Nicole L. Lang
Stamford,CT
Summary
Experienced professional with a proven track record of success in information technology environments. Adept at building and leading teams to consistently exceed goals and expectations. Highly skilled in managing tasks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring timely, cost-effective, and accurate results. Background in developing and implementing efficient processes and procedures to optimize business operations.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager Consultant
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc
02.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases: DUPIXENT, EYLEA and PRALUENT among others
- I am a lead Project Manager in the G&A Department overseeing multiple international financial applications utilizing the Oracle ERP environment from upgrades & migrations to expansion into multiple countries
- Successfully implemented the project to transition of the product Libtayo distribution from Sanofi to Regeneron implementing Oracle EBS modifications in a GxP environment for expansions into Canada and Germany
- This involved managing multiple vendors and working with an international team of over 50 including IOPS IT, G&A IT (DBA, BA, networking, IT in general), G&A business leads, Deloitte consulting, distribution partners and QA
- Leading the upgrade of the AP Invoice scanning application (MarkView/Kofax) integrating into the Oracle EBS system
- I was able to manage through a number of challenges and still keeping the go-live date of Feb 24, 2025
- Successfully navigating through challenges involved establishing the correct team, transparency to the Steering Committee, managing the application vendor and providing mitigating solutions
- Leading the database migration of the EBD Prod, Val and Dev environments to upgraded hardware and from the Phoenix DR location to the new Chicago location to address DR latency
- This project involves coordination with multiple IT and service companies including AWS, Cloud Services, Networking, Database and Server teams
- It is currently on target and scheduled for an end of March upgrade
- Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases: DUPIXENT, EYLEA and PRALUENT among others
Independent Computer Consultant
AskMsIT.com
06.2013 - Current
- Advise small businesses and individuals on personalized IT services including office productivity strategies and training, website support and maintenance, purchasing, and resolutions to Windows and Mac problems
- Helped clients design and maintain websites and produce mass marketing solutions using Mailchimp increasing reach to customers enhancing sales and customer satisfaction
Project Manager Consultant
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Company Overview: Amylyx is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to help patients with neurodegenerative diseases
- I am the project manager for Global Business Systems applications
- My role is to manage the technical and business requirements, vendor selection and budget for multiple business projects solutions supporting and coordinating with the internal global project teams, IT and external vendors
- Led the EMEA Inventory project to implement intercompany financial and supply chain processes into NetSuite
- Helped develop the documented new business processes and knowledge transfer efforts working closely with the EMEA and US finance, Supply chain and QA teams
- Managed the IT team to migrate the externally hosted Amylyx intranet page to the internally controlled intranet sharepoint site
- In addition to managing the migration process, I also used my web development skills to create a front end interface similar to the existing interface and continue to support the platform with ongoing change requests
- Implemented the new FP&A budgeting system
- I led the vendor and application decision efforts as well as the onboarding for the selected vendors, Workday Adaptive application and Alight as the implementation partner
- This included interacting with the various vendors, the Internal FP&A team and the legal team as well as documenting and creating vendor and cost analysis comparisons
- Worked closely with the team and vendor to implement and meet our scheduled go-live date successfully
- Closed out the project to define the processes and implement the new procedures to meet the Aggregate spend/Sunshine act reporting requirements to be in place by March 31st 2023
- This involves coordinating between multiple internal departments (Legal, Finance, IT, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Marketing, etc.) and the external vendor MedPro
- I was brought in to help organize and bring clarity to the project, including working closely with the Marketing PM
- I created a new status reporting structure which greatly improved clarity, documented new procedures and processes, and brought together the right resources to meet our March 31st deadline
- Implementing the new HR Employee Recognition Program
- I led the vendor and application decision efforts as well as the onboarding for the selected vendor, Achievers
- This included interacting with the various vendors, the Internal HR team and the employee focus group team
- I created vendor and cost analysis comparisons
- Conducted focus group discussions and feedback
- I created the project structure and kicked off the project with go-live planned for early November 2023
- In process of vendor evaluation and project definition for the new Finance Accounts Payable OCR project
- This supports automating AP invoice processing and eventually become a full end-to-end AP and payables system
- Amylyx is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to help patients with neurodegenerative diseases
US Sr. Project Manager Consultant
Orexo Inc.
