STEVEN F. SABACINSKI
Uxbridge,MA
Summary
Director-level IT leader with deep experience in strategic planning, team leadership, and enterprise application delivery. Led cloud implementations, Oracle EBS upgrades, and support model changes across finance, HR, supply chain, and legal systems while improving operations, reporting, and cost efficiency.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Tessera Therapeutics
11.2022 - 12.2023
- Managed private cloud implementation of G&A applications, including SAP, UKG, and Coupa, collaborating with functional teams to analyze requirements and develop implementation plans.
Contractor
Contract Work
12.2019 - 05.2022
- Managed project startup for Oracle EBS upgrade and Cold Chain implementation planning at Biogen, concluding due to COVID-19.
- Managed implementation of Master Data Management and Data Lake technologies at Insulet Corporation using Microsoft Azure.
- Supported initiatives for schools and military organizations through several charities in the Worcester area.
Director
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
12.2013 - 05.2019
- Managed day-to-day operations across financial, human resources, supply chain, and legal systems, overseeing employees and offshore staff in application support. Introduced program and portfolio management with executive-level reporting to senior business executives, delivering insights on budget, resources, and timing.
- Developed strategic plans to guide organizational goals.
- Directed implementation of FDA-mandated Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) for Sunovion, deploying rExcel Traceability software solution.
- Directed the technical implementation of Oracle EBS R12 upgrade successfully on time and on budget.
- Outsourced on-premise support of Oracle EBS to an offshore service provider, minimizing business impact while reducing expenses.
Program Manager
INDEPENDENT CONSULTING SERVICES
11.2012 - 11.2013
- Planned, defined, and guided delivery of critical technical and strategic programs for Mass Mutual and Boston Scientific, aligning organizational capabilities with evolving business and regulatory compliance needs.
- Managed a program for Mass Mutual to standardize critical application environments, and enhance consistency across multiple instances.
- Directed establishment of integrated operating, process, and technical strategies for Boston Scientific, ensuring compliance with the European Union's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) mandate.
Director – Applications, Enterprise IT Strategy & Client Account Management
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICAL
07.2008 - 11.2012
- Recruited to drive the software development of regulatory applications to enable Vertex to successfully submit required FDA information for a new drug application (NDA). Managed a technical development group with twenty professionals supporting Oracle EBS, Trackwise, and Workday and multiple data integration efforts. Chosen to assume responsibility for a new Account Management Group charged with building critical relationships with business and overseeing the delivery of enterprise projects in response to business growth.
- Directed the establishment of the organization's 1st enterprise IT strategy that enhances communication with the business, met evolving organizational goals, clarified roles and responsibilities, and streamlined processes.
- Developed strategic leadership framework to guide IT alignment with organizational goals.
- Developed structure, technologies, strategies, and processes to align investments with evolving business and compliance goals during rapid organizational growth.
- Managed end-to-end solution delivery to enhance operational efficiency.
- Turned around a critical initiative to build an FDA submission application, replacing costly external consultants with a third-party customizable solution that enabled online submission of NDA materials for accelerated review.
- Managed the modernization of Oracle EBS ERP platform that provided users in 9 countries with increased accessibility to critical data and ensured optimal recovery in case of disaster. Led the consolidation of servers, migration to new operating environment, and building out the Disaster Recovery site.
- Directed the development of a highly transactional system to support the outsourcing of manufacturing, distribution, and sales operations in China. Led teams in building EDI and XML-based platforms to automatically capture, sequence, and report on transactions in near real-time for enhanced decision-making.
- Assessed needs and issues to define an approach and eliminate redundant operations within Compliance Organization.
Program Manager / Business Relationship Manager
BIOGEN
11.2004 - 07.2008
- Recruited to manage the full life cycle delivery of large, multi-million dollar programs for this biotechnology organization. Planned, defined, and drove all aspects of multiple, simultaneous automation, standardization, relocation, and consolidation projects to reduce costs and support continued growth.
- Provided leadership in strategic initiatives to enhance business performance.
- Led an initiative to design and integrate Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with process system, learning management application, and Oracle OPM for one million square foot manufacturing facility in Denmark to ensure compliance with batch processes for injectable drugs.
- Implemented server consolidation plan, reducing physical server count from 500 to 200 across multiple data centers while managing new VMware environment build-out and application migration with minimal operational impact. Managed the relocation of technology for 2 regulated facilities in Amsterdam to Denmark. Directed large-scale initiative to decommission systems, infrastructure, and systems from both locations, set-up of technology and environments in the Denmark facility, and closure of facilities.
- Executed server consolidation strategy, achieving 75% reduction in global footprint.
- Designed and delivered solutions to meet client needs and enhance service delivery.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Nichols College
Dudley, MA05-1978
Affiliations
- President of local youth sports in Worcester MA.
Timeline
Director
Tessera Therapeutics
11.2022 - 12.2023
Contractor
Contract Work
12.2019 - 05.2022
Director
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
12.2013 - 05.2019
Program Manager
INDEPENDENT CONSULTING SERVICES
11.2012 - 11.2013
Director – Applications, Enterprise IT Strategy & Client Account Management
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICAL
07.2008 - 11.2012
Program Manager / Business Relationship Manager
BIOGEN
11.2004 - 07.2008
Bachelor of Science -
Nichols College