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Chief Information Officer

Foundation Medicine, Inc. is a molecular information company. The Company sells products that are enabled by its molecular information platform to physicians and biopharmaceutical companies. The Company's segment is the business of delivering molecular information about cancer to its customers. Its products provide genomic information about each patient's individual cancer, enabling physicians to optimize treatments in clinical practice and biopharmaceutical companies to develop targeted oncology therapies. Its flagship clinical molecular information products, FoundationOne for solid tumors, and FoundationOne Heme for blood-based cancers or hematologic malignancies, including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and advanced sarcomas, are genomic profiles designed for use in the routine care of patients with cancer. Its other products include FoundationACT (Assay for Circulating Tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)), GeneKit, FoundationCORE, FoundationICE and the SmartTrials program.

Innovative Strategic Thinker: Exceptional capacity to collaborate with executive team members to understand business needs, identify industry trends and comprehend market dynamics, collaborate on innovative solutions, decisively plot courses of action, and deliver on commitments to grow the business. Technical visionary: Proven results at the forefront of emerging technologies (Cloud, Big Data, AI, ML, Social, Mobility) while ensuring adherence to regulatory, security, and privacy standards. Team Builder and Transformational Leader: Built multiple successful teams by delivering on four key leadership attributes: 1) ensuring the organization has a strategy in which each person understands their role, 2) clearing roadblocks and providing resources to your team that are necessary for them to succeed, 3) establishing a standard by which you hold yourself and the organization accountable, and 4) building and protecting a strong and robust culture that allows open dialog and mutual respect. Proven Track Record: Business Executive with outstanding communication skills, a strong customer focus and unique background of Technology, Business, and Finance with experience managing fast paced startups and large departments. Game changer: Successful in building and leading teams to take on challenging tasks. If it is easy you don’t need me. I love the complicated, the difficult, the impossible. Specialties: Roles: Chief Information Officer (CIO) • Chief Technology Officer (CTO) • Technology Executive • EVP/SVP/VP of Information Technology • Startup • High Growth • Enterprise • Global Compliance: IEC62304 • FDA • CLIA • GXP • GDPR • SOX • SOC1/2 • CFR 21.11 • PCI Technology: Cloud Computing, AWS, Azure • DevOps CI/CT/CD • Service Delivery, ITIL, Infrastructure Software Development and Engineering: Javascript • High Performance Computing, Python, Java, C • Microsoft .NET • Postgres, Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server Project Management: Agile, Scrum, SAFe • Design Control