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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The Technical Leadership of the Enzymes Technical team meets customer and business needs, by working in partnership with cross-functional teams, to support the future state design of the value stream via safe and complaint processes.Troubleshooting critical technical issues and supporting commercial and product management teams with strategies for core and new products to ensure the overall strategy for Enzymes is met. Managing the support scientists across the value stream and overseeing product development and process improvements with the technical support scientist.The role will be based at the Epping, South African facility and reports directly to the Site Lead of Enzymes SA. The role will require travel to sites across the business, external conferences/exhibitions, and business meetings with customers.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

BBI Solutions specialises in the extraction and purification of enzymes and related biochemicals from microbial, animal and plant tissues.My current position involves Technical Support to the BBI Enzymes team. This role includes data analysis, report writing, supplier evaluation, supporting enzyme manufacturing and driving technical improvements.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I am responsible for wet bench practicals for Molecular Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Bioprocessing, and Microbiology. Additionally, I maintain the laboratory, chemical stores, equipment, and reagents.

Llanquihue Province, Chile

Kura used a cutting-edge research technique to produce the fastest known beta-Glucuronidase, an enzyme that allows for a cleaner and more-precise way to conduct molecular diagnostic drug testing for humans and animals. Kura is in a continual process of pushing the boundaries of enzyme capabilities as well as expanding its product range by bringing new dynamic products to the market. I am involved in a specialized group responsible for enzyme discovery as well as evaluating and evolving in-house processes to align with the ISO 9001 Standard.

London, United Kingdom

I gave advice regarding potential new products, market analysis, assay development, quality control, and equipment purchases.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I completed activities and answered questions regarding Next-generation sequencing.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I was the owner of Mighty Munchies take away in Edgemead Business Park. This was my side project to learn practical business skills and produce passive income. I took great pleasure in modernizing the business. I introduced SnapScan and card machines, as well as revamped the accounting system from a completely paper-based system to digital. I then streamlined the business by reducing a bulky menu, arranging with all suppliers to deliver, renegotiated prices with the suppliers as well as put systems in place to reduce overheads. All this resulted in the monthly increase in profit margins. I then ran the business completely remotely while working part-time for 5 months in London, while continuing to have monthly progress meetings with my staff via video calling.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Kapa Biosytems was acquired by Roche in January 2016. My position as a QC scientist stayed the same.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

In the Quality control (QC) department I started off in the End-point team, I then moved onto the Next generation sequencing team (NGS). The core functions of these teams were to ensure the functionality and purity of the products. These roles required detailed report writing, troubleshooting difficult assays and updating QMS documents. Furthermore, I was responsible for providing training to my colleagues in specific/new assays.The QC department worked closely with the QA department to upgrade the ISO9001 accreditation to ISO 13485. Ongoing duties included, CoAs and initiating and resolving NRS and CAPAs.Beyond my regular duties, I was part of a special cross-departmental troubleshooting team, resolving difficult issues regarding QC. I designed a QC scientist error rate statistics system. Trained in computerized systems validation (CSV) and received basic training in the Tecan (robotic liquid handling system).

Cape Town Area, South Africa

This position required me to provide scientific support to Kapa's worldwide customer base (more than 80 distributors). Providing timely support for all scientific inquiries, optimizing protocols and suggesting specific products to customers and distributors. Kapa Biosystems had two product lines, Next generation sequencing (NGS) platform and End-point, to which the bulk of support questions were directed to the NGS applications. Sometimes, inquiries would require extensive planning and execution of lab-based experiments and analysis.The support team assisted in bringing new products to market via beta testing products for research and development, supporting quality control and manufacturing in their processes and producing supporting documents like product broachers.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I worked as a Math (Lit and Pure) for grades 10, 11 and 12, as well as a Science teacher for grade 8.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biotechology, Honours

Activities and Societies: South African Society for Microbiology conference (2011).

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Activities and Societies: I completed my high school career at South Peninsula. I was the captain of the Kendal athletic house.