Speech Titles:

• Selecting and Purchasing a LIMS
  • Traversing the RFP Process with Your LIMS Vendor
  • Selecting a LIMS: Finding, Picking, Monitoring
  • Making an Appropriate LIMS Selection
• Selecting and Contracting With a LIMS Consultant
  • Selecting a LIMS Services Vendor: Finding, Picking, Monitoring
  • Selecting and Working With LIMS Consultants and Vendors
• Software Quality
  • Software Quality and LIMS: What Does it Mean to You?
  • Software Quality: What Does it Mean and How Do You Get It?
• Implementing Your LIMS
  • Pain is Good - Just Not My Pain (a.k.a., The Phased Approach to Project Management)
  • How to Misuse Metrics and Ruin Your LIMS Implementation
  • Strategic Issues in LIMS Implementation
• Reverse-Engineering
  • Reverse-Engineering: Is it Worthwhile?

Biographical Information:

Gloria Metrick is the Owner and sole member of GeoMetrick Enterprises, which helps companies understand and manage their laboratory data. She publishes "Out on a LIMS: The Newsletter for People Who Risk Life and LIMS on a Daily Basis" which is produced free and monthly, and subscribed-to by many people throughout the international LIMS community, including representatives from every major LIMS vendor.

Gloria has worked in many aspects of the industry, as a LIMS administrator, employee of a LIMS vendor, and in a variety of consulting roles.

GeoMetrick Enterprises' customers have included, but are not limited to: Biogen Inc., Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), LabWare Inc., Pfizer, Pharmaceutics International Incorporated, The Quaker Oats Company, Wavefront Software.

Contact Information:

Gloria Metrick
GeoMetrick Enteprises
40 Hillcrest RoadBurlington, Massachusetts 01803 - 2420
(781) 365-0180
Email:
Web site: http://www.geometrick.com