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Guitar riffs, morning bike rides, and digital transformation – Mike Cody does it all. In this quick video,  Mike shares his story and how he is shaping the future of manufacturing.

My main hobbies are music and exercise. I play the guitar. I go see a lot of live music. We actually have a company band. I play with some other friends. I tinker. Just to try to make some cool and some fun noise. Nothing professional. It’s purely, purely for fun. Cycling is the big thing that I do now. I was a rower when I was in high school and college. And so now every morning I get up and I ride my bike here in Massachusetts.

I’ve been within this organization for almost 10 years. I’ve been within the life science industry for over 20. I started off by working in a couple of different projects in the Philadelphia area and then went down to North Carolina. I ended up going inhouse a Genzyme for about 6 years working in a project here in Boston. Here within this organization, I’ve worked on a lot of digital transformation projects that are inclusive of control systems, manufacturing, execution systems.

What makes me most excited about, it’s purely around startup environments, places where there is there is no procedure, no standard way of working, new modalities, new manufacturing techniques. That’s what really gets me excited when I work in the industry.

One of the major things that I see when it comes to modern manufacturing, monoclonal antibodies, they’ve been around for a long time. These clients are looking for anything possible in order to get to market faster or produce drugs at a cheaper, basically a lower, lower cost of goods sold.

I consider the ATM place a little bit different, a little bit different type of a challenge. The main drivers are always going to be the same things. I need to get to work faster. I got to be there first. The faster that I can get to commercialization and the faster I can start recognizing revenue of the things that I’m doing. I have to look at these things different. And it’s not just how I manufacture, it’s what types of samples I’m taking, how my QC laboratories running. All of these things impact how a plant operates.

And when you try to solve those problems, when it comes to how you’re engineering the solution, how you’re managing your operations, the people, the process, the technology, it’s really interesting to go into those spaces to try to do something new. A sweet spot for where we work.

It’s when we have a really great relationship operationally with our own clients as well as a great relationship with our ecosystem channel partners. We’re interacting with them consistently as far as how we are trying to use their product, what features we need to have added to the product and looking for new ways that we can build, sort of build their offering.