Eric Guyton Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Kingstree, South Carolina

-Manage production scheduling for Upstream operations (incl. weekly RuBu adjustments, monthly budgetary planning as well as nonroutine trials and PM outages)-Team member investigating next gen data management platforms (e.g. PI-based, Emerson Batch Analytics) for Kingstree site.-Workstream Leader for group(s) investigating production fermentation issues. Workstream collaboration across departments and sites yielded identification of RC and provided solutions and in some cases improved process above baseline.-Production fermentation monitoring, reporting and improvement exploration.-Collaborate closely with IP process engineers on new process investigations and current process improvements.-Team member on large joint venture project (Veramaris). Collaboration with production staff and engineers at joint venture site on production and contamination concerns.-Member of ISO 140001 internal audit team.

-Scheduling of fermentation and recovery operations based on Supply Chain forecasts to meet sales demand. -Monitor and track performance of fermentation process from lab seed through full scale (240,000L). -Collaborate with R&D and corporate project teams in implementation of new products and processes in manufacturing environment. -Identify process improvement opportunities and collaborate with project engineering to implement. -Site process sterility champion-Working competencies within: -SAP -Trackwise -Documentum -Minitab -SchedulePro -MS Visio -MS Office Suite-Six Sigma Greenbelt Certified-Safety,Health and Environment training for Engineers

Kingstree, Sc

-Fermentation lab leader. -Supported capital project to relocate technical lab to new facility. -Lead capital project to upgrade fermentation manufacturing off gas system to Thermo PrimaPro mass spectrometer and improve sample conditioning system. -Investigate PAT opportunities for lab and manufacturing. -Work directly with process engineering staff to support process development for fermentation and downstream manufacturing. -Assisted in implementing Lean Six Sigma 5-S principles in technical lab. -Maintain and customize proprietary online batch management system .

-Worked collaboratively and independently on experiential design to support manufacturing development, optimization and troubleshooting. -Organized technical lab activities. -Served as acting process engineer on large scale (+100,000L) yeast and bacterial contract fermentations. -Maintained manufacturing fermentation exhaust gas analysis system (Innova 1313 analyzer).-Worked on capital project ($500K) team in a support role to relocate and update technical lab. -Lead two capital projects ($200K) for technical lab equipment/systems upgrades. -Lead all lab fermentation efforts. -Supported laboratory efforts to troubleshoot and optimize downstream processes as well as explore new downstream development opportunities. -Worked closely with process engineering staff in analyzing manufacturing trends to determine development and optimization opportunities-Completed Six Sigma Greenbelt project focused on process simplification and media development and received Six Sigma Greenbelt certification.

-Worked under the guidance of Sr Research Associate in design and execution of lab scale (10kg) fermentations. -Developed technical transfers from lab to manufacturing on various contract microbial process (e.g. algal, fungal, yeast and bacteria)-Provided lab support for downstream processes (e.g. biomass recovery, lipid extraction and purification)-Generated experiment reports for technical staff.-Maintained and serviced laboratory equipment.

-Produced, maintained and transferred microbial inoculum to manufacturing fermenters. -Sampled and conducted various physical and biochemical analyses on manufacturing fermenters. -Worked under the direction of process engineering staff to design and execute small scale process development experiments. -Serviced and maintained laboratory equipment. -Trained in GMP and GLP