-Provided support to operations on complex projects and situations impacting multiple areas. -Served as a backup for the area managers and support day to day activities. -Provided guidance and oversight to product changeovers and manufacturing readiness activities.-Led technically complex investigations and/or those involving personnel. -Supported fermentation management team providing input on technical operations aspects, manufacturing rules and operations readiness related activities. -Supported LEAN initiatives and deployments including the daily management systems. -Led the successful manufacturing readiness for an infrequent manufactured product.-Supported the site data integrity continuous improvement team meetings and provided support to the identified actions.-Assessed operations manufacturing rate scenarios to level the operators workload applying the Total Productive Operations (TPO) concepts. -Successful led the manufacturing shutdown/slowdown activities for: ○Revamping of the ISO classified area to align with new regulatory expectations. I lead the assessment, readiness and execution of the shutdown and restart of the whole manufacturing process. This included an integration of more than 15 capital projects, non-routine maintenance activities and other improvement projects to ensure synchronized execution and on time. ○Implementation of a major electrical project on the site which required a site shutdown. By leading this team, assessment and readiness activities through the site were successfully completed including the implementation of more than 25 capital projects and non-routine maintenance activities.-Supported the Pilot Plant Construction project as a User Rep. Led the development of the requirements under the new commissioning and qualification strategy. -Facilitated the Fermentation technical group by coordinating the group meetings ensuring alignment of the group objectives with those of the management team.

-Short term assignment on the downstream process of a monoclonal antibody products facility. -Provides guidance and support on equipment related evaluations, troubleshooting, monitoring and improvements. -Technical support on Tangential Flow Filtration unit ops and on chromatography skids including modification of the recipes. -Identified equipment performance indicators and developed a simple tool to monitor these parameters.

-Multiproduct microbial fermentation system owner.-Provide guidance and technical support to the fermentation related process equipment.-Technical support and lead of equipment related investigations, changes and process improvements supporting the manufacturing rate.-Supported thermal mapping qualification/validation activities of process tanks and cell culture laboratory equipment including autoclaves.-Lead the Fermentation Safety Team for the continuous growth of the safety culture. -Identified and developed critical process parameters tools for a routine basis (RPM) evaluation of process equipment trends in order to continuously growth into the proactive maintenance.-Developed a process equipment modification capable of increasing the manufacturing rate by approximately 25%.-Developed an internal technical report on the effect of density changes and it relationship to the separation efficiency.

-Cleaning In Place (CIP), Ultra Pure Water Distribution Loop, Waste and Utilities system owner.-Maintain the system in a qualified and validated state.-Provide guidance and support to the product change cleaning activities including cleaning cycle development.-Lead the plant local purified water system technical group.-Identify and monitor critical process parameters in a routine basis (RPM) for the evaluation of system trends and proactive maintenance.

-Cleaning In Place (CIP), Ultra Pure Water Distribution Loop, Waste and Utilities system owner.-Maintain the system in a qualified and validated state.-Developed a Routine Process Monitoring (RPM) tool for critical parameters of the CIP system using OSISoft PI ProcessBook.-Developed a tool for monitoring the cycle time and unexpected dowtime of the CIP system to work on the major offenders to improve uptime.-Provide technical support to the production line by identifying root causes of unpredictable events and areas of improvements. -Improved equipment maintenance frequency by analyzing the history and work type.-Improved cycle time of major equipment cleaning process by identifying and correcting major offenders.-Improved equipment uptime and equipment failures by developing operators troubleshooting guides.Other Activities:-Coach/Mentor of COOP students.-Participated in UPRM Job Fair and interviewed students for COOP positions.

- Lilly del Caribe, Inc., Carolina, P.R. - Supported cleaning validation activities, data evaluation, protocol generation and execution, including training development. - Qualified in cleaning visual inspection of process equipment. - Proficient in analyzing cleaning recipe data using OSI PI and Delta V System.- Experienced with Cleaning-in Place (CIP) systems.- Identified cleaning recipe improvements and troubleshooting.- Developed and executed cleaning recipe trials for the Product Changeover (PCO) campaigns (80% reduction in re-cleaning for Isolation Area when implemented).- Developed laboratory testing and validated cleaning recipe improvement for the Drum Thaw Area.

- Evaluated different induced flattening procedures on Si-based freestanding nanomembranes.- Performed strain analysis on flattened Si nanomembranes using Raman Spectroscopy and evaluated effectiveness of the strain relief approach used to decrease the curvature on SiGe trilayer nanomembranes.

- Presented science workshops to motivate and educate K-12 students to encourage STEM fields.- Developed presentations, workshops and laboratory experiments for K-12 teachers using household chemicals.

- Synthesized, functionalized and characterized nanoporous materials for the adsorption of CO2 with applications in gas storage and gas ultrapurification.

- Identified sources of surface roughness during material fabrication.- Observed new vibrational modes obtained when thinning a SOI wafer from 100nm to less than 10nm thickness.

Improve the techniques used to analyze single wall carbon nanotubes in samples from complex aquatic ecosystems.