Quality Assurance Laboratory

Hiep H. Vu

Address: *** ***** ****

Corona, CA **880

Phone Number: 909-***-****

E-Mail: hiep.h.vu@ gmail.com

Objective: A goal-oriented, hardworking chemist with 8 years of experience

in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in GC and HPLC

instrumentation, with an emphasis on raw material testing seeking a

position as a chemist.

Education:

B.S. Chemistry- University of Califonia-Riverside. Riverside, CA.

09/2001-06/2005

Overall GPA: 3.33

Professional Experience:

Chemist III- Actavis Pharmaceuticals

06/2012-present

Execution of method development protocols for new products and new raw

material prior to usage as API in production.

Conduct linearity, accuracy, precision, intermediate precision, robustness,

specificity and other development tests for HPLC and GC for the purposes of

method development.

Performed method transfers in cooperation with receiving sites in Florida

and India for the transferals of materials to different production sites.

Method verification between established and incoming methods from R&D and

those set out in guidelines of individual USP Monographs.

Creation of prefilled laboratory workbooks and worksheets to replace

laboratory notebooks for products that have high volume test (i.e.

repeatable testing) this represented more productivity and a reduction of

time spent rewriting steps already written in laboratory method.

GAP analysis between established laboratory methods and yearly changes in

the USP

Chemist II- Actavis Pharmaceuticals-Raw Materials Division Corona, CA

12/2007-06/2012

Performed laboratory analysis of incoming raw materials using a variety of

instruments such as GC, HPLC, FT-IR, UV-Vis, Karl Fischer, Wet Chemistry

etc.

Performed daily and monthly preventative maintenance for lab instruments

such as Waters HPLC and Agilent GC's.

Technical writing for investigation reports for abnormal results in

laboratory testing, such as out of specification results.

Creation and laboratory testing of secondary reference standards from high

quality raw materials, which eliminated the laboratory's reliance on USP

primary reference standard, representing significant cost savings of up to

40% of annual budget.

Provided cGMP and quality assurance training for incoming employees on

company SOP's and provided hands on training with laboratory

instrumentation and good documentation practice (GDP)

Chemist I- Actavis Pharmaceuticals- Corona, CA

05/2006-12/2007

. Analysis of post production goods using HPLC to

determine Assay, Content Uniformity

and Chromatographic Purity. Analysis of tablet

dissolution by usage of Distek Dissolution

Bath and Multidose Tablet Tester.

. Proper handling and testing experience with Schedule II

and III controlled substances such

as Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Oxycodone HCl

. Prepared mobile phase and other daily solutions and

standards for analysis

. For laboratory investigation reports, assisted supervisor

in carrying out diagnostic testing as

well as writing reports and interpreting and processing

data and results.

Laboratory Technician II- Alcoa Fastening Systems- Fullerton,CA

06/2005-05/2006

. Carried out daily analysis of water system and waste water

systems for metal content with

usage of ICP-AES and AA

. Analysis and monitoring of chemical levels in metal plating

baths and cleaning baths by

usage of wet chemistry and titrimetry.

. Production of water based, and alcohol based lubricants for

metal fasteners.

. Etch testing of steel alloys used in production of air

craft fastners.

Instrumentation/Lab Skills:

Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) -Waters (Model 2690/2695) w/ Empower 2

Gas Chromatography (GC)- Agilent HP6890 w/Chemstation

Thermo Scientific Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR)

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (UV-Vis)

Perkin-Elmer Polarimeter (Specific Rotation)

Distek Dissolution Bath/ Multidose Dissolution Apparatus

Metrohm Karl Fischer Titration (KF)- for Water Determination

Particle Size Analysis (PSA)- Malvern Mastersizer

Wet Chemistry, Titrations, Thin Layer Chromatography, Melting Point

LIMS Labware- Data Management Systems

Trackwise

Windows/MS Office/Excel/ Powerpoint

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