Quality Control Technician

PRANEETH IVAN JOEL

Temporary Address: 216-***-**** Permanent

Address:

*****, ****** ** *** ******, ********.****@*****.*** 32 McGreevey Way,

Apt. No. 10102, Wintergarden, Apt C, Boston,

Florida- 34787 MA-02120

EDUCATION

• Masters of Science in Chemistry (GPA: 3.61) Aug 2011-Dec 2013

Cleveland State University, OH

• Bachelors in Pharmacy (GPA: 3.65) Jun 2007-May 2011

Manipal University, India

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Research experience from Master’s Thesis with applications in protein and Cancer research.

• Experience with LC-MS, Chromatography and protein purification.

• Internship experience in Pharmaceutical industry, Water Sciences and as a lab tech.

PROJECTS

Master’s Thesis: Nov 2011-Dec 2013

• RP-LC-MS: Used Agilent HPLC-Chemstation and Bruker Ion-trap-Esquire control on intact proteins and

peptides to check for a nitration caused by Nitromethane on “Inducible nitric Oxide Synthase” enzyme.

• Protein Purification: Purified “iNOSoxy” and “eNOSoxy”- (Cell culture, Centrifugation, UV-VIS, Enzyme

activity studies and Affinity Chromatography).

• FTIR: Worked on analyzing the changes caused in the functional groups of proteins in the presence of

different organic nitroalkanes.

• Data Analysis Tools: “ORIGIN 8.5.1,” Microsoft, Minitab.

Environmental Chemistry Mini Project: Jan 2013-May 2013

• Tested the water from the Cuyahoga River using ICP-OES to check if the heavy metal ion concentrations

exceed the TLV specified by the EPA.

EXPERIENCE

Chemist Intern, Walt Disney Company Jan 2014-Present

• Conduct multiple tests to analyze salt and fresh water aquatic animal systems for water quality and take

corrective actions.

• Microbiology tests to check for coliform bacterial growth.

• Work with UV, Ozone and Chlorine water disinfection systems

• Instruments: Dissolved Oxygen Sensors, pH Sensors, ORP Sensors, Tensionometers, Turbidity Meters, Ion

Chromatograph, Colorimeters, Spectrophotometer, Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analyzer.

Chemistry Lab Technician, Cleveland State University Dec 2011-Dec 2013

• Maintained a safe, Organized and clean undergraduate lab for 2 years with minimal supervision and

support.

• Made sure we have adequate supplies of laboratory reagents, Indicators, Buffers and equipment before

each lab experiment.

• Proper disposal of hazardous Chemicals and glassware.

• Maintain detailed laboratory notebook for Inventory Control and Organized filing system for records.

• Perform scheduled equipment maintenance and Calibration.

QC-Intern, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals ltd. Jan 2010-Jun 2010

• Performed Quality Control tests for raw materials, tablets, liquid orals, parenteral products and inprocess

samples

• Tests Include: Weight variation, Friability, Hardness, Thickness and Diameter, Disintegration and dissolution,

Bulk and tapped density, Particle size, Moisture content, Sterility testing, Particulate and Package integrity

testing

• Microbiological tests for bacterial growth from Swab samples.

• Attained an In depth knowledge of GLP and GMP.

ACTIVITIES

• Presented a poster at Brockport, SUNY under the title “iNOSoxy Catalyzed Aliphatic Nitro-Compound

Electroreduction”

• Presented a Poster at Graduate Student Interdisciplinary research Club (GSIRC), Cleveland under the title

“Enzyme Kinetic Studies of iNOSoxy in the presence of Nitroalkanes”.

STRENGTHS/POSITIVES

• Highly detail oriented, great attention to detail and analytical

• Demonstrated Computers (Microsoft office word,outlook, excel, powerpoint, hard ware and networking) and

Math (GRE math:730/800) skills and ability to express experimental data in Charts.

• Ability to design and document experiments and follow standard operating procedures.

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