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Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Direct Line management responsibility, leading teams of operators during manufacture of viral vectored gene therapies and vaccines. Encouraged career and personal development, and held frequent progress reviews with the team to ensure needs were met.Liaised within own and neighbouring departments with frequent meetings to ensure efficient day to day running of the facility.Adapted to new procedures and flexible ways of working to deliver multi-shift high throughput manufacturing campaigns with minimal disruption.SME in upstream and downstream processes. Wrote and reviewed updates to SOPs and batch Manufacturing records.Delivered training in upstream and downstream processes to a team of mixed experience, adapting training to suit audience.Wrote and reviewed deviation, change controls and CAPA procedures within the OXB QMS.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Developed experience working within GMP environments performing processing activities using Oxford Biomedica’s lentiviral platform to develop novel drugs for market and clinical trial.Trained in related techniques to processing; cell culture in <5L flasks to 200L scale bioreactors and downstream processing including filter clarification and tangential flow filtration.Demonstrated analytical skills reviewing manufacturing documentation.Managed investigations into OOS events using Deviation, Change Control and CAPA procedures within the framework of an eQMS.Performed and managed environmental monitoring on paper forms and as an advanced user of LIMS, ensuring correct environmental monitoring was in place for processing activities.Supported the team by taking a responsible position on the cleanroom floor, coordinating junior staff members and providing training where appropriate for the rapidly growing department.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Developed and optimised protocols for the generation of novel vaccines entering phase 1 clinical trials. This required working to GMP standards inside the lab and out. Working at the cutting edge of research tackling emerging tropical diseases is highly challenging and rewarding and requires the full breadth of my experience.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Entrusted with a GlaxoSmithKline funded project investigating the potential use of small molecules as a method to label exosomes. Responsible for the maintenance of cell lines relevant to the project, literature research and fine tuning of the protocols used to deliver reliable and accurate data for publishing. Participated in lab meetings helping others to refine their experiments and guide their research, as well as presenting own work.My project made heavy use of the Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA, Malvern Instruments "NanoSight specifically) and the AKTAPure HPLC System, which included the running of samples, the creation of new protocols and general maintenance of the device.

Acted as a freelance tutor specialising in maths and science for students from primary school to A- level.Managed client interaction, advertisement and lesson preparation.Built client relations and professional reputation.

Master’S Degree, Biomedical Sciences, Distinction

Dissertation titled: "Characterising the anti-inflammatory effects of apoptotic cell derived ICAM-3 in vivo" I achieved a distinction.

Bachelor’S Degree, Genetics, 2:2

Activities and Societies: Tea Society, Gaming Society