Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Work Values

Daily Duties at Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals:

• Embedded Business Process Engineer/Architect, Business Analyst/Project Manager, and Informatics & Robotics Support for Discovery DMPK (ADME) Department (internal to department/under scientist headcount). Promoted twice for high performance, initiative, and impact. Supported User Base grew from local department to site, to regional, then global. • Championed, designed and implemented end-to-end ordering, calculation & report generating Excel VBA & SQL solutions (primarily using/integrated with IDBS’s ActivityBase LIMS). This standardized turnaround times, increased data quality, reduced effort for the scientists and tripled the productivity of all local scientists and project managers for all (~29) routinely performed DMPK assays. When completed, I exported / implemented these on other (5 of 8) AZ sites. These systems maintained productivity during the 25% and 40% reductions in headcount in 2008 and 2010. • Held local, site-wide and global responsibilities, including Mass Spec capital budgeting, IS Steering Group Committee (member), Operating System upgrade / remediation & deployment coordinator for DMPK, and the global head of the ActivityBase Administrators group (for 6 years). Led and participated in many Lean Six Sigma workflow optimization projects to streamline cross-department, cross-site, regional & global interactions and processes.

What they like about Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Research, Robotics, Management, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Structured Query Language, Budgeting, Capital Budgeting, Data Quality, Quality, Quality Assurance, sql, agile, software

Skills

Research, Robotics, Management, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Structured Query Language, Budgeting, Capital Budgeting, Data Quality, Quality, Quality Assurance, Problem Solving

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