Christopher Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Deeside, Wales, United Kingdom

Deeside, Wales, United Kingdom

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Responsible for New Product Introductions to Warrington Site – Oligonucleotide manufacturing within a cleanroom environment Purchase and validation of new equipment Updating & creating SOPs and batch records for new products Project management – delivering savings of $90K per year in 2023 Root Cause Analysis / troubleshooting quality issues within manufacturing Risk assessment of new and existing processes (EHS and Quality risks)

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Transfer, validation and training of processes from USA to UK Validation of a new cleanroom and new equipment Responsible for building a new team of 15 Operators People management for 15 direct reports Implemented KPIs to track performance of new manufacturing line Initiated process improvements to reduce in-process reject rates 30-fold

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Responsible for growing and leading a team of 8 operators, with 2x manufacturing scientists to support Overseeing the clean manufacturing of oligonucleotides for use in HID and Pharmaceutical analytical kits Supported the transfer of CE-IVD PCR Kit manufacturing at Warrington to support the company efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – including the development of a new lab and the scale up of oligo manufacturing 10-fold More than doubled the capacity of the department over 4 years to facilitate the transfer of additional products to a clean room manufacturing environment at Warrington Validated 2x Clean rooms (ISO 5 & ISO 6) and 1x clean manufacturing lab  Achieved a consistent schedule adherence above 96% Use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) and lean business techniques to deliver year on year savings of $30k per year

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 In 2017, Facilitated transfer of department from Warrington to Inchinnan, Scotland Responsible for day to day running of 2 manufacturing labs Leading a team of 10 people Prioritisation of daily production schedule Liaison for QA – quality issues, investigations, customer communications  Hosted internal and external QA audits – for BSI and customers (to ISO: 9001 & ISO:13485 standards) Interviewing and training of new operators EHS representative – adhering to COSHH Fire Marshall and First Aider

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Experience in RT-PCR  Preparative and analytical HPLC Mass Spectrometry - MALDI-TOF DNA synthesis  Completed Lean Business Improvement Techniques NVQ 5S and Lean manufacturing initiatives - saving over 2,200 hours per year Validation of new processes/process improvements

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Responsible for synthesis, purification and QC of oligonucleotides and DNA assays

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

 Working in the Chemical Synthesis department Manufacturing of solid phase supports for DNA synthesis, QC testing of solid supports and raw materials Use of HPLC, UV and IR analysis and chemical assay