Ed Borja
Associate Director
Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Borja is an Associate Director with 13 years of experience leading teams and operations across life sciences and healthcare advisory, currently driving initiatives at Novartis from Hackensack, NJ. He blends hands-on project delivery with cross-functional leadership, managing onshore and offshore resources to bridge business and technical teams and consistently improve processes and client outcomes. His background spans consulting and commercial roles at PwC, HighPoint Solutions, and IMS Health, where he focused on performance improvement, outsourcing, and customer service. A pragmatic problem-solver, Ed pairs an MBA in Business Management/International Marketing with a track record of optimizing delivery and vendor relationships. He also contributes to mobile open-source projects—building iOS UI components like an autocomplete text field and a modern photo gallery—showing a developer’s attention to UX and reusable code. Known for getting results and a dry sense of humor (see his GitHub quip: "If force doesn't work, you're not using enough of it"), he brings both organizational discipline and practical coding chops to complex programs.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business Management/International Marketing, MBA, Business Management/International Marketing at Fairleigh Dickinson University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
uid10
objective-c10
autocomplete10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
tableview10
uipageviewcontroller9
user-interface8
interface-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EddyBorja/EBPhotoPages
Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
A photo gallery for iOS with a modern feature set. Similar features as the Facebook photo browser.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the iOS photo gallery application, focusing on implementing and modifying UI components. Their work involved adding features like caption loading with completion handlers, implementing comment functionality, and improving the user experience through updates to the toolbar and action sheets. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the application's usability and feature set.
browserphoto-gallerysimilarfacebookswift
EddyBorja/MLPAutoCompleteTextField
Feb 2013 - Mar 2016
UITextfield subclass with autocomplete menu. For iOS.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:94 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ed primarily worked on the development of an iOS autocomplete text field component. Their contributions include implementing the core functionality of the autocomplete feature, such as fetching suggestions, sorting them, and displaying them in a table view. They also added features such as a keyboard input accessory style for the autocomplete menu and the ability to customize cell appearance and behavior. Furthermore, the user refactored and reorganized code, added comments, and updated license information.
uitextfieldiosautocompletemenu
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