Dr. Iris Perez Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

United States

Managed 13 direct QC Scientist which includes exempt, hourly and temps with 3 shifts. Supervised the chemistry laboratories in a GMP Chemistry Lab environment. Provide technical expertise and guidance to the group. Promote the technical and professional development of direct reports. Develop goals and objectives for direct reports to include the review and evaluation of job performance of direct reports. Implement change controls requirements. Write, update, review, and approve pertinent SOPs and analytical methods. Develop strong inter-development relationships. Work closely with internal and external departments to ensure efficient progress of projects. Conduct laboratory investigations such as deviations and CAPAs. Perform activities for DEA controlled products. Certified as the key holder of DEA cage and transactions. Ensure that the lab personnel remain current and trained on all internal SOPs and follow GMP practices. Provide the necessary training to lab personnel. Participate on GEMBA walkthrough. Worked with the schedule production to ensure that releases do not affected the production schedule. Also, started the initiative of reducing backlog from 286 to 180 less than 6 months. Conduct lab inspections. Recognized less than a month as a most valuable person for exceptional contributions and commitment to excellence

San Antonio, Texas

Responsible for the day-to-day managing of performance of musical artist. Work with artists to ensure that they are well prepared for their performance and appearances. Involved in negotiating contracts and other legal matters related to the artist’s career. Manage and oversee all aspects of an event, from start to finish. Coordinate with vendors to ensure that all services are provided as agreed upon and within budget. Make sure all operations run smoothly, including scheduling rehearsals and performance and making sure that all technical elements are working properly. Oversee marketing efforts such as creating digital advertising, social media campaigns, and others. Manage the budget and working with event planners, designers and other professional to create an event is within the budget guidelines.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Offer advice and expertise to client to help them improve their individual or business performance. Make suggestions and develop improvement plans based on the customer’s needs. Provide coaching and training to clientele. Assist with marketing campaigns and brand development and review data. Give presentations and organize team meetings. Dedicate time to generate new business and pitching clients. Meet with existing clients to perform an initial assessment, discuss goals and strategize methods for improvements. Collect data on clients and the business through interviews, workplace shadowing and researching documents, Solve problems through helpful recommendations and practical suggestions.

Colorado, United States

Managed 12 direct QC Analyst. Software used on laboratory was LabVanatge LIMS and Open Lab. Lead the project scope, timing and project structure with the appropriate resources and skills. Worked with in process release for a lipid product. Plan, provided and recommended updates and changes as necessary. Coordinated a 24/7 shift with 4 different teams. Scheduled the work based on manufacture fast-paced working on 100 samples with GC and UPLC CAD detection. All personnel were trained 100% in less than 3 months on more than 10 analysis which included GC and UPLC. Gathered and analyzed and interpret gathered data. Submit reports to the relevant department. Finding patterns and trends in the analyzed data. Established new data gathering and analysis techniques within the organization. Managed project, performs evaluations, and worked to complete projects within budget and scheduling restraints. Performed risk management, including identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating risks, and communicating and escalating risks and issues. Support a continuous improvement process by providing recommendations on improving products, services, and processes. Determine the relationships of chemical and physical properties, composition, structures using chromatography techniques. Review data according to GMP and GLP regulations. Wrote deviations with corrective and preventive actions to eliminate causes of non-conformities. Consult with engineers and scientists on analysis, interpretation, and development of tests. Team Member of 5S. Ensured compliance with cGMP and GLP practices to establish internal control procedures by examining records, reports, operating practices, data integrity and documentation.

San Antonio, Texas

Assisted Store Manager with the supervision of 4 direct employees. Opened and closed the store. Helped maintained a clean, well-organized store with a customer-first focus. Managed the presentation of merchandise, completion of paper work, preparation of deposits. Performed stocking and cashiering functions and other duties as necessary to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction. Provided adequate training for employees and ensured employee compliance with company’s policies and procedures. Assisted in maintaining accurate inventory levels by controlling damages, markdowns, scanning, paperwork, and facility controls. Assisted in implementation of planograms to ensure merchandise is presented according to established practices and Store Manager direction. Assisted in ensuring financial integrity of the store through strict security practices and cash control procedures, authorized and sign for refunds and overrides, count register tills, and deposit money in bank. Assisted with management of the store in the Store Manager’s absence.

San Antonio, Texas

Hosted a Spanish radio show. Discussed new events. Produced live program to keep people’s interest. The program was center on motivation and entertainment news. Understand, listened, and interacted with the audience. Wrote the radio script therefore, research topics and background information were executed for each program. Interviewed guests and moderated panels. Kept the program running to schedule, responding positively and quickly to problems or changes, and improvising where necessary.

