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Newport Beach, Ca, Us

• Manufacturing department leader for a team of forty (supervisor, leads, and operators).• Improvement in Key Performance Indicators for Operations, Quality, and Safety (OEE, Throughput, Swab checks, and TRIR). • Shifting the department's emphasis to one of efficiency and continuous improvement through RCA and action plan implementation. • Despite a 20% workforce cut, production output increased by 18% compared to the prior fiscal year.• Setting standard times for product changeovers (reduction of changeover length from 24 hours to 14 hours).• Coaching, training, providing corrective action, and promoting/developing members within the team.• Leading daily meetings with other department managers and directors.

Santa Fe Springs, California, United States

• Project manager for multiple quarter-million to half million projects resulting in payback periods of under two years.• Obtained budget spending approval from C-Suite through Cost Savings Analysis presentations.• Led a multi-site Cleaning and Sanitation program which resulted in a monthly swab success rate improving from 85% to 95%.• Developed and executed several IQ/OQ/PQ validations for equipment used in the production of nutraceuticals.

Ontario, California

Quality Control chemist for Coca Cola syrups division in Ontario, CA. Conduct quality control on syrups using HPLC, spectrophotometry, and titration, in addition to testing treated water samples. Microbiological testing using pour plating techniques and asceptic methods. Verify floor equipment has met sanitation standards and plant is functioning under proper GMP and ISO regulations and procedures. Conduct monthly internal GMP audits. Responsible for daily/weekly instrument calibration. Generate/update SOPs and train new employees. Troubleshoot processing equipment and identify process inefficiencies. Utilize SAP and Infinity QS software for data entry and process trend analysis.

• Assembled/Disassembled liquid chromatography mass spectrometers and HPLC autosamplers.• Troubleshot and ran calibrations and maintenance on mass spectrometers.• Worked with vacuum pumps and turbo pumps as well as controllers.• Conducted quantitative analysis and created reports using Analyst Software 1.6 and Analyst Reporter for the San Diego Reference Laboratory.• Executed a project, independently, in which analytics software was simplified, for a mass spectrometer, to shorten time used to analyze patient samples for drug usage.

Repaired a solvent recycler. Experimented for an ideal slurry solution composition used in the production of various sorbents for the purpose of reducing sorbent production costs. Assisted employees on production line for solid phase extraction columns and automatic pressure manifolds. Learned the procedure for a solid phase extraction that would be conducted for drug testing purposes.