electronic gateway submissions
- Project was executed ahead of schedule and under budget.
Business Analyst
Boston Scientific Corporation
04.2009 - 03.2014
- Led business analysis phase for multi-million dollar global project improving enterprise-wide complaints system processing and ensuring that it was FDA compliant
- Oversaw project planning, business requirements gathering, system and functional specifications, budget planning, risk analysis, testing organization, and go-live execution
- Self-taught regulatory reporting requirements and worked with FDA contacts to align and track all submissions
- Managed analysis, design (including use case scenarios), system and user acceptance testing, implementation and maintenance phases of European Complaints System project
- Managed upgrade project to European Complaints System from manual to government pdf form submission
- Collaborated with international directors and site managers to deliver most efficient, cost-effective solution which resulted in total annual saving of over $100,000 due to creative implementation of digital signatures.
Application Specialist (Contract)
Brandeis University
08.2008 - 03.2009
- Gathered, organized, analyzed and presented telecommunications spending data
- Created trending report in Excel detailing calling habits of students and faculty over previous five years, and detailed report on peer University online course evaluation programs
- Completed complex review of IT department’s budget, comparing it to peer group of 26 other universities
- Identified spending trends, set costs, and operational to project spending ratio
- Presented findings and delivered full report included recommendations to CIO.
Education
B.S Computer Information Systems -
Ithaca College
Ithaca NY01.2005
Skills
- IT risk management
- Information Security
- Business Analysis
- Enterprise Architecture
- Data Analytics
- Disaster Recovery
Certification
Project Management Professional, 1494198, 03/2012
Languages
Polish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Global IT Director, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Quality Systems
Candela Medical
10.2021 - 10.2024
Principal Business Analyst
Candela Medical
09.2018 - 10.2021
Senior Business Analyst
Philips IT Healthcare
04.2013 - 08.2018
Business Analyst
Boston Scientific Corporation
04.2009 - 03.2014
Application Specialist (Contract)
Brandeis University
08.2008 - 03.2009
B.S Computer Information Systems -
Ithaca College
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