Juan C. Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Miami, Florida, United States

- Managed the R&D Department.- Technical lead for manufacturing processes across sites.- Interacted with Operations, Quality Assurance and R&D to ensure projects meet timelines and goals.- Created and improve MBRs, and reviews, approve technical documentation.- Developed and implement new processes for technical transfers internally and from customers.- Successfully scaled-up formulas from the lab to production. Troubleshoot in production.- Oversaw and manage OTC validation batches with validation/certification teams.- Recruited, train, and coach process engineers focused on manufacturing quality products.- Provided timely product quality troubleshooting services to the manufacturing group.- Served as the technical lead at manufacturing sites in Miami and PML West.- Expanded manufacturing capabilities with existing equipment and identify new equipment for more throughputs.- Worked closely with plant management, line supervisors, and operators to implement process system improvements.- Provided professional guidance in the tightening of product and process specifications.- Comply and enforce Good Manufacturing Practices.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

- Created and equipped testing laboratories from scratch (microbiology, Q.A/Q.C, and analysis).- Trained and managed laboratory personnel.- Provided guidance to 10 chemists and microbiologists in resolving challenges encountered with sample testing and equipment operation.- Searched and negotiated lower prices for laboratory consumables reducing costs by around 20% without sacrificing quality.- Wrote, reviewed and approved documentation (Master Batch Records, Batch Manufacturing Record, SOPs, etc)- Formulated and made OTC products and cosmetic preparations.- Improved OTC and cosmetic formulations to increasing stability and effectiveness.- Solved daily problems that arose from production processes.- Performed scale-up processes for OTC and cosmetic formulations.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

- Introduced new methodologies and protocols for microbiological testing that lead to savings of $ 100,000/year.- Searched and negotiated lower prices for laboratory consumables reducing costs by around 20% without sacrificing quality.- Maintained and repaired HPLC equipment, reducing the number of service calls and decreasing equipment maintenance costs.- Provided guidance to technicians in resolving challenges encountered with testing and equipment operation.- Wrote, reviewed and approved documentation.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Development of a HPLC method to quantify PBTx-2 by fluorescence• Quantification of toxins in waters• Assisted undergraduate and graduate students with their research projects

Metz Area, France

- Synthesized acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.- Developed new convenient synthesis of nitrothiophene derivatives.- Efficiently prepared heterocyclic compounds using improved procedures.- Synthesized natural occurring coumarins with antioxidant properties using inorganic catalysts under neat conditions.

- Developed improved and efficient syntheses of semi-synthetic cephalosporanic antibiotics (one of them in two steps with 95% overall yield).- Improved synthesis of several compounds with chromogenic properties (enzyme substrates) increasing the final yield and reducing total cost of synthetic process.- Isolated, purified, and structurally characterized naturally occurring secondary metabolites from plants.- Designed and synthesized molecules with potential antiviral, or anticancer, or antioxidant activity, some of them from naturally occurring compounds.

- Synthesis of a Haemophilus influenzae polisaccharide antigen type B.- Synthesis of the Gal(1-2)Man disaccharide, intermediate in the synthesis of Salmonellas antigens.- Chemical synthesis of the antigens of human blood groups A, B and Lewis.- Synthesis of chromogenic substrates.