Colby Tate Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Responsible for management of the Quality Systems Assessment group, including leading weekly meetings, coordinating, and leading audit assessments, communicating audit/surveillance schedules with divisions and cost centers, and sending weekly updates to IQS management of group tasks. Additionally, Mr. Tate continues to perform internal audit and.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Responsible for establishing a corporate Quality (QA/QC) system and team that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the financial performance. Champion continuous improvement efforts and defect.
• Developed three year Strategic Quality Plan for global quality program.
• Revised Incoming Quality Inspection process and system to increase throughput and accuracy of measurements.
• Implemented Line Inspection training program for WIP and finished goods inspections.
• Established Supplier Surveillance Program including supplier risk ranking, scorecard system, and supplier site audits.
• Manage the CAPA and continuous improvement program for San Antonio operations.

Responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing auditing/assurance activities, inclusive of audit reporting and corrective action plan monitoring at locations globally. Specific responsibilities include assessing adherence to management processes, standards and work methods that are designed to mitigate risks to achieving the organization's service.

Houston, Texas Area

The Global QA/QC Laboratory Manager is accountable for the training and implementation of Quality Assurance and Quality Control Program for Baroid as well as supervises the Quality Assurance and vendor surveillance program to ensure quality requirements of vendor provisions are met. The Global QA/QC Laboratory Manager is expected to support quality.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Responsible for the timely delivery of project design documentation for 4, $1-3M projects concurrently
• Facilitated the approval of project deliverables to include, gathering engineering requirements, and monitoring their subsequent outputs for compliance through a series of cross functional and international team.
• Facilitated, documented, and distributed meeting minutes for all team meetings.
• Authored, tracked, and archived the Design History File (DHF) for 3, $1-3M projects in parallel while maintaining the DHF as appropriate throughout product life cycle.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Responsible for the Quality Control Department including the evaluation of Quality Control results and the decision to release products. Ensures that the quality system is established and maintained efficiently.
• Hired, coached, and developd employees to continually improve their skills through implementation of training and competencies program within the Quality Control Department
• Lead implementation of internal and external quality activities
• Execute process improvements as they relate to quality system compliance with ISO/GMP requirements.
• Managed and directed offsite R&D contractor in an effort to launch forward model programs.
• Successfully submitted NDA for new product developed in offsite R&D facility

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Established project milestones, managed project timelines, and ensure that the resources assigned to projects were adequate to meet project objectives for projects in the $1MM-2MM range.
• Established and maintained functionally integrated project schedules to enable accurate project, financial and portfolio analyses and ensured accurate inputs were provided into business planning processes; Ensured.
• Monitored project deliverables against plan and work with project teams and management to identify risks, contingencies and alternatives to keeping deliverables and overall project on schedule
• Utilized systems and processes necessary for project team planning, tracking, and execution of projects
• Facilitated team meetings effectively; provide meeting objectives and agendas in advance. Coordinated the compilation of well-structured periodic progress reports and prepare clear, detailed minutes of all project.
• Conducted routine program management reviews with Project Teams and Sr. Management. Keep senior management informed of project concerns/issues/successes.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Ensured drug and medical device products produced were manufactured, packaged and released to meet safety and regulatory requirements for customer and consumer use
• Motivated and developed a group of thirty people over 3 shifts and two locations to function as a team
• Supervised employees who inspected products on-line ensuring the Acceptable Quality Limit was within established specification
• Provided training to employees for new and revised processes and procedures
• Created Test Standards and Methods of Analysis for newly launched products
• Revised and implemented Standard Method of Analysis

• Served as primary Quality contact for top three pharmaceutical customers in a contract development and manufacturing organization.
• Ensured proper documentation of manufacturing batch records, and material and product specifications were being followed
• Executed, reviewed and approved manufacturing deviations, investigations, annual product reviews, consumer complaints, technical reports, change controls, manufacturing batch records, and material and product.
• Served as consultant to Operations staff to ensure appropriate documentation, compliance to SOPs, and consistency with regulatory requirements.
• Represented Quality department in internal and external audits.
• Ensured completion of appropriate CAPA to maintain product quality and robust internal systems and processes.

-Responsible for performing the testing of chemical components, including chemical testing on packaging components-Performs wet chemistry testing on chemicals-Performs analysis on various instruments (HPLC, GC, UV/VIS)-Performs processing in Empower-Responsible for evaluating data and perform troubleshooting, exhibiting problem-solving skills-Demonstrate.

Chemistry Faculty member in charge of Chemistry for Agriculture Majors and Chemistry for Nursing Majors as well as General Chemistry for Science Majors. Three hour credit lecture course as well as one hour laboratory course.

Undergraduate Research into Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Organic synthesis.