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A recognized leader with more than 25 years international experience in running process development and manufacturing support organizations and executing successful manufacturing process improvement, process development, problem solving and technology transfer efforts in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Global perspective with successful multi-year assignments in France, Germany and Austria. Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt acknowledged for productivity improvement project leadership that delivered more than $40 million in increased profits. Consulting experience: a trusted resource for manufacturing & service organizations and Private Equity / Venture Capital firms for operational and process improvements, technical problem solving, technology transfer, technical assessments and due diligence. Typical projects: startup and optimization of a pharmaceutical packaging line; on-site technical problem solving and statistical analysis of manufacturing data to resolve a quality issue in final product; due diligence to support an acquisition; analysis of business processes to streamline the flow of projects through a Contract Manufacturing Organization; Six Sigma DMAIC process analysis & improvement effort from initial lab-scale DOE studies, through mathematical model development and confirmatory runs to full-scale implementation of the improved manufacturing process; User Requirement Specification and design of the process development area of a new biologics manufacturing facility; statistical analysis of historical data to support an improved final product potency targeting procedure.Specialties: Certified Six Sigma Engineer and Certified Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt (Baxter Healthcare), manufacturing process yield improvements, technical problem solving in operations, robust process development support, technology transfer, due diligence.

Listed skills include Six Sigma, Technology Transfer, Validation, Process Engineering, and 15 others.