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NIRALI SHAH

Piscataway,NJ

Summary

Resourceful SCIENTIST/PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEAD with expertise in organizing business operations and resource management to achieve successful execution of team's strategy. With 15 years of experience encompassing strong leadership abilities, with proven expertise monitor projects by adhering to production schedule and target milestones, identifying problem and providing targeted solutions. Proficient in building relationships with internal and external colleagues outside of the department for services and products, and adhering to the compliance of the company's standards.

Overview

3
3
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Management Specialist/Scientist Project Lead

Merck & Co., Inc
Rahway, NJ
06.2020 - Current
  • Provide support for the Chemical Inventory Management Program Lead and team leads to maintain the compliance of the 3rd party supplied chemicals at all MRL sites.
  • Facilitate meetings effectively and communicate action items to team members by drafting agenda, issue meeting minutes.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with team leads on deliverables by tracking action items/decisions/issues using MS Project 2013 software.
  • Development of support tools for tracking the operations data supplied by vendor and providing to scientists and their leaders.
  • Provide support to our division group by facilitating automation team meetings by drafting agenda, issue meeting minutes and tracking action items.
  • Managed 3-5 staff members for the building of small fragment libraries for key discovery research assays.
  • Participate in the 5 year infrastructure upgrade of our division automated storage(Brooks systems) and plate production systems on several levels from design study based on requirements, selection of vendors, integration and by managing FAT and UAT testing
  • Development and testing of several software integration systems like Titian software, GTAS application , and GCS Ordering system.

Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.
Rahway, NJ
11.2008 - Current
  • Documented changes during experiments, noting unexpected issues arising during research activities and report to team lead.
  • Conducted experiments in laboratory environment for discovery development purposes.
  • Performed intricate research within strict timeline and communicated results to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Supervised team of contractor scientists working on Lead Id/Verification project and provided mentoring by leveraging automated technology skills and software based strengths.
  • Worked with cross-functional project teams to support productions of HTS workflow, Biologic dosing requests

Associate Scientist

Schering Plough Corporation
Summit, NJ
01.2007 - 11.2008
  • Incorporated Lean Thinking process to increase compound shipments by implementing improved work processes requiring substantial data management and sample tracking.
  • Designed and implemented a 1536 Reformatting station to support screening groups.
  • Participated in project with Titian Software to scope out implementation of Mosaic software.

Assistant Scientist

SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION
Summit, NJ
08.2005 - 01.2007
  • Supported Discovery Therapeutic Areas by processing dry and solution phase chemistry compounds for cell lines, dosing for animals and target hit ids.
  • Prepared screening sets for confirmation hit ids and mass spectrometry for purification validation
  • Provided chemical reagent tracking support for Discovery Research across Merck sites in the U.S

Laboratory Technician

Merck & Co., Inc
Rahway, NJ
05.2004 - 08.2005
  • Supported Discovery Therapeutic Areas by processing dry and solution phase chemistry compounds for cell lines, dosing for animals and target hit ids.
  • Write and accordingly revise applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Education

Master of Science - Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology

University Of Medicine & Dentistry Of New Jersey
09.2008 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Arts - Biology, Psychology

Rutgers University

Skills

    Project Management

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Certification

Project Management Tools and Techniques, 2012

Accomplishments

Awards:

Inspire Points Rewards-Current

NJ RY Rewards and Recognition, 2016

Award of Excellence(Leadership Behaviors) in 2014-Present(Both Internal & External)

Award for Lean Thinking, 2008

Award for Focus on Customers and Drive Results, 2006

Work Availability

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Publications

Malik, M., Mustaev, A., Schwanz, H., Luan, G., Shah, N., Oppegard, L., De Souza, E., Hiasa, H., Zhao, X., Kerns, R.,Drlica, K. Suppression of gyrase-mediated resistance by C7 aryl fluoroquinolones. Nucleic Acids Research(NAR). Mar 2016, NAR-03530-F-2015. R2.

Malik, M., Chavda,K., Zhao, X., Shah, N., Hussain, S., Kurepina, N., Kreiswirth, B.N., Kerns, R., Drlica, K. Induction of Mycobacterial Resistance to Quinolone Class Antimicrobials. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. July 2012, 56(7): 3879-3887. Doi: 10.1128/AAC.00474-12

Quote

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

Timeline

Project Management Specialist/Scientist Project Lead

Merck & Co., Inc
06.2020 - Current

Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.
11.2008 - Current

Master of Science - Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology

University Of Medicine & Dentistry Of New Jersey
09.2008 - 10.2012

Associate Scientist

Schering Plough Corporation
01.2007 - 11.2008

Assistant Scientist

SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION
08.2005 - 01.2007

Laboratory Technician

Merck & Co., Inc
05.2004 - 08.2005

Bachelor of Arts - Biology, Psychology

Rutgers University

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