David Akerman Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Nationally accredited university known for it’s traditional education in a non-traditional environment. Facilitate classes for Bachelors students with majors in Management, Business Administration, Accounting, and.
• Utilized experience and education to facilitate education for over 200 college students in over 10 class during the last year.

• Government contractor for the Food and Drug Administrations(FDA) National Center for Toxicology Research(NCTR) In-Vivo research. Reported to the companies contract director and the governments contract manager. Managed.
• Recognized by the FDA for planning and management of a disaster situation causing a site wide power outage for three days minimizing the impact on the site operations.
• Developed in-house employee performance review program establishing annual performance goals and metrics for each employee at all levels of the organization.
• Rewrote 10-year old outdated policies and procedures to ensure compliance and adding new policies to improve quality and morale.
• Introduced new Quality Assurance unit to add consistency and technical knowledge to training programs and to improve the quality of contract deliverables.
• Recognized potential cost savings of over $200,000 in 2009 delivering the first year under budget in years.

• 125-year old family owned global pharmaceutical company. Direct supervision of one manager and 25 staff in the operations and maintenance of three facilities. Developed and established performance management.
• Developed and implemented an innovative new training program that increased employee first time certification rate to 98%.
• Successfully delivered on three federal government inspections from the FDA and USDA with no major findings.
• Partnered with IT to install, validate, and implement a new electronic record system for all site treatments and research procedures.

• A subsidiary of the world renowned Johnson & Johnson family of companies Ethicon Endo-Surgery is a leader in the medical devise industry and professional training for surgical doctors and nurses. Direct supervision.
• Collaborated with Johnson & Johnson management from around the country and the world in developing and testing the corporate Disaster Recovery Plan for all companies in the Johnson & Johnson family.
• Selected to mentor other company managers and supervisors on staff development, leadership techniques, financial accountability, project management, regulatory and legal compliance, and other related management issues.
• Partnered with IT and Quality Assurance to successfully install a facility monitoring and testing data electronic recording system.

• A top 10 pharmaceutical company dedicated to human health. Mentored and supervised 12 technical testing staff to ensure and maintain testing facilities within regulatory guidelines. Evaluated Standard Operating.
• Selected to an elite team of technical staff to lead and perform safety and potency on the nation’s stockpile of Smallpox vaccine following September 11th.
• Selected to a team to represent the site for all FDA, USDA, state, local, and corporate audits. This included representing responses for a federal consent decree.
• Established and validated modified procedures to ensure safe and effective completion of testing during times of national shortages on vaccines such as influenza and snake anti-venoms made on site.

• Managed operations of Army Veterinary clinics and food inspection operations on Army, Navy, and Air Force installations. Supervised staff of junior soldiers and civilian technicians. Managed base Rabies control and.
• Recognized for efforts in emergency response to zoonotic threat at Eglin AFB.- Supervised a diverse staff at many different duty sites, facilities and locations.- Managed facility maintenance to ensure regulatory.

Masters, Management

Bachelors Of Schience, Management

Associates Of Arts, General Studies