Gábor László Simon, PhD

Address: H-**** Pécel, Boncsok u. 2., Hungary

E-mail: ac9u59@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +36-20-266-**-**

www.linkedin.com/in/gábor-simon

SUMMARY

Experienced head of production with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. Repeated success in identifying/resolving potential issues, minimizing costs, and developing new production lines; credited with PhD from University of Veszprém. Able to develop daily production schedules, create new SOPs, and monitor financial indicators of production. Possess excellent relationship building, negotiation, analytical problem solving, and interpersonal communication skills.

Highlights of Expertise

Bacteriological fermentations

Vaccine production

Aseptic process design, closed system production

Start-up of new production lines, new product industrialization, GMP validation

Lean

Staff planning & scheduling

HR Management (feedback & coaching)

Staff Health & Safety

Relationship Management

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Jan 2017 - Head of Fermentation and Bioreactor Department

Present Ceva-Phylaxia, Budapest, Hungary

Manage overall operations of fermentation and bioreactor department. Hold accountability for inactivated bacterial and viral antigen production in bioreactors and for inactivated bacterial vaccine production. For more see previous position as well.

Key Accomplishments:

Implemented first production line in company for virus antigen production in bioreactors.

Aug 2003 - Head of Bacteriological Production Department

Dec 2016 Ceva-Phylaxia, Budapest, Hungary

Supervise production of bacterial antigens and vaccines. Oversee the work of the department including staff planning and scheduling. Interlink with other departments to build consensus. Assess process and financial KPI-s and take corrective actions accordingly. Direct HR activities, including staff recruitment, on-boarding, training, and supervision.

Key Accomplishments:

Develop and implement robust plans to enhance department production (500% production increase in 10 years).

Execute best practices to increase production quantities, staff number, and technology transfers (design of GMP compliant production plant, start-up of five fermentation lines, technology transfer of four vaccine and six antigen productions, build the production team from five to fifty people, change from one to two shift production).

Accomplished lean transformation of the production area.

May 2002 – Engineering leader

Aug 2003 Human Pharmaceutical Works, Gödöllő, Hungary

Ensure the technical background for the continuous work of the Biochemistry plant. Participate in capacity increasing investment projects

Oct 2000 – Senior chemical engineer

Feb 2002 Lexmark International, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA

Lead the Hungarian project of Lexmark. Participate in the design of the plant in Hungary. Supervise the solvent recovery unit in the Boulder plant.

March 1998 – Chemical engineer

Aug 2000 Gedeon Richter Pharmaceutical Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Technological supervision of workshops producing API. Team leader in SAP-PP-PI installation project.

Sept 1992 – Researcher

Jan 1998 Hungarian Academy of Sciences / University of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary

Research and teaching at the University of Veszprém.

EDUCATION

2004 - 2007 Post graduate degree in Microbiology

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

1996 - 1998 MBA

University of Veszprém - Case Western Reserve University (USA)

1993 - 1996 PhD in Chemical engineering

University of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary

1993 - 1994 PhD in Chemical engineering

Institute National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy, France

1987 - 1992 Master of Chemical engineering – 1992

Bachelor of Chemical engineering - 1990

University of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary

SKILLS

Languages: Fluent English, basic French and Russian.

Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, other common software.

HOBBIES

Horse riding, skiing, hiking, swimming.

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