PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Regulatory Affairs professional with extensive, multidisciplinary industry
experience and a proven ability to execute. Diverse range of expertise in
regulatory compliance, CMC, quality, manufacturing, pharmacovigilance,
clinical and non-clinical fields. Solid knowledge on US FDA, EU, ICH and
ISO regulations. Handled multiple clients' projects with high efficiency
as a regulatory affairs specialist.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Biovalorem, Indianapolis, USA December 2010
- Present
Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
. Developed Quality Management System (QMS) for a number of
pharmaceutical and biotech companies including preparing Quality
Manual, Standard Operating Procedures and other Quality tools.
. Conducted training on QMS, GMP, GLP, GDP and GCP to a number of
Pharmaceutical companies.
. Performed a Sponsor and Contract Research Organization (CRO) Partner
Assessment to select a CRO that can fit the requirements of the client,
using assessment tools.
. Assisted on New Drug Application (NDA) dossiers submission scheduling.
. Developed Clinical Study Report Template using ICH E3 regulation and
Clinical Study Protocol Template for a multisite clinical study.
. Prepared and coordinated submission of Annual Safety Reports to
regulatory agencies.
. Conducted FDA mock audits at a number of pharmaceutical companies on
Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Vigilance Practices (GVP), and Good
Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance.
. Developed training material on new Eudravigilance Guidelines and
assisted in training.
. Developed procedures, instruction, workflows and tools required for
Case processing, Safety Data Exchange, Aggregate Safety Reports,
Literature Surveillance, Product Information Maintenance & Safety
Variation Submissions., Safety Signal Management, Risk Management Plans
(RMP) or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS).
. Harmonized Pharmacovigilance department to comply with US and European
regulations including preparing procedures for post marketing reporting
for approved products.
. Developed a pharmacovigilance and clinical quality assurance key
performance indicators tracking tool for a multinational pharmaceutical
company.
. Prepared and coordinated NDA, BLA and CMC submissions to the FDA.
. Registered Over The Counter (OTC) drug products with FDA using
electronic submission gateway.
. Developed regulatory strategy for a number of drug products and
assisted in bringing the products onto the US market.
. Coordinated and consulted with cross-functional departments on the
content, review and assembly of regulatory documentation.
. Assisted on Global Regulatory Affairs audit at a multinational
pharmaceutical company to ensure compliance with global regulations.
. Developed unique risk assessment tools to conduct risk based audits of
the pharmaceutical and clinical sites.
. Developed monitoring and auditing tools for Investigative Sites using
ICH E6 regulations and US FDA BIMO regulations, Sponsors and Contract
Research Organizations using ICH E6 regulation and US FDA BIMO
regulations, Medical Laboratories using ISO 15189 standard, Medical
Devices establishment using ISO 13485 standard and Institutional Review
Board using US FDA and HHS regulations and conducted audits using these
tools.
. Developed Vendor Management System including the qualification,
auditing, execution and monitoring procedures and tools to track the
performance.
. Developed Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) solution to assess
the impact of non-conformities, determine the root cause, plan and
implement.
. Prepared validation strategy and performed validation of various
softwares that assist in tracking pharmaceutical manufacturing
performance indicators.
. Developed project management tools and templates to track various
projects being undertaken and successfully tracked the projects and
their progress.
. Assisted in prepared training material for Project Management
Professional (PMP) certification and training various groups.
Borra Health Care Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India April
2009 - September 2010
Regulatory Affairs Associate
. Handled change control procedures, Deviations, Failure Investigation &
implementation of CAPA.
. Prepared SOP's, Batch Manufacturing Records (BMR), Batch Packing
Record, Annual Product review, Trending of Quality Parameters of API.
. In-process Quality Assurance: Line Clearance, Sampling of In-process
and finished product Sampling of Validation batch samples, In-process
checks, Batch Processing Record review, product release to market, Log
books of preventive maintenance of equipment's, daily usage log books
review.
. Prepared checklists for internal quality audits and assisted on the
internal audits.
SR College of Pharmacy, Warangal, India June 2006 - May
2007
Teaching Assistant in Biochemistry Laboratory
. Assisted in Biochemistry laboratory for conduct of various experiments
and analyzed the results.
CERTIFICATIONS
. Achieved Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP) certificate
offered by SOCRA.
. Achieved certificates of completion by accomplishing training modules
offered by the U.S. FDA under
o CDRH Learn - QSR, PMN, Recall management, Establishment
Registration and Listing
o CDER Learn - Drug regulation, labeling, compliance, and risk
assessment etc
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Regulatory Affairs in Drugs, Biologics and Medical
Devices
Northeastern University, USA
Bachelor of Pharmacy
Kakatiya University, India
PUBLICATIONS
"Effect of Excipients on Chloroquine Phosphate Tablets" Journal of
Pharmacy Research. Oct 2009, Vol. 2 Issue 10, p1648-1652.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
. Prepared, Reviewed and submitted an IND Document, BLA and 510(K) in
class setting
. Interpreted FDA Warning Letters issued to various companies and
replied to them as part of the course work
. Prepared sample Informed Consent documents for various phases of a
clinical trial of a novel drug
. Submitted a position paper on "Tobacco Industry: Positives,
Negatives, Approach of the FDA and Congress"
. Submitted a position paper on "Reusing Single Use Medical Devices"
. Submitted a paper on "The Role of Midlevel Practitioners (Nurse
Practitioner, Physician Assistants and Pharmacists) in HealthCare
Delivery and Patient Access"
. Submitted a paper on "Impact of PPACA Provisions on Patients and
Insurance Companies"
. Worked on the project "Combination Products and Challenges of
Convergence" and presented the project
. Worked on the mini project "Reimbursement for Combination Products"
COMPUTER SKILLS
. MS Office suite of products like Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio
. MS Project
. OS like Windows, Mac iOS
. Adobe Acrobat Pro
. SharePoint