Derek Bailey Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, CO, US

• Serve as the single technical point of contact for all chemical raw materials globally
• Act with urgency and directness to ensure continued ability to manufacture life-saving therapies
• Coordinate, risk assess, and implement change controls for dual sourcing initiatives to de-risk supply chain
• Manage and execute change controls for the implementation of new chemical raw materials
• Involve regulatory, quality control, quality assurance, procurement, development, and business functions as necessary
• Organize cross-functional meetings to lead and drive critical global projects and initiatives

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• Technical SME for all finished products
• Extensive cross departmental and extra-organizational collaboration, expectation setting, and project management
• Coordinated every aspect of external product development (materials, packaging, timelines, stability, pilots, release)
• Worked intimately with Project Management to define deadlines, chase deliverables, and update stakeholders
• Performed troubleshooting and improvement of external manufacturing processes
• Assisted with packaging identification and mitigation of detrimental stability attributes of packaging

Broomfield Colorado

• Characterized critical parameters (pH, water content, order of addition, drying characteristics) for pectin gummies
• Scaled-up gummy process for use with rapid depositing system
• Worked extra hours the develop rapid set pectin gummy systems for multi-billion dollar partner company
• Developed tincture, OSD, topical, and nanoemulsion-based products for market
• Took new products from bench to full-scale production and developed novel processes
• Created batch records, picklists, specifications, SDS’, and other pertinent documentation for new products

Greeley Colorado

• Vastly improved and developed first in industry method to accurately quantify liquid deicer performance, never before done
• Filed Patent for line of revolutionary deicer technologies
• Attended and spoke at several industry conferences on Deicing and winter maintenance
• Performed urgent testing to solve customer and sales issues in a rapid manner
• Collaborated with academic and government institutions on method transfer/development
• Worked with engineers to develop large scale production methods for novel deicing technologies

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Developed a test to satisfy USP<1> time to gel requirements
• Perform storage stability studies on prepared sample and standard solutions
• Transfer existing methods to newer instrumentation
• Validated new Mettler coulometric Karl Fischer instrument
• Assist directly formulating responses to FDA queries
• Created a sample tracking system for use by QC and AD

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Perform extraction and determination of Crop application parent and metabolite residues on a variety of matrices
• Work closely with Mass spec laboratory and Principal Investigator to process and interpret analytical data
• Prepare Residue samples for UPLC-MS/MS analysis
• Spearhead critical validation and method development work in close corroboration with Principal Investigator
• Design and execute experiments to improve method throughput and functionality
• Own and execute analytical responsibilities on specific studies

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Perform testing of in-process materials in support of manufacturing
• Utilized HPLC to perform assay and related substance determinations
• Perform residual substance determinations on GC
• Perform a variety of wet chemistry tests on various stages of in-process product

Durham, North Carolina

• Perform a multitude of different raw materials tests independently
• Perform a variety of different instrumental analyses (FTIR, UV, Osmometer, etc.)
• 5S project lead for reorganization and restructure of laboratory
• Test from JP, EP, USP, ACS and in-house methods

(Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area)

• Perform a multitude of different raw materials tests independently
• Project lead on data sheet creation for entire raw materials testing group
• Kan Ban team lead (Re-organizing testing materials, waste disposal system, chemical management)
• Test finished product samples when necessary

• Analysis of GMP, Analytical Development, and Formulation Development samples as necessary
• Assisted in investigation of aberrant results or OOS data
• Performed inspector duties for clinical labeling campaigns, component inspection, and other responsibilities as required
• Assisted in writing and revision of SOPs, protocols and reports to describe department activities
• Handled and tested schedule 3 controlled substances reliably and without incident

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Performed a wide array of raw material, finished product, and stability testing
• Utilized HPLC to perform assay and related substance determinations on different sample types
• Coordinated out of lab sample testing
• Participated in investigational testing
• Worked as a member of the Raw materials group

• Performed maintenance and alignment on a lab built spectroscopic setup purposed forthe size determination of single stranded DNA
• Performed experiments on elucidation of the folding kinetics of RNA and DNA hairpins via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
• Maintained a detailed lab notebook
• Made buffers, acid solutions, polymer solutions, and nanomolar DNA/RNA solutions with a requirement of a high degree of cleanliness
• Created, converted, and managed a variety of different data file types

B.S, Chemistry

Additional coursework involving relativistic physics, astrophysics. Instrumentation proficiency: UV-Vis, IR, NMR, GC, HPLC, extensive.

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