Associate Director, Engineering
Current• Deliver successfully realized capital projects through conceptual design, detailed design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and post-qualification support. • Interface with internal stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, and direct internal and external resources. • Manage and guide development of team members, mentor interns and new employees, provide technical review and guidance to peers, and lead initiatives to improve portfolio-wide performance. Major Projects:• MACS Project – Rahway, NJProcess lead for two small molecule API suites in a $1B+ pilot plant, designed to be a launch facility for antibody-drug conjugates. Suites will to be capable of processing OEB-5 material for development and clinical trials.• FLEx Project – Rahway, NJTechnical lead for the sterile portion a $500+MM facility to produce clinical material. Flexible filling suite capable of filling BSL-2 and OEB-5 materials. Transitioned to leadership on the project and helped turn it around to meet cost, schedule, and delivery targets. • HPV Fermentation – Elkton, VAEnd-to-end process lead for a $75.2MM facility to produce Gardasil. Implemented new execution strategies that reduced cost and schedule impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Winner of the 2021 CURT Construction Industry Project Excellence Award. • PnP Project - West Point, PALead construction support and suite teams for a $59.5MM facility to produce Pneumovax, including bacterial fermentation and solvent purification. Successfully implemented a new project execution strategy, delivering a better facility at lower overall cost to the company.