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Central Lab Project Manager Opportunity
Hi,
One of the top clinical research central Labs is looking for an experienced Project Manager in the US. The position can be located remotely.
If you are interested or know of someone who may be, please send a resume to me at chris@focmnetworking.com
Thanks,
Chris
View on recent integrated company names
It seems a fairly uniform response from my friends that the recent new company names: IQVIA (Quintiles – IMS’ new name) and Syneos (INC – Inventiv’s new name) aren’t being received well. They come across awkwardly and while I’ve not heard the rationale for Syneos (i imagine something to do with synergy), the IQVIA rationale has been explained. Unfortunately, while most people understand the idea, the name and whether it’s pronounced IQ-veye-uh or IQ-vee-uh it still isn’t considered compelling. And as we all know, some marketing ad agencies got a lot of money for these names.
So the other day, my domestic partner came up with these bad company names all based on trying to say: “we deliver on promises”:
Deliviom
Delivion
Delivian
Deliverian
What other names can we come up with? I bet an FOCM e-brainstorming session could have done better.
How about a company name for “we tell the truth in advance” or “vaporware is our best seller”?
ProsLyse (prospective lying)
VapeRwe
VapeRus
Jokes for Sunday
A man woke up in the hospital after a harrowing operation. Full of dread, he asked the nurse, “did things go okay?”
The nurse replied, “they were able to save your testicles.”
The man let out a huge sigh of relief. Then the nurse handed him a plastic cup and said, “they’re in here if you’d like to see them.”
Chuck was out walking his 100 pound rottweiler when he decided to stop at the local tavern. He tied his dog to a parking meter and headed inside. Minutes later a woman ran into the bar screaming, “whose dog is outside?”
Chuck stood up and said, “mine.”
“You’d better get out there. My chihuahua is killing him!”, said the woman.
“You’re nuts, lady,” laughed Chuck. “how could a little Chihuahua kill my Rottweiler?”
The woman replied, “he’s stuck in his throat!”
FOCM at Global Clinical Supplies Conference
The month was April, the year 2016, the event: the #1 clinical research industry’s clinical supplies conference – Global Clinical Supply Group. Several important events happened with photographic evidence to support it.
It was my honor to give a FOCM membership card to one of my favorite co-workers of all-time, Roxann Pinguelo. Is she thrilled or what?
FOCM also welcomed Ryan Jarvis to the organization and Russ Brierley and Renee Brown were on hand to witness these ceremonies.
Historic FOCM Card Ceremony
This FOCM card-membership ceremony was a very significant one for several reasons –
- It just happened on November 11, 2017 – making it very recent given my usual delay in posting such things
- It’s too important to delay until I catch up
- recipient and I probably first met when we were pre-schoolers and
- we spent our formative years in that oasis in the desert known as Yuma, AZ
- we slow danced to Stairway to Heaven or maybe it was Nights in White Satin in 8th grade
- wandered around Yuma on New Year’s Eve with a few friends and a few bottles of Boones Farm wine generously donated by our sisters when we were 13
At the recent Kofa High School reunion, this significant event (photo below) was captured.
Jody (Ambur) Nestell received her FOCM membership card. Other than family members, I believe she is the youngest card-holder that I’ve known the longest. Perhaps only Brady Leffler and Jody’s cousin, Ray Face, if they’re ready to accept the responsibilities of card holdership could surpass this.
FOCM Members at Wilmington NC Event
Here’s an interesting item about FOCM that I just realized comes from my having grown up in a small town in Arizona – if there’s a party in town – join it! You may call it crashing it, but in Yuma, AZ, if there was a wedding reception in town, regardless if you were invited, you went to it. So in that vein, when I organize Wilmington Pharma/Bio/CRO Networking Events in Wilmington, NC, it’s an open call for all FOCM members. While in this case they do belong to the Pharma/Bio/CRO industry, they do also belong to FOCM.
FOCM Sticker Seen Downtown
So there I was on March 26, 2016 a few blocks from downtown Wilmington when I spotted FOCM member Gayle Grandinetti’s car proudly sporting the FOCM window decal! Any member is eligible to get one at the reduced member rate of $5.00. I’d like to say they make a great Christmas gift, but that’s a bit of a stretch.
More Funny Things I Have Seen
More humor seen in Reader’s Digest:
The chihuahua at my vet’s office was quiet right up until a huge Rottweiler came in. Suddenly, the six-pounder became Cujo -barking and growling. It’s owner said, “oh please, the only way you could hurt that dog was if you got stuck in its throat.”
Parent tweets:
Four year old said he went potty and I asked if it was number 1 or 2 – he said 7, i’m terrified to go into the bathroom.
I can’t find my kid’s birth certificate, but apparently I saved one for every Build-a-Bear we own in a special file because I’m insane.
I try to explain to my kids during the movie that in reality even a cowardly lion would eat a girl and her little dog.
Remember Brexit – shorthand for British Exit, here are some names for other countries if they wish to exit the country groups to which they belong:
- Czechout
- AufWeiderSpain
- Boltswana
- Fleeji
- Scootland
- Dubaibye
- Afghaniscram
- Farewales
What if the person who named “walkie-talkies” named other things:
Forks would be stabby-grabbies
Wigs would be hairy-wearies
Socks would be feetie-heaties
Defibrillators would be hearty-starties.
How to spell searches
Saw this recently and think it’s amusing. Google published the most searches for “how to spell” a word by state.
Here are a few of them:
California – beautiful
Maryland – special
Nevada – available
Pennsylvania – sauerkraut
South Dakota – college
Wisconsin – Wisconsin
Arizona – tomorrow
In my opinion, Pennsylvanians win for actually having a word that I could see people needing to look it up, the others – rather embarrassing. “College”!! seriously South Dakota, come on! and Wisconsin Wisconsin?!
