Project Manager Sales
Resume:
Steven K. Ma
New Hope, PA **540
949-***-**** (cell)
e-mail: ***********@*******.***
EDUCATION
****-**** ********** ** ******** at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry
1991-1995 Occidental College
B.A. cum laude in Chemistry
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
1) Project Management: Successfully managed project portfolios that
included on-time delivery of intermediates
and APIs to customers,
developed and managed project plans, established & maintained
strong customer relationship, coached & challenged cross-
functional teams, assisted key
account managers in product
sales and the preparation of contract agreements.
(2) Writing Skills: Prepared post-campaign reports and memos to
customers, drafted patents and EPA
Presidential Green chemistry
award applications, wrote scientific journals articles.
(3) Presentation Skills: Presented project plans, updates, budgets, and
forecasting strategies in internal management meetings,
oral presentations of scientific results internally and
externally.
(4) Teamwork: Worked in and managed project teams of 4-20 people.
(5) Possess over 9 years of experience working in biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industries.
(6) Experienced with collaboration and technology transfer to internal and
external partners.
(7) Worked in cGMP facilities in the manufacturing of intermediates and
APIs.
(8) Knowledgeable of intellectual property landscapes.
(9) Proficient with SAP, Trackwise, LIMS, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project,
and trained in Lean Six Sigma practices.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Feb 2009-June 2010 Lonza Inc, Conshohocken, PA
Product & Project Manager
. Managed project portfolio valued at >$20 million and
helped Lonza profit >$5 million.
. Developed project scopes and coordinated resources to
successfully complete projects.
. Responsible for budgeting, controlling, and monitoring
the status of each project.
. Supervised cross-functional teams with members from
Production, Procurement, Material Management, QA,
Regulatory, QC, Engineering, and EHS.
. Served as the primary interface with customers.
. Worked closely with marketing and sales team to publish
the site brochure.
2001-2008 Codexis Inc, Redwood City, CA
Staff Scientist II (2005-2008)
. Worked closely with R&D Managers and patent attorneys in
performing intellectual property landscapes and route
selection analyses of 12 commercial drugs leading to the
initiation of 3 projects.
. Performed cost-analysis for many pharmaceutical
projects.
. Served as Technical manager in the development of a
novel process to produce Ezetimide, a key ingredient in
Zetia and Vytorin.
. Successfully worked in project teams of 4-20 people that
involved many departments.
. Transferred processes to manufacturing partners in
Europe and India.
Staff Scientist I (2002-2005) Codexis Inc, Redwood City,
CA, spin-off of Maxygen Inc
. Conceived and initialized new pharmaceutical projects.
. Served as a technical manager of a project to develop a
novel process to Simvastatin.
. Developed a new commercial process to produce a key
chiral intermediate for Lipitor.
Associate Scientist (2001-2002) Maxygen Inc,
Redwood City, CA
Developed and optimized two processes for a
pharmaceutical company in 4 months.
Conceived and prepared 11 invention disclosure forms.
1995-2001 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL
Graduate Research Assistant (1995-2001)
Designed and synthesized the first artificial Mn(Salen)
metal -protein catalyst for the asymmetric epoxidation
of unfunctionalized olefins.
Synthesized functionalized Mn(Salen) metal complexes
that can be attached to protein surfaces and cavities.
1995 Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Summer Intern
Improved the preparation of phosphoric acid in the
manufacturing of Roundup Glyphosate.
1991-1995 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate Research Assistant (1991-1995)
Developed an efficient method for the synthesis of ?-
haloketones.
Determined the kinetics of AlCl3 catalyzed electrophilic
aromatic substitution reactions.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2010 Employee of the Month at Lonza
2006 EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
1995 Steele Foundation Scholarship
1994 John Stauffer Scholarship
1994 American Chemical Society: Petroleum Research Fellowship
1993 W. M. Keck Foundation Scholarship
1993 Academic Industrial Undergraduate Research Partnership
Fellowship
1992 Student of the year in General Chemistry
SELECTED PATENTS & PUBLICATIONS
1) Ma, S. K.; Gruber, J.; Davis, C.; Newman, L.; Gray, D.; Wang, A.;
Grate, J.; Huisman, G. W.; Sheldon, R. Green Chem. 2010, 12, 81-86.
2) Davis, C. S.; Grate, J. H.; Gray, D. R.; Gruber, J. M.; Huisman, G.
W.; Ma, S. K.; Newman, L. M.;
Sheldon, R.; Wang, L. A. "Enzymatic processes for the
production of 4-substituted 3-hydroxybutyric
acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted
carboxylic acid esters," US7132267, Nov 7, 2006.
(3) Fox, R. J.; Davis, C. S.; Mundorff, E. C.; Newman, L. M.;
Gavrilovic, V.; Ma, S. K.; Chung, L. M.;
Ching, C.; Tam, S.; Muley, S.; Grate, J.; Gruber, J.; Whitman, J. C.;
Sheldon, R. A.; Huisman, G. W. Nature Biotechnology 2007, 25, 338-344.
4) Carey, J. R.; Ma S. K.; Pfister T. D; Garner, D. K; Kim, H. K;
Abramite, J. A.; Wang, Z; Guo, Z; Lu,Y.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 108**-*****.
5) DeHaan, F. P.; Ahn, P. Y.; Kemnitz, C. R.; Ma, S. K.; Na, J.; Patel,
B. R.; Ruiz, R. M.; Villahermosa, R. M. Int. J. Chem. Kinet. 1998, 30,
367-372.
6) DeHaan, F. P.; Allen, M. W.; Ang, M. C.; Balacuit, D. B.; Bentley, C.
A.; Bergstrand, R. J.; Cho, E. R.; DeHaan, D. O.; Farris, T. E.;
Kemnitz, C. R.; Ma, S. K.; Matin, K. A.; Ruiz, R. M.; Sakamoto, D. K.;
Sharvit, O.; Strassmaier, T. T.; Uyeda, H. T.; Villahermosa, R. M. J.
Org. Chem. 1995, 60, 8320-8323.
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