PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Results-oriented Principal Technical Advisor and Pharmacist with 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical regulation, supply chain management, and health systems strengthening. Expertise in leading large-scale Digital Health and Pharmaceutical Management Information System (PMIS) projects across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Adept at developing Digital Health solutions, improving decision-making processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance within public and private healthcare sectors.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance
- Supply Chain Management
- Digital Health Systems
- Data Warehousing & Analytics
- Project Management
- Health Information Systems
- Public & Private Sector Collaboration
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE SKILLS
- MS Office O365
- SharePoint Administration
- AWS, Oracle OCI, Google Cloud & Azure
- AI: LLMs, Weaviate, Verba
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
- QGIS/ArcGIS/Google MyMaps
- GitHub
- Server and Client Hardware assembly and configuration
- ESXi Hypervisor, VirtualBox, VMWare
- Apache/Tomcat and IIS
- Remote Desktop (RDP)
PROJECT EXPERIENCE & SOLUTIONS
AI & ML
Description: Member of the first Technical Working Group for AI at MSH. Identified Use Cases e.g. for Knowledge Management, designed and presented the first prototypes and proof of concept at MSH in the computer lab environment.
Technologies: Verba RAG working with PyTorch, LangChain, Weviate on an Ubuntu virtual server on ESXi.
OpenRIMS.org Product Manager
Description: Under a USAID-funded project developed and implemented Medicines Regulatory SOPs as automated workflows in LMICs e.g. Clinical Trials, Marketing Authorization, Import/Export Permits and Pharmacovigilance. The established global community is active in 6 countries and growing.
Technologies: GitHub, Oracle OCI, MediaWiki, Discourse, Java, .net 6, MySQL, SpringBoot, Maven, Apache, Ubuntu.
Pharmacovigilance Collaboration Platform West Africa
Description: Establish Regional collaboration between 10 countries in West Africa on Pharmacovigilance to enhance patient safety of medicines including COVID-19 vaccine.
Technologies: SharePoint & PowerBI
COVID 19 Hub for Emergency Response
Description: Designed data collection, aggregation and reports for decision making.
Technologies: Google Sheets and Looker Data Studio
Data Warehouse and Data Sources
Description: National Data Warehouse capturing PSS data from 3700+ clinics and presenting drill down dashboards and reports for performance monitoring and stock alerts on key medicines. Data was collected by 1100+ health workers whom we provided with rugged laptops to endure the environment and increase sustainability. Fraud Detection established.
Technologies: SharePoint, QGIS, MS Report Builder
ERP implementations
Description: Deployed two different ERP solutions in Uganda and South Sudan.
Technologies: MS Report Builder and MSSQL
OpenProject.org
Description: Deployed, configured and trained for project management. Dealt with change management, behavior change, software support.
Technologies: FOSS, Oracle OCI, PostgreSQL
Document Management Systems
Description: Internal and external deployments and configurations using two different Document Management Systems.
Technologies: SharePoint and FOSS Alfresco
Project Deliverables Tracker
Description: Designed on Google Cloud services and later migrated the full solution to Microsoft technologies.
Technologies: Google and Microsoft Technologies
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Digital Health Principal Technical Advisor in Arlington, Virginia, USA
Management Sciences for Health, Arlington, VA, December 2016 – Present
Principal Technical Advisor in Kampala, Uganda
Euro Health Group, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2014 – December 2016
District Information Management Coordinator in Kampala, Uganda
Euro Health Group, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2011 – October 2014
Pharmaceutical and Technical Advisor in Juba, South Sudan
Euro Health Group, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2009 – April 2010
Data & Information Pharmacist in Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish Medical Information, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2007 – September 2009
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Pharmacy
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1997 – 2004)
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Stanford University (2021): AI in Healthcare
University of Cambridge (2019): Business Analytics
Google (2019): IT Support Professional
MIT (2019): Academic Engagement in Public Policy
Technical University of Denmark (2010): Project Management
University of Copenhagen (2002): International Health and Tropical Diseases
LANGUAGES
Danish (Native)
English (Fluent)
German (Intermediate)
French (Basic)
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Available upon request.