Main Responsibilities:Leading a team of 6 microbiologists undertaking routine QC testing of products, environments and water systemsDeveloping Strategies for the Microbiology teamActive involvement with regulatory (MHRA, FDA, ANVISA), customer and internal auditsCustomer contact with respect to Microbiological activities for new product developmentProducing verbal and written reports to senior management where appropriate.Performance of internal and external auditsProvision of Microbiology Training for Production and development teams Global microbiological support/consultancy Revenue and Capital budget recommendation/managementActive involvement in operational excellence activities Key AchievementsOversight of the Chauvin Pharmaceuticals site closure in 2002, Recently published a Chapter in new book entitled "Microbiology and Sterility Assurance in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices"Provided on site microbiological support to Catalent (Australia) during 2009 which lead to the release of product worth $1,000,000 (AUS)Implemented a $1,000,000 (US) laboratory expansion project, during 2011.

Main Responsibilities:Organisation of training courses for the Healthcare industryLead tutor for GMP, Microbiology (Introduction to Microbiology and QP Pharmaceutical Microbiology), Environmental monitoring, Pharmaceutical auditing, and pharmaceutical packaging courses. Support tutor for quality management and Pharmaceutical Lead Auditor coursesBudgetary responsibility for the Pharmaceutical training businessManagement of approximately 16 industry consultants and 3 training support staffEnsuring deadlines for courses are met.Microbiology consultant for RSSL

Main responsibilities:To put forward the Microbiology view point regarding approval or rejection of product and materials (sterile single and multidose dose eye drops and eardrops, sterile and non-sterile creams, and non-sterile oral syrups).Provision of Microbiology based training for all appropriate staff.Revenue budget monitoring and maintenance and Capital expenditure recommendationsStatistical and trend analysis of laboratory dataLiaison with Production, Regulatory, Engineering, Development and Sales departmentsEnsuring tests and sterilization processes are validated and documented to current GMP standards.Management of five environmental monitoring, validation and microbiology laboratory staff and ensuring their effective training to perform the departmental functions including product sterility, endo-toxin, in process bioburden testing, antibiotic assays, Micro organism identification, sterilizer validation and calibration. media filling.

IT LiteracyConversant with Microsoft office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a working knowledge of MS Access. Conversant with Lotus Notes and MS Outlook; Responsible for commissioning and maintenance of Laboratory Information Management system with respect to laboratory testing and environmental monitoring data control for Chauvin Pharmaceuticals.