Entry Specialist Order

Education

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Science: April 2008

Major: Microbiology

Gujarat University

Master of Science: May 2009

Major: Life Science

Work Experience

Order Entry Specialist

ALO Inc – Elgin, IL

08/2018 to 06/2020

Entering order for the customer into the system as per their request

Used Movex system for entering the order.

Fulfill the requirements for the order

Corresponded with email, phone to resolve the discrepancies

Maintained accuracy and confidentiality

Check inventory in the system and made orders according to the availability in the warehouse.

R & D Bev Tech - Micro

Pepsico - Barrington, IL

04/2018 to 06/2019

Prepared media based on the recipes such as Lactose Broth, concentrate, PDA agar, MRS Agar, OSA agar etc

Tested food products of Quaker finished product; ingredients based on the requirements

Tested Beverages Gatorade, Tropicana, Probiotics on OSA and PD agar

Calibrated Ph meter, scale on daily basis

Done Air sampling of the various pilot plant sites

Done water testing

Autoclaved fermenters and biohazard waste.

Reported Turnaround time for the tested products

Tested Salmonella on finished products and Ingredients.

Reported the SIP results

Associate Engineer - Manufacturing industry

Becton Dickinson (BD) – Cockeysville, MD

7/2017 to 11/2017

Done training on ISO, GMP, pictograms, OSHA, HAZWOOPER, Laboratory safety, Lab-biosafety training.

Done the projects – Cost saving project- weight checks of the low filled media, pre-incubation and post incubations results on various media such as MacConkey and Blood agar

Performed Inspections for the plate print, agar-bed variations, sleeve prints and noted the defects on the test sheet.

Performed Attribute testing for the checking the major attribute, minor attributes testing as per the pre-established guidelines.

Done the Listeria testing by transferring the swabs samples from various sites pre-inoculated media to the listeria enrichment broth and then isolated the organisms on palcam agar plates.

Done the TSA media testing at various time points,, ex, post exp +2, post +4 weeks.

Done the CDSA (clostridium difficile selective agar) at various time points

Made the Listeria enrichment broth using the test methods

Performed Taxo A test with the ampicillin and measured the zone size, Camp Test to check Antimicrobial Susceptibility or Zone inhibition

Done serial dilution so as to prepare the required dilution of the culture from the ATCC culture vial

Used Minitab software for the interpretation of the results and prepared reports/graphs.

Used various instruments such as Autoclave, spectrometer, Ph. meter, digital balance/scale, UV light bulb for the fluorescence, Micrometer, Calipers.

DEA Coordinator

WES PHARMA - Westminster, MD

03/2017 to 05/2017

Measured Relative temperature for the refrigerator and recorded the results on daily basis

Read the desiccator and recorded the results on daily basis

Recorded the data of the DEA sheet into the excel sheet.

Made the labels/tags for the controlled substances used in the analytical laboratory.

Calibrated top loading, analytical balances on daily and monthly basis as per the requirement

Calibrated pH-meter Mettler Toledo and thermo-scientific and read and recorded the results on daily basis

Assisted in ordering supplies for the lab as and when necessary

Receiving, Tracking, of the controlled substances used in the lab

Assigning the Sample no’s, Reject no’s, to the controlled substances in the lab.

Done tracking for the controlled substances [finished product (release), In-process, 3, 6, 9, 12M stability samples, long term, intermediate, short term, Upright Inverted) in the lab].

Quality control/Food Microbiology

Nestle Ice cream - Laurel, MD

09/2014 to 12/2014

Measured Relative humidity and temperature for the Analytical, Sensory and microbiology lab and recorded the results on daily basis.

Measured relative weights used for determining of the scales are properly calibrated on daily basis

Collected the ice-cream samples from the A and Z site (manufacturing) for the different lines of the site

Sorted the ice-cream samples by type, date-wise, manufacturing-line wise

Tested finished product (Ice-cream) for the coliform and SPC plate count from the Petri-film

Read and recorded the results for the Coliform and SPC plate count into laboratory notebook

Follow-up work done- to read the previously plated plates and recorded the results in the logbook.

If found out-of-spec (OOS). Done investigation for it.

Tested tank liquid coming from the different lines as and when required.

Done environmental testing and recorded the results

Quality Control/Microbiologist –II

Nice - Pak - Orangeburg, NY

11//2009 to 09/2011

Tested samples of raw materials, bulk solution, work in process and finished products.

Water sampling and testing for the purified, pretreated and Atlantium water ports by the filtration method using the Phosphate buffer.

Microbial limits Testing (MLT) for the finished products and bulk liquids, stability products used for the manufacturing of the wipes

CHG (Chlorascrub products) – to test like the filtration method of water and MLT using the SSF neutralizer

Celsis i.e., Iodine samples testing using Celsis instrument

Bio burdens- to test applicators (raw materials) used in the wipes production and to check the counts for the bacteria and mold whether, they are within the specifications.

Templates data loggers to measure temperature in all incubators and refrigerators.

Growth promotion test to determine whether the new media is suitable for the test.

Daily Cultures- Inoculum preparation for no more than 100 cfu/ml organisms using the ATCC cultures.

Identification of the organisms using the Biolog (GN/GP/YEAST plates) and API (Enteric and Non-Enteric) kit identification.

OOS (Out of specification) investigation as in to take action of various possibilities for the bacterial count to exceed its specifications.

Done the Moist heat sterilization and recorded the sterilization cycles on the logbook.

Environmental monitoring of the various sites.

Preparing reports for the Bio burden, Personnel monitoring, Investigation reports.

Knowledge of various computer software used for storing micro data: Star LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), BRUTUS (BPC’s), SmartDOC

Janki Thakkar

Cell : 443-***-**** / Elgin, ILLINOIS

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