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Northfield, Illinois, United States

Abbott Park, IL 60064

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (CP-1)

- Supports the 4 Abbott Diagnostic Division (ADD) global manufacturing sites with the raw material chemical spend category that includes: 613 basic/specialty raw material chemicals across 60 different suppliers with an annual spend of $9.9MM.- Identified $617M of cost savings opportunity through: supplier consolidation, supply harmonization, and alternate.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-51)

- Responsibility for maintaining 499 chemical substances, across 25 different suppliers, with a total spend of 2.1MM using various Abbott systems including: SAP/R3, AMM, AbbottSource, Mercury, STP, and PIN- Facilitates internal quality information requests with external suppliers such as: supplier self assessments (cGMP and ISO compliance), BSE/TSE.

Skokie, Illinois, United States

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-20)

- Scheduled direct and indirect manufacturing activities for Organic Operations (13 staff members) and 135 upstream manufactured codes.- Coordinated operational activities by prioritization of: purchased incoming material F102 qualifications, material feasibility issues, analytical testing, document approval, and communicating with the downstream.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-20)

- Facilitated communications between quality assurance, material supply, and site planning functional areas in order to achieve the need dates by the customer.- Responsible for focused factory scheduling up to 500 weekly labor hours of manufacturing activities across 4 focused factory lanes (50 staff members) and 715 manufactured codes. Additionally.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-32)

- Supervised and mentored 4 Abbott employees in job specific skills as well as growth planning.- Authored and executed sample carryover design verification studies for the 6 AxSYM assays (3 TPM suppliers and 3 in-house developed).- Implemented various compliance procedures including: justification of the selection of reference standards and panel.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-20)

- Scheduled operational activities across 26 product lines (14 member team), annual total sales of $94MM.- Provided leadership and operational support projects such as the Artificial Matrix Conversion and the Puerto Rico Product Transfer.- Responsible for technical and product support for both the TDx and AxSYM Vancomycin assays, annual sales generate.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-20)

- Resolved level II customer complaints for TDx and AxSYM Vancomycin assays, principal investigator for AxSYM Decontamination level III complaint resolution.- Identified a new peptide supplier and extended product expiration dating resulting in cost reductions valued at $40M, implemented process improvement cost avoidances valued at $16M.- Provided.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-31)

- Established 2 technical support laboratories, including coordination of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) training of personnel and calibration of the lab instrumentation.- Provided operational support for 510K-product launch of 9 TDM (Therapeutic Drug Monitoring) assays.

Abbott Park IL 60064 (AP-8B)

- Performed assay testing per standard control (SCP), standard testing (STP), and operating procedures (OP) documentation.- Responsible for maintaining QC inventory of 3 cancer (PSA, CA19-9, and CA-125) diagnostic reagents and panel members.

Abbott Park, IL 60064 (AP-1A)

- Performed guardbanding formulation studies with developmental hTSH assay reagents- Performed IMx instrument qualification protocols- Performed commodity preparations for Ion Capture assay development- Performed IMx instrument hardware stability studies