Quality Control Assurance

Visalakshi Baskaran

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Homewood IL 60430

Email: ************@*******.***

Telephone 708-***-****

Chemist with 20 years experience in environmental, pharmaceutical and

manufacturing industries with GLP and GMP standards skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

January 2003-Present, Chemist, Alar Engineering, Mokena, IL

Conducted environmental testing on wastewater samples with specific

reference to pollution control.

Worked with clients to understand their objectives and provide solutions

that meet or exceed client expectations in the wastewater treatment.

Suggested Rotary vacuum system, Filter press application or Gravity

separation system as filtration method based on analysis of wastewater

samples.

Coordinated quality assurance and quality control activities involving

the application of statistical methods to the validation of analytical

laboratory data.

Created a database of laboratory analyses using Microsoft Excel and

Access programs.

Maintained a database for Material Safety Data Sheet of raw materials and

analyzed products.

March 2002-December 2002, Consulting Chemist, University Park, IL

Conducted Quality control analyses on pesticides, herbicides and

fungicides using Hewlett Packard HPLC instruments in conjunction with

Agilent integrator.

Developed detailed Standard Operating Procedures for the experiments

adopted in the laboratory.

Conducted environmental testing on soils, water samples, pesticides,

herbicides and phosphate analysis using Varian GC (Electron Capture and

Flame Ionization detectors). Processed data using Target software.

February 2000-November 2001, Chemist, Milex Products, Chicago, IL

Responsible for Quality control analyses of pharmaceutical products per

ISO 9000 specifications and US Food and Drug Administration regulations.

Recommended measures to improve laboratory methods, and wrote Standard

Operating Procedures.

Set up trend analysis & statistical analysis of data generated from test

results in accordance with GMP and GLP standards.

Validated methods adopted from USP in the analysis of sodium lauryl

sulfate, amino acids, methionine and cystine with the help of Shimadzu

UV/VIS 160U spectrophotometer.

Assisted external services and contractors with validation and

verification of protocol implementation.

January 1999-December 1999, Technical consultant, UCSI, Homewood, IL

Modified and updated application programs and corresponding files as

AS/400 COBOL programmer.

January 1996-January 1999, Chemist, McIntyre Group Ltd, University Park, IL

Conducted organic synthesis analyses of specialty chemicals using

Varian/Perkin-Elmer GC (packed and capillary column) with Flame

Ionization Detector.

Performed analysis using Perkin-Elmer FTIR spectrophotometer and HPLC in

conjunction with UV/VIS detector. Prepared Certificate of Analysis for

manufactured products.

Trained and mentored new chemists and provided them both positive and

negative feedback, reinforced skills, and built self-esteem.

March 1992-September 1994, Chemist, Johnson Products, Chicago, IL

Conducted quality control analyses of personal care products such as

shampoos, conditioners, relaxers, and a variety of hair foods.

May 1989-December 1992, Chemist, ESPO Engineering, Willow brook, IL

Worked on a method development project involving particulate measuring

system analyses of diesel and natural gas operated locomotives.

Established a quality assurance system for Varian GC and HPLC instruments

while continuing exhaust emission sample analyses of natural gas powered

automobiles.

Increased productivity in instrument lab by recommending, designing and

coding programs in TURBO Pascal.

EDUCATION

Master of Science (Chemistry), DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), University of Madras, India.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Have an extensive mathematics background.

Programming Languages: COBOL, MVS Assembler, C, TURBO Pascal, Dbase and

FORTRAN.

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