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Shopfloor manager for two large-scale large-molecule purification manufacturing facilities for the GARDASIL vaccine. • Servant leader fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment for a team of Union operators with a focus on safety, compliance, and delivery• Create an engaging, responsive, and dynamic safety culture as the team’s Safety Lead • Develop and implement continuous process improvement initiatives related to safety, compliance, efficiency, and cost• Lead the inventory management workstream to target cost reduction opportunities • Embody lean manufacturing principles highlighted by the Merck Production System (MPS) such as GEMBA and efficient problem solving • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Technical Operations, Quality, Maintenance, and Automation to support manufacturing activities • Provide subject matter expertise in the review of operating procedures, protocols, and quality notifications for the manufacturing trains

Lead harvest and chromatography engineer for the large-scale manufacture of two investigational live-virus vaccines and a biologic therapeutic for SARS-CoV-2.Shift manager and shift technical lead for a buffer preparation suite in a new GARDASIL 9 vaccine manufacturing facility. Supported initial cleaning development and validation, steam-in-place (SIP) validation, buffer hold validation, and engineering batches.

Downstream purification engineer for the large-scale manufacture of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Led two single-use tangential flow filtration skids and bulk fill area. Supported site acceptance testing, commissioning & qualification activities, engineering batches, and process performance qualification.

Used molecular biology techniques to characterize the relationship between CHO host cell proteins (HCPs) and monoclonal antibodies.