Balachandra Ambiga
About Balachandra Ambiga
Balachandra Ambiga is the Senior Manager of Drug Safety Digital Insights at Bristol Myers Squibb in San Francisco, California, with extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and drug safety systems.
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Balachandra Ambiga currently holds the position of Senior Manager Drug Safety Digital Insights at Bristol Myers Squibb in San Francisco, California, United States.
Previous Positions in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Before joining Bristol Myers Squibb, Balachandra Ambiga worked at MyoKardia as Principal Pharmacovigilance Data & Quality Analyst for 10 months in 2020 in Brisbane, California. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Drug Safety Analyst at Relypsa in Redwood City, CA. Prior to that, he was employed at Genentech as Senior Business/Programmer Analyst from 2014 to 2017 in South San Francisco. He also has experience working with pharmaceutical clients such as Genentech, Hoffmann La Roche, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Nektar Therapeutics, Forest Labs, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, United Therapeutics, Medicis, and Arena Pharmaceuticals.
Business Systems Analysis and Consultancy
Balachandra Ambiga has a robust background in business systems analysis and consultancy. He worked at I.T. Solutions Inc as Business System Analyst in 2017 for 5 months in Foster City, CA. Additionally, he served in various roles at Aris Global including Principal Consultant (2013-2014), Senior Consultant (2012-2013), Senior Implementation Consultant (2011-2012), and Implementation Consultant (2006-2011). He began his career at Aris Global as Implementation Consultant before moving to more senior roles.
Technical Expertise and Tools
Balachandra Ambiga has extensive experience delivering business intelligence dashboards and KPIs for research and pharmaceutical clients using SAS. He is proficient in using RDBMS such as Oracle 11i/10g/9i/8i and MS SQL Server, and has expertise in tools including Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere, Contineo, Documentum, Business Objects, SQL Developer, TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, and others. He is skilled in programming languages such as C, JSP, PL/SQL, HTML, and XML and has experience with safety applications like Argus, ARISg/j, agXchange, and Universal Connector.
Education and Certifications
Balachandra Ambiga studied at Visvesvaraya Technological University where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from 1998 to 2002. He has a deep understanding of the 21 CFR Part 11 requirements and extensive expertise in industry-wide drug safety thesauri, including MedDRA and WHO Drug Dictionary.