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Ashland, VA, US

Paris, Courbevoie, FR

Leadership responsibility for the 3 US Industrial Hygiene laboratories across the US. Primarily focused on alignment of the division to Maxxam's quality, health and safety standards, while improving the customer experience across the division.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

Leadership responsibility for the 3 US Industrial Hygiene laboratories across the US. Primarily focused on alignment of the division to Maxxam's quality, health and safety standards, while improving the customer experience across the division.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Industrial Hygiene laboratory management with sales budget of $5M and 20+ staff members.
• Business leader responsible for sales growth of 15% year over year.
• Experience and responsibility for accrediting body as well as customer audits.
• Maintained financial metrics for the laboratory and prepared yearly budgets.
• Experience with laboratory capital justifications, purchases, and installation project management
• Responsible for startup of a new laboratory business line in existing facility including equipment and personnel.

Paris, Courbevoie, FR

• Manage operations, including hiring responsibility, of the development and validation group consisting of 6 chemists from Ph.D. to technician levels.
• Developing methods for multiple projects simultaneously with tight time lines for contract and in house API and excipient products.
• Responsible for the stability program on all finished API and excipient products.
• Technical reviewer of validation protocols and reports for API and excipient products to ensure compliance with ICH, USP, EP, and JP compendia.
• Involved with FDA and customer audits on analytical methodology.
• Responsible for managing and coordinating laboratory capital projects.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Analytical team leader for remediation and development of test methods on finished formulations.
• Led a 5-member team responsible for developing and remediating analytical methods.
• Trained incoming staff on departmental instrumentation and procedures.
• Planned and managed projects for team members.
• Validated and transferred analytical test methods for use in global operations.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Product support for the Thyroid, Folate, and Cortisol diagnostic immunoassay line.
• Lead technical projects, process improvement projects and factory operations.
• Qualified a new Antibody for AxSYM, IMx, and ARCHITECT that kept a $40 million dollar assay on market.
• Primary Focus Factory contact for thyroid product line including GMP issues, nonconformance, and investigations.
• Experience in test method and product validation

Kingsport, Tennessee, US

• Supervisor of eight technicians responsible for 170 million pounds of coating resins.
• Led Quality Control efforts to retain key accounts in the automotive market by successfully acquiring ISO 9001 certification.
• Achieved a 10% increase in sample throughput in a 1,000 sample a month department.
• Designed and implemented multi-site project to rewrite and update 300 test methods into an ISO and Eastman acceptable format.

Kingsport, Tennessee, US

• Trained and led a three person team in method development, product analysis, and manufacturing troubleshooting.
• Led team in automation of the analytical lab to control, collect and calibrate instrumentation doubling the number of analyses completed per year without increasing staff.
• Proposed, wrote, and managed capital projects.
• Primary developer of new analytical methodologies for the analysis of polymeric resins.
• Maintained and repaired over half a million dollars worth of analytical instrumentation including HPLC, GCMS, DSC, and titrators.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Analytical Chemistry

Ba, Chemistry