Robin Parry

Background

About Robin Parry

Results-oriented executive and educator with a record of quickly building trust and then consensus among stakeholders and achieving substantive improvements in organizational effectiveness within short timeframes. Key Accomplishments • Strategic advisor to CEOs and senior executives to resolve highly complex issues without precedent or structure; well-known as a key strategist who develops long- and short-range plans and innovative, first-of-a-kind initiatives in academic medicine, biotechnology transfer, and aging well in educational environments. • Trusted leader-facilitator skilled at prioritizing both strategic thinking and operational administration to produce immediate, value-added results. • Respected executive and change management specialist recognized for developing organizational cultures that focus on collaborative partnerships among all stakeholders through continuous improvement. Executive Performance Benchmarks • Served as lead researcher and facilitator responsible for the research design and data collection, analyses, recommendations and report preparation for a “first-of-its-kind” study on the feasibility of building a formal biotechnology transfer program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD, funded through a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation, New York); resulted in the establishment of a biotechnology transfer unit that is still in operation today, more than 30 years later. • Designed an innovative organizational solution for the Animal Protection Department at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine that served as a national organizational model in response to new Federal regulations governing research in colleges and universities. • Restructured, revised and prepared a $1.7 million research grant to the Department of Defense approved and funded for the first 18-month pilot project on “three-dimensional brain mapping”; instrumental in achieving funding after proposal was denied twice. • Noted as among the best writers to prepare faculty promotion letters through demonstrating the ability to read, comprehend, synthesize and present information in compelling ways for School of Medicine faculty promotion files. • Reduced the payables cycle from 180+ days to 60 days within the first nine months as Personnel/Accounts Payable Officer at the Vail Valley Medical Center; served as first human resources professional developing and delivering workshops for managers on employee recruitment, hiring, onboarding, training, and retention; reduced high turnover rate by 50%.