Saral Shah Email & Phone Number

Mumbai Area, India

Manufacturing Intermediates for pharmaceuticals and ingredients for personal care. Market leader in preservatives for personal care.

Mumbai Area, India

Business Development, Contract Manufacturing

PolyOrganix is a custom synthesis and contract manufacturing company, serving a variety of industries.•Design development and commercialization of specialty chemicals.•Some of the products commercialized include conducting polymers, co-polymers, reagents for cross coupling, stille coupling, and thiophene derivatives. •Managing and training a team of 3 interns for commercialization of products.•Quality control testing of product and raw material. •Packaging and shipping of hazardous materials in compliance with HAZMAT.•Interacting with suppliers and contract manufacturers.•Overview of transfer of technology, know-how and procedure to contract manufacturers.•Inventory management.

• Conducting general chemistry laboratory for undergraduate students.• Setting up and design of experiments.• Design of syllabus and course for general Chemistry.• General chemistry tutoring for Burnett’s Honors College at UCF.

• Design, synthesis, separation, purification, characterization and property studies of novel polymers, high performance polymers, polyimides, organic photovoltaics, conducting polymers and copolymers.• Developed a novel technique for synthesis of solution processible aromatic polyimide.• Extensive hands on experience in polymer synthesis, processing (spin coating, drop casting, etc), purification and characterization.• Thin film processing and characterization.• Carbon nanotubes polymer composites and polymer nanoparticles composites.• Fullerene (C60) surface modifications to improve solubility.• Extensive work on click chemistry (Diels-Alder type reactions).• Installation, Operation and Maintenance of a number of laboratory equipments.• Maintaining inventory of solvents and chemicals, interacting with the waste management and EH&S departments.• Training of Undergraduate students.• Weekly and monthly reports.

• Provide technical support to the marketing and sales division.• Developing MSDS, SOP’s, COA and internal reports for percent recovery.• Conducting Experiments to Optimize the Performance of Existing Unit Operations.• Worked extensively on fractional distillation columns for solvent purification and product separation.• THF distillation, Acetonitrile distillation, DMF distillation.• Chemical Product Transfer, Experimental Production Runs (EPR’s) and Manufacturing Scale Up.• Responsible for handling a team of 4 operators and following SOP and adhering to GMP.• Worked extensively on gas chromatography for Quality Control of raw material and final product samples. • Experience with Netel Omega QC and Netel Micro 9100 GC equipments.• Sizing of batches and following and keeping up with the production and delivery schedule.• Analyzing quotations for Raw material, ordering of raw materials and LDO for operations.• Documentation and analysis of test data.

• Provide service and technical support for customers.• Troubleshoot and solve problems for customers.• Work with the sales team to identify new business opportunities.• Grow business through new sales.• Attend Trade Shows representing Bharat Rasayan.

Ms, Industrial Chemistry

Activities and Societies: American Chemical Society (ACS), Indian Awareness Council (IAC), Sangam Indian Student Association PROVOST.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

PROJECT TITLED " Manufacture of Adiponitrile "

Hsc, Science

Ssc