Patrick Metzger
BSc and MSc in Chemistry. 15+ years in Services / IT / Hardware / Software. Currently working as Director Life Science Operations at Conformia, CA.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Skills: | Business, English, French, German, Languages, Management |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Interested in: | Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Conformia, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Position: | Director Life Science Operations |
| Time period: | January 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Full responsibility for the Conformia life sciences customer programs
• Lead a successful 2-years implementation of a new product release with a major pharmaceutical company in the US “Patrick is a result oriented, practical professional who demonstrates an ability to work across various levels of management. He is diplomatic but has the ability to make sound arguments that move projects, people and teams forward.” Customer quote, February, 2009” • Managed the joined product development effort, the migration of GMP data from existing systems, the configuration of modified business processes in the Product Research & Development division across several organization and geographical locations including India • Implemented planning and operational programs in the area of software development and application configuration to improve the schedule accuracy, release content predictability, and the customer requirements compliance |
| Employer: | MSC.Software, Redwood City, CA |
| Position: | Director PLM Services |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Full responsibility for the PLM and Simulation Data Management Services in the Americas
• Consolidated PLM and data management consulting resources across the company into one department with a clear mission and organization • Managed organization and revenue growth from less than $500k to over $3M per year • Grown profitability by 10% by right sizing the cost structure, hiring in critical area, transitioning out low utilized/performing resources resulting in a resource utilization of over 80% across the board • Grown an extensive network of partners providing expertise outside of our core business and flexibility in our labor cost • Defined and developed a services product portfolio for the PLM and data management market that allowed a reduction of the pre-sales effort by 50% • Directly supervised or managed ~40 deployment projects per year |
| Employer: | SGI, Mt. View, CA |
| Position: | Solution Architect / Project Manager |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2001 |
| Description: | Responsible for driving the creation of a replicable solution package for the Solutions Engineering Professional Services organization during a transition phase of the company
• Organized the collection of the field know-how and produced a complete services package for Sales & Delivery. Executed the training of the US, EMEA, and AP field organization • Supported the negotiations for the sellout of the “simulation data management” initial product and its key personnel to MSC.Software as well as the transition of the group to MSC |
| Employer: | Silicon Graphics, Switzerland |
| Position: | Technical Account manager Pharmaceutical accounts |
| Time period: | January 1997 - December 2000 |
| Description: | (Novartis & Roche) providing technical support in enterprise systems, high availability, scientific computing, and data mining, as well as coordinating the pre-post-sales resources for the account, resulting in a net increase of customer satisfaction |
| Employer: | Novartis, Basel, Switzerland |
| Position: | Unix/Project Lead, Computing Services |
| Time period: | January 1987 - December 1997 |
| Description: | Managing Services Level Agreement with internal customers for their enterprise systems (Oracle, SAP, Documentum) with 99.5% guarantied availability, 4 hours response time and improved profitability of new contracts by 25% |
