Eugene supports various platforms including plant historian, manufacturing execution systems, predictive analytics, process analytical technology, supply chain modeling, finite production scheduling, and IoT for the company’s vaccine manufacturing network. The plants that he and his team support produce over 170 million doses of vaccines, approaching a revenue of $7 billion on an annual basis. His team supports the data centers and IT infrastructure at the manufacturing sites. Prior to his current role, he was an automation startup lead for numerous vaccine production facilities. Before joining Merck, he was a control systems engineer at Air Products and Chemicals. Eugene has published numerous articles in ASME Technical journals and is a frequent speaker at ARC and Open Group conferences.