Patricia Thompson

About Patricia Thompson

Patricia improves the performance of large (>$100M) portfolios by integrating her business acumen, behavior change experience, and legal training. Her passion drives innovation by removing historical roadblocks and empowering team members to see the opportunity in change. Patricia builds on 20+ years of professional experience in regulated industries. She leverages technology and cultivates relationships across organizational boundaries to reveal and solve critical business issues. She communicates with diverse audiences in their “native” language – business leaders, technical experts, lawyers, marketers, and regulators. Major corporations and universities have invited her to deliver keynotes and presentations in the U.S, Japan, Spain, and Germany. She thrives in regulated industries that positively impact the daily lives of people around the world, such as pharmaceuticals, energy, and the environment. Patricia is also a dedicated mentor. She develops relationships that advance the careers of those around her. This willingness to listen and respond in a straight forward manner builds teams that respond to her calls for action in positive and productive ways. Specialties: Managing Portfolios of High Complexity and Risk | Planning and Execution of Regulatory Strategy | Business Acumen and Strategic Agility | Behavior Change | Influencing | Sustaining Relationships with Partners | Project and Program Management | Procurement | Facilitation

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Scimitar Inc.

   Oct 2015 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   For Top 5 Pharma Regulatory GroupLeveraged behavior change experience to drive transformation of newly created Project Management Office processes. Delivered 30% reduction in filing time for large Biologics License Application to FDA. Drew on prior SLA experience as program manager for enterprise Regulatory Information Management System investigation and international deployment team. Negotiated substantial cost-concessions and managed RFP and proof-of-concept efforts through to deployment. As Program Manager/Solution Train Engineer for implementation team helped team grow from less than 10 to several hundred across multiple organizational groups. Work flow adapted from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) patterns.Created process and system to contextualize competitive intelligence about biosimilars and market conditions to provide near real-time access to field insights by senior decision-making teams.

Education

• Human Capital Institute

  Continuing Education , Certification Strategic Workforce Planning

• Coursera Behavioral Economics

  Continuing Education, Behavioral Sciences

  2013 — 2013

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  BS, Geology

  1987 — 1990

• University of Colorado

  JD

  1995 — 1998

• University of California Berkeley Exec Ed

  Executive Education, Art of Negotiations

  2009 — 2009