Resume organization

Most hiring managers review dozens of resumes and do not have time to go through multiple pages to determine if you are a good fit for their position. It is critical that you get across who you are and what you can do within the top half of the first page of your resume. I accomplished this by describing myself in detail within a Qualification section followed by a list of skills and experiences that were relevant to the posted position. I also listed my technical skills up front on the first page prior to listing my professional experience.

Stephen Matteson

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Mattesonsp@gmail.com

Qualification SUMMARY

Over twenty years of experience supporting clinical development operations and reporting as a Customer Engagement Manager, Technical Team Lead, and Senior SAS Programmer within the Pharmaceutical Industry and Public Health with a proven track record of delivery and customer service. I am seeking SAS programming opportunities that can leverage my knowledge and experience within the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry.

20+years programming in SAS TLG generic code development that can be applied across clinical trial designs Parameter and data driven macro procedures Regulatory reporting of Clinical Safety and Protocol Registry data General Efficacy – Change from baseline, Behavioral and Functional Scales Clinical AR, CSR, IB, NDA Reporting Types Integrated Summary of Safety (ISS) and Efficacy (ISE) Clinical Medical Dictionaries: MedDRA, ICD9, Whodrug

Familiar working with Oracle Clinical Tables, Views and RXA_DES meta-data files ETL processing of clinical data using Pfizer Data Standards which is based on the CDISC/STDM Industry Standard Developed applications and reporting system that are 21 CFR Part 11 compliant Enterprise Life Cycle Experience Customer Engagement Manager / Business Analysis / Project Management/ Technical Team Lead & People Manager

Technical Skills:

Office Productivity: Microsoft Office Suite Programming: SAS, SQL, Perl Collaboration Tools: Livelink, SharePoint, Mind Manager, Enterprise Architect Software Engineering Tools: Source Forge, CVS, RCS Database / Tools: Oracle, PIMS, Quest Toad & SQL Navigator Operating Systems: Solaris UNIX, Windows XP Visualization Tools: Spotfire

Professional Experience

Company Name, City, State (Start Date – End Date)

Description of role

OTHER POSITIONS HELD

List of companies and date if they exceed 15 years

EDUCATION

Degree, Major, University, City, State (Date Graduated)

Made it out of the unemployed wilderness

In February of 2009 I was informed that my position was being eliminated. I could have reapplied to other positions or take a generous severance after 17 years in a job and for a company that I loved. I spent many sleepless nights and countless hours discussing my options with my wife and we decided to take the severance package and explore new employment opportunities. My employment ended 10 months later after being asked to help in the completion of a critical project. After my decision to leave, I immediately began investigating into preparing for my departure and formulate my thoughts around my past experience and what I want to do next. During this time I posted my resume to every known online job board and spoke with recruiters on a daily bases without a single viable lead. Over time I fine tuned my resume and job search, developed an interview strategy, and have been offered 3 positions since the beginning of this year. I am not a professional recruiter, but I have real life experience and lessons learned that I do think could be of value to you.

Areas I think I can help:

· Resume organization

· Navigating the online job sites

· Working with professional recruiters

· Leveraging Linkedin

· Prepping for the Interview

· Understand the full compensation package

If you are a technical professional interested in exploring new employment opportunities please do not hesitate to drop me a line at mattesonsp@gmail.com. Many people have helped me along the way and I would be glad to help as best I can.

Don’t hesitate to lean on me

Keep your head, maintain your sense of humor, and remain positive and you too will make it through the laid off wilderness.

Please do not hesitate to drop me an email (mattesonsp@gmail.com) if I can assist you in any way.

Elevator Speech

An "elevator speech" is the 30-seconds you have to introduce yourself to a potential employer while running into them in an elevator. Many of us have developed and practiced this speech regarding the importance and status of projects we have worked on in our professional life, but now it needs to be adjusted to reflect our new goal to market ourselves in order to obtain a new challenging assignment or employment opportunity.


It is important that your elevator speech conveys who you are, what you do, what you’re seeking and any other key information relevant to your experience or job search goals.



Who am I?


I have over 20 years of experience as an IT professional developing analytical solutions supporting the clinical and scientific communities within the Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Public Health industries. I am passionate about contributing to the development and approval of new drug treatments and therapies and enjoy engaging the business and scientific communities to help implement new automated solutions that improve our ability to combat disease and treat patients.



What am I?


I am an IT professional specializing in SAS software development that is capable of acquiring and manipulating clinical, medical, and scientific data for visualization and reporting purposes. I continue to explore new ways that will improve the process and tools used to generate regulatory reporting of clinical research data.



What I am seeking?


I am seeking the opportunity to apply my knowledge and experience working with clinical and medical data within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, and Medical Research community.



Other key information relevant to your experience or job search goals.

• Over 20 years as a SAS programmer working with Clinical, Medical, and Public Health research data


• Capable of accessing Oracle Clinical tables and views and writing back to Oracle tables using SAS


• Industry Medical Dictionaries: MedDRA, ICD9, and BNF and WHO Drug Dictionaries


• Industry Data Standards: CDISC, ICH


• Trained and implemented GCP regulatory requirements


• 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance – implementation of dependency and revision control to manage the traceability of artifacts in the generation of clinical reports


• Business analysis and process modeling experience


• PMP Trained Project Management and documentation required to ensure quality through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle: Idea/Charter, Business and Functional requirements, Design, Implementation/Build, Test, Deploy, and Uptake


• Improving the exchange of information and knowledge by leveraging business Collaboration Tools such as SharePoint, Documentum, and SourceForge


• Software engineering revision control and configuration management tools such as RCS, CVS, and Subversion

Professional Experience

• Clinical Reporting Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Technical Team Lead in developing the 21 CFR Part 11 compliant clinical reporting system called CDARS at Pfizer


• SME responsible for the development of generic clinical reporting software at Pfizer in support of Annual Safety, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study, and NDA regulatory reporting


• Developed Integrated Safety and Efficacy Summary data and reporting


• Ability to extract and translate clinical trial safety, efficacy, and protocol registry data from Oracle Clinical using SAS so that it can be easily reviewed by clinical teams using Tibco Spotfire, Pipeline Pilot and Excel


• Re-engineered Safety and Risk Management Protocol Registry Brio Query Periodic Safety Update Reporting using SAS in the CDARS environment


• Deployed the Genologics Lab Instrumentation Management System (LIMS) in support of Pharmacogenomic research - Currently collaborating on a white paper detailing the complexity of deploying a LIMS solution within a shared server environment that is both GLP and GCP compliant


• Re-engineered a complex Web-based J2EE / Oracle application that managed and tracked clinical biomarkers using functionality within SharePoint - This effort resulted in a $125K annual reduction in application support costs and empowered the Translational Medicine / Biomarker communities to independently manage the content and access to this critical data