Birju Amin

Service Owner providing Portfolio Management, Project Management, and Organization Change Management services to the I.S. organization. Lead a team responsible for management (identifying, prioritizing, balancing) and delivery of the I.S. Project Portfolio (consisting of technology projects supporting Allergan's business and I.S. objectives). In an effort to improve project delivery success, established a Project Delivery Framework, which is adaptable to meet the speed and risk profiles of the many types of projects within the I.S. Project Portfolio.

In my role I partnered with senior Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) leadership to align the strategic technology roadmap with GRA business drivers, requiring understanding of business processes (submission registration planning and tracking, content creation/collaboration, publishing, archiving) and regulatory (e.g. FDA, MAA) requirements. Also, I managed a team focused on overall operational systems (Liquent Insight for Registration and Insight Publisher) support and project delivery for GRA. In addition, I provided the leadership and management of designing and implementing a search application (using Microsoft SharePoint 2010+FAST) used for searching archived regulatory submissions and correspondences. Leveraging Microsoft SharePoint 2010+FAST as the technology platform, the solution indexed content and harmonized metadata across multiple repositories, providing a user powerful search capabilities that were previously unavailable.

Established the Project Management Office (PMO) for the I.T. and Engineering Operational Excellence groups. As part of the PMO, introduced an I.T. project management methodology (including project stages and gates), reporting, and portfolio reviews. In addition, managed the implementation of Salesforce.com for Patheon's Global Salesforce and IBM Cognos TM1 for Corporate Finance to improve the corporate budgeting and forecasting process.

Partnered with the R&D organization to develop a technology roadmap aligning with the R&D business strategy, and implementation of various initiatives on the roadmap (R&D IT COE, Transformation Project delivering comprehensive set of new processes and applications to effectively control and manage clinical development). Offered a unique opportunity to be a member of a R&D Project Management team responsible for the NDA/MAA submission. As a member of the team, I introduced electronic project/portfolio management tools, standardized status reporting, issues and risk mgmt, and provided training.

As a consultant, assumed various roles (project manager, architect, team lead, analyst, developer, operations) implementing technology solutions across several industries (travel, media & entertainment, healthcare, insurance). Solutions included content management and publishing platform, customer self-service web applications, and e-commerce platform.

Minor in Management