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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 supply options.- Achieve at least -1.5% YOY savings- Established chemical sourcing strategy including: identifying alternate raw material sourcing options, part/supplier consolidation, global supply chain alignment, identifying generic brand raw material alternatives, develops supply continuity contingency/recovery plans, identifies supplier/supply risk, supplier relationship management, and supports raw material qualifications.- Provides supply and supplier recommendations during new assay development/assay reformulations to both R&D and technical areas through early purchasing involvement.- Supports Abbott Quality Assurance compliance through supplier education such as: review of FDA/CFR requirements, review supplier quality system documentation types, supplier change notification expectations, basic Critical Quality Attribute requirements, facilitate supplier specification approval, review of animal raw material sourced requirements, and supply chain transparency requirements. - Supports intra-division guidance on chemical supply inquires and provides opportunities to share supplier information across Abbott divisions. - Serves as divisional procurement SME for REACH registration and REACH immunoassay re-design project.- Participates in Abbott quality system ISO/GMP audits of manufacturing facilities.- Supports Abbott Corporate's Supplier Diversity Program as divisional champion, responsibilities include: analysis of divisional diverse spend, presentation diverse spend opportunities across divisions, supplier advocate, and attending supplier diversity national/local outreach conference events.

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 assessments, CAPA investigations, technical discussions, and supplier change notifications.- Responsible for procuring base and speciality chemical substances from suppliers that provide the lowest total costs thereby mitigating risk to the supply chain.- Provides project management support including: Hospira code conversion, REACH, Kaizen P30 event, and R&D Development BOM review.- Orchestrated global purchasing meetings with Abbott Diagnostics Division (ADD) international affiliates located in Ireland, UK, Germany, and Puerto Rico to review consolidated total global spends and leverage opportunities with suppliers.

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 manufacturing lanes with product delivery updates in order to meet the customer due dates.- Responsible for addressing corrective action and preventative action (CAPA) concerns for the team, negotiate with quality assurance for CAPA manufacturing issues, provides updates to the site CAPA board managers and communicate CA/PA due dates for completion.- Constructed Microsoft Excel spreadsheets which monitored workorder performance, BOM potential issues, change request process monitoring, incoming material qualification tracking, and immunogen project timelines.

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 provided workcenter capacity management support across 5 focused factory segments.- Identified and resolved workcenter bottlenecks through cross training within the segment or coordinating the transfer of commodity items between sites with the ADD Service Center.

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, documented training for work instruction procedures, and code of federal regulation (CFR21, part 11) lab compliance procedures.

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 $15.5MM.

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 leadership and support for new product launches such as the AxSYM Vancomycin II assay and the Drug Monitoring Consolidated Assays AxSYM Disk.

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