Curriculum Vitae

phdjsep@gmail.com

Strategic thinker with a strong background in analytics and data science. Proven experience in defining and implementing big data strategies, leading cross-functional teams, and improving business performance through data-driven insights. Adept at managing data science teams, developing centralized analytics solutions, and effectively communicating findings to senior stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ConcertAI – Executive Director, RWD Analytics Feb 2021 – Nov 2024

• Thought Leadership: Spearheaded data and analysis topics across the RWE business unit, driving quality and innovation.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Led a cross-functional team to create an industry-first data product delivery platform, resulting in increased revenue generation and improved customer satisfaction.
• Centralized Analytics Solution: Developed a centralized analytics solution to improve reproducibility and scalability among multiple internal analytical and data science teams.
• Vendor Management: Successfully sourced and managed third-party vendors to augment business unit objectives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Internal Tooling: Led efforts in building internal tools to democratize data access, enhance data quality control, and provide stakeholders with up-to-date results for informed decision-making.
• Best Practices: Formulated best practices for governance, onboarding, data access, analytical data pipelines, and reporting, standardizing activities across multiple teams.
• Competitive Analysis: Comprehensively understood the portfolios and actions of competitors, succinctly communicating strategic implications to executive stakeholders.
• Business Performance Improvement: Executed and identified opportunities to continuously improve the company’s business performance measurement process.
• External Partnerships: Identified opportunities to partner with external entities on technologies that facilitate patient diagnosis, expanding the company’s technological capabilities.
• Effective Communication: Effectively communicated findings and strategic insights to senior-level stakeholders, influencing decision-making processes.

Kite Pharma – Associate Director, R&D IT Jun 2019 – Feb 2021

• Helped define strategic priorities and supported technology, digital, and data transformations across Kite’s Research and Development organizations.
• Mobilized resources across both Kite and Gilead to enable delivery of solutions including design and implementation of new capabilities from Bioinformatics to Real World Evidence.
• Lead and managed the implementation of a scalable, cloud-based analytical platform which improved computational capabilities, analytical reproducibility, and provided a platform for deployment of apps.
• Worked with executive leadership in a variety of capacities to develop, prioritize, and execute long-term enterprise strategies

Syapse – Clinical Data Science Manager Jan 2017 – Mar 2019

• Partnered with internal engineers, physicians, informaticists, and epidemiologists to deliver clinical insight using Real World Data (RWD) leading to bookings over $20M
• Managed team of 5 in helping deliver patient matching to healthcare providers, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies globally using electronic medical records (EMR) and genomic data.
• Created and scaled entirely new clinical analytics group; developing structure, procedures, and tooling for analysis and expansion.
• Curated, cleaned, and analyzed complex data from medical records, next-gen sequencing reports, and clinical labs from multiple EMRs across multiple US health systems to assist with clinical decision support and insights features in our application.
• Frequently created dashboards and tools for internal data exploration needs in Tableau and R Shiny.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy – Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
University of California, Davis 2009

Bachelor of Science – Genetics
University of California, Davis 2003

PUBLICATIONS

1. Thakur P, Dadsetan S, Fomina AF. Bidirectional coupling between ryanodine receptors and Ca2+ activated Ca²⁺ (CRAC) channel machinery sustains store-operated Ca²⁺ release-entry in human T lymphocytes. J Biol Chem. 2012 Oct 26;287(44):37233-44.

2. Zakharova L, Dadsetan S, Fomina AF. Endogenous Jmjd6 gene product is expressed at the cell surface and regulates phagocytosis in immature monocyte-like activated THP-1 cells. J Cell Physiol. 2009 Oct;221(1):84-91

3. Chen H, Dadsetan S, Fomina AF, Gong Q. Expressing exogenous functional odorant receptors in cultured olfactory sensory neurons. Neural Dev. 2008 Sep 11;3:22

4. Dadsetan S, Zakharova L, Molinski TF, Fomina AF. Store-operated Ca²⁺ influx causes Ca²⁺ release from the intracellular Ca²⁺ channels that is required for T cell activation. J Biol Chem. 2008 May 2;283(18):12512-9

5. Dadsetan S, Shiskin V., Fomina AF. Intracellular Ca²⁺ release triggers translocation of membrane marker FM1-43 from the extracellular leaflet of plasma membrane into endoplasmic reticulum in T lymphocytes. J Biol Chem. 2005 Apr 22;280(16):16377-82

PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, ARTICLES

• Talk: CONNECTing with our clients (Aug 2024, posit::conf(2024))
• Workshop: Introduction to Git and Github for Data Science (March 2024)
• Talk: Version Control, renv, and Reproducibility (Aug 2023, Southern California RUG)
• Article: Career Development with Data Science Leaders (May 2022, UCI Department of Statistics)
• Talk: Infrastructure that Encourages Reproducibility (Posit - Data Science Hangout, July 2021)

EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS

• Front-end web development, mobile app development - built my own footgolf scoring app (Skorkard)
• Competitive Footgolf - Coach of US Footgolf team at 2018 World Cup in Morocco (3rd place)
• Contributor to local R community (Southern California R Users Group) and online R community.
• Professional DJ (15 years)