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Chicago, IL, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Leading the optimization of process and material flows, and operational efficiency through the implementation of AGV, AMR, 5S activities, and visual factory principles.
• Acting as a pivotal change agent driving Lean and Six Sigma initiatives and deploying Lean Principles across the organization.
• Establishing a process for brand protected scrap on-site, owning the CapEx initiation and procurement process for successful project execution.
• Developing and validating processes and standards based on standard work and best practices, ensuring consistent quality and performance.
• Performing and analyzing time study data across the organization for headcount projections and ROI calculations.
• Coaching and facilitating Lean transformation activities through Kaizen workshops and Small Group Activities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Austin, Texas, US

• Owned and managed an automation factory with five high volume medical device manufacturing production lines and was responsible for release of high-quality products.
• Tracked and trended equipment yield, output, rejects, reported key performance indicators, and led yield and overall equipment efficiency improvement projects.
• Initiated and resolved Non-Conforming Material Reports, sort, scrap, rework instructions, quality alerts, temporary deviations, and led CAPAs and SCARs.
• Owned and implemented the NCMR control program by tracking site-wide NCMRs and drove them to closure. Closed the longest open NCMR of the site, acted as the main driver to reduce NCMR occurrence rate to less than 4%.
• Led Kaizen projects for continuous improvement in the manufacturing areas and was an active participant of the Internal Kaizen Weeks hosted every quarter.
• Routinely updated process FMEAs, SOP/WIs and facilitated process and equipment improvements in automation factories by initiating supplier change notifications.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Conducted investigation of unit and product quality related issues and concerns by reviewing documentation and resolution of Non-Conforming Material reports, rework instructions, and temporary deviations. Tracked.
• Ensured the methods, process, equipment, and systems remain in a validated state by routinely reviewing validation activities through development and execution of validation protocols (IQ/OQ/PQ) and Measurement System.
• Established and maintained effective working relationships with Third Party Manufacturers, operations, and support teams.
• Participated in implementation and maintenance of effectiveness of the Quality System to meet all applicable regulatory requirements and Good Manufacturing Practices.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Performed Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation in Tomato, Soybean and Corn.
• Optimized transgenic shoot harvest to increase rooting frequency.
• Took ownership of experiments to eliminate Agrobacterium overgrowth in tissue culture to increase shoot regeneration frequency.
• Tracked production experiments, performed transfers to selection, regeneration and rooting media.
• Actively involved in continuous process improvement of the production pipeline and performed optimization experiments.
• Analyzed molecular data to study transformation efficiency and presented reports in team meetings.

Buffalo, NY, US

• Annotated and characterized genes in the Kytococcus sedentarius genome using computational analysis.
• Documented the mRNA expression level for hypothetical genes in different culture conditions. Applied molecular biology techniques such as isolating total RNA, reverse transcription, and quantified mRNA expression of.
• Generated statistically significant results by performing the experiments in triplicates by varying the temperature.

Buffalo, NY, US

• Supervised and graded the Gene Annotation course for Biotechnology undergraduates.
• Instructed the students to use various public databases such as BLAST, COG, T-Coffee, WebLogo, Tigrfam, Pfam, TMHMM, SignalP, PsortB, IMG viewer, KEGG, Phylogenetic Tree using T-Coffee and Rfam.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Performed soybean embryo dissection, corn embryo isolation, Agrobacterium-mediated and gene gun transformations, prepared plant tissue culture media and tracked its usage.
• Performed tissue culture on selection and regeneration media and monitored calli growth to perform research tests. Prepared mini and maxi prep, performed DNA isolation, PCR and visualized results using gel.
• Optimized maize multiplexing experiments as continuous process improvement using biolistics, recorded, analyzed, and summarized all results and proposals in bi-weekly team updates.

Singapore, SG

• Contributed to the project, “Role of Neurotrophins in Allergic Asthma” by performing flow cytometry, data analysis and acquisition to identify BDNF levels in monocytes and eosinophils using FlowJo software.
• Presented a weekly summary of the data collected to the senior scientists involved in the project.

Executive Ms, Project Management

Master'S Degree, Biotechnology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biotechnology