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•Responsible for overseeing US pre- and post-market product registration activities for the Core Cleaning portfolio brands. Understand and translate regulatory and business requirements to optimize timely submission approvals, establish and execute the regulatory strategy while highlighting potential risks. Manage registrations and product compliance. Build strong partnerships and drive proactive cross-functional engagement with Product Development, Marketing, Product Supply Operations, and Legal to ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance needs are met.•Working knowledge of laws, regulations, and relevant compliance programs under EPA-FIFRA & SafeChoice, CPSC, and outside trade organizations (HCPA & CBC), give industry feedback as needed, to ensure compliance throughout the product lifecycle. •Work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment with the flexibility and adaptability to evolving business needs and priorities on multiple workflows in partnership with external consultants and subject matter experts, if necessary. •Assert strategic thinking and influential leadership skills to drive innovative regulatory solutions that accomplish business objectives that foster innovation, optimize time to market, and minimize product and portfolio risk. •Identify, communicate, and develop contingency plans to mitigate potential regulatory risks to meet launch timing.•SDS generation, ingredient disclosures, VOC compliance, label review (FIFRA & CPSC).•Monitor and assess the potential impact, and develop appropriate action plans, for new or emerging regulations and initiatives.•Coordinate submissions of voluntary certifications where applicable. •Develop and maintain best practices, guidelines, procedures, tools, and/or training to standardize the process, drive continuous improvement, and educate others to various audiences and varying levels within the organization on regulatory compliance requirements

Rust-Oleum, founded in 1921, is a international manufacturer and supplier of protective paints and coatings for home and industrial use as well as cleaners and disinfectants. • Manage and oversee all activity involving new and existing product registrations for EPA registrations that fall under FIFRA, with and without the assistance of outside consulting agencies, and effectively communicate timelines with the team for full transparency. • Provide regulatory expertise and advice on monthly R&D and weekly product-to-market group calls for the cleaners and industrial flooring platforms that include members from every department to ensure a successful launch of a new product or the rebranding/reformulation of an existing product. • Collaborate extensively with upper management, brand managers, marketing, sales, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, R&D, etc. to ensure everyone understands any possible risks there may be and how to mitigate them as well as understand realistic timelines for product launch due to constraints that may be beyond our control. • Provide label copy/input for EPA (FIFRA), industrial (GHS), and consumer (CPSC) product labels. Review and approve any marketing claims to prevent any unnecessary legal action against the company. Coordinate any testing or paperwork submission to support marketing claims or for third party certification logos to use on the product label: USDA Bio-Preferred Program, EPA Safer Choice, NSF, UL, Leaping Bunny, Kosher, etc.• Assign transportation classifications for all products: DOT, IMDG, and IATA.• Issue new, or update, product safety data sheets (SDSs) for my assigned platforms.• Participate in industry trade associations and join work group call ins to network with industry leaders and to provide input on behalf of the company on upcoming regulatory/legislative matters that may affect our products. ISSA, HCPA, ACA.

Nuance Solutions is a co-packer for numerous nationally recognized companies and brands as well as a manufacturer of chemical specialties, serving a variety of markets: Household, Institutional/Janitorial Supply, Industrial, Agriculture, and Turf since 1972. •Regulatory Affairs: Manage EPA sub-registrations and private labels for disinfecting/antimicrobial/sanitizing/pesticide products on the federal and state level. Manage EPA Safer Choice (formerly DfE) registrations in conjunction with NSF for numerous products. Manage the SDS program to ensure compliance with OSHA’s GHS (Globally Harmonized System) standards, which involves authoring safety data sheets in-house and label review. Responsible for compiling the TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) and SARA Sect 313 data to report to the EPA. Generate data for the quarterly/annual Mill Assessment reporting requirements for our pesticide products per state. Work in conjunction with the California Air and Resource Board (CARB) and the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA/PROP 65) to ensure any products going into the California market are compliant. Other agencies: USDA Bio-preferred Program, NSF, UL, Green Seal, Leaping Bunny, Kosher, EPA Direct Release•Project manager for new product development and improving existing products to address customer needs while maintaining cost effectiveness.•Evaluate new raw materials with an emphasis on EPA’s Safer Choice (formerly DfE) principles/environmentally sustainable chemistry.•Coordinate technical activities involving new testing procedures, quality control, stability studies, performance testing, and batch making for full scale production. •Troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing process issues, customer inquiries, and product quality issues that may arise.•Prepare and deliver training/informational materials to sales, technical team, and visiting customers/distributors on new methods and new product offerings.

Stepan manufactures basic and intermediate chemicals, including surfactants, specialty products, germicidal, quaternaries, phthalic anhydrided, polyurethane polyols and specialty ingredients for food, supplement and pharmaceutical markets. •Develop new formularies as a means to expand our exposure in the market to explore new business opportunities. •Investigate various compounds and formulations to examine their physical and performance properties to compare to industry products for sales, business and technical service teams.•Analyze and report data in a timely manner and update product bulletins, technical data sheets and any pertinent sales tools.•Provide support to internal and external customers to troubleshoot and resolve product specifications or performance issues.•Train sales candidates, interns, fellow scientists, and visiting customers/distributors on methods and formulations to build their technical acumen and strengthen relationships.•Develop new methods to fulfill the customer’s and company’s needs to stay current as well as enhance efficiency.•Provide support for DOE (Design of Experiment) and minitab analysis to determine the cost to performance effectiveness of production materials for customers.•Participate in departmental initiative meetings and sit on CSPA committee task force for developing new methods.

Baxter manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people with chronic and acute medical conditions via expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. •Responsible for the execution and analysis of numerous trace metal studies to determine and quantify extractables and leachables in numerous products and raw materials for medical devices via ICP-AES and AAS. •Responsible for the execution and validation of mercury levels for the release of blood clotting medications via ICP-OES.•Execute aluminum validation studies of salt solutions and amino acids by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy. •Support the launching of using XRF for silver validation and explore its applicability to the department. •Perform critical support activities for the Trace Elements laboratory under GMP guidelines.

Abbott Laboratories is a global pharmaceutical and health care products company.Received hands-on training on techniques for the testing and standardization of equipment for the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in already existing drug lines (ROI, LOD, pH, KF). Trained in proper documentation in accordance with 21 CFR 211, lab safety, chemical disposal, cGMPs.

Data entry (Kaye recorder)Historic equipment files (calibration, preventative maintenance, change control)Collection of certificates, drawings and manuals to write validation protocols. Technical review of drafted protocols per drawings and manuals