Robert Heckathorn
Senior Director, AstraZeneca
- Role
- Director of Informatics at AstraZeneca
- Location
- Columbia, MO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Director of Informatics
Jan 2021 — Present
Recognized leader in the digital space with a track record of delivering systems that simultaneously improve efficiency and positions data for advanced processing / AI. Leader of a high-performing team of engineers and developers who have designed, built, delivered and support more than 50 applications and associated databases. Co-lead the NIIMBL Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing ontology project for one year (March 2023-24), helped this multi-company, pre-competitive team develop and launch the ontology to the IOF/OAGI opensource platform. Architect of the latest generation of foundational information systems in BPD that includes (E-miner) Equipment Asset Management (approx. assets managed),(Jazz) Automated Instrument and Equipment data acquisition (>450 systems connected),(Volume) Content Management (Cloud based, eliminates need for fileshares, CV and ontology management),(Conductor) Digital Process Recipe (parameters for all Drug Substance unit operations). Partner with IT with drive scale, compliance and security in our data systems through the IT-Platform partnership.
Education
Northern Illinois University
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry
Northern Illinois University
PhD, Chemistry
1996 — 2000
Marist University
B.S., Chemistry
1994 — 1996
Skills
- Upstream Process Development
- Cell
- Laboratory Automation
- Laboratory Informatics
- Biotechnology
- In Vitro
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Assay Development
- Vba
- Gmp
- Software Engineering
- Vb.net
- Protein Chemistry
- Data Management
- Cell Culture
- Lims
- Software Development
- Transfection
- Biochemistry
- Technology Transfer
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