Cedric Druck
Verified Expert in Engineering
Statistics Developer
Cedric is an experienced software engineer with a strong mathematical background (operations research, analytics, AI, statistic) and an entrepreneurial spirit. He loves working in small structures, playing multiple roles, and bringing value to help the business grow. He's also very hands-on with strong technical skills. Cedric's strongest business expertise is in technical solutions and services in clinical trial forecasting and management.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Jira, Docker, PyCharm, MacOS
The most amazing...
...things I've created were three world-class clinical trial management pieces of software using NLP, simulation, and optimization.
Work Experience
Owner | Principal
Belenox SRL
- Implemented proper development environment for a non-IT company, including Git / Bitbucket, Bitbucket pipelines, branching strategy, pull request restrictions, JIRA, proper unit testing, validation, and release documentation.
- Designed and implemented a full-fledged single page application in React with a Django back end, and deployed over Azure (Postgres, back-end VM, static website). The application is used to design electromechanical motors.
- Chose and implemented specific technologies including realistic and interactive 3D views of motors, mathematical plots of the physical properties, dynamic optimization, and control over its progress.
Vice President, Forecasting | Vice President, Engineering
4G Clinical
- Joined forces with ex-competition to define the 4th generation of randomization and trial supply management software solution and service.
- Lead the proof of concept, incorporating the two major technical innovations, which got later validated by Harvard professors.
- Grew and led a 20 people engineering team, including back- and front-end developers, DevOps and IT engineers, manual testers, and test automation engineers.
- Supported the company's development in close collaboration with the CTO and CEO.
- Switched to leading the second software offering consisting of a new, cutting edge trial supply demand and supply management software after the company grew a successful business based on the first software application.
Owner, Principal
Belenox SPRL
- Consulted in Clinical Trial Supply Excellence with top Pharma and software providers.
- Redesigned legacy software into cutting edge single page applications.
- Contributed to business development for a previously developed, leading simulation software.
- Created innovative software to aid clinical trials industry.
- Founded the company in 2014 with the intent to help the pharmaceutical industry optimize their clinical trial supply chain through consultancy and software development.
- Delivered clinical trial supply chain excellence projects with top pharmaceutical companies worldwide in collaboration with an international team and leveraging existing expert software solutions.
- Helped develop client's software solution sales to pharmaceutical companies.
- Led major software solution development through architecture, tech choices, team lead and implementation.
- Invested in research and development, in particular in developing an innovative software leveraging public clinical trial data to support providers marketing activity.
Product and Project Manager
IDDI
- Led technology choices for the company's principal software application revamp.
- Helped to modernize the company's software development activity through tools and agile project management.
- Helped to screen and hire C# and JavaScript developers.
- Led a team of five, responsible for implementing the new version of the software.
- Acted as the principal software developer and ensured quality, mathematical soundness of the solution.
Consultant | Senior Software Engineer | Team Lead | Practice Manager
N-SIDE
- Successfully delivered a variety of software-based optimization projects for clients worldwide in the fields of Pharmaceuticals, Energy production, Steel industry, Chemicals.
- Brought the company's main pharmaceutical solution CT-FAST from its infancy to become a top-tier clinical trial supply chain simulation software.
- Trained, coached, and led a team of 10-15 software engineers and consultants.
- Maintained a satisfied client base through consistently successful project delivery and application support.
- Increased awareness through various conference speeches, prospect demos, and pre-sales meetings.
- Helped define and execute the business practice's strategic plan together with the CEO.
Experience
Optiflex // Electromagnetic Motor Design Software
4G Clinical's Prancer RTSM
4G Clinical's "4C" D&DP for Clinical Trials
Education
Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Université Catholique de Louvain - Belgium
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Lodash, D3.js, Three.js, Plotly.js, NumPy, Pandas
Tools
PyCharm, Bitbucket, Jira, Bower, Docker Compose, Git, MATLAB, Bugzilla, Jenkins, Slack, CPLEX, Mercurial
Frameworks
Django, Django REST Framework, Angular, AngularJS, Swing
Languages
Python, Python 3, Java 8, TypeScript, Java, C#, AMPL, Regex, HTML, XML, YAML, Scala, JavaScript, Google Apps Script, Less, SQL
Storage
SQLite, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, JSON, SQL Server 2010
Paradigms
Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, Agile, Scrum, Linear Programming, Constraint Programming
Platforms
MacOS, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Eclipse, Docker, Amazon EC2
Other
Optimization, Statistics, Flexmonster, Programming, Supply Chain, Simulations, Mathematics, Discrete Optimization, Nonlinear Programming, Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Probability Theory, Supply Chain Optimization, Mixed-integer Linear Programming, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
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