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San Diego, CA, US

San Diego, California, United States

• Serve as lead scientist and project manager for drug product development, scale-up, & GMP production activities within cross-departmental team.
• Manage R&D team and oversee formulation development, analytical development, and GMP manufacture activities for preclinical to phase II client studies. Fast-tracked development/manufacture of two novel formulations.
• Serve as main point of contact for clients and provide regular schedule and cost status updates. Support all technical project inquiries and interface between client and development team.
• Develop integrated project schedules with development, manufacturing, and quality milestones to facilitate critical path.
• Build risk registers to assess risks to schedule, cost, and quality and communicate risks with internal/external teams. Implement and track mitigation strategies for project risks based on severity of impact.
• Author GMP documentation including batch records, reports, protocols, SOPs, investigations, CAPAs, etc.

• Develop formulations and analytical methods for parenteral drug candidates.
• Design and execute experiments for formulation and/or analytical studies for parenteral drug candidates.
• Develop sterile dosage forms for small molecules.
• Optimize or troubleshoot stability-indicating HPLC analytical methods.
• Develop lyophilization cycles for parenteral products.
• Interpret data, identify key factors, and report findings.

Greater San Diego Area

• Responsible for the management and delivery of concurrent pre-IND to late phase drug product development/manufacturing projects.
• Manage drug product development/manufacturing projects that reside within multiple business lines and/or sites. Managed 10+ projects from birth to site transfer.
• Work with Business Development, Proposal Writing, Customer Service, and other teams to support new proposal drafting, changes of scope, billing, audit requests, etc.
• Monitor and manage progress of project execution and ensure timely milestone delivery.
• Build strong relationships with clients and cultivate trust and confidence through project lifecycle.
• Lead internal and client meetings. Build agendas, take minutes, track actions, and modify integrated schedules as needed.

Carlsbad, CA

• Manage over 40 client projects globally, supporting their clinical oncology trials with Serametrix’s immunology services.
• Provide clients with constant support. Provide technical support when possible and field inquiries to relevant team members.
• Ensure client deliverables are provided in a timely manner for smooth progression of trials.
• Coordinate with Business Development for new studies. Write proposals and act as an informational resource for both Business Development and clients when studies are onboarded.
• Monitor the progression of trials. Use schedules, trackers, and other project management tools to monitor and communicate status of all aspects of a trial.
• Work closely with all internal departments. Maintain close communication with Operations, Development, Finance, etc.

Carlsbad, CA

• Manage operations of the Serametrix Lab Department.
• Hire, train, and manage technicians. Hired and managed a team of 3 direct reports.
• Monitor and manage inventory and budget.
• Responsible for Level 1 quality assurance of data. Ensure technicians are analyzing data correctly and with care.
• Prepare and organize large datasets using Flowjo, R, and Excel.

Carlsbad, CA

• Monitor immune response of cancer patients undergoing pharmaceutical treatment by performing assays on blood samples, using flow cytometry to acquire data, and analyzing data using Flowjo, R Console, and Excel.
• 500+ hours of benchwork; 500+ hours of data analysis.
• Developed and validated test methods.

Hillsboro, Oregon

• Work in Grade A clean rooms, facilitating the processing, inspection, packaging, and labeling of pharmaceutical product.
• Adhere to cGMP and SOPs in order to comply with OSHA/FDA regulations.
• Participated in the Lean Process Improvement team. Developed and implemented more efficient processes.