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Boston, Ma, Us

Basel, Ch

Basel, Ch

Delivery of large scale build out of NG3M facility at Lonza, Portsmouth. Directly involved from design, procurement and construction to first runs at scale and delivery of first GMP batch. Engineering commissioning lead and SME on CIP/SIP. Engineering lead on 2 packages worth <5 MMUSD. Engineering assist on major bioreactor, media preparation and harvest packages. Delivery of USP pre use system integrity test innovation - Temperature compensated pressure testing at Lonza, Portsmouth to replace helium testing. Roughly 400 TUSD savings per year on helium at current raw material price. Roughly 5,000 man labor hours saved per year. Collaborated and drove engineering packages and deliverables on customer technical transfers for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines (COVID-19).Directly assisted and led activities for customer technical transfers into Lonza, Portsmouth including: design, procurement, construction, operational validation and commissioning, installation validation, cleaning validation and commissioning. Represented both USP and DSP.

Basel, Ch

Team lead specializing in upstream fermentation:Small scale inoculation experience from OOF to 100L ReactorsLarge scale inoculation experience from 1000L to 20,000L Reactors Harvest experience utilizing depth filtration Training and documentation skills:Advanced in suite trainer Maintaining cGMP (current good manufacturing practice)Document owner maintaining and creating current standard operating procedures (SOPs) Creation of work instructions Integration of error prevention system (EPS) Operations Experience:Regular use of standard operating procedures, logbooks and batch recordsRegular use of electronic batch records (Syncade/eBR)Managing daily tasks using Aspen scheduling softwareOptimizing and prioritizing production schedules to achieve and exceed expectationsCIP/SIP (clean in place, steam in place)Pneumatic and hydrostatic pressure testingDeltaV HMI and DevOps HMIAseptically qualified – operation of biosafety cabinets (BSC)Preventative maintenance (PMOP) and work orders of equipmentCalibration of probes and sampling equipmentNOVA 400/NOVA FLEX ViCell Osmometer Blood Gas Analyzer (BGA)TrackwiseLIMSSAP6S (Six Sigma) Collaboration:Served as fermentation safety officer. Evaluated hazards in operations and provided corrective and preventative actions. Completed scheduled tasks for all fermentation activities ahead of schedule in 2017; leading suites on site. Assisted MSAT/QA/QC optimizing small scale fermentation batch records and standard operating procedures. Incorporated error prevention system formatting and introduced work instructions.

Portsmouth, Nh, Us

Provided engineering design, procurement, and construction for clientsManaged project schedules and client goalsCoordinated and executed action items across departments Produced front end process designP&ID review and design, PFD review and designConducted on-site production studies to determine equipment fallaciesConstructed corrective action proposals to implement process improvementsGenerated company standard engineering calculations (i.e. piping system pressure drop, pump curves, heat exchanger energy balances, compressor curves, valve sizing, etc.)Executed daily vendor correspondence including: Generating quote requests (RFQs)Assessing mark ups and adders to original RFQ and specificationTechnical review and comparison of invoicesDelegating delivery times of process equipmentWorked with accounts payable and procurement to finalize purchase ordersExtensive experience utilizing Aspen HYSYS for:Process design of LNG facilitiesReview of vendor process equipment specifications Process optimization of liquefied natural gas storage facilities (LNG) Mass and energy balance assessments of existing facility designsTroubleshooting design flaws within existing LNG facilities "bottlenecking" On site client support and interfacing for:Operator training and educationP&ID walk downs, data collection, design activitiesCommissioning and decommissioningConstruction support (OSHA 10 Construction certified) Led the technical analysis of two site wide pressure relief studies: Applied API 520/521 to validate existing relief systems Conducted HAZOP and LOPA activities with client engineering and operations Verified and designed sizing of flare header systems for catastrophic failurePresented both project books and proposalsLed procurement activities of relief piping, relief valves and process equipment

Created liquefied natural gas operator training modules using Wonderware HMI softwareExperience troubleshooting PLC logic

Synthesized metal oxides for the construction of psuedocapacitorsDeveloped methods to bond metal oxides onto surfaces for capacitance testingProficient with an X-ray diffractometer, gas chromatograph, and variable speed centrifugesAchievements:Co-authored and published in both the Journal of the American Chemical Society and ChemSuSChem for “Vanadium Oxide as a Psuedocapacitor Anode” Co-authored and published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society for “Highly Stable and Pseudocapacitive Mn3O4 Octahedral Spinel Nanoparticles” Synthesis published for “Highly-Efficient K0.15MnO2 Birnessite Nanosheets for Stable Pseudocapacitive Cathodes” in the Journal of Physical ChemistrySynthesis published for “Pseudocapacitive NiO Fine Nanoparticles for Supercapacitor Reactions” in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society