Dr. Frank Schaffer

I finally joined Accelrys as Field Applications Scientist where I can now fully use my experience in the Chemoinformatics area with focus on the Symyx Electronic Lab Notebook, legacy ISIS and Isentris, and the new Accelrys Enterprise Platform that will come out in 2012.

Strategic Marketing in a cross departmental position. Integration projects covering research, enginieering and software.

Marketing responsibility for further development of software components in the areas: Service oriented Architecture (SoA) , .Net controls used for the development of scientific applications integration software for data transfer between applications of different vendors

Completion a custom, multi-year logistics application, standardization of this product and market introduction. Expanding the product concept to chemical substance registration

Leading the marketing group responsible for Experiment Management in the areas of: Chemistry – chemical registration, electronic lab notebooks and combinatorial chemistry Logistics – inventory management with interfaces to ERP systems and reagent selection applications Biology – Screening assay- and plate management

Establishment of the chemistry and logistics group within the marketing department and creation of integration plans with other product lines Representation the MDL logistics strategy at executive meetings with customers, at trade shows and MDL user group meetings

Leading an international project group tasked with the further implementation of a chemical logistics application product Representation of this product and customer meetings and trade shows Leading a group of project managers and an off shore software development team in Hungary Development of the customer base for the logistics application to more than 25 customers with a total of several thousand users Extension of the application portfolio to substance clustering, product searching over multiple databas

Successful implementation of software projects including pre-sales activities, requirements analysis, development of implementation plans, project management, software development in different programming environments, hardware integration, software integration, documentation, installation at the customer sites, end user training, and support of the solution Development of a modular inventory management and procurement system used by leading pharmaceutical companies world-wide

Uncatalyzed transfer hydrogenation of a benzhydryl fluoride by 9,10-dihydroanthracene