Bradley Pedrow

Current

• Industry Development Director, Healthcare at GS1 US

Past

• Principal at BP Consulting
• Director, IS at Merck & Co.
• Director Data Operations at Fast Track Systems

• QA & Regulatory Systems Manager at Fast Track Systems
• Vice President, Information Technology at Innovative Programming Associates
• Senior IT Engineer at Wyeth Research (Amer Home Prod)
• Senior Process Development Engineer at ActiMed Laboratories
• Electrical Engineer at Burle Industries

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Education

• Drexel University
• Lehigh University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Bradley Pedrow’s Summary

Pharma/Healthcare executive with 14 years experience in biopharma and medical device space. Demonstrated ability to guide implementation of technical and compliance initiatives. Identifies innovative technology and processes to meet changing market needs. Leverages relationships across the industry to drive change ultimately improving the quality of patient lives.

Bradley Pedrow’s Specialties:

* Team Building
* Process Maps, Gap Analyses, and Roadmaps
* Relationship Building
* Driving Virtual Teams
* Risk Assessment & Remediation

Bradley Pedrow’s Experience

• Industry Development Director, Healthcare

  GS1 US

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  Drives the adoption of solutions and standards within the Healthcare industry. Identifies & manages key issues, trends, developments, standards gaps, and opportunities within the Healthcare industry.

• Principal

  BP Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

  * Consulted to prepare response to RFP for pharma support services
  * Co-Founder of the PreCor Group - a Philadelphia area organization of business and technical executives in Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industries committed to advancement of these industries through exchange of information, educational programs, and personal contact promoting career and business development
  * Shire Pharmaceuticals manager of Commercial Managed Services Outsourcing RFI Analysis as an employee of PPT Consultants.

• Director, IS

  Merck & Co.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  July 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 9 months)

  * Directed IS support for the Global Clinical Supplies operation responsible for providing clinical supplies to all phases of clinical trials. Relationship Management, Portfolio Management, Strategy Creation/Alignment, Business Partnership.
  * Directed IS support for acquisition of company offering novel compound to grow Merck’s pipeline
  * Directed Merck’s Research Labs remediation effort in meeting 21 CFR Part 11 and predicate rule regulations.

• Director Data Operations

  Fast Track Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — July 2004 (7 months)

  * Directed IT infrastructure of global headquarters – managing projects, resources & budget to achieve corporate strategic goals
  * Managed 18 staff including global data collection operations, data coding supervisors, data analysts, & IT support
  * Served on Data Quality Board, prioritizing projects, ensuring resources & processes maximized database quality
  * P&L responsibility for Data Center, trimmed 10% of budget from Data & IT Operations
  * Delivered application support to Sales and Marketing functional groups, ensuring SalesLogix & FoxPro are aligned with corporate strategy
  * Coordinated IT infrastructure move of global headquarters to new construction, enhancing technical capabilities & reducing monthly costs 10%
  * Upgraded telephony system, adding redundancy &new features at 40% of the budgeted cost
  * Reorganized structure & redefined workflow processes in Data Operations department, reducing budget 10% & improving data input rate 15%

• QA & Regulatory Systems Manager

  Fast Track Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2003 — January 2004 (5 months)

  * Positioned company’s QA policies and procedures, ensured products met GCP and Part 11 compliance, achieved first-to-market release of Protocol Design Tool
  * Established quality and regulatory strategic goals to achieve 21CFR11 and ISO9001 compliance
  * Served on Data Quality Board, prioritizing projects, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximize quality of database
  * Performed 21CFR11 gap analysis of business-critical product, effectively designing and leading remediation efforts based upon risk analysis assessment
  * Standardized and revitalized quality system, integrating it into an electronic data management system, establishing the foundation for ISO9001 certification

• Vice President, Information Technology

  Innovative Programming Associates

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 6 months)

  * Positioned company’s technology and methodology, releasing 3 overdue products and establishing IPA as industry leader within their marketplace
  * Led IT dept of 12 including software development, QC staff, network support, & desktop support. Ensured products met GLP and Part 11 compliance
  * As QA Manager, aligned Quality's strategic goals with overall business strategy
  * Collaborated with Marketing to develop synergies with other software vendors/products
  * Established new SDLC & COEs, reducing time-to-market from 30 months to 9 months, driving down costs by 30% annually
  * Introduced an online sales and training tool, reducing sales/training expenditures by approx 35%
  * Reduced support response time from 4 days to 15 minutes by Implementing new technology
  * Standardized product architecture, introduced reusable components, growing development capacity 30%

• Senior IT Engineer

  Wyeth Research (Amer Home Prod)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AHP; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  April 1996 — April 2001 (5 years 1 month)

  * Designed and developed software solutions to meet Wyeth business requirements
  * Managed all aspects of a multi-site evaluation of an assay management tool (ActivityBase by IDBS), including evaluation of business requirements & technical specifications, establishing licensing needs, negotiating costs, managing installation, training, and leading team meetings
  * Championed the evaluation, purchase, integration, and training of an analysis and mining system for drug discovery informatics (Pipeline Pilot by SciTegic).
  * Supported over 250 scientists and 180 systems across multiple departments, providing hardware and software solutions
  * Reduced cost and support time by standardizing hardware/software across the site
  * Automated acquisition and submission of chemical data by automating data interfaces; Reduced data entry time 80% & cut data entry error 99%
  * Established process for utilizing removable hard drives, saving $150K / year in capital expense and troubleshooting time

• Senior Process Development Engineer

  ActiMed Laboratories

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  February 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 9 months)

  Venture capital company developing OTC,disposable human-fluid analytical devices. First product was total cholesterol measurement from blood sample.
  * Designed and integrated readout scale’s printing process; increasing efficiency 30%, print quality 50%, and precision 400%
  * Implemented R&D biochemical processes into a computer controlled manufacturing system
  * Collaborated to author and institute complete set of SOP documents
  * Developed automated UV glue dispensing/curing process with programmable three-axis dispensing heads and pulsed UV curing
  * Installed and maintained organization’s computer software/hardware
  * Created sample devices for use in clinical trials

• Electrical Engineer

  Burle Industries

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 1989 — August 1991 (2 years 3 months)

  * Responsible for carrying video switching products from conception, to manufacturing, through to quality assurance
  * Re-designed Burle's most sophisticated product line in video surveillance using firmware and circuit redesign; reducing part count 15% and design cycle time 20%
  * Conducted FCC emissions testing of video switching products, changing circuit board design as needed
  * Designed switching power supply for video switching module
  * Created circuit boards using electrical CAD, using CAD as well to create circuit board layout

Bradley Pedrow’s Education

• Drexel University

  MS , Biomedical Engineering , 1991 — 1993

  3.9 GPA

• Lehigh University

  BS , Electrical Engineering , 1985 — 1989

  3.6 GPA