Headquartered in Massachusetts, Long Walk Consulting is a leader in providing CIO advisory services across industries. From mature companies to the latest startup, our firm specializes in providing services to help achieve goals and success. Whether you are just coming out of your first funding, about to commercialize your first product or ready to expand your strategy and go to the cloud, we will partner with you for every step of the journey. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every client and customize our support to your individual needs and concerns. Affinivax Inc. Vice President, IT June 2021 - September 2022 (1 year 4 months) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Corporate Technology -Constructed 18-month, 3-year, and 5-year technology strategies to support potential IPO, Commercial Launch, and significant expansion of Clinical Trials -Built and deployed Affinivax’s baseline security stack, which included SSO, EDR, MFA, and comprehensive awareness training; deployed IT Change Control and data governance to ensure control of corporate IP -Eliminated costly Managed Services Providers and relocated all services internally by hiring key members of IT -Created an agnostic cloud data model using Box, Google Workspace, Microsoft Sharepoint, and AWS based on the FAIR standard -Implemented new workflow and business processes across R&D and G&A functions, including a new ERP system, CLMS process, Corporate Project Management, and universal database modeling -Led the training of all employees over several hundred hours to ensure technological education parity as part of a digital upskilling program -Constructed a new corporate backbone to support the expansion from one floor to two floors in our facility; second-floor expansion was for GMP and non- GMP development, including cGMP development -Deployed a WFH hybrid approach for hot-desking and wayfinding within the enterprise, with egress management using the OpenPath architecture -Eliminated burdensome conference room challenges and single-streamed all digital communications into a single platform -Deployed a baseline ELN and corporate research library platform to support in-house research and experimentation management -Built a novel lab data architecture for over 100 data-generating devices that consolidated all data into a single stream and an organized source of access for both on-site and remote employees Page 4 of 9
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