Mike Smith
Chair Of The Board at Pfizer
Milngavie, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Smith is a seasoned pharmaceutical statistics and data science leader with over 30 years’ experience at Pfizer, currently chairing the R Consortium and leading Pfizer’s R Centre of Excellence. He operates at the intersection of business and IT, translating complex clinical and regulatory needs into robust modeling, simulation and analytical platforms, and has supported FDA advisory interactions. A former Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceutical Statistics and an active contributor to R package development, he combines deep technical expertise in PK/PD, adaptive design and Bayesian methods with a pragmatic focus on turning innovation into deployable solutions. He is also a certified tidyverse trainer and community builder who mentors colleagues, shapes internal standards, and fosters open-source collaboration. Off-duty he composes ambient generative music, reflecting a creative, systems-oriented mindset that informs both his technical and leadership approach.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Medical Statistics with Information Technology, MSc, Medical Statistics with Information Technology at University of LeicesterBSc (hons), Statistics, BSc (hons), Statistics at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (13)
r-package8
csharp7
dotnet7
sarif6
cran6
utility5
tidyverse4
python3
dplyr3
missing-data1
diagnostics1
model-building1
modeling1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ModelDefinitionLanguage/MDLUserGuide
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 commits in 5 months
MikeKSmith/MSToolkit
May 2017 - Jul 2021
MSToolkit v3
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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