Looking to the future, Ms. Rivera Falcon envisions ample career growth in her current track and aims to lead significant change in large organizations.
SAN DIEGO, CA, March 20, 2023 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Patricia Rivera Falcon has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
At Pacira BioSciences Inc., Ms. Rivera Falcon is an acting associate director of project engineering. She designs complex projects and collaborates with a team of associates on implementation, and she helps manage both internal and external resources as well as budget compliance. Her varied position involves forecasting, planning and operations, and she is counted as a valued point person who interfaces with senior leadership to provide accurate reporting, contributing to a careful assessment of expenditures and determination of the need for escalation or additional funding. Ms. Rivera Falcon counts her work at Pacira as her most notable professional achievement so far, citing her role in the standardization of reporting to secure projects that come in on time and on budget.
Ms. Rivera Falcon earned a Master of Manufacturing Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. She has been proactive in identifying additional educational opportunities to refine her leadership and management skills and obtained critical industry credentials to elevate her professional profile. For example, she holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute, which she completed in 2012, as well as a Professional Engineer License. Moreover, Ms. Rivera Falcon completed the Executive Leadership Certificate program at Cornell University in 2020.
Deep expertise in the field accompanied Ms. Rivera Falcon to her current position. Past professional appointments include the role of senior manager of drug product manufacturing project management at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. between 2017 and 2021, and she was a project manager at Pro Assets Inc. and Oxford Global Resources from 2014 to 2017, working for clients like Genentech and Bristol Myers Squibb. In 2012, Ms. Rivera Falcon accepted a position with Amgen, a firm she first joined in 2003 as a process development engineer, as senior engineer, and she gained more valuable professional experience with Global Automation Partners as an associate project manager/automation engineer from 2004 to 2012.
Ms. Rivera Falcon began her engineering career after graduation by onboarding with Merck in 2000, and she simultaneously began graduate coursework toward earning a master's degree. Today, she reflects on how a career in engineering has evolved since she entered the profession. Certainly, Ms. Rivera Falcon credits her own adaptability to change, and a distinct willingness to work across unfamiliar platforms has increased her value in the corporate arena. Looking to the future, Ms. Rivera Falcon envisions ample career growth in her current track and aims to lead significant change in large organizations.
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