Steven

My Resume

Explore Steven Pervez's comprehensive resume, highlighting a rich background in program management, educational achievements, and leadership roles across various industries.

Education

Keck Graduate of The Claremont Colleges

STEM-MBA, Biotech Management and Operations
2021

Experience

University of California, Los Angeles
Program Manager, David Geffen School of Medicine

May 2023-Current

  • Manages campus wide Oracle ‘Ascend’ Chart of Accounts transformation to adopt modern, scalable, cloud-based systems and empower UCLA’s continued growth and the financial operations needed to support it
  • Engages 20 departments, executive stakeholders, and functional leadership across 5 predominant workstreams to orchestrate agreement upon Financial Boundary System Integration into Oracle Cloud Environment
  • Supports the creation of compliant, concise, and MECE structure used to categorize financial transactions across all financial systems including managing industry-sponsored revenue and departmental/ institutional transacting
Kite Pharma, Santa Monica
Program Manager, Global Technical Operations

 June 2021-May 2023

  • Frederick, Mfg. Facility – Engaged finance, clinical, and S&OP units to build automation prioritization dashboard; effectively introducing reliable/ standards and business case process for $250K+ lab equipment
  • Santa Monica, Headquarters – Led risk enumeration program providing continuity for 40,000+ indirect materials
  • Oceanside, Vector Plant – Architected Enterprise Resourcing capability and process, PMO and user-training workshop within Vector Manufacturing facility to prevent resource overextension and justify additional FTE
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Marina Del Rey
Opex Associate, Program Improvement Consultant

Jan-June 2022

  • Provided material storage and change management consultation to balance risk, compliance, and LEAN/pull storage of indirect materials for $600M portfolio – effectively deployed during hospital reassembly
  • Led team on several Kaizen Blitz to fishbone and prioritize 15+ PAR storage locations to calibrate key cost drivers, establish recommended overhaul of non-value added R&R, and deliver $2M inventory reduction/ savings
  • Equipped variety of stakeholder groups including nurses, supply contractors, physicians and executive leaders on revamped supply program via workshop series based on revenue profit and loss drivers, and compliant execution
Northrop Grumman, Northridge
Associate (Spring Co-op), Supply Chain Advanced Materials Program

Jan-June 2021

  • Proactively ‘Defined Possible’ by introducing Smartsheet to replace outdated, manual supply chain ecosystem while negotiating with 20+ global internal buyers to support material sourcing with ‘zero process gaps’
  • Eliminated and reduced manual bottlenecks throughout materials ordering lifecycle to create end-to-end Materials Resource Planning success for complete Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile material portfolio
  • Enlisted off-recruiting season as first global intern to participate in Production Control Excellence Program and apply immediate support to Materials Resource planning group via leadership of ER Shortages Weekly Scrums
Curative-Korva, San Dimas
Associate, Operations & Performance Management

May 2020-June 2021

  • Streamlined coordination of patient data using foundational process improvement with problem solving methodologies and agile proprietary software processes to ensure timely return to during rapid scale-up following Series A funding
  • Managed programmatic implementation, deployment, and training for 100+ customer-facing email macros to respond to workforce with a myriad of immediate health and employment HIPAA requests with form-fit medical documentation
  • Managed 12-person start-up team to deliver standard of excellence OTIF with attention to evolving regulation around immediate EMR access, culture of ‘nimble,’ and identification + elimination of data accessioning gaps
Amgen, Thousand Oaks
Associate Consultant Program Manager (Fall Co-op), Clinical Risk Mitigation

Aug 2020-May 2021

  • Launched robust clinical risk-mitigation strategy addressing critical-to-business factors of cost, risk, patient population, to ensure multi-factor shielding from externalities and protection of forecasted blockbuster drugs
  • Piloted clinical risk tool to both match commercial risk strategy and to establish “proof of concept” for upcoming therapeutics, particularly for orphan designation, strategic partnerships, and specialized storage considerations
  • Worked with Executive Leadership to develop best practice and first-in class programs to protect upcoming assets, particularly AMG510, a world class pharmaceutical with significant sourcing, storage, and expiry requirements
DeciBio Life Sciences, Los Angeles
Contract Associate Consultant, Biomarker Intelligence

Aug-Dec 2020

  • Delivered routine, streamlined findings on oncolytic repair research using DeciBio’s proprietary data aggregator, Biotrack, to Management Consultant team for tactical recommendation to diverse rolodex of biotech clients
  • Interacted with Consulting leadership to prioritize and execute on evolving client needs – often pivoting on dime to proactively identify strengths of comparative boutique consultancies in order to fortify home-front competitive recc’s
Gilead Sciences, Foster City
Associate, Development Business Operations

June-Aug 2020

  • Supported major outsourcing activities including RFP development, bid analysis, contract routing, and client-facing negotiation; strengthening business relationship with Gilead’s external portfolio of 12 RWE prospects
  • Streamlined category review strategy to meaningfully advance clinical trial SOP with repeatable, holistic process
Saint Mary Medical Center, Apple Valley
Consultant, Market Strategy

Feb-May 2020

  • Evaluated market entry and strategic partnership with rising telehealth partner critical to culture and delivery of Saint Mary patients in unmet demographic of need – seniors with chronic conditions and comorbidities
  • Designed commercially viable online healthcare platform demo to address older demographic for hospital consortium to ensure CTC/CTQ requirements/ attributes (utility, data-protection, support) are met and sustained
Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
Consultant, Tech and Innovation

Aug-Dec 2019

  • Consulted 3-5 and 10 year forecast and analysis on data security provider entrants, inbound threats, and resulting opportunity to ensure CHLA’s switch to a secure, cost-efficient, blockchain-equipped provider
  • Benchmarked healthcare-oriented data security measures with 10+ executive interviews, leading to informed recommendation of industry-leading homomorphic encryption leader; effectively protecting pediatric EMR data

Leadership

KGI Visiting Faculty
Guest Lectures “Why Project Management?

Jun 2021-present

  • Identifies gap in graduate curriculum on Project Management to prepare students for industry and PMP Exam
Team Master’s Project Originator
Originator of pilot Graduate Consulting Project

Jun 2021-present

  • Created strong talent pipeline from alumnus Keck Graduate Institute to Kite Pharma to vet and pilot 5 highly competitive graduate students to meet performance indicator of retention for quality organization

Skills

Soft

  •  Agile,
  • Systems Thinker,
  • Strong Presenter,
  • Process Improvement,
  • Building Rapport,
  • High EQ,
  • Effective Collaborator

Certifications

  •  Project Management Professional (PMI), See This
  • Six Sigma Black Belt (American Society for Quality), See This

Technical

  • Tableau, PowerBI,
  • PAS-X, EBR,
  • Advanced Smartsheet,
  • Sharepoint,
  • Veeva,
  • CAPA,
  • RCA,
  • Minitab,
  • Advanced Excel (Power Query,
  • Xlookup,
  • Integrated Dashboard creation),
  • Program Manager,
  • 95+ WPM

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