KARIM VIRANI

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Rego Park NY 11374

acy2hn@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 718-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Chemical Engineering major with strong research, problem solving and critical thinking skills seeking opportunity in field of engineering. Motivated team leader with strong attention to detail

EDUCATION:

M.S., Chemical Engineering, City College, CUNY, New York June 2015

B.E., Chemical Engineering, City College, CUNY, New York June 2011

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

Transport Phenomena I, II, Energy System Engineering, Thermodynamics I, II, Introduction to Chemical Processes, Transport Operation, Separation Operation, Introduction to Material Science, Panel Testing, Pharmaceutical Applications, Powder Science, Process control, Design Process, Nonmaterial, Writing for Engineers, Advanced Kinetics, Fluid Mechanism, Foundation of fluids, Mass transfer, Interfacial phenomena, Engineering Law

QUALIFICATIONS:

Chemical Engineering Applications: Aspen, Chem Draw, Simulink, Processing, Super Pro, Auto Cad, Matlab

Laboratory Skills: Titration, PH Concentration machine, and data analysis

Software Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), Oracle 11g, Business objects, Xcelcius, SAP applications, R language, IBM Spss, Tibco Spotfire, SAP ERP, SAP S/4 Simple finance.

Core Skills: Strong interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills, group management

EXPERTISE:

Can quickly learn and accurately performs new procedures involving a range of technologies.

Tailored research techniques using pH probe, Olympus BX-51 and ELISA test.

Analyzing sensory data using related technology to predict the outcome.

Skilled in sterile molecular biology and cell culture techniques, cell maintenance and good working knowledge of Immunology and Biochemistry.

Skilled in using Aspen and Super pro tools to carry out effective design for the desired outcome.

Skilled in Spotfire & other related software to carry out analytical problem solving skills

Skilled in Pipetting and Histochemical Staining Techniques.

Proficient in Power Point, Microsoft Word and Excel, & SAP Business Objects

Working experience in food and flavor industry.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Global Sensory and Consumer Insight Coordinator - International Flavors & Fragrance (IFF) Oct 2015 - Current

(Flavors unit)

•Sensory & consumer insight data creation to identify the trend on which our customers rely for their answers.

•Creating a data warehouse to store the panelist data collected in flavor testing and integrating it with BI tools such as Tableau, spot fire, xcelsius and others.

•Managing product IPC for flavors which would give a standard IPC throughout industry and will help in creating a bank of IPC

•Educating Global team on using different methods of visualizing data and guiding them on important field needed for data consolidation.

•Coding data for statistics which would provide real time integration to sensory insight team and which give a clear understanding of the data through visualization tools.

•Writing SOP for best practice in using SharePoint, sensory data collecting technique and ensuring the tasks to be performed in safe manner as per SOP and GMP.

•Solid knowledge of consumer test, predictive analysis, statistical tool and analytical test.

•Part of a big data project where the sensory data collection and analyzing it using special Tibco tool called Spotfire.

•Assisted panelist to collect the flavor data of big brand products like cocola, Fritos lays, and many more to help flavorist with the right technique to identify flaws in the test product.

•Manage Sensory team researchers in beverage, dairy, savory and spod in assisting them with different technique to collect sensory data and analyze them using proper tools

•Solid knowledge of Annova, PCA, multi variance, regression, Duncan analysis and other statistical tool as part of sensory evaluation and make strategic decision.

Technical Coordinator – International Flavors & Fragrance (IFF) Dec 2013 – Jan 2014

(Cosmetic/ application)

Working as a link unit between research lab & stability lab for product improvement, new ingredients, optimizing catalog ingredient used in company.

Finding different techniques to boost fragrance effects & conducting experiment to find stabilizer for beauty care products.

Working on a small scale batch, plug flow & spinning basket reactor for product optimization used in beauty care products.

Assisting & recommending the green product to be used in shampoo, lipstick, deodorants, fragrance which would optimize the product & increase the storage life.

Running experiments & collecting scientific data for ingredients improvement which are marked hazardous for usage in fragrance materials.

Evaluating finished & unfinished products using sensory technique to determine the boosting effect of a material on finished fragrance.

Conducting material & fragrance stability by testing it in Fadeometer, harsh temperatures & refrigerating.

Checking issue with the unstable material by measuring PH or using technical information of materials.

Fundamental Coordinator – International Flavors & Fragrance (IFF) Mar 2012 – Jan 2014

(Fine Fragrance unit)

Running Fundamental studies of materials used in fragrance to determine intensity of material, which is later used by perfumer in selection process to create fine fragrance.

Using Compusense software for conducting sensory studies & making necessary adjustment to create a smooth process of data collection.

Assisting in company’s material replacement project to find a cost saving alternative for similar ingredients used in fragrance produced in different parts of the world at cheaper rate.

Using Spot Fire software to collect data, creating visualizations’, removing outliers, organizing data, & more.

Conducting triangle test to test the alternative products & using R programming language to find the D prime analysis & making conclusion of the triangle test.

Performing Duncan Analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics from fundamental studies & making conclusion of the material that are statically similar from the data collected during studies.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE:

Master Thesis Project – City College of NY, NY Aug 2014 – June 2015

Mathematical model in analyzing tumor growth in cancer cell with chemotherapy & metathesis

Discrete model to study the tumor growth in cancer patient using data from Columbia Medical center hospital

Analyzing data using Matlab tool & relating the model to study death rate, growth rate, cut off rate in tumor cell affected by cancer

Graduate Research Project – City College of NY, NY Feb 2011 – May 2011

Project Leader

Conducting research on biodiesel production, data analysis and methods for refining oil, titration and performing economic evaluation.

Excellent skills in Aspen process tools to stimulate calculation and designing the output based on the given task and goals.

Excellent skills in designing the process using super pro stimulator to perform economic evaluation and finding ways to cut down the effective cost in recycling.

City College of New York, New York, NY Sept 2010 – June 2011

Researcher in examining HRP Leakage Spot Frequency in Various Rat Vessels.

Performing data measurement of the spot distance on a rat vessel infected by arteriosclerosis using Olympus BX-51 on a micrometer scale.

Spot recognition techniques and making a useful conclusion of the areas affected by arteriosclerosis.

Capturing images and making notes which was used for the presentation and reported to the instructor for further review.

Research experience involved general laboratory safety, media preparation, plating, screening, polymerase chain reaction, gel electrophoresis, gel extraction and purification, genetic sequence analysis, bacterial cell culturing, and genetic cloning.

National Institute of Health, LaGuardia College, NY Sept 2009 – April 2010

Research assistant full time intern

Performing pH- metric measurement between copper ion and amino acid to find the complex formation constant.

Excellent skills in collecting data using pH probe and Lab Work (II) interface with a computer.

Organizing the lab reports and maintaining book records for the reports after each operation of synthesis.

Performing calculations of complex constant formation and making data analysis of the output.

Preparing reagents and buffers while performing calculations while following instructor's policy and guidelines.

Maintained Equipments, log books, QC activities such as release testing & data review when required.

HONORS ANDAFFILIATIONS:

Dean’s List

Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers August 2009- Present

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