Justin Smith

About Justin Smith

I enjoy working on difficult ambiguous technical problems while developing and leading high performing teams. My natural curiosity combined with my technical background leads to a great problem solving skill set. I have experience leading multiyear strategy development and implementation for large corporate organizations. This experience includes organizational change management and organizational design. I have demonstrated excellence managing and delivering complex projects in a highly regulated environment.My passion lies in a few areas: serving others, doing great work, leading teams, and product design. I love developing new products and processes. In my free time, I enjoy making furniture or other products to serve my family and friends. I also enjoy working on mechanical products (eg cars, engines, and the like). I began my career at Lilly developing small molecule API synthetic routes supplying early phase clinical trials. I also developed P.E.T. synthetic routes supplying Lilly trials. As a Six Sigma Black Belt, I have optimized internal business processes and developed investment / divestment strategies.

Experience

1. Product Delivery (Cmc) Project Management Sr Director

   Eli Lilly and Company

   Apr 2021 — Present

   Medicines Innovation Hub Product Delivery Project Management Advisor - Diabetes. Accountable for leading the creation and implementation of integrated product development and delivery plans for molecules from portfolio entry to launch. This position is the operational and project management lead for the molecule and co-leads the team with the technical leader.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master's degree, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry

  1999 — 2001

• Millikin University

  Chemistry, Chemistry

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
• Small Molecules
• Gmp
• Green Belt
• Strategy
• Dmaic
• R&D
• Laboratory
• Drug Development
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process Development
• Technology Transfer
• Analytical Chemistry
• Dmedi
• Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
• Root Cause Analysis
• Black Belt
• Change Management
• Business Operations
• Business Analysis
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Strategic Planning
• Pharmaceutical Process Development
• Six Sigma
• Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry
• U.s. Food and Drug Administration (Fda)