After a month of intensive preparations I can now finally announce that I will leave my current employer on July 27, 2012, and on the following Monday I will open the books on Dirk Rodgers Consulting, LLC. As many of you know, I have filled the role of Sr. Consultant in an full-time internal position at my employer for the last 3 1/2 years. I will now be able to help clients navigate the same intersection between the pharmaceutical supply chain, track and trace technology, standards and regulatory compliance that I have written about for the last three years.
Over those three years I have been approached by a number of companies who were looking for quality help with their special problems in this realm but I was forced to turn them down or refer them to other consultants because I already had a full time job. From now on I will be able to offer my own expertise instead.
I have pulled together a new website to market my services at www.DirkRodgers.com. So far it is pretty minimal but through the fall I intend to expand the information it contains and establish more formal offerings. If you know of someone in need of help with knowledge and strategy in the areas I write about, please refer them to either RxTrace.com or DirkRodgers.com.
SO NOW WHAT BECOMES OF RxTRACE?
The creation of a new website for marketing my consulting services was intentional. I don’t want RxTrace to change much at all. I promise not to turn it into a worthless repository of essays that simply tout my “consulting prowess”. I will maintain links between the two sites but I hope to keep the same range, focus and quality in the essays I post each week.
As if I didn’t have enough work to do in preparing a entire new website for Dirk Rodgers Consulting, my website design consultant, Matt Geiger and I have made a few updates on RxTrace.com at the same time. Matt is responsible for the new Dirk Rodgers Consulting logo, the new RxTrace Logo, the new header and the favicon. I think he’s done a fine job.
SUMMER, A TIME TO RELAX? NO, A TIME TO BUILD
So now you know what I’ve been doing with my summer so far. In a recent essay I hinted at relaxation. I wish. In addition to the work I talked about above I am also studying the FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) proposed rule draft and I hope to have some comments on it in a couple of weeks. I have also signed up to deliver a webinar, work on some writing I can’t talk about yet, speak at two conferences and attend a number of others, all before the end of the year. But don’t worry. I’ll have plenty of time to do consulting work after July 27, 2012.
Stay tuned and thanks for reading.
Dirk.
Good luck in the new venture Dirk.
Brian
Congratulations and best wishes as you pursue your new venture. I note your new focus on UDI. AIDC, whether for devices or drugs, enables technology to improve healthcare. I’ll look forward to working with you in the future. Some topics: FDA UDID Pilot, , US Surgeon general role in medication management, industry (broadly including the non-healthcare industry) as the payer and stakeholder in wellness.
Congratulations and good luck!
Great news for the industry. Too few truly knowledgable consultants available today. I wish you all the best with this Dirk and I am sure you and the clients you serve will fare well.
Dirk, congratulations on your new venture and I wish you all the best in this endeavor!
I have always enjoyed working with you, and hope to continue throughout this next phase of exciting and challenging initiatives.
—Grant
Good luck with your new venture Dirk, I know you will do very well!
congrats…. best of luck …..
Thanks
kaustubh
Congratulations ! Dirk…All the very best for your new venture.
Thank you so much to all of you who have expressed warm well-wishes here publicly as well as privately. I am very grateful to all of you for your support and the generous offers of guidance. Stay tuned to see how it all goes!
Dirk.
Congratulations Dirk. I wish you great success in the new venture. I have been following your blog for a long while and always look forward to the next installment — RxTrace is on my list of “best references” for key information on EPC, AIDC, Traceability/Authentication. Thank you for the excellent resource in RxTrace — please keep this going. I’ll see you at LogiPharma in October — I’m up just before you (on a panel with Ginny Herold and Bob Celeste).
I have followed you work for a long time. we have a transformational technology. Please look at our web site.
Thanks and good luck in your new endevours.
Ron Garcia
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