My academic career began with an early love of puzzles that later evolved into a passion for problem solving and leveraging data to inform solutions. From there, I decided to apply my formal training to life sciences and developing solutions for patients.
To date, my professional career has taken a course best described as a career lattice where I have leveraged skills to propel me in various career directions. Each career move provided an opportunity to learn new skills or new domain areas and allowed me to develop beyond a technical expert to an enterprise leader. My career path provided me the honor to lead technical teams of the most talented and committed individuals I could imagine knowing. Often unsung heroes, it has required me to develop my voice to advocate for my team and ensure their talents and contributions are recognized and valued.
After earning my PhD in Biostatistics, my career began as a protocol statistician at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). I had amazing sponsors at BMS and was provided various development opportunities over the course of 17 years, including leading: biometrics therapeutic areas; business operations teams; and the enterprise clinical data organization.
I joined Covance in a global leadership role with significant P&L responsibilities and led two transformations. After gaining valuable business and operational learnings, I decided to return to Pharma in 2019 as the CDAO at Otsuka Pharmaceuticals for the opportunity to develop and lead an enterprise data and AI strategy.