Technician Marketing

Experience: Over ** years of experience working in clean rooms,

following cGMPs, and SOP's manufacturing pharmaceutical drugs.

Boehringer Ingelheim

March 2011- Present

Senior Associate in Cell Culture

. Member of a team that manufactures a pharmaceutical drug for colorectal

cancer treatment

. Lead operator, mechanic, and subject matter expert for centrifuges

systems

. Operates and monitors automated process equipment used in cell culture

production such as bioreactors, process tanks, Clean In Place systems,

autoclaves, and filtration systems

. Trained and performed projects using efficiency tools such as Operational

Excellence, 6S, Kaizen events,

and 6 Sigma

Amgen Fremont

Safety Coordinator for Manufacturing

January 2010-March 2011

. Coordinator all safety related activities including collecting monthly

data, building power point presentations, delivering meetings to staff,

reporting progress to site management.

. Identified and corrected multiple safety issues within the facility by

making engineering changes, changing procedures, implementing best

practices, and ordering new safety equipment

. Active member of the Emergency Response Team, trained in CPR, advanced

first aid and light research and rescue

Senior Associate Process Technician in Cell Culture February 2007

to 2009

. Lead operator and mechanic for centrifuges systems

. Major contributor on a building expansion project commissioning and

validating various pieces of process equipment including a new large

scale centrifuge, filtration units, and associated tanks and plumbing

Genentech August 2001 to August

2006

Senior Bioprocess Technician in Protein Purification

. Extensive experience with manual and automated protein purification

equipment and instrumentation used in centrifugation, liquid

chromatography, and ultrafiltration/diafiltration systems

. Process Step Owner - performed system preparations for campaign

start-up, equipment validation and product change-overs for

clinical and marketed products

. Certified expert for the Alpha Laval AX-215 Centrifugation system

. Certified Trainer for column chromatography, tangential flow

filtration, and centrifugation systems

. Experience interacting with the FDA and internal regulatory

inspections

. Active member of the manufacturing safety team, and safety projects

First Alert Team Member

State certified Hazardous Material Specialist, and Hazmat Team member

State certified Emergency Medical Technician

Active member of the First Alert Team steering committee

Kirkwood Mountain Resort Inc.

November 1998 to April 2001

Lead Lift Operator

. Managed daily work schedules for multiple alpine lift crews

. Performed daily safety inspections, tabulated safety logs and

conducted general maintenance surveys of multiple high capacity

alpine lifts

. Initiated and maintained four safety workstations to insure both

public and crew safety

. Trained new alpine lift operators

Momentum Inc.

April 1999-January 2000

Project Coordinator

. Coordinated and managed a two to ten person marketing team which

supported the launching of a new product for American Express Inc.

. Strategically planned marketing site locations for maximum

efficiency and safety

. Directed communication between local event site management and

the Momentum marketing team at product launch sites

. Installed and maintained computer hardware and software that was

used by the Momentum marketing team for data collection at varying work

sites

. Processed daily site data and transferred marketing data to the

Momentum home office

. provided vital ideas and strategies that contributed to the

success of the American Express marketing

Education

Bachelor of Science Environmental Biology

June 1999

University of Tennessee

Tropical rainforest ecology - Independent study in Costa Rica

July 1997

California State certified Emergency Medical Technician

October 2004

Search and Rescue Training

April 2005

Hazardous Materials Specialist

2002

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