Research Support Partnership

Richard Blazek

With over two decades of experience in analyzing, designing, developing, testing, supporting and implementing systems for the conduct and management of pharmaceutical clinical trials and agrochemical field trials in regulated environments, Richard Blazek is ideally qualified to provide advice and offer practical assistance to any company looking to improve their systems.

Services provided include:

• strategic comparison of products offered by software vendors
• management of the process of acceptance of new software products from software vendors
• technical project management of software development projects
• design of new systems in legacy or new programming environments and tools
• team leading of software development activities
• hands-on development using proprietary languages or novel languages

The key skills that have been demonstrated in the past are:

• scientific background (PhD in Biochemistry and 10 years in pharmaceutical laboratories doing pure and applied research)
• innovation and creativity
• enthusiasm and persistence
• systems analysis and design
• operating systems: VMS, Windows, Unix, Linux
• languages: Visual Basic family, Fortran, C/C++, IBM LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python),
• web: HTML, Java script, XML, SOAP
• databases: RDB, Oracle, MS SqlServer
• document management and workflow: Documentum, Livelink and Livelink OScript

Companies and organizations worked for include:

• PHLS Center for Applied Microbiology and Research
• Schering Agrochemicals
• Pfizer
• Tessella Support Services Ltd

Educated with a BA in Natural Sciences from Christ's college, Cambridge. PhD awarded by the University of Wales, Welsh National School of Medicine for a thesis on "The biochemical aspects of affective disorder". Member of the British Computing Society (MBCS) and Chartered Engineer (CEng).

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