Robert Nelson

•Direct DoD agency operations for laboratory, clinical and health management departments •Direct financial, logistics, quality control, inventory, HR and SOPs for research programs •Benchmark processes using best practices on policies and procedures •Develop supply chain management system for multiple procurement mechanisms •Executive Officer of US Government PEPFAR activities in management team •Representative for Department of Defense HIV Program with Nigerian counterparts •Implement quality

•Project manager and lead proposal writer for research and development division •Interim head of procurement and R&D component of international collaborative program •Optimize manufacturing, regulatory processes, procurement and marketing for female condoms world wide •Build team of international experts to design and implement manufacturing, clinical research and promotion strategies •Work with regulatory agencies including World Health Organization and governmental agencies on qualification, proc

•Create, negotiate, and foster agreements with international distributors for commercial distribution •Liaise with multi and bi-lateral organizations, NGO’s, and health ministries on female condom initiatives •Responsible for global public sector programming advisory team overseeing 23 female condom programs •Manage multi-million dollar budget, report to executive committee, and create annual strategies Accomplishments •Increased distribution in 2007 by 31%, from 19 million to 25 million

•Composed training for laboratory assays on TMA vs. PCR and developed national treatment algorithm used by health staff for hepatitis C treatment •Regional trainer on best practices •Responsible for sales and marketing of Infergen in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island •NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Brooklyn Hepatitis C Task Force steering committee member •Coordinate academic and community peer to peer programs with international thought leaders in hepatology

•Covering all hospital and outpatient centers in two boroughs. Educating doctors on gram-positive infections including MRSA and VRE •Worked with general surgery on post operative surgical wound infection studies •Created thought leaders for treatment of gram-positive infections and coordinated 25 peer-to-peer programs in first year

•Worked in OR during CABG surgeries •Sold to general surgery for post op infections. •Sold and assisted in implantation of Viadur, a subcutaneous implant in the upper aspect of the inner arm. •Managed annual sales over $1.7 million. Developed relationships with doctors in Tulsa, Oklahoma and hospital teaching institutions in Brooklyn to augment sales. Significantly increased Avelox, Bayrab, Baytet, Baycol, Cipro, Precose, Viadur, Trasylol and Adalat CC sales.

•Developed school standards and resources to international school levels. Increased school enrollment and staff by initiating a promotional campaign of international curricula in a multinational setting. •Vice Principal and Head Disciplinarian •Taught 6th and 7th grade classes in all disciplines •Music Teacher

•Designed aggressive promotional campaign to reach rural areas of central and East Africa in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention via social marketing. Coordinated country projects with Washington, D.C. and USAID offices. Composed and implemented operations manual for a promotional campaign used in over 43 countries around the world. Hired, trained, and staffed five country projects on promotional tool use. •Project Leader for creating rural awareness programs of HIV/AIDS in East and Central Africa

•Educator and community development volunteer in Tunduru, Tanzania. •Conceived and initiated AIDS/STD Awareness and Prevention programs used in 80 rural sites in Tanzania. Researched nutritional and educational needs to alleviate malnutrition and increase literacy. Used pro-active strategies to create, institute, promote, and implement community development projects. •Taught secondary and associate Level mathematics and biology at Tunduru Secondary School •Wrote proposals

Installed computer inventory system, responsible for inside sales, shipping and receiving.

Urban Health

Mathematics