About Me
Career Summary
- Adept, inquisitive and motivated IT leader at a Fortune 100 company with 25 years of professional experience supporting drug discovery and development as a trusted and effective technology partner, holding academic degrees in bioinformatics (MS) and biochemistry (BS).
- Recently appointed to the director-level role of Business Technology Partner, Data & Analytics Strategy for the Clinical and Real-World Evidence Generation Value Team with a focus on data and technology enablement, advanced analytics, and AI ethics & governance.
- Prior experience in technology chapter leadership, delivery orchestration, solution architecture, product ownership, information architecture and bioinformatics, consisting of nucleotide/protein sequence analysis tools, machine learning, statistics, data management and web development.
- Passionate about supporting the career development and advancement of underrepresented groups in IT-related fields.
Current Roles
- Director, Data & Analytics Strategy for Clinical & Real-World Evidence Generation IT at Merck
- Editorial Board Member for the new “Future Medicine AI” Journal & Digital Site by Future Science Group
- AI Leader for VisionAIres Community at Informa Connect
Former Roles
- Innovation Chapter Lead for R&D IT Application Engineering at Merck
- NYC Chapter Co-Organizer (Medium Blog) for Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS)
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) Stream Co-Lead for AI Socratic Circles (AISC)
2023 Career Highlights
(1) Participating in the launch of Future Medicine AI as an Editorial Board Member: Ellie Norris — FMAI Hub (fmai-hub.com)
(2) Contributed to “AI Governance: A framework for building responsible, ethical, fair, and transparent AI” authored by Irina Sedenko.
(3) Acknowledged as part of the “The Top 100+ Women Advancing AI in 2023” by RE•WORK | Globally Renowned AI Summits, Workshop & Dinners (re-work.co).
2022 Career Highlights
(1) First Runner-Up for the "AIconics: AI Innovator of the Year Awards - Solutions Implementor"
(2) Selected by RE.WORK as part of their “Top 25 Women in AI: US Healthcare & Pharma Edition”
(3) Nominee for “Lifetime Achievement Award” through Toronto Womxn in Data Science
(4) Nominee for “AI Innovator of the Year Award” through Women in AI North America
(5) Roundtable Discussion Lead for “How NLP Can Transform Healthcare” at RE.WORK AI in Healthcare Summit
(6) Co-author of PharmaSUG 2022 Strategic Implementation Linked Data Paper
(7) Featured Speaker for the Women in AI Discussion Group sponsored by Happy Hive and Aggregate Intellect
(8) Second Place Winner at Merck’s AWS DeepRacer Event
2021 Career Highlights
(1) Became a Women in Machine Learning & Data Science NYC Chapter Co-organizer along with (and thanks to) Melissa Barr! We joined forces to revitalize one of the largest chapters with close to 5K official members on Meetup.com. Learn more on WiMLDS NYC Blog — Medium.
(2) Featured in Aggregate Intellect’s Community Spotlight
(3) Organized and participated in HackHERS 2021, Rutgers University’s 7th annual women-centric hackathon, on behalf of Merck as a Gold Sponsor. We hosted a virtual career fair and scavenger hunt, and presented a one-hour TechTalk on “Technologies in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: RPA, CV and Augmented Reality”. The company challenge for the students was to generate visualizations with public COVID datasets.
