Coordinator

Posted on: 2008-05-29

161 Vernon Ct.- Lansdale, Pennsylvania 19446 267-257-8181 [email protected] QUALIFICATIONS Meticulous, chemist skilled in Product Development/Quality Control with extensive training in Stability. Enthusiastic, team player with a thorough understanding of wet chemical analysis, USP, EP tests methods. Familiar with SOPs and the guidance’s regulating R&D, GLP, and GMP environments. Extensive experience with batch records, chemical instrumentation and software. Particularly GC, AA, UV, Karl Fisher and FTIR. Positive, attitude toward laboratory safety requirements. Versatile with great organizational & leadership abilities, and able to multi-task. Impressive academic undergraduate and graduate research history. National Institutes of Health sponsored student in the Minority Biomedical Research Support program for 6 years. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Recipient of “Outstanding Chemistry Student Award”, for the Department of Chemistry. Recipient of “Outstanding Graduate Student Award,” for the School of Arts & Sciences. BETA KAPPA CHI Honor Society. Exxon Scholarship, NASA-STDP Fellowship 1990, Who’s Who among American High School Students. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY On Assignment [Temporary Agency] August 2001- Present National Medical Services Inc., Willow Grove, PA Lab Analyst II Analyses of abused and therapeutic drugs in patient samples (i.e. serum, blood, urine, tissue, etc.). Duties include instrument maintenance and set- up; preparation of reagents, controls and calibrators; LIMS data entry and review; and sample preparation and analysis using GC instrumentation. SANOFI- AVENTIS, Berwyn, PA Stability Department, Scientist, Early Compound Assessment Dermatological product development division. Independently manage and interact with outside vendors/labs. Conduct preformulation studies (e.g., physical and chemical characterization, solid state and solution stability, pKa, solubility, etc). , method development and special request for laboratory analysis while maintaining a GLP/GMP environment. Review project Addendum proposal and NDA documents. TEVA PHARM USA, Sellersville, PA Stability Department, Associate Scientist Conduct analytical testing on finished product samples for the stability programs. Prepare sample solutions, standards, and reagents. Assay preparation, dissolution, Karl Fisher, UV-VIS, wet chemistry techniques, pH, general bench work and data interpretation. Maintain accurate laboratory documents. Exceptional ability to work with others on project teams. GSK, Upper Merion, Conshohocken, PA Stability Department, Q/C-Coordinator Development and updating of analytical reports and methods for stability sample [release, stability]. Execute the mandatory chart change when appropriate for several stability chambers. Perform in-process, finished product, stability testing and sample pulls. Understand and work within LIMS database. Record deionized water system and document the results in the appropriate laboratory notebooks. Maintenance of TRIM (Training Management) records for the QC lab, insuring proper compliance to the present GMP, cGMP and FDA regulations. Mainline[Temporary Agency] March 2003-August 2003 CERTAINTEED, Blue Bell, PA Research & Development, Chemist Maintain accurate laboratory notebooks, responsible for daily chemical analysis associated with R & D Laboratory, manufacturing, incoming material analysis, costumer complaints and general lab testing. Maintain proficiency in all laboratory processes and procedures. Performs analysis of insulation products. Method development for AlphaMos-eNose (multivariate data analysis, modeling ect.) which could be used in the insulation industry. Summer Internships/Academic Research MBRS/NIH, ROHM & HAAS, EXXON RESEARCH & ENGINEERING and ROCHE BIOMEDICAL. INSTRUMENTATION Laboratory/Software AA Perkin Elmer, GC Hewlett Packard, UV-VIS Guilford, FT-IR Mattson/Cygnus, ESR Varian, GC/MS Finnegan, Pryrolysis/GC/MS/MS Finnegan, Enose Alpha Mos. LIMS, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Word, Windows NT, TRIM, Lotus, Axyum, Chemtex, Xcalibir. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Community Services Foundation (part-time) August 2003- Present North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University December 1988- May 1993 Department of Chemistry Philadelphia Community College (Adjunct) December 1993 Montgomery County Community College (Adjunct) June 1997 EDUCATION North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, M.S., Chemistry May 1993 North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, B.S., Chemistry December 1988 CONFERENCES Sixteenth NIH-MBRS Symposium Proceedings, “Spectroscopic Studies of Four and Five Coordinate Copper(II) Macrocyclic Amine Complexes.” Los Angles, California 1988 1990 NIGMS Minority Programs Symposium Program, “Interaction of Mononuclear and Binuclear Copper (II) Complexes.” Nashville, TN 1990