Sushma Sharma

About Sushma Sharma

With over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, I specialize in Data Governance, Solution delivery, architecture, and application support for drug discovery teams within the pharmaceutical industry. My career has been dedicated to enabling scientific innovation through technology—partnering closely with researchers to deliver scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions that accelerate the path to new medicines.I have successfully led both direct and matrixed teams, built and matured agile teams from the ground up, and managed complex, cross-functional projects in highly regulated environments. As a certified PMP and Scrum Master, I bring a balanced approach to project execution—combining structure with adaptability.What drives me is the mission of the pharma industry: bringing life-changing therapies to patients faster. I take pride in building strong partnerships between IT and science to help make that vision a reality. KEY EXPERTISE: Thought Leadership: Leading the way in data-driven decision-making, driving actionable insights. Global Operations Leadership: Managing data initiatives across diverse geographical regions. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnering with key stakeholders to achieve common goals. Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Building cohesive teams that deliver outstanding results. Vendor Management: Partnering with key stakeholders to achieve common goals. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS: Designed and executed a data strategy for the Non-clinical research business unit, including establishing a data governance framework, building a data lake, engineering data pipelines, and delivering user-friendly dashboards. Created a centralized data marketplace for data-savvy scientists. Developed a compelling business case for In-vivo study data analytics, securing funding approval. Managed the selection process for vendors and delivered products in phases. Established technical tier 2 & 3 support teams for R&D applications, focusing on KPIs and reducing incident resolution time. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE: Solution Delivery | Product Management | Project Management | Software Development Lifecycle | Data Governance | Data Analytics | Data Life Cycle Management | Machine Learning

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager, Data Governance

   GSK

   Oct 2024 — Present · London, GB

   Develop and execute a comprehensive product roadmap for data governance with a focus on building robust data governance solutions for research data customers.• Collaborate with research data stewards to develop comprehensive metadata strategy and establish enterprise data standards, ensuring consistent data classification and discoverability across research platforms while enabling improved data quality and regulatory compliance.• Deliver attribute-based automated data access management system using Styra DAS, streamlining research data security and reducing manual access provisioning by 40%. • Facilitate workshops, user interviews, prepare formal business requirement, process flow diagrams, swim lane diagrams, user journey diagrams, test plans, and UAT. • Lead scrum events (backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint retrospective, user demos) as Scrum master. • Collaborate with business SMEs, IT system owners and vendors to plan and execute releases and regression testing.

Education

• Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya

  B.Sc., Physics

  1996 — 1999

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, M.P.

  Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Javascript
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Perl
• Pl/Sql
• Web Services
• Mysql
• Jdbc
• Ejb
• Oracle
• Ajax
• Servlets
• Tomcat
• Struts
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Jsp
• Xml
• Jms