Sharafat Ali
Toronto,
ON, M3J 0G4, 647-***-****
**************@*******.***
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position in order to enhance my skills and work experiences while
positively contribution towards job proficiency and professional development.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
-Microbiological Testing - Microbial Limit Testing -Media
Preparation
-Growth Promotion testing -pH testing -Autoclaving
-Environmental Monitoring -Water Sampling and Testing
-Spectrophotometer
-Swab Sampling and Testing -Equipment Maintenance/Calibration
-Documentation/SOP
-HPLC and GC Operating -ELISA Technique -Dissolution
HIGHLIGHTS QUALIFICATIONS
Laboratory Skills
o Apply mathematical, physical, and chemical concepts to routine tasks such as the analysis and
synthesis of chemical compounds and samples
o Perform instrumental chemical analysis and report the quantitative/qualitative results
o Apply computer skills relevant to the chemical laboratory technology field including
LIMS
o Perform established Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures to ensure that
processes remain within designated limits
o Perform all assigned work in compliance with occupational health, safety, and
environmental law, legislation, and regulations; established policies and procedures; and
in accordance with ethical principles
o Good understanding of food preparation methods including HACCP, SQF
Communication
o Ability to communicate in English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi
o Proficient with all Microsoft Office applications
o Able to work well with people of all ages, establishing a good relationship between co-workers
o Use interpersonal and communication skills appropriate to the chemical laboratory
environment
WORK EXPERIENCE
Quality Assurance Technician Cericola
Food Products October 2013 - Present
o Ensures highly disciplined compliance with all regulatory and company defined food
safety systems, procedures and practices to ensure that we produce the highest quality
products
o Develops, implements, and continually searches for new methods and procedures to drive
improvements in quality and food safety
o Compiles all data obtained from testing and observations and completes report
summaries, as per established SOPs.
o Perform critical control point checks on process as outlined in the HACCP requirements
and other QA duties.
o Line checks, sample collection and sending to lab for microbiological tests
o Daily quality control inspections of the product and process areas
o Participated in internal GMP, HACCP and Food Safety audits
o Involved in production scale up process to meet the product design requirement
o Analyzed the data collected from various experiments for product evaluation
o Documented quality check results for all the products made on the day
o Reporting of any deviations and non-conformances to the QA manager
o Participated in Internal investigations and root cause analysis
Chemical Laboratory Technician
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology January 2011 to May
2013
o WHMIS and MSDS trained; ensure safe laboratory practices are followed
o Performed titration, Karl fischer titration, vacuum filtration, simple and fractional
distillations, microscopy, gas chromatography, high-performance liquid
chromatography,UV and IR spectrophotometer,ICP mass spectrophotometer, fluorometer,
polymerase chain reaction, gel electrophoresis, cryogenics, crystallography,
radiochemistry,calibration of different laboratory equipment
o Excellent understanding of Microbiological concepts, good manufacturing practices
(cGMPs),good Laboratory practices (cGLPs)
o Good understanding of food preparation methods including HACCP, SQF
o Possess fundamental laboratory computer skills and statistical techniques
Industrial Pharmacist April 2010 - December 2010
Supreme Pharmaceuticals
o Responsibilities to perform compounding of active ingredient with recipients for different
Pharmaceutical products
o Tasks to performed wet and dry granulation for tablets
o Good understanding to operate rotary punch machine, dryers(tray& fluid bed dryer),
coating equipment(coating pans, fluid bed coating), mixing pans( Silver son Mixer, V
Mixer)
o Labelling, packaging and storage of drugs
o Apply the methodologies of compressed tablets manufacturing including tablet
granulation
o Perform press set up, tablet compression and in-process testing
o Identify and categorise tablet physical defects
o Understand relationships and interactions of the various departments in pharmaceutical
company and the drug discovery process
o Worked with production to make operators responsible for quality.
o Worked in teams to develop Process Flow and Control Plans.
o Customer Liaison for quality issues.
o Understand common pharmaceutical manufacturing and analytical terminology
including the concept of GMP and SOP
o Devising and establishing a company's quality procedures, standards and
specifications;
o Reviewing customer requirements and ensuring that they are met;
o Working with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external
suppliers;
o Setting standards for quality as well as health and safety
Analytical Chemist September 2009 - March 2010
Marc Pharma Laboratory
o Prepare standards, reagents, samples and carry out chemical reactions
o Performed the qualitative, quantitative analysis on different chemicals
o Separation of mixture and identify each component by using analytical techniques and
instrumentation such as Gas Chromatography(GC) and High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC) and Spectroscopy (infrared and ultraviolet)
o Analysing samples from various sources to provide information on compounds or
quantities of compounds present
o Interpreting data and adhering to strict guidelines on documentation when recording data
reporting scientific results
EDUCATION
Chemical Laboratory Technician
(Seneca College of Arts and Science - Toronto, ON) 2011
to 2013
Diploma in Pharmacy
(Punjab Technical University - Punjab, India) 2007
to 2009
Evaluated as a two year Pharmaceutical Technologist diploma by World
Education Services (WES).