Greater Boston
Senior Technical Program Manager with expertise in complex analytical processing, insight generation, and creative innovation. Brings broad experience across multiple industries and functional roles. Delivers strong performance in managing complex project demands and thrives on new challenges that leverage deep knowledge and experience. Highly skilled in managing diverse technical teams, procurement processes, and contract oversight. Known as a purpose-driven, straightforward manager and communicator who excels in navigating varied challenges and delivering solutions to complex problems. Led the implementation of key provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act, overseeing interagency agreements, invoicing, and contributing expert input on draft regulations and policy notices. Recognized as an agency expert in energy credits and pharmaceutical auditing and compliance. Possesses extensive bio-pharma experience, including hands-on laboratory experimentation, commercial upstream process development and support, equipment sourcing and procurement, and mentoring of junior staff. Has successfully managed multimillion-dollar budgets, implemented multi-site projects, and served as a technical lead for upstream process initiatives.
• Managed several teams and individuals, enabling the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provisions. Responsibilities included negotiating with executives from IRS, Treasury, Department of Energy, and independent laboratories to ensure multiple comprehensive memorandums of agreement were achieved between all parties. Authored or collaborated on eight interagency agreements. • Managed a team of three to ensure accurate and regulatory-compliant tax forms and instructions. • Led a team of seven to perform technical reviews of interagency invoices. Saved the government money on misallocated funds. Tracked and maintained project budgets. • Performed risk assessments of many Inflation Reduction Act hazards, which improved implementation efficiency and reduced the negative impacts of later personnel cuts.
Led cross-agency teams within the Large Business and International division implementing multiple Inflation Reduction Act. Served as an Energy Credits Subject Matter Expert creating new processes, allocating tax credits, and measurement criteria • Led a team of thirteen members to allocate $10 billion of tax credits, requiring collaboration with Treasury, Department of Energy, and the Department of Labor to ensure compliance. • Created and established the criteria to perform technical reviews of interagency invoices. Presented and collected the endorsement of senior management in the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Treasury, and Department of Energy. • Provided expert recommendations on nine draft regulations and eleven draft notices, related to the implementation of clean energy policies. • Provided expert assistance on engineering and valuation Engineering Credit inquiries to staff compliance agents. This enabled more effective audits and significantly reduced auditing errors, leading to significantly increased revenue. • Defined criteria for implementing taxpayer Salesforce portal and led the User Acceptance testing across multiple phases. • Developed and delivered comprehensive training sessions in Energy Investment Credits to internal teams, fostering knowledge-sharing and improving issue resolution.
• Audited businesses in the Construction, Pharmaceutical, Fashion, Investment Banking, and Software fields. Collected more than $450M of incorrectly claimed tax credits. Determined and developed issues I discovered during audits. • Researched and developed keys aspects of the IRS’s strategy for determining the Orphan Drug Credit foreign patient population criterion. • Served as a technical engineering leader and expert on designated engineering issues. • Remained highly professional in high-pressure situations, including credible taxpayer threats. • Co-wrote the updated the Pharmaceutical Audit Technique Guide.
Provided a series of short-term strategic contract support on topics including procurement, laboratory equipment selection, and project management needs.
Led sourcing and implementation of a $12M annual budget, multi-site laboratory asset maintenance management program with the goal of having a single point-of-contact for service, improving inventory accuracy, and allowing scientists to focus on science via change management skills to influence without authority. • Managed multiple maintenance management programs that worked with providers including Unity Lab Services, Perkin Elmer, and Agilent Crosslab. • Responsible for North American purchases of lab equipment and maintenance services, with a budget totaling $60M. This included working with internal customers to define a strategy and negotiating, approving, and managing purchasing, while developing strong vendor relationships. • Negotiated laboratory-related purchasing and services contracts to ensure that research was not constrained by budget limitations, while effecting an overall reduction in year-over-year budget ranging from 10-40%. • Managed cross-functional teams in an international matrix organization. • Implemented strategic sourcing best practices by developing a comprehensive strategy aligning with organizational goals, identifying potential suppliers, and establishing long-term relationships with existing suppliers.
• Drove the transfer of the upstream process for a second-generation commercial monoclonal antibody from development to clinical and product commercialization on an aggressive timeline: o Leading engineer for the implementation of all single-use technologies, equipment interfaces, raw materials and consumables. Developed and documented key product attributes to ensure process fit via historical knowledge or designed experimentation. o Coordinated team of SMEs to ensure extractable and leachable compliance for single-use technologies and chemicals. o Led quantitative and qualitative quality risk management analysis. o Managed cross-functional matrix teams across America, Germany, Puerto Rico, Canada, and France. o Coached and mentored junior engineers. • Supported the upstream manufacture of a commercial product: o Subject matter expert for deviation assessments, including 24/7 on-call support with process monitoring, analysis, and forecasting. o Led investigations to enhance process flow and supported corrective and preventative actions.
• Performed process characterization for multiple phase III drug products, while coordinating multiple groups. • Wrote technical reports and contributed to IND, CTD, and BLA filings. • Technically transferred multiple proprietary and third-party cell culture processes to the Manufacturing group. Supported Manufacturing group processes after transfer. • Cross-trained with the Project Engineering group in order to gain experience coordinating and implementing a capital project. • Designed and executed experiments to increase titer and product quality using bench-scale mammalian cell culture bioreactors for 15 proprietary and 3rd party biologic products. • Lead investigator and implementer of multiple new technologies. Spearheaded multiyear bioreactor replacement project in excess of $1MM. • Supported Cell Line Development group through evaluation of new clones for productivity, robustness and stability. • Supervised and mentored temporary and permanent employees. • Maintained lab equipment (Bioreactors, Cedex, YSI, BGA). • Founding member of Employee Engagement Team. • Led a team to plan, coordinate, and promote three annual site-wide employee appreciation events. and lead implementer of 5S to the Process Development laboratories. • Championed implementation of 5S to Cell Culture group.
• Harvested and extracted secondary metabolites from fungal and actinomycete species. • Performed rheological analysis assays on various fluids. • Demonstrated techniques and instructed and assisted students with protocols in laboratory courses on molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, protein purification, anatomy, physiology, ecology and animal behavior. • Graded students on their work.