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Background on My Life Science Journey – Delivering Value to My Clients

I have been in Life Sciences for over 20 years and it all started with a startup company called Parkstone. I was in the field deploying state-of-the-art hand-held e-prescribing devices that would leverage an internet (dial-up) connection to send the prescriptions to the local pharmacy. – circa. 2002

Aside from having the ability to do multiple script refills with a couple of taps of a stylus the device would do drug-to-drug interactions on the fly and provide patients with formulary costs based on their health insurance coverage. This really seems funny as I type this, as this is pretty much the standard now in doctor’s offices.

While working at Parkstone in a start-up environment I learned that sometimes you just had to “make it happen” for the customers and there wasn’t always going to be a clear path for you to follow since we were trailblazing a lot of the deployment, training, and support activities.

I believe that my startup experience has shaped me into a flexible technologist with broad but in-depth experience in a variety of business models. As a product manager, I found my enthusiasm for creating and delivering intricate data-driven features in software applications. I also learned how to give clients vertical slices of functionality that will have an immediate impact.

Delivering Value One Slice at a Time

One of my favorite quotes from the creator and CEO of Basecamp:

“If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.”

Jason Fried, Rework – CEO Basecamp

Specialties:

  • Life Sciences Technology
  • Complex Program Delivery
  • Business Process and System Analysis
  • Operations and Process Transformation
  • Clinical Systems BPO
  • Agile Product Development
  • Clinical Trial Data Management
  • Enterprise Data Management

Industries:

  • Life Science
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services

Areas of Expertise:

  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Program Management
  • Program Delivery Lead
  • Agile/SAFe Product Development
  • SDLC Process
  • BDD/TDD
  • SaaS Application Deployment
  • Life Science Data Management
  • Data Governance (Big Data)
  • Product Development Management
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Application Integrations
  • Strategic Planning
  • Account Management & Retention
  • Client Relations
  • Account Expansion
  • CRM Software
  • KOL Identification
  • ePrescribing Software
  • Deployment & Software Training
  • Pharmaceutical Speaker Bureau
  • Contract Management
  • Pharmaceutical Marketing
  • Financial Services – Records Management

My Clients

I see my clients as partners, not just customers, and we are on the journey together working towards delivering value to the end users and especially the patients. True collaboration with our clients allows us to bring our years of experience in implementing complex enterprise clinical systems and ensuring that the approach proposed is a solution for the problem at hand. Our team’s experience with implementing complex data-driven systems and integration of legacy technology can help streamline the existing manual processes, increase accuracy, and provide new insights, ultimately leading to faster and more effective treatments for patients.

Pharmaceutical

CROs
pfizer QuintilesIMS
Abbvie Novella
Celgene INC
Gilead RHO
Merck PRA
Novartis Covance
JnJ PPD
Biogen inVentiv
boehringer-ingelheim ICON
Teva Chiltern
GSK parexel
DSI UBC
NovoNorodisk Biorasi

My Bio

Chris Acosta has in excess of 20 years of life science experience and has worked in a variety of capacities with almost every major pharmaceutical client in the world. From the execution of small thought leader identification and mapping projects to the launching of enterprise-wide global thought leader management systems for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical clients. Chris has demonstrated his innovative expertise, unparalleled work ethic, and commitment to success.

While at Medidata, Chris managed a portfolio of key Contract Research Organization (CRO) clients and was able to successfully grow the business 100% in his first year — going from roughly 560 studies in year one and finishing in excess of 1,700+ studies over a three-year time frame. (~$62 Million In Revenue)

Prior to joining Medidata, Chris was the Vice President of Client Operations at Qforma, Chris has also held the position of Director of Project Management Office (PMO) at OneWorld Inc. in Parsippany NJ, and held various leadership roles at Advanced Health Media (AHM).

As part of his field experience, Chris held the position of Senior Territory Manager at HealthVision/Parkstone Medical. He managed the deployment of handheld electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) devices and web-based electronic medical record software solutions for the entire east coast. Chris has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Robert Morris University and a continuing education Mini-MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.

Chris Acosta

Versatile business professional with comprehensive product development experience and a passion for developing and delivering information services, big data projects, and custom CRM solutions.

Results-oriented leader with a proven record of leveraging technology to drive sustainable business improvement and develop long-term relationships with key life science clients.

  • Problem solver: Analytical thinker with the time-tested ability to decisively assess challenges and eliminate barriers. Effectively influences product teams through relationship building; drives business and cultural change in matrix environments.
  • Distinctive leader: Proven leadership in both start-up and corporate cultures of variant sizes. Demonstrated ability to direct senior leaders and teams in the process of building a high-performing winning culture to achieve growth aspirations.
  • Results & growth oriented: Uncompromising commitment to success; proven ability to craft strategies to grow established and new businesses, translating strategy into execution; willing to take appropriate risks.

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