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Pankaj Patil

Business Analyst IT-PV
Pune

Summary

A Qualified Pharmacy & Clinical Research professional with total 12.6 years of experience.

Always prefer to work out of my comfort zone.

5+ years of strong experience as IT Business Analyst for R&D-Clinical Research in AUTOMATION with good hands on AZURE DEVOPS (Stories, EPIC, Feature, PBI, Sprint) using Agile-Scrum methodologies, SDLC model.

7+ years of strong experience in Pharmacovigilance/Clinical Research as a ICSR Quality Analyst, SDEA (Safety Data Exchange Agreements - PVA & SMP), Compliance Monitoring, Team Handling & Team Management.

Awarded as a CONTEXTUAL MASTER by TCS for (A & B) as a Business Analyst, and Microsoft in partnership with the client, also published project's success story (B) at their website -

A) Reducing ICSR processing timelines from 35 min avg to 7 min avg. by using analytical skills in AI Automation tools like NLP in HRM (Human Reading & Mimicking).

B) Reducing the time & expenditure by fastening and monitoring the smooth conduct of oncology clinical trials using analytical skills in Azure DevOps and Visualization tool like Power BI.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Assistant Manager, Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2018 - Current

Business Analyst (R&D-Clinical Research Automation)

  • Requirement Elicitation: functional, Non-functional, design & software requirements after discussion with clients stakeholders.
  • Creation and updating of requirements in Azure DevOps dashboard in the form of EPIC, features, PBIs
  • Documentation: System specification, BRD, Operational Manual, User Requirement specification, Traceability Matrix, Change request document which helped to run the process smoothly.
  • Worked in AGILE environment using Agile methodologies & SDLC.
  • Handled a work as Domain consultant, SPRINT creation and update.
  • Close interaction with Developers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Solution Architect & provided life science/Pharmacovigilance/clinical research training to all
    for better understanding of aim & expected output.
  • Guide and support to R&D stakeholders to develop new and innovative products that have the potential to improve patient outcomes.

Business Analyst (Pharmacovigilance Automation)

  • Requirement Elicitation: functional, Non-functional, design & software requirements after discussion with internal stakeholders.
  • Fixed 570+ Bugs/Defects (raised by HRM: Human Reading & Mimicking AI tool) which impacted on drastic improvement in ICSR processing time from 35 min average to 7 min average.
  • Review and feedback sessions to developers with explanations and training related to PV concepts for the extracted outputs received from them which helped developers to automate the process smoothly.
  • Resolved outputs and removed roadblocks that were impacting on slowing down the process especially adverse events, medical history, and laboratory data.
  • Preparation and review of requirement documents, change request forms for Pharmacovigilance case processing source documents (CIOMS, MedWatch, SAE Excel, E2BR2).
  • Study on-boarding activity.

Team Leader

APCER Life Sciences
Delhi
12.2016 - 12.2017
  • Handled a team of 23 people.
  • Implemented effective ideas in project for good quality and productivity under six sigma.
  • Client responsiveness and management of daily workload for ICSRs.
  • Performed impact assessment on emerging regulations.
  • Conflicts management within the team.
  • Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
  • Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity and commitment to friendly service.
  • Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
  • Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.
  • Communicated KPIs outlined in annual plan to inform employees of expectations and deliverables.
  • Assisted in recruitment of new team members, hiring highest qualified to build team of top performers.

Drug Safety Analyst II

Syneos Health
Pune, Maharashtra
03.2015 - 12.2016
  • Performed Quality Analysis & Data Validation to assess accuracy of data.
  • Book-in of SUSAR cases, Case processing & Quality review of the Clinical trial, Spontaneous, and Orphan drug cases on ARGUS.
  • Timely issue escalation and response both internally and at the client level.

Safety Data Analyst

Sciformix (Covance)
Pune
12.2013 - 03.2015
  • ICSR (Cosmetics) Case processing and Quality review.
  • Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
  • Documented effective and replicable methods for extracting data and organizing data sources.

Jr. Data Analyst

Cognizant
Mumbai
12.2010 - 11.2013
  • Spontaneous, LP, Pregnancy, and Active Moiety cases: - End-to-end Case processing - Assessing the validity of the case
  • Expedited lists- Checking daily expedited lists
  • Ensuring the accurateness of the list - To evaluate causality and compliance with drug safety issues in an environment with complicated and frequently changing regulatory requirements and guidelines
  • ARISg Experience - Clinical Trial, SUSAR Cases: - Quality review for Oncology Clinical trial cases using the EDC system to increase the data accuracy, Narrative review
  • Performing De-challenge and Re-challenge
  • Coding of events, suspect products, concomitant medications, history, indications, etc
  • Nexus CRO – Hands-on Project
  • Department - Trial Management and Operational
  • Client - Venus Remedies, Hands-on experience as a Clinical Research Coordinator on a pilot study of oral herpes, and a comparative study of a US-FDA trial on bacterial infection after surgical prophylaxis under the supervision of Dr
  • Amit Bhatt for Nexus clinical research Pvt ltd, Data Science Projects/Case Study - Created case studies on sales prediction
  • Analysis work for a human resource on employee attrition rate.

Education

Master of Science - Clinical Research

Texila American University, India
India
08.2011 - 06.2013

PG Diploma - Clinical Research and Management

Nexus CRO
Navi Mumbai, India
06.2009 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmaceutical Sciences

North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India
Jalgaon, India
06.2005 - 06.2009

Six Sigma Green Belt -

IIT, Delhi
Delhi India
01.2015 - 01.2015

Skills

    Strategic planning

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Accomplishments

    Contextual Master Award by TCS:

    Client:
    Global enterprise life science company with more than 150-year global
    history with core competencies in life science fields of health care. The client and TCS have been collaborating as an IT strategic partner for consulting, implementation, enhancement, and support service. The client had challenges related to the analytics of clinical data. especially for the oncology area. So, a new platform under development needs to be validated before release.


    Problem:

    Time-consuming work for Medical Reviewer to review each patients data to confirm the prognosis, causal relationship with the drug.


    Result: Client immediately gave a go ahead for solution implementation that ultimately reduced the clinical trial run time by more than 80% on a final output. The solution improved customer
    satisfaction and raised the consumer trust in TCS. This project opened up the doors for TCS to take on further projects with clients in the field of life sciences in the future. This was also recognized by Microsoft and published project’s success story at their website.

Certification

AGILE E1

Interests

AWS

Prompt Engineering

Cyber Security

Timeline

Prompt Engineering – How to talk to the AI's from TCS

04-2023

Business Analysis Foundation certification from CPEQAS, IIBA & PMI

11-2022

Business Analyst/Project Manager E1

06-2020

AGILE E1

01-2019

Assistant Manager, Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
04.2018 - Current

Team Leader

APCER Life Sciences
12.2016 - 12.2017

Drug Safety Analyst II

Syneos Health
03.2015 - 12.2016

Six Sigma Green Belt -

IIT, Delhi
01.2015 - 01.2015

Safety Data Analyst

Sciformix (Covance)
12.2013 - 03.2015

Master of Science - Clinical Research

Texila American University, India
08.2011 - 06.2013

Jr. Data Analyst

Cognizant
12.2010 - 11.2013

PG Diploma - Clinical Research and Management

Nexus CRO
06.2009 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmaceutical Sciences

North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India
06.2005 - 06.2009
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