Laurent Alquier

Current

Project Manager at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

Past

Consultant at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

Education

Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc (Montpellier II)
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Industry

Pharmaceuticals

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Laurent Alquier’s Summary

• Over nine years of experience in Pharmaceutical and IT Industry in the areas of Data Manipulation, Data Analysis and Knowledge Management
• Strong interest in Information Visualization techniques, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery tools.
• Extensive experience in the Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of client / server and web based applications, User Interface Design and Application Usability concepts.

Laurent Alquier’s Specialties:

Semantic Web, Knowledge management, Information visualization, Pattern recognition

Laurent Alquier’s Experience

Project Manager

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

(Public Company; JNJ; Pharmaceuticals industry)

December 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)

- Designed, directed and delivered solutions to significantly improve the support of key Drug Discovery systems, such as Compound Logistics.
- Managed deployment of several releases of the Compound Ordering and Tracking System (COATS), a central compound inventory system used by scientists globally to request and deliver compounds.
- Developed knowIT, a Knowledge Base to improve asset tracking and provide better support for Research and Early Development systems with the use of semantic web technologies.
- Designed the Health & Safety Laboratory Inspection database, a complex online survey tool used to track compliance of laboratories with safety standards. Received an OPAL Award for designing and implementing the Health & Safety Laboratory Inspection database (2004).
- Coordinated activities of a team of developers and DBAs across multiple projects
Consultant

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

December 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 1 month)

· Developed web based Data Visualization applications and ChemoInformatics website for the CADD team.
· Developed web based reports for Discovery team leads
· Evaluated the validity of Spotfire Decision Site as a Data Retrieval and Analysis platform
· Received an IMPACT award for contributions to the PRI Similarity Miner (PRISM), a similarity search engine and web interface developed for the CADD team in Raritan (12/2001)
· Reviewed / implemented Data Mining, Information Visualization for IM&T and Drug Discovery.
· Evaluated technology and developed web applications for IT Research and Development.

Laurent Alquier’s Education

Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc (Montpellier II)

PhD , Pattern Recognition , 1994 — 1998

· Generalized a technique of perceptual grouping of complex objects from a method previously developed for the grouping of pixels. This segmentation is used to automatically annotate 2D scenes and reconstruct them in 3D using projective methods.
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Engineer , Computer Science , 1991 — 1994