Kerry K. Flory

Editor, Writer, Poet

Profile

  • To collaborate and organize team projects through focused goals and ethics, thorough attention to detail, consideration for timelines, and rational risk management.
  • To improve project quality and shorten project time-to-completion, thus positively impacting the company’s growth, development, and breadth of readership.
  • To work with a Chicago nonprofit company whose focus is to build literacy and literary knowledge across a wide readership.

Skills

Writing

  • Current: AMA style and company-specific conventions
  • Past: MLA and AP styles

Research

  • Documentum-based management
  • Electronic data repository systems
  • Internet library database & online journal research

Other

  • Spanish (intermediate-to-beginner) and American Sign Language (beginner)
  • Keyboarding ~65 WPM with 97% accuracy

Technical

  • EndNote X
  • EndNote X2
  • Microsoft Office
  • Lotus Notes
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Quark XPress
  • Windows XP/Vista
  • Mac OS X

Experience

TAP Pharmaceutical Products (TAP),
Takeda Global Research and Development

Senior Editor

2006-Present

Modified information from clinical study reports into strict format for public posting on clinicaltrials.gov

Edited and quality-checked (QCed) reports in strict deadline-driven environment. (Editing consists of correcting content, punctuation, and grammar for clarity. QCing compound-level and study-level regulatory documents consists of confirming content against International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH-E6), US federal (FDA), industry, and internal company guidelines and regulations.)

  • Oversaw and planned editing and compilation assignments for reports (4-5 compounds, ~30 reports at any given time)
  • Created, revised, and maintained departmental, interdepartmental, and role-specific training, processes, tools, and checklists related to regulatory document creation and management
  • Consulted with other departments to rectify issues with operational procedures
  • Assisted in creation, revision, organization, consultation, and dissemination of company’s intranet-based document-management system (ie, ELERIS)
  • Mentored new employees/contractors as needed
  • Performed all duties of an Assistant Medical Writer (QC and compilation) in addition to the aforementioned tasks

Delta Pharma for TAP

Assistant Medical Writer (Contract)

2005-2006

Edited and quality-checked (QCed) reports in strict deadline-driven environment. (Editing consists of correcting content, punctuation, and grammar for clarity. QCing compound-level and study-level regulatory documents consists of confirming content against International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH-E6), US federal (FDA), industry, and internal company guidelines and regulations.)

  • Managed cross-compound calendar for assignment of QC tasks for assistant medical writer roles
  • Revised the training program for new employees and contractors; provided new and revised current supplemental training materials

Volt Scientific for Eli Lilly and Company

Scientific Communications Editorial Assistant (Contract)

2003-2004

  • Edited clinical trial reports for FDA new drug submissions
  • Implemented new processes set forth by my department’s expansion
  • Mentored remote location in Singapore on report and publishing SOPs through e-mail and telephone communications
  • Learned AMA style and application
  • Retained audience (eg, the FDA’s or the subject’s) perspective while working on regulatory documents, subject materials, and forms
  • Built interactive training (ie, a mock protocol) to increase awareness and understanding of Phase 1 units and studies

Education

Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana

BA, Pre-Professional Writing (Professional Option); Minor in Journalism

Kerry K. Flory — kerry.flory@gmail.com — (773) 600-1302