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Lexington, KY, US

Manage solid dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Proficient in overseeing production schedules, ensuring compliance with cGMP regulations, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to maintain high levels of manufacturing productivity and efficiency, including tech transfers and process validation batches.

South Plainfield, NJ, US

Managed solid dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, including dispensing, granulation, compression and encapsulation. Oversaw daily production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of products to customers, while maintaining cost-effective production practices.

Arcadia, WI, US

Managed all aspects of the Foam Department. Managed 4 direct reports and 66 indirect reports. Drove a continuous improvement culture through internal and external benchmarks

Managed 80 employees in all aspects of manufacturing, packaging, warehousing and shipping of high purity liquid urethanes and silicones. Served as a quality assurance, safety, process improvement and customer service change agent, ensuring only the highest quality products were manufactured and shipped safely and on-time.

Trevose, Pennsylvania, US

• Managed all aspects of solid dosage manufacturing including but not limited to scheduling, creating, revising and maintaining SOP’s, training and increasing operational efficiencies. Reviewed & approved cleaning and.
• Increased the percentage of completed training from 68% to 85% in the first 8 months as manager.
• Managed the increase in units (capsules/tablets) produced from by 190 MM to 370 MM in two years.
• Decreased the coating process time for all products film coated by 10%-40%.
• Executed multiple dry blend product scale-ups resulting in roughly $100 K/yr in cost savings.

Trevose, Pennsylvania, US

• Created and supervised the fluid bed dryer department. Supervised the film coating and steroidal manufacturing operations while adhering to cGMP, SOPs, EHS and company requirements.KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
• Championed the IQ/OQ/PQ qualification of the fluid bed dryers and high shear mixer.
• Manufactured exhibit batches for ANDA/NDA submissions, scale up & process validation batches for new product launches.
• Authored, administrated and trained personnel on all fluid bed dryer SOPs.
• Decreased coating suspension preparation time from 16 hours to 2 hours.

Fridley, Minnesota, US

• Managed a specialty chemical packaging business that operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Supervised 25 union employees in a high performance, high quality environment while adhering to cGMP, SOPs, EHS and company.
• Increased order line fill rate (customer service rate) by 10% to 93% in the first 8 months as supervisor.
• Increased bottle throughput by 10% utilizing existing equipment and systems while staying under the overtime budget in the first 8 months as supervisor.

Rahway, New Jersey, US

• Prepared daily schedule and assigned personnel, fluid bed dryer and film coating pan equipment and other resources to meet production plan while achieving desired levels of productivity, throughput, inventory control.
• Trained 10 new employees on the operation of fluid bed dryers which resulted in the successful manufacturing start-up of Nexium® for the United States market in 2004.
• Championed the auditing of manufacturing process descriptions and batch reports. Achieved the document discrepancy department goal of 95% document accuracy.
• Investigated and submitted equipment malfunction reports and assisted with implementing corrective actions within 30 days resulting in no repetitive equipment malfunctions.
• Scheduled for the coating department leading to a 98% schedule performance.
• Supported the start-up of Singulair® Oral Granules by troubleshooting equipment prior to manufacturing and training employees on processes resulting in minimal discards and meeting the worldwide product launch date.

Rahway, New Jersey, US

• Implemented all necessary air requirements by federal, state and local government regulations pertaining to environmental protection for the on-site departments. Prepared and submitted air permit applications and.
• Presented a case to the PA Department of Environmental Protection that reduced the Title V air permit monitoring and recording requirements for non peak emergency generators resulting in savings valued at $400K/year.
• Received a Merck & Co., Inc. Exemplary Accomplishment Award for successfully completing and starting-up the Powerhouse Expansion Project which increased electricity and steam to the West Point site by 38 MW and 200,000.
• Received the 2001 PA Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence on behalf of Merck & Co, Inc.