ABOUT SONAS CONSULTING

Sonas Consulting was founded in 2006 by Jeff Sonas after 15 years of experience in database consulting, application development, and EDC (Electronic Data Capture). We have a broad base of clients, including Genentech, Gilead Sciences Inc, United BioSource Corporation, Octagon Research Solutions, Teva Pharmaceutical, and Flagship Inc, and we provide consulting services for both EDC clinical solutions and also business database applications. As an EDC consulting firm, we work with sponsors and other vendors to create EDC solutions that enable them to collect cleaner and richer data from their clinical studies and EDC products. The consulting includes technical services such as data migrations, custom data analysis, ad-hoc reporting from disparate data sources and data exports to a wide variety of output formats, as well as EDC study design. We also create a wide range of specification documents for EDC vendors' core products as well as study-specific implementation specifications. And for our business database consulting, we have considerable experience designing custom database applications targeted at a client's specific needs.

 

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Jeff Sonas graduated with honors with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford University in 1991. Jeff initially spent nine years as a software engineer and database consultant, for Scitor Corporation (1991-1996) and Pinpoint Solutions (1996-2000). In 2000 he co-founded Ninaza, a product-based company which provided EDC (Electronic Data Capture) technology used for collecting data from clinical trials and registries over the Internet. Ninaza spent six very successful years as an EDC vendor for many of the largest sponsors (including Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Amgen, and Teva Pharmaceutical) and its technology was eventually acquired by Octagon Research Solutions in 2007. Octagon is continuing to develop and enhance this technology as part of its offering to customers.

During the years at Ninaza, Jeff Sonas was the database architect and principal engineer for the Ninaza EDC product, designing and developing several versions of the reusable EDC technology allowing rapid and efficient implementations of EDC solutions for many different studies. In 2006 Jeff Sonas left Ninaza and founded Sonas Consulting, a clinical and database consulting firm, based in Castro Valley, CA. After Ninaza's technology was acquired in 2007, Sonas Consulting worked with every one of Ninaza's existing customers in transitioning their ongoing clinical studies and other projects.