Manati, Puerto Rico

Assisted supervisor with 12 direct and indirect reports QC, Incoming, Label Room departments and Analytical Lab Service departments using LIMS and Empower 3. Audited and reviewed data integrity according with GMP and GLP practices. Worked with investigations, corrective and preventive actions as needed. Ensured compliance with cGMP and GLP practices to establish internal control procedures by examining records, reports, operating practices, data integrity and documentation. Coordinated label room and Incoming work activities and maintained training files in accordance with the quality records. Ensured that equipment was properly maintained and calibrated. Provided recommended changes to SOPs in accordance with the established protocols. Provided comprehensive formal and informal leadership to promote a positive work environment and communicate overall business expectations to the plant working groups. Conducted and wrote lab investigations and communicated audit findings by preparing a final report; discussing findings with supervisors. Assured compliance with safety, quality and regulatory policies and government regulations.

Fort Riley, Kansas

Assisted in the management of all medical/surgical supplies maintained in the POU cabinets as it pertains to stocking, restocking, accountability and quality control. Trained personnel on Omnicell system and created SOPs for the use and equipment maintenance. Coordinated preventive maintenance on POU cabinets and repaired as require and/or schedule repaired when necessary. Ensured regulatory compliance in accordance with federal, army, the joint commission (TJC) and institutional requirements for medical/surgical supplies in the POU system. Lead and developed a plan to implement Omnicell machines for two phase plans for the new installation of the new hospital. Reviewed new customer orders and requests and manually entered data into a centralized database.

Barceloneta, Puerto Rico

Coordinated activities process engineers to support the engineers’ team typically in the project activities for process development, implementation and technology transferring phases and also process capability studies. Responsible in the development and implementation of operational procedures, methodology and test plan activities for the new and existing products and equipment technology. Reviewed and maintained product files and other relevant documentation (BOM’s, SOP’s and Product Master files) to comply with quality standards. Managed over a $1 Million for raw material and packaging components supply. Worked with forecast, MPS, MRP, work orders, and pick list orders to comply with all transportation and shipment regulations. Experienced with statistics, trends and reports based on the forecast. Recommended changes to manufacture and production based upon customers request without impacting the standardization of the manufacture and production process.

Barceloneta, Puerto Rico

Managed 16 team members such as Chemist and Lab Technicians within Quality Control Laboratory. Responsible for establishing a sustainable high functioning team by building leadership and technical development within the function. Lead and implemented Lean Six Sigma 5's to increase of raw material laboratory efficiency according with cGMP and GLP practices obtaining the excellence award nomination. Experience with statistics, trends and reports. Reduced backlog of over 100 lots of raw materials to meet with the priorities to meet with the future and manufacture capabilities. Increased the on-time deliveries within the first year of employment as Raw Material Lab Supervisor. Participated in selection of personnel and provided trainings to have the best skilled personnel. Established standards of performance in accordance with company guidelines and evaluate performance against those standards for all staff members, to include preparing and conducting performance evaluations. Planned and organized quality and reliability training activities for department and other company personnel. Ensured that all laboratory personnel were trained in the use of laboratory equipment and properly maintains training files. Participated in Kaizen and Kanban walkthrough. Participated in the value stream mapping activities to improve laboratory performance. Conducted laboratory investigations and wrote deviations. Reviewed, validate, and approved all laboratory data to be in compliance with quality standard, laboratory methods, USP, EP, and JP Pharmacopeias. Ensured safety and regulatory compliance such as cGLP, cGMP, OSHA, RCRA and others.

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Quality Control Laboratory operations experience. Trained laboratory personnel. Operated general analytical instruments during raw materials, finished products, and research material. Coordinated all testing labs activities. Compiled and analyzed test information. Tested samples for various chemical analyses based on laboratory methods. Prepared, transcribed and recorded documentation such as report sheets, excel spreadsheets, and laboratory notebooks as required by standard operating procedures (sops), FDA, cGLP, cGMP, MSDS, and OSHA standards regulations and guidelines. Cleaned, maintained and calibrated laboratory equipment to ensure compliance with cGLP and cGMP. Designed and carried out experimental plans to investigate performance or stability issues. Assisted with review data, laboratory investigations, method development and validations as needed.

Caguas, Puerto Rico

Quality Control laboratory operations xxperience. Performed analysis based on laboratory methods, reported, data management and documentation of quality procedures, testing and validations that require operational, compliance, technical and procedural knowledge. Reviewed analytical data. Analyzed bulk, stability, and validation samples in accordance with all cGMP, cGLP, MSDS, SOPS, and OSHA standards regulations and guidelines. Trained personnel. Ensured that laboratory equipment was properly maintained and calibrated in accordance with established protocols and research sops. Operated general analytical instruments during finished products, and research material testing as required. Assisted with investigations such as out of specification (OOS) also known as corrective and preventive action (CAPA).

Doctor Of Management, Doctor Of Management- Organizational Development And Changes (Odc), 3.95

Dissertation: EXPLORING LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IN PUERTO RICO

Project Management Profesional (Pmp), Project Management, Certification

Activities and Societies: O2O, Institute for veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University

Master’S Degree, Manufacture Competitiveness: Quality Management, 3.75

Thesis: Applying Lean Six Sigma in a government facility of Puerto Rico

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry, 3.0

Worked a summer-term related to the chemist area at the Forensic Dept. of Puerto Rico.