Senior Director, Technical Operations
.. After joining Cephalon as Associate Director at the launch of our first product, my responsibilities continued to grow and focused in two areas: (1) senior leadership in manufacturing and process development, initially entirely with external contract partners(2) performing due diligence to support our strategic initiative to grow by acquisition of late-stage biotech and small molecule products. My key roles have been to establish procedures, to develop existing staff and to add personnel to ensure the continuing swift and successful evaluation, process development, technical transfer, registration, validation and commercial production of drug substances and products. I oversaw and participated in all aspects of this work, in due-diligence assessment of acquisitions, in selection of manufacturing and packaging partners, in transfer and validation of analytical methods, in facility audits, in negotiation of Quality Agreements, and in preparation of Module 3 of regulatory filings and the negotiations with regulatory authorities in the US and Europe. In addition one of my subordinates and I authored a complete sNDA detailing manufacturing changes which received FDA approval.