
Senior Consultant, Clinical Data Strategies at Octagon Research Solutions
Greater New York City Area

Senior Consultant, Clinical Data Strategies at Octagon Research Solutions
Greater New York City Area
Hands-on IT professional with almost 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Experienced in consulting projects dealing with the assessment, design and/or implementation of CDISC data standards. Special interests in SAS application development and implementing CDISC. Excellent technical skills in SAS programming and systems integration. Proven experience in development and implementation of standards in a global pharmaceutical environment. Expert in integrating SAS with other leading technologies such as PDF, XML, Microsoft Office, to support electronic submissions.
Experienced with working as a liaison between Bio-Statistics and IT Departments in a global setting.
Member of the editorial board of the Pharmaceutical Programming Journal (http://www.maney.co.uk/journals/pha)
Member of CDISC XML Technologies Team (formerly known as the ODM team)
Member of CDISC Integrated Safety Data Pilot Project team
DIA member
SAS, CDISC, SDTM, define.xml, XML, PDF, clinical data standards, statistical programming, data analysis, data- and system validation
(Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Working on client consulting projects dealing with the assessment, design and/or implementation of CDISC data standards.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )
(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)
April 2004 — July 2007 (3 years 4 months)
(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)
January 1992 — March 2004 (12 years 3 months)
MS , Mathematics , 1980 — 1988
SAS, CDISC, XML
PharmaSUG, NESUG, PhUSE, CDISC, SAS, PhilaSUG, Pharmaceutical Programming, SAS-L, DIA
- Using the SAS XML Mapper and SAS ODS to create a PDF representation of the define.xml (that can be printed)
(http://www.lexjansen.com/phuse)
Best paper in the CDISC stream at the 4th Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange (PhUSE 2008, Manchester, UK).
- Creating PDF Documents including Hyper-links, Bookmarks and a Table of Contents with the SAS® software.
(http://www.lexjansen.com/seugi)
Best paper in the Pharmaceutical stream at the 18th SAS® European Users Group International Conference (SeUGI 18, Dublin, 2000).
- Creating PDF Documents including Hyper-links, Bookmarks and a Table of Contents with the SAS® software. (http://tinyurl.com/cva33u).
Best paper in the FDA Compliance stream at Pharmaceutical SAS® Users Group Conference (PharmaSUG 2001, Boston).