12.2020 - 08.2022
- Company Overview: Orexo is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to help patients overcome and recover from addictions
- I was the US project manager working alongside the Project manager at the parent company in Sweden supporting the MS Business Central ERP Implementation for the financial systems replacements and migrations
- My role was to manage the technical requirements, validation documentation as this ERP system will eventually support GxP activities, support and coordinated with the US project teams and vendors
- Led the GxP validation documentation and knowledge transfer efforts working closely with the Swedish QA team, QA consultants and the German Partner, Yaveon
- This set up the Orexo QA team with the internal knowledge to manage the GxP SCM implementation phase
- Coordinated with the US vendors, IT and US finance team for add-on financial solutions and integrations
- Worked closely with the Project management team to plan and track the complex project activities across multiple departments, vendors and time zones
- Responsible for business process mapping and process improvement mapping for the Finance, Sales, Contracts and data analytics teams located out of the Morristown office
- Managed stakeholder expectations and communications
- Coordinated knowledge transfer, service introduction, end user training, and companywide communications during the UAT through implementation phases of the project
- Orexo is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to help patients overcome and recover from addictions
IT Specialist/Manager
DVCC
06.2019 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: Violence crisis center
- Oversaw IT department, equipment and network supporting Stamford and Norwalk offices, court room, and safe houses for violence crisis center
- Violence crisis center
- Converted website managed by outside resource to GoDaddy platform to manage and sustain internally saving about $10K in annual consulting and programming expenses
- Identified, recommended, and implemented hardware, software, and security solutions with vendor input following limited IT budget
- Created training material for DVCC staff for routine tasks and issues to increase efficiency to resolve issues and knowledge base for staff to be more self-sufficient
IT Project Manager
Diageo
05.2017 - 05.2019
- Directed 15-person team working on global Cloud based software and software design
- Established and monitored project budgets and conducted stakeholder, vendor and project team communications
- Led execution of distributor cloud application providing brand information, calendars, and promotions
- Guided 10-person team producing and introducing new micro targeting technology noting possible new establishments benefitting sales team’s objectives
- Spearheaded various projects securing details from data lake and using field mapping to harmonize data from multiple sources
- Delivered three simultaneous projects across different business units on time and within budget
- Launched multi-media/sales website featuring latest technology providing marketing team with competitive edge
- Oversaw proof of concept micro analytics project using market and demographic data to promote new sales resulting in internal team building working solution saving $1M
IT Infrastructure Project Management Consultant
GenRe
08.2015 - 01.2016
- Supervised more than 40 IT business professionals updating $15M disaster recovery program
- Managed disaster recovery of 50+ Tier 1 applications (e.g
- SAP, cash register) from Connecticut to North Carolina, performance of disaster recovery tests (20 users) including finding and fixing 12 major problems including increasing size of transaction logs and enhancing syncing of local/remote systems
- Led migration and design of three team eRoom sites (50GB) to SharePoint in 30 days
IT Infrastructure Project Management Consultant
Yale University
07.2014 - 12.2014
- Led IT portfolio of 50+ projects with $50K-$500K budgets including allocating personnel and preparing future project plans
- Supervised 10 staff on multiple IT teams (storage, desktop, architects, backup) to execute Cloud based desktop backup solution for 2,000 users
- Led 15 storage architects, UNIX and Microsoft servers, systems architects, and backup people migrating key data from single point of failure structure to mirrored environment across multiple data centers improving disaster recovery response and preventing data loss for daily systems and application aid
- Assessed and proposed methods for IT process improvements and stop gap measures
- Devised documentation templates for all IT projects to streamline project structure and system builds and deployments
- Directed seven people deploying HIPPA compliant collaboration cloud service including partnering with business and security for compliance requirements
- Worked with Service Now to determine resource workloads, time to close tickets to assist in identifying project availability
Project Manager, Document Management Application
Purdue Pharma
01.2009 - 01.2014
- Orchestrated complete project lifecycle and daily assistance with business teams, ISQA, IT, and vendors
- Designed GxP documentation templates to use in all IT projects to conform to GxP project structure, GxP qualified system builds, and GxP validation deployments
- Migrated from Documentum to QUMAS quality document management system
- Noted and initiated cost and time saving solutions saving $24K+ and 10 days per project
- Completed four major projects (upgrades, data migration; budgets up to $500K) on schedule and under budget
