BUSINESS ANALYST - specializing in outsourcing, university-industry collaboration, innovation, and biopharmaceuticals

University College Cork UCC, Ireland - collaborating with Dr. Lawrence Dooley of the Management and Marketing Department (January 2010 - Present)
About UCC: UCC has consistently been ranked as one of the top universities in Ireland (Sunday Times University Guide).
Dr. Dooley Webpage: http://www.ucc.ie/en/mgt/Staff/Lecturers/DrLawrenceDooley/

Role Description
• Currently collaborating with an Irish university remotely from the United States.
• Co-authored a paper entitled "Understanding Collaboration within University-industry Knowledge Networks" for the 2010 R&D Management Conference in Manchester (click here to download tiny.cc/gq64v).
- Project involved case study analyses.
• Lead author on a paper entitled "The Entrepreneurial University and Underlying Academic Tensions", short-listed for publication in 'Technovation' (Impact Factor 1.907).
- Project involved analyzing interview transcripts, and building a case study based on the information collected during my postgraduate research.
• Authored a third paper entitled “An Exploratory Study of the Use of Outsourcing as a Strategy within the Manufacturing Sector of the Global Biopharmaceutical Industry”. 
- Project involved analyzing interview transcripts, and examining information from a larger exploratory study.

Core Findings from the Biopharmaceuticals Study:

1. Contract Manufacturing Organizations are likely to benefit from building deep trusting relationships with biopharmaceutical companies, developing proprietary technologies, and focusing marketing efforts on Mavens (reputable industry experts).
2. Our analysis confirms that the Irish Government's recent efforts to develop the contract manufacturing sector within the biopharmaceutical industry are both strategically prudent and economically advantageous.
3. The growth of strategic alliances within the greater pharmaceutical industry was found to represent a classic entrepreneurial response (Mintzberg, 1973; Naman and Slevin, 1993) to increasing environmental turbulence.