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Mark Ponikvar

Executive Director of Enterprise Applications and Data Services

    Summary

    I am a United States Military Academy (West Point) graduate, certified Six Sigma Black Belt, driven leader.  I won the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Year twice at Cell Signaling Technology.  I am passionate about developing people, both inside and outside of my organization, to help them grow as an individual while providing high benefit to the needs of the company.  I enjoy working with people to drive common understanding of how IT can accelerate timelines to meet corporate goals.  I look forward to bringing my wide knowledge of business processes and the implementation of technology together to strategically drive business forward.      

    SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    • Defined and established an Enterprise Data Services team with foundational technologies and data governance. This corporate leveraged platform in the first 12 months brought on over 12 billion rows of data across many domains 600% faster, at lower cost, higher scalability, and well established governance that allowed for the rapid analysis to support ongoing clinical and manufacturing operations.
    • Worked with the Executive staff to understand their challenges in IT support, developed a strategic roadmap to address those needs, and defined the hiring plan to execute against that roadmap.  This plan was then used to drive an overhaul of how IT support services were provided.  This resulted in quicker delivery of help as an initial self-service model, a 20% reduction in spend, and higher IT satisfaction metrics.
    • Developed and executed a plan for correcting 404(b) deficiencies.  This included writing new controls, cleaning up existing controls, as well as creating a repeatable, documented process.  This new process resulted in zero findings over multiple years.
    • Established the idea of unstructured, public data being leveraged to understand our customers purchasing patterns.  Created a proposal that was accepted by MIT Sloan's Analytics Laboratory for a team of students to apply AI techniques to pull out relevant data.  Developed partnership with the team from MIT Sloan resulting in new guidance to our product development and marketing teams.

    Work experience

    Executive Director, Enterprise Applications and Data Services

    2025Present
    Sarepta Therapeutics

    Define and manage the enterprise IT systems architecture and frameworks to ensure it continually supports the corporate business strategy. Investigate and implement relevant emerging technologies in the domains of Digital, Data and Analytics. Manage the business technology and data portfolio to maximum potential and value. Create, select, develop and motive a highly talented team of 62 people responsible for the systems covering Lab Systems, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, HR, and Corporate Communications, the overall IT Portfolio Project Management Office (PPMO), and the overall Computer Systems Validation (CSV) team and processes, and Enterprise Data Services for the company. Responsible for ensuring 21 CFR Part 11 regulatory compliance and IT SOX compliance.

    Senior Director of Enterprise Applications and Data Analytics

    20222025
    Sarepta Therapeutics

    Responsible for the strategy, roadmaps and delivery for all Enterprise Applications.  This includes, but is not limited to: ERP, SCM, LIMS, CRM, and HCM.  Owner of compliance and regulatory covering SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, Privacy, and computer system validation (CSV).  Also responsible for the creation of and the strategic roadmap and delivery of Enterprise Data Services, providing a centralized service to the company to leverage data in an efficient manner with the goal of accelerating scientific breakthroughs and advancement.  Manages a team of 32 people, defining the structure of the sub-teams to drive efficient organization and business alignment.  

    Senior Director of IT Applications

    20192022
    Editas Medicine

    Member of the Leadership Council and the Editas Mentoring program. Responsible for all applications across all departments at Editas, to include portfolio management, budget, contracts, vendor management, outsourced support teams and the software development lifecycle. IT business partner to Finance, HR, Legal, and Purchasing. Responsible for the Research, Manufacturing, Clinical Development, and Quality systems.  Closely works with Bio-informatics on the use of LIMS.  Owner of and responsible for compliance for IT General Controls for 404(b), GxP and GDPR. Established a data integration strategy and process.  

    Director of Enterprise Applications

    20172019
    Cell Signaling Technology, Inc

    Globally responsible for CST's ERP, BI, and HRIS platforms.  Performs vendor / software evaluation aligned with business goals to enable and support the growth the company while controlling costs.  Executive business relationship manager for Finance, Operations, Procurement, HR, Legal and Quality teams.    Manages a global internal team and multiple international external vendor partnerships.  Consolidated multiple ERP instances globally into a single platform.

    IT Director of ERP and CRM

    20152017
    Cell Signaling Technology, Inc

    Responsible for deploying and running the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) R12) and the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system (Salesforce.com).  Manages 6 employees along with a team of international consultants.

    ERP Program Manager

    20102014
    Cell Signaling Technology, Inc

    Responsible for the Oracle E-Business Suite ERP system, Business Intelligence environments, the inter-office Logistics and Inventory Management systems.
    Determines and delivers exceptional business solutions through working with the company stakeholders.  Manages a team of 4 employees, and numerous external consultants, that consistently provide on-time and on-budget deliverables.

    Business Analyst

    20082010
    Cell Signaling Technology, Inc

    Served as the Business Analyst lead for the company's ERP system. Designed, planned and implemented the software to track and store inventory, resulting in zero lost shipments over 2 years.  Architected, planned and implemented the business dashboards reporting system to enable real-time access to the company's data.

    System Analyst

    20062008
    General Electric, Sensing

    Information Technology lead for the Master Data Management(MDM) team focusing on standardizing customer data and customer creation/order entry processes through Lean events and Six Sigma methodologies. Led an international team of three people from requirements gathering through project completion creating a business-enabling external customer website generating $750K of revenue annually. Planned, designed, and implemented an online freight reporting/payment system yielding $650K in annual savings. Led an offshore team of four people that optimized and enhanced a web-based salesperson variable payment tool that reduced sales force turnover and eliminated 1400 hours of manual processes annually.

    Six Sigma Black Belt

    20042006
    General Electric, Sensing

    Planned, coordinated, managed and executed the transfer of a $50 million business across three countries generating $2.2 million in annual savings and revenue. Measured, analyzed, and identified non-value add production processes which eliminated 300 hours of engineering time and $400K of waste annually. Led a cross-functional, multi-national team to combine two Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) business systems and legal entities into a single system.

    Signal Officer

    19992004
    US Army, 101st Airborne Division

    Designed and implemented the only security compliant network infrastructure during Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is currently the network security standard for deployed units. Planned, installed, operated, and maintained 35 servers and 5 classified networks which provided communications to over 21,000 people in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Led a team of 12 people through a deployment in Iraq.

    Education

    Six Sigma Black Belt

    20042004
    General Electric

    Bachelors of Science - Computer Science

    19951999
    United States Military Academy, West Point

    Professional recommendations

    "I have had the pleasure of working with Mark on a number of projects through the years. Mark always listens to the needs of his internal customers, analyzes the information that we provide him and determines what will benefit us now and in the future. This forward thinking has saved the organization both money and time.  His professionalism and expertise are huge assets to Cell Signaling Technology"

    "Mark is a tremendous contributor to the success of our Oracle Implementation. He always works with the highest level of honesty and integrity. The quality of his work consistently exceeds expectations of his Supervisors and Peers.  The skill to 'bridge the gap' between the technical and the functional make him an excellent facilitator between IT and the business."

    "Mark was an exceptional officer and tremendous leader while serving in the G6 Office. He was a great mentor for soldiers under his care and always available to complete the mission and delivered countless solutions for any technical complications that would surface. He was an invaluable talent and a man of integrity"