Haniben Thakkar

Dhaval Patel

Screened

Director-level Vaccine R&D leader specializing in clinical immunology and translational biomarkers

Pearl River, NY23y exp

“Operations and clinical-development advisor currently supporting two early-stage biotech companies (vaccines and kidney transplant therapeutics). Brings 20 years of vaccine/clinical development experience from Sanofi and Pfizer, and has directly guided a CEO by connecting them with key clinical scientists and regulatory experts to support IND strategy and clinical advancement decisions.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”

“Analytics professional with Dell experience unifying global online sales, web analytics, SAP, and planning data across 20+ countries into scalable reporting pipelines and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining deep SQL/ETL work with Python automation, KPI design, and experimentation—delivering measurable outcomes like 80% less manual effort, a 2% conversion lift worth millions, and faster business decision-making.”

“Enterprise-minded builder who has owned complex, high-impact systems from discovery through stabilization, including a customer master data platform at AB InBev serving 2,000 sales reps across 13 countries. Also demonstrates strong AI product instincts, having built a first-place ReAct-style NYC property intelligence agent at IBM's AI Demystified Hackathon, while showing deep rigor in data quality, integrations, and production reliability.”