Project Manager Supply Chain

GEORGE OTENG-ATTAKORA, MBA, Ph.D.

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West Chester, PA 19382 ******@*******.***

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LEADERSHIP PROFILE

BUSINESS STRATEGY SCIENCE

Business driven Technical/Process Engineering Director combining business

acumen with science to set strategy

and build product successes in the pharmaceutical, agrochemicals, personal

care and the chemical Industries. Over 15 years of broad experience in

Chemical Engineering, Formulation Process Technology and Process

Engineering. Great passion for leading complex projects from concept to

launch; setting strategic directions for manufacturing operations and

technology transfer. Key areas of expertise include:

Interface subject matter expect with Quality by design, cGMP.

the FDA People Management

Project Management Operational Management

Process Development Standard Operating Procedures

Lean-six sigma, Design of Management of Change

experiments.

Process scale-up/scale down

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Global Technical Service 2006 - 2010

Shire Pharmaceuticals - (Global Pharmaceutical Technology),

Maryland/Pennsylvania, US

. Set strategic direction by introducing global technical exchange

with third party manufacturers in a virtual manufacturing environment.

Introduced statistical tools for trouble shooting and managed

technical leaders and consultants to resolving product challenges.

. Developed scale-up and technology transfer for $2 billion late phase

III drug product acquired from New River.

. Achieved supply chain savings of $5 million by presenting a white

paper in a Type C FDA meeting to remove restrictions on GI drug

product supply chain.

. Achieved savings of ?$3 million in a lean project; working with

consultants, using physical value streams to streamline the sourcing

component of end to end Global Supply Chain principles to reduce

inventory levels.

. Managed technology /product transfer across third party manufacturers.

. Managed a $5million capital project to install and validate a new

packaging line for FDA approval.

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW 2006

Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Ft Lauderdale, Florida, USA

. Directed Process Development activities to ensure clear understanding

of the science & technology.

. Provided process engineering leadership as subject matter expect for

scaling up Andrx high blood pressure generic medication, metoprolol.

Provided input for ANDA, NDA submissions to the FDA.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER/INDUSTRIAL PHARMACIST 2005

Reviewed all stages of product life cycle; from development through

commercialisation.

. Provided process implementation support for Andrx generic and brand

controlled-release medication from R&D to routine manufacturing

. Resolved Andrx humidifier challenges for pan coating and Glatt

evaporative coating.

Resolved Andrx blockbuster extended release cholesterol (Altoprev)

dissolution challenges by application of polymer chemistry, DoE

(statistical analysis) & working with Tunnell Consultants. Used QbD and

process modelling for Andrx novel diabetes combo formulation.

LEAD PROJECT MANAGER 2000 - 2004

The Gillette Company, Boston, MA. USA

. Managed integration of Shaving and Toiletry Technology Laboratories

into one Personal Care Development Laboratories. (Change

Management).

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. Managed R&D activities.Worked with Program Management and Supply

Chain for effective end to end supply chain

. Designed & commissioned a novel intrinsically safe gel filler for

Gillette's Personal Care laboratory.

The new gel filler reduced time to market by half.

. Perfected Gillette's DAAP process, (Dual Action Antiperspirant)

using mathematical modelling, emulsion technology and spray

drying.

. Provided technical consultancy for Gillette antipesperant salt

spray drying processes in Chicago.

AToM PROJECT/PLANT MANAGER 1997-2000

Zeneca Pharmaceuticals/Agrochemical, Yalding. UK

(AToM stands for "Ability to Manufacture"). Managed all front-end process

engineering design; P&IDs, process control and commissioning activities.

. Established strategies for cross functional product development

teams to successfully improve operations & launched two novel

products estimated $1billion in market share.

. Designed, built and managed a $30 million computer-controlled

batch formulation, filling & packaging Plant in Belgium. Plant

capacity, 170,000 litres per shift at peak capacity. (High speed

filling & packing).

. Transferred technology to sister Plants in Brazil and USA.

PROJECT ENGINEERING LEADER 1995-1997

Graham Hart Process Technology Ltd, Bradford. UK.

Led the Process Design Group of a medium size, ($20 million), private

consultancy firm, to successfully design and manufacture Skid mounted

package plants of heat and mass transfer units.

. Designed skid mounted shell and tube heat

exchanges/distillation columns for the fine chemical &

Pharmaceuticals industries.

. Managed shop floor schedule. Introduced weekly meetings including

shop floor supervisors to review projects and shop floor schedule.

This initiative increased efficiency and eliminated schedule

conflicts.

. Negotiated foreign contracts worth over $2 million.

WORKS ENGINEER/PROCESS ENGINEER 1989 - 1991

Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now Glaxo-SmithKline Beecham, UK) Worthing, United

Kingdom

. Provided technical support for penicillin manufacturing and

operations in Primary and Secondary Production Divisions,

(parenteral).

. Achieved spent acetone recovery improvement by 50% by redesigning

and replacing distillation column internals. Increased convective

dryer yield by 50%

EDUCATION

Executive MBA, Boston University School of Business, Boston, MA - Class of

2004

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, ASTON UNIVERSITY,

Birmingham. UK. - Class of 1995

Awards: DEAN'S RESEARCH PRESENTATION PRIZE (Faculty of Engineering, Aston

University.

. Ph.D. Transport Phenomena - Heat & Mass Transfer across solid & liquid

interfaces. This study has relevance to evaporative spray processes in

the pharmaceutical industry.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lean six sigma expert Teaming Skills Managing for Results

Hazard and Safety Leadership Project Management Batch Process Scheduling

course Accounting for Business Distillation Technology

Leadership, Organization and Mathemeical modelling

the Decisions

Management of Change. Financial Management

ADDENDUM TO RESUME OF GEORGE OTENG - ATTAKORA, MBA, Ph.D.

PUBLICATIONS

. Solid Dose Extended Release - The Science, the Theory and the Practice,

(Andrx, 2005)

. The Perfect tablet, It begins from the beginning: Granulation, (Andrx,

2005)

. The Powerful Choice - Mapping Consumer Satisfaction (Gillette, 2001)

. Liquid Mixing; Quick Check-up on Scale-up. (Zeneca 1998)

. Evaporation of Droplets Freely Suspended in an Air Stream,

(IChemE Research Symposium Proc., 1993)

. Evaporation from Droplets in Free Flight: Effects of Skin-formation.

(IChemE. 1994).

. The Mechanisms of Droplet Oscillation: Effects on Mass Transfer

(Australia, 1994).

SELECTED MAJOR PRESENTATIONS

IVT CONFERENCE- Dublin 2006

Process Analytical Technology

"Quantitative Process Characterization" - A First and Important Step of

Successful PAT

INTERNATIONAL DRYING SYMPOSIUM, Gold Coast, Australia 1994

Presented a novel model on Droplet Surface Hydrodynamics and Evaporative

Spray Coating before a

Panel of experts at the International Drying Symposium- (Chaired by Keith

Masters)

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE- Newcastle, Australia 1994

I was invited to give a presentation on the industrial applications of heat

& mass Transfer from spray droplets to the chemical engineering department.

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