Moderator:
Claudia Campbell-Matland,
PMP®, Chairperson, PMINJ Life Sciences LCI and
Consultant & Managing Member, CNCM Consulting LLC
Claudia has 30+ years’ experience in the medical device
industry managing product lifecycle and organizational
programs / projects. As an independent project
management and quality consultant, she works with start-up
companies to manage translation of their research into a
compliant design & development process. She launched
Project Management Institute’s New Jersey Chapter’s (PMINJ)
Life Sciences “LCI” (Local Community of Interest) in 2019,
and leads its core team in developing events & content
for Chapter members working and / or interested in the life
sciences industry.
Panelists:
Steven Dry,
PMP, SPC – Organizational Transformation Consultant &
Coach, PA Consulting
Steve Dry, PMP, SPC, is a principal consultant in the agile
practice at PA Consulting. Steve works with organizations
and leaders to adapt to rapid change by adopting agile ways
of working. Steve has partnered with life sciences,
healthcare, engineering, and financial services companies to
design agile operating models, coach executives and teams in
applying agile practices, manage transformation activities,
and train hundreds of folks along their agile journeys.
Michelle
Gilboy, PMP – Agile Global Marketing Transformation
Director, Merck
Michelle is an agile thought leader and strategist working
for Merck in their Global and US Headquarters in NJ and
PA. She blends her traditional project
management skills and tools and her agile mindset, practices
and methods when guiding enterprise transformations for
companies like UTC Carrier, Uber ATG, PNC Bank and
Thermo-Fisher. Her journey from traditional ways of
working to agile ways of working started when she was
leading product development innovation teams for McKesson
Automation more than 15 years ago. Michelle has a
reputation as a pragmatic servant leader and hands-on change
agent committed to delivering customer value and business
operations that distinguish the organization’s value
proposition from industry competitors. She says,
"There’s no substitute for motivated teammates in a healthy,
high performing organization that can respond to and fulfill
customers' needs. Period. People and the quality of their
interactions make the difference between the good and the
great organizations and how they deliver astonishing results
into the world.”
Pierre Neis,
is a French-German Agile Coach in charge of large Agile Transformations. Since the last decade, he has supported around 200 companies around the world – including large life sciences organizations - in their agile journey as a scrum master, product owner, executive, coach, consultant or mentor. Believing in synergies, Pierre is collaborating actively with most of the major strategy consulting companies for both Agile and Digital Transformation strategies. He is the author of "The New Normal: AO concepts and patterns of 21-st century agile organizations”, “Swarming X4" and co-creator of #play14. Pierre is also contributing in several books and publications around agile management, social sciences and gamification.
Carol Smith, PMP, RAC –
Software as Medical Device LM Site Lead, Pfizer
Software as a Medical Device Executive. Product Development,
Product Design, Compliance, Deployment and Maintenance. 30
years as Project Management Professional (PMP), Regulatory
Affairs Certified (RAC, US, EU & ROW) and Six Sigma
Champion. Comprehensive experience within drugs,
biotechnology and medical device industries from Regulatory,
submission and manufacturing point of view.
Kendra
West, Registered Agile Coach and Certified Scrum
Master - Resilience
Kendra West is an Agile Coach specializing in coaching and
teaching Agile practices to teams in the scientific setting.
She started her career at the lab bench and moved from there
to Agile Transformation consulting in-order to deepen her
experience in the coaching space and learn more about this
iterative and collaborative approach to work. Currently,
Kendra works as a coach with the R&D platform of
Resilience – a biopharmaceutical manufacturing company
developing novel approaches to life science manufacturing.
She considers herself a “Team Scientist,” studying and
exploring the ways that groups of all backgrounds can use
Agile ideas to advance and accelerate modern scientific
breakthroughs.
