Vincent Chen

Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey

United States

About

Experience

  • Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb
    2006 - Present · 20 yrs 6 mos

    •Provide technical leadership and drive application development & delivery of strategic new capabilities to enable translational R&D teams advancing precision medicines. •Responsible for the scientific application engineering group delivering a large portfolio of innovative new capabilities and major enhancements for key business processes across Research and Pharmaceutical Development within BMS R&D. •Built and mobilize a team of high-performing core engineers/architects and contracted onshore/offshore application developers, data engineers, data architects with variable delivery capacity. •Drove the effort of establishing and leveraging reference application architectures, frameworks, patterns and engineering standards (Java and .Net) across portfolio. •Guided the research architecture and development team delivering data as a service initiative. Contributed actively to the enterprise architecture initiative.

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Manager, Software Development and Delivery
      Feb 2000 - 2005 · 5 yrs

      •Developed and managed a group of highly competent software engineers and software architects. • Lead the development and delivery of key applications enabling Drug Discovery and Exploratory Development. • Portfolio included scientific applications and data integration and warehousing systems for drug discovery working groups, preclinical optimization, and clinical discovery (Phase I & II). • Delivered lab automation systems for Bioanalytical department.

    • Research Scientist/Lead Architect
      Jul 1997 - Feb 2000 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      • Served as the lead architect for advanced laboratory automation systems and web-based applications for Biologics Development and Stability. Systems directly enabled CTLA4Ig (Orencia), LEA29Y and other large molecule medicines in early development. • Designed and managed department application development environment and network infrastructure for lab automation systems across multiple sites. • Mentored developers on UML, OO and best software engineering practices. Supervised application engineers and managed application development.

  • Automation Engineer at Bristol-Myers Squibb
    1995 - 1997 · 2 yrs

    •Designed and developed state-of-art laboratory robotics automation and information management applications for enhancing Biologics development analytical productivity. •Delivered ELISA assays automation in GLP environment for analytical characterization of molecules in the development pipeline. •Developed instrumentation control and communication software utilizing OO, Microsoft ActiveX, DCOM and Win32 API. Refined robotic scheduler for integrating multiple instruments and robots. •Delivered multiple integrated systems composed of hardware and software from TECAN, CRS, Zymark and various analytical instrument vendors.

  • Engineer at Fujian Hitachi Ltd.
    Sep 1990 - Dec 1992 · 2 yrs 4 mos