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Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

I am a member of the internal, enterprise-level consulting team that our company has assembled to create, deploy, and sustain our new model for Operational Excellence, The Catalent Way.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Led and supported frequent customer information meetings as the manufacturing facility underwent significant Engineering and Quality updates.Built and sustained a new task management system for handling over 300 customer requests using a combination of Microsoft Power Automate, Planner, and PowerApps.Designed a new process with Microsoft Lists to.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Advanced Catalent Madison's data digitization efforts through new software platform implementation and electronic batch record pilot testing in departments across the site with the goal of proposing a strong business case for increased adoption of process intelligence/advanced data analytics tools across the global Catalent Biologics network

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Assessed and modified environmental sensor calibration practices to eliminate 23 site deviations per year, attributable to $105k annual Type I savings, and $240k annual Type II savings for the facility
• Designed and purchased $45k of equipment through the Capital Expenditure program that was ultimately used to provide Operations Associates with the tools needed to successfully clean equipment between product campaigns
• Redesigned cleaning record format and distribution methods used for all commercial products on-site to conform with ISPE best-practice guidance, ensuring relevant cleaning instructions and data are readily available.

Te Kauwhata, Waikato, New Zealand

Responsible for daily operations during the 2020 vintage. Duties include: fruit/juice receiving and transfer to facilities, crushing, de-stemming, pressing, fermentation monitoring, filtration, sampling and analysis, and maintaining general hygiene and cleanliness of winery equipment

West Lafayette, IN

• Managed various process analytical technology tools (near-infrared, X-ray mass flow, at-line tablet analyzer) in an oral solid dosage manufacturing environment
• Implemented and calibrated a near-infrared spectroscopic sensor onto the tablet press equipment for composition monitoring using customized MATLAB scripts and Aspen ProMV
• Performed hands-on experiments for continuous tablet manufacturing using an industrial scale 22-station tablet press with Emerson DeltaV
• Utilized enterprise digital infrastructure software OSI PI AssetFramework and DataLink to organize and manage collected real-time process data and create user reports and dashboards

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Laid groundwork to create a digital twin for high shear granulation within a small molecule manufacturing process through performing an extensive literature review and carrying out initial modeling of mixing dynamics
• Performed process modeling for a high shear granulator with discrete element model simulations using Siemens STAR-CCM+ computational fluid dynamics software
• Evaluated and streamlined the use of a metabolic model for a large molecule manufacturing process with the goal of designing a new feeding strategy using newly available Raman spectroscopy data
• Carried out multivariate data analysis with partial least squares model building for a drug product manufacturing process to detect links between quality attributes and various process parameters

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Vandergrift

Individually responsible for children ages 8-12 during daily morning swim practice and bi-weekly competition meets. Motivational techniques, group leadership skills, and strong communication between fellow coaches and swimmer parents were crucial facets of this position.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

Fall '17 Study Abroad Term