About

Elliot Drake is a Technical Product Manager at GlaxoSmithKline, where he leads the company's North American initiatives to pilot, embed, and scale Mixed Reality Platforms (Hololens 2), RealWear SmartGlasses, Metaverse for enterprise solutions, Augmented SOP's, Guided Workflows, and VR Learning modules within the enterprise Pharmaceutical R&D business. He leverages his experience with technical architecture standards, Azure cloud capabilities, and a "Keep it simple as possible" approach to create internal immersive solutions that are simple and clean. Elliot's teams work directly to impact global scientific efforts within sterile manufacturing environments, global supply chain, DevOps, international tech transfers, audits, on-demand SME expertise, offsite training, remote supervisor validation, laboratory automation, and Pharma/Industry 4.0+ initiatives. He focuses on matrixing and facilitating with global teams to solve hard problems with critical thinking, diverse perspective, and empathy to assist in developing groundbreaking pharmaceutical products focused on the preventative treatment of HIV (in addition to many others). In addition to his professional work, Elliot is a huge advocate for the usage of Mixed Reality techniques for the education, research, and treatment of Mental/Physical health. He believes this technology has a strong potential usage for training medical health professionals, patient care, exposure therapy, surgery assistance, diagnosis, etc. Elliot has experience as a Digital Technology Specialist at GSK, where he defined and designed new technology initiatives within international GSK R&D teams with the use of Apprentice Smart Glasses, assisting pharmaceutical research and late-stage supply chain functions. He also co-led a UX team as a Product Designer at Phoodie, a multi-award-winning startup based in the Philadelphia area, that focused on helping local restaurants track their inventory, peak/off-peak business hours, foot traffic, waste, sales data, and enabled owners to dynamically discount their products without having to lift a finger. Elliot has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics, and Special Effects from Penn State University, and has completed postgraduate and executive programs in Computer Vision and XSD Executive Program from the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. He has experience in product management, research science, Azure, DevOps, product design, Android, and testing.