Matthew Tanton Email & Phone Number

Brockville, Ontario, Canada

• Overall management of Trillium’s stability program of over one hundred drug products, including annual, pre-market, and specially requested stability.• Lot request, study set-up, testing submission, result summary, trend analysis, and customer result delivery through CALS (LIMS) & JD Edwards ERP.• Creation, revision, and maintenance of stability related SOPs, stability program protocols for existing and pre-market products, and all stability-related tracking and metrics.• Serve as stability SME during audits, primary liaison for stability related issues regarding Quality Assurance and Compliance in regulation with ICH guidelines.• Billing management of stability testing hours, storage, and pre-market project related costs.• Guidance and training for new and current employees on stability responsibilities.

Responsibilities have so far included;Implementation of a second microbiological lab.Responsible for OOT/OOS investigation results and corrective actions.Equipment ManagementOrdering and tracking all supplies needed to keep lab functional.Media PreparationAssisting and implementing validation of qPCR testing of cannabis product.GPP testing of multiple in-house cannabis products: Bud, oils, softgels, beverages, etc.GMP level documentation practices: Verification of instruments, Results, CoAs, etc.Sample tracking through ERP and Labware systems.Internal and External audit defence.Environmental Monitoring of lab space.Training new technicians on all things microbiology lab.Microbiological Instrument Job Experience with:DNA extractionqPCRMultiple kinds of PipetteLuminometer MicroscopeAutoclaveAdditional Project Experience:Implemented self-sufficient code to do full data analysis of raw data from qPCR into clean, readable results using R.

Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilities include;Hourly testing of can integrity and chemical composition of beverage Ordering and tracking all supplies needed to keep lab functional.Media PreparationGPP testing of cannabis beverages.GMP level documentation practices: Verification of instruments, Results, CoAs, etc.Sample tracking through ERP and Labware systems.Internal audit defence.Instrumentation Job Experience with:High Powered Liquid ChromatographyGas ChromatographypH meterOrbisphere TurbidimeterHydrometeranalytical spectrophotometer

Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

This position was focused on my research project as a fourth year student. This project focused on validating a new twist to an existing (but old) way to measure reflected light and using it to track the Fv/Fm ratio over the growth curve of the centric diatom T. weissflogii & bacterium S. bacillaris. This project continued over my 4th year as a student as well (September 2019 - May 2020). This was my first major experience in independent microbiology, including the development of several new protocols.Experimental DesignThe Fv/Fm ratio is a calculation used to measure the ability of Photosystem II to absorb light in organisms. This project implemented a design to use an algicide to inhibit chl a. In doing so, we were testing to see if the much cheaper (albeit new) spectrophotometer with this method could achieve similar results to more accepted methods of phytoplankton spectrophotometry. Additionally, this ratio can be used to determine a relative `health` of the cell culture, depending on how strong it is. I coincided this protocol while also measuring cell count, absorbance, regular fluorescence, and Frrf data to track the measured Fv/Fm ratio over the expected growth curve of the organisms. Later, this data was used to determine statistical significance of the study using advanced data analysis methods using the R language.Microbiological Instrument ExperienceMultiple high powered spectrophotometersExpansive Microscope ExperienceCellometerHemocytometerPipetteCycled incubatorsFast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (Frrf)