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Operations manager with a results-driven passion for process improvement
Biography
A Madison Wisconsin native, Ryan received his bachelor of science at The University of Wisconsin La Crosse. After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1998 he spent six years working in the biotechnology field managing projects at a small biotech start-up company PowderJect Vaccines which had less then 75 worldwide employees in 1998.
PowderJect was a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company headquartered in Oxford, UK, with facilities located in Europe and the US. The Madison facility was focused on needle-free delivery of vaccines. It was one of the world's largest vaccines companies with over 1000 employees in 2003.
During his first few years at PowderJect as a Project Coordinator he managed research projects and authored/co-authored several publications and abstracts (publication list). As a Project Manager he managed projects with USAMRIID, Sanofi Pasteur and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and he lead a mission critical project to develop a web-based project dashboard to connect the organization's worldwide project teams together.
In 2003 PowderJect was purchased by Chiron and in 2004 Chiron sold the Madison PowderJect facility to PowderMed, a UK based company. After the sale and closure of the Madison branch Ryan teamed up with Dr. Daniel McLain (former VP of Toxicology at PowderJect) to revamp his consulting company Walker Downey & Associates. Walker Downey is an evidence-based product safety and development consulting company providing strategic solutions for clients in the healthcare industries. In 2007 PowderMed was purchased by Pfizer.
Today, he works for the University of Wisconsin Madison at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Fundus Photograph Reading Center (FPRC) where he heads up their Project Management Office (PMO) which is made up of 10 Project Managers and 10 additional support staff, who are managing over 35 worldwide clinical trials and other various Information Systems projects. The FPRC interprets ophthalmic images for clinical studies with academia and pharmaceutical companies. He was brought into this position to create a PMO and tools to manage their large portfolio.
In an effort to develop his project management skills he has received Project Management Professional (PMP) status from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has completed the masters certificate in Project Management and has received his Six Sigma Yellow Belt at the University of Wisconsin Madison.