- Guided document compliance (5,000+ docs) for regulated systems and clinical filings, produced quality assurance templates allowing remote access for vendor saving $24K and avoided $50K in consulting expenses
- Built and preserved SharePoint site resulting in remote vendor log-in and lowering response time from 24 hours to 4
- Served on Service Now implementation team producing launch plan, providing introduction analysis and proposing improvement opportunities
SAP Security Administrator
Purdue Pharma
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Collaborated with SAP developers and business users to provide secure access to six module system aiding 2,500 employees
- Oversaw off-shore support for business/SAP teams and liaised with outside auditors to assess SAP systems and provide proof-of-security and GxP controls
- Led initial security implementation of SAP HR module saving $100K in project costs
Senior Unix Manager
Purdue Pharma
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Commanded 15 staff and 40 vendors in 20 annual projects
- Led virtualization program joining 50 midframes to 10 and reducing annual hardware spend by $2.5M
- Partnered with 5+ vendors to set up patch/maintenance schedules and implement hot swappable components, decreasing downtime by 50%+ (two hours) and avoiding interruptions to manufacturing batch processing (up to $1M/hour)
- Launched pilot remote support program to allow support vendors remote access/monitoring, reducing number of off-hour calls from 10 to three
- Utilized ServiceNow for managing and analyzing service management for requests and tickets opened with the teams across sites and shifts
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
Simmons Graduate School of Management
Boston, MABachelor of Science - Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MASkills
- Strategic Business Planning and Analysis
- Team Building and Leadership
- Staff Training and Development
- Partner and Stakeholder Relations
- Application Development
- Technology Roadmaps
- Pharma
- LiveScience
- Finance
- Beverage
- GxP
- Quality Management
- ServiceNow
- Service Management
- MS Office
- Project
- Visio
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Budget Development and Oversight
- Portfolio Management
- Process Improvements
- IT Infrastructure
- ITIL Solutions
- Data & System Migrations
- Project Management Methodologies
- Waterfall
- Agile
- SCRUM
- SLDC
- ERP
- QMS
- Document management systems
- Documentum
- Advantum
- QUMAS DocCompliance
- Veeva Vault
- Work flow planning
- Project tracking
- Project development
- Feasibility analysis
- Systems implementation
- Budget administration
- Staff training and motivation
- Building applications
- Forecasting
- Team bonding
- Planning and scheduling
- Staff retention
- Advanced understanding of [software name]
- Deliverable tracking
- Budget development and adherence
- Technical support
- Root-cause analysis
- Task prioritization
- Procedure development
- Schedule management
- Performance improvements
- Functional & business requirements
- Financial administration
- Strategic planning
- Risk management
- Critical design review
- Purchasing and procurement
- Coaching and mentoring
- International business
- Document management
- Multi-stakeholder asset management
- Resource allocation
- Progress reporting
- Budget control
- Project scheduling
- Compliance monitoring
- Project development and lifecycle
- Verbal and written communication
- Change control processes
- Project management
- Vendor sourcing
- Advanced problem solving
- Performance evaluations
- Computer architecture
- Systems design documentation
- Change impact analysis
- Stakeholder communications
- Microsoft office suite expert
- Scope management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Project planning and development
- Agile methodology
- Team collaboration
- Staff management
- Project framework engineering
Accomplishments
Board of directors of Home owners association
Volunteer at multiple charities
- Saved the company $[Amount] over [Number] years by implementing a successful productivity improvement plan.
- Designed and launched the [Project Name] Project, resulting in a [Number]% increase in market share for the company.
- Completed the [Project name] Project on time and $[Amount] under budget.
Certification
- ITIL v3 Foundations, 2011
- Project Management Professional (PMP), 2005
Professional Development
- Member, PMI Organization, 2005-Present
- Agile Project Management Professional Training, 2019-2020
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), 07/01/22
Affiliations
- PMP
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Interests
- Community Cleanup
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Tech enthusiast, passionate about exploring the latest advancements and innovations
Timeline
Project Manager Consultant
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc
02.2024 - Current
Project Manager Consultant
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc
10.2022 - 10.2023
US Sr. Project Manager Consultant
Orexo Inc.
12.2020 - 08.2022
IT Specialist/Manager
DVCC
06.2019 - 09.2019
IT Project Manager
Diageo
05.2017 - 05.2019
IT Infrastructure Project Management Consultant
GenRe
08.2015 - 01.2016
IT Infrastructure Project Management Consultant
Yale University
07.2014 - 12.2014
Independent Computer Consultant
AskMsIT.com
06.2013 - Current
Project Manager, Document Management Application
Purdue Pharma
01.2009 - 01.2014
SAP Security Administrator
Purdue Pharma
01.2006 - 01.2009
Senior Unix Manager
Purdue Pharma
01.2002 - 01.2006
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Northeastern University
Master of Business Administration - Finance
Simmons Graduate School of Management
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