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Listing to podcasts related to Neuroscience, functional medicines and medical topics in general.
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Naoko Stearns

Fort Lauderdale,FL
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

Summary

My immediate goal is to find a supporting role for a Clinical Research Coordinator or Clinical Trial Manager for a CRO or a sponsor company.

Through my twenty plus years of clinical programming and analyses of both safety and efficacy data in the pharmaceutical and health care industry, I gained experience in how clinical data are collected, maintained and transformed to meet the strict FDA submission criteria.

My 10 years in working on oncology studies gave me familiarity with different types of cancers, their treatments, disease staging, and assessment criteria. My ongoing interests in other therapeutic areas, such as, Neuroscience, Central Nervous Systems, also drew me to seek clinical research roles to help clinical trials processes to improve patient care and outcomes.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Trust Advisor Assistant

Kelly Services
Boca Raton, FL
05.2022 - Current
  • On site at Comerica Bank, Sort and classify institutional and personal trust documents into categories for email, scan for appropriate departments and officers.
  • migration of trust documents from personal decentralized folders into the centralized corporate repository
  • Assist in communications between the retail banking and trust management functions within the organization

Sales Associate

Premier Asociate Realty, LLC
Cooper City, FL
10.2021 - 04.2022
  • Used two lead generation software to locate and contact property sellers and buyers.
  • Learned how to complete various forms to complete required financial transactions.
  • Researched local and regional markets to explore different segments of real estate markets in Florida.

Statistical Programmer

Progenic Pharmaceuticals
New York City, NY
07.2019 - 05.2020
  • Oversaw the work of several CROs that produced raw CRF data, mapped SDTM data and the final analysis data for two cancer studies submitted for FDA.
  • Supported clinical operations and pharmacovigilance teams by generating Patient Profile report.
  • Monitored study recruitment numbers and proper allocations of treatment groups in the collected data
  • Answered querries by medical monitor and statisticians during patient recruitment and data collection.
  • Worked with the data managers to make CRFs more CDISC compliant.
  • annotated imaging data of PET/CT scans for our CROs and internal teams.

Clinical Programmers

Talentburst Life Science
Fort Lee, New Jersey
08.2018 - 05.2019
  • on site at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, programmatically validated deliverables of work done by a CRO.
  • Developed a tool to check clinical study data mapped by different CROs against the CDISC standard and generate non-compliance report for the pharmacovigilance group.
  • used Pinnacle 21 to check CDISC and ADaM compliance of mapped clinical data and review the reports.

SAS Programmer

COVANCE & LABCORE (formallyChiltern Internationa)
Remote Role
01.2017 - 08.2018
  • supported multiple oncology projects to generate analysis data, tables and listings.
  • migrated global utility programs from SAS windows environment to newly installed SAS Grid.

Senior Biostatistical Programmer

Parexel International
Remote Role
04.2016 - 10.2016
  • Wrote SDTM and ADaM specifications for oncology projects
  • Generated listings to reconcile Adverse Events data between the clinical data and safety data.
  • Generated listings to reconcile lab data generated between the clinical and external vendor data.

Data Management Programmer

Inventiv Health
Parsippany, New Jersey
08.2013 - 04.2016
  • Onsite at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, supported Phase I-III oncology studies by programmatically validating internally mapped domains.
  • Validated all cancer related codelists defined in the Unix environment against the definitions in the study protocols.
  • Oversaw the mapped clinical data done by external vendors to check for the CDISC compliance.
  • Reviewed final domain data ready to be submitted to FDA.

Senior Specialist

Imclone Systems, LLC
Bridgewater, New Jersey
08.2009 - 08.2013
  • As a compound programmer, oversaw the work, quality, deliverable timelines, resource requirements of external vendors that produced clinical raw and mapped data and specifications of phase I and II solid tumor studies.
  • Generated data review listings for data managers
  • Worked with the data management to document and resolve data and mapping issues.

Onsite at Bristle Myer and Squibb in Connecticut

Inventive Health
Lake Mary, Florida
03.2009 - 08.2009

On site at Bristol Myers Squibb in Connecticut, generated data and tables for manuscript for Medical Affairs group.

Statistical Programmer

Smith Hanley Associates
Mary Lake, FL
09.2007 - 03.2009

On site at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, generated analysis data by pooling 19 studies of laboratory data from Phase 1I to III, for a FDA submission of a new respiratory drug.

Statistical Programmer

Stamford Consultants, AG
Basel, Switzerland
04.2006 - 07.2007
  • On site at Hoffman La Roche in Basel, participated in two large phase III studies in hematologic cancer study drugs.
  • Generated safety reports for Data Monitoring Committees.
  • Annotated CRFs of a new phase I study.

Research Programmer

Research Triangle Institute International
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
05.1996 - 08.2005
  • Supported the work of HIH funded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit coordinating center.
  • Helped in the development of EDC from scanned CRFs parsed via PEARL programming and converted to Visual Basics for Access DBMS
  • Tested the EDC system
  • Developed website for muti-site coordinators.

Education

Master of Science - Information Systems

University of Maryland, College Park, Mariland, College Park, MD
08.1992

Bachelor of Science - Sociology

The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
09.1985

Skills

  • Strong Organizational Skills
  • Document and File Management
  • Database and Client Management Systems
  • Computers and Technology
  • Confidentiality and Data Protection
  • Standard Operating Procedure
  • Vendor oversight
  • Collaboration

Listing to podcasts related to Neuroscience, functional medicines and medical topics in general.

When I left my fulltime programming job due to the COVID lockdown, I wanted to find productive use of my time to make me happy and healthy. I believe in Use it or Lose it principle and nueroplasticity was one of the first term I learned in my earliest podcasts in neuroscience.

I always found life transitions to be a difficult yet memorable and challenging moment in life. I am in that transition now and chose this path to obtain a role that will lead me to the field of clinical Research.

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Timeline

Trust Advisor Assistant - Kelly Services
05.2022 - Current
Sales Associate - Premier Asociate Realty, LLC
10.2021 - 04.2022
Statistical Programmer - Progenic Pharmaceuticals
07.2019 - 05.2020
Clinical Programmers - Talentburst Life Science
08.2018 - 05.2019
SAS Programmer - COVANCE & LABCORE (formallyChiltern Internationa)
01.2017 - 08.2018
Senior Biostatistical Programmer - Parexel International
04.2016 - 10.2016
Data Management Programmer - Inventiv Health
08.2013 - 04.2016
Senior Specialist - Imclone Systems, LLC
08.2009 - 08.2013
Onsite at Bristle Myer and Squibb in Connecticut - Inventive Health
03.2009 - 08.2009
Statistical Programmer - Smith Hanley Associates
09.2007 - 03.2009
Statistical Programmer - Stamford Consultants, AG
04.2006 - 07.2007
Research Programmer - Research Triangle Institute International
05.1996 - 08.2005
University of Maryland, College Park, Mariland - Master of Science, Information Systems
The Pennsylvania State University - Bachelor of Science, Sociology
Naoko Stearns