Sebastien Buffier
Innovation Consultant and Project Manager, Inova Software Inc. New York - USA
Passionate by « Innovation », I’ve built an expertise on supporting innovation for the R&D and BD&L departments with a specialization for the life sciences industry. Globtrotter, I’ve worked in Madagascar, France, Switzerland, Germany and USA. My goal is to work for a dynamic small and medium company to provide their customers the best advices to support/improve innovation. “Open minded” and “Intrapreneur”, I like to build my own project and implement them with my colleagues.
- Consulting: Innovation management processes & strategies
- Project management
- Change management
- Biochemistry
78 contactsAs a consultant my role is to understand clients’ business and challenges and from that analysis propose the best configuration possible to solve the pain points.
As a project manager my role is to drive the integration process following the PMI best practices (project scope, integration, time, cost, quality, risk, communication and human resource management). In addition, due to the complexity of our vertical and the business issues we solve, the change management aspect is a key requirement for a successful implementation.
2010 - 2010Creation of a three-year business plan to establish vertical business for the life sciences industry. Provide specific deliverables to support the sales and marketing department.
2009 - 2010In charge of Improving the new innovation process and its implementation (I arrived 3 months after the process implementation).
I realized an audit focused on Innovation. From that audit I identified the needs and I trained the key users to understand the process. I did workshops for change management, and implemented new processes to address the business issues found during the audit.de)
2008 - 2009Support to the deployment plan of a global tool to manage and enhance innovation.
- Benchmark of several companies concerning their innovation management process.
- Assist managers to set up a new organizational structure encouraging innovation worldwide
- Cultural change management and idea management system
2007 - 2008Fundamental research on the activation pathway of an allosteric modulator. Hight Throughput Screening of positive allosteric modulators, within the context of type 2 diabetes treatment, by measuring intracellular calcium release (FLIPR TETRA) and cAMP production (RUBY STAR
2002 - 2007I worked for five years every summer to socialize and make some money.
Holder of a B.N.S.S.A (national certificate for aquatic safety agent and rescuer) 9 months training to be a Life Guard.