Robert Udell

About Robert Udell

Product and program leader with 15+ years of experience delivering secure, compliant data solutions. Known for clear communication, collaborative leadership, and the ability to bring structure to ambiguity. Skilled at aligning teams, managing agile delivery, and driving impact across sensitive data workflows.

Experience

1. Technical Program & Product Management, Director

   Medidata Solutions

   Jan 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Improved program execution visibility, operational rigor, and cross-team alignment across the Platform Engineering organization, with teams distributed across the US and India, while owning product strategy and delivery for internal tools that automate clinical data standardization and data quality oversight.Program Management• Enabled end-to-end roadmap traceability from ideation to execution by building deeper integrations between planning and delivery tools (Aha and Jira), reducing redundant documentation and improving delivery predictability and stakeholder visibility• Built dashboards to monitor delivery health, sprint velocity, risk indicators, and roadmap progress, accelerating issue resolution and enabling proactive planning• Developed capacity and resourcing reports adopted across engineering to support prioritization, workload balancing, and long-range planning• Standardized agile metrics and release tracking processes, improving planning accuracy and portfolio-level execution transparencyProduct Management• Launched tools that reduced manual data preparation and improved clinical data standardization, including extraction, deidentification, medical coding (MedDRA/WHODrug), and mapping to industry standards (SDTM / ADaM)• Delivered a Snowflake- and AWS-based data quality framework that automated validation of clinical datasets, expanding coverage and reducing review time• Integrated standardized code lists and mappings, minimizing rework and accelerating delivery of study-ready datasets• Mentored product owners to improve story quality, clarify delivery scope, and prioritize based on team capacity and business outcomes

Education

• Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology

  BS, Information Sciences and Technology

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Togaf
• Business Architecture
• Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Process Modeling
• Sdlc
• Project Management
• Security
• Strategy
• Governance
• Architecture
• Business Process Design
• IT Strategy
• Business Analysis
• Program Management
• Management
• Business Process
• Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process Improvement
• Analytical Skills
• Data Analysis
• Sql
• Microsoft Excel
• Leadership
• Product Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Access
• Visio
• Product Development
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Business Development
• Public Speaking