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Luis Tavarez

Professional combined experience with leading Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Companies. Team Leadership and Team Building expert a proven record of project management with successful and timely completions Adept at creating, approving and executing protocols, reports, investigations, and (SOP) Knowledge of US Government regulations and requirements Experience Packaging Engineer as part of T.S Dept. Akorn Pharma July 2 to November 2018

Create Specs and Pkg for all items.

Coordinate pkg. Activities with Brand Managers to implement necessary company program in coordination with incoming QA.

Sr.Packaging Engineer As part of the R&D Dept

Natural Bounty Ronkonkoma NY February 2017 to June 2018.

Coordinate, Write & Conduct internal Trial Test for Bottles, Caps, Foils, Labels, Neckbands manufacturing, Write and execute protocol for any possible pkg. concern at the lines for all Nature’s Bounty Plants in NY, Florida, Cop-Packer and 3er party items

Design and evaluate packaging For Internal product, Co-Packer and 3er party mfg.

Create Specs and Pkg. for all nutrition items likes, bars, Cookies, Powder

Coordinate pkg. Activities with Brand Managers and Regulatory Art-work Manager.

Represent the Dept. in the Change Control meeting

Travel to several plants in USA and Canada for Pkg. Evaluation

Collect all necessary data for consolidation and Innovation programs

Provide Support and Contact Packaging MFG to resolve internal MFG matter.

Review all Drawings for Packaging Components with the Pkg. Mfg. to request 3D Samples.

Support others depts. In any investigation and Create Pkg. Specs for New Pkg. Material

Support any activities/evaluations for Q.A and Validation Dept. Sr. Packaging Engineer as part of the MS&T

Fougera Pharmaceutical Company (Melville) July 2007-February 2017

Evaluate new packaging components for machines and change parts according to requests

Coordinate FAT for new machines with outside machines manufacturing.

Coordinate, Write & execute Conduct internal Trial Test for bottles, Tubes, foils manufacturing and Laboratory areas

Coordinate with Art-Dept. all Art-work changed from Altana/Nycomed to Fougera

Ability to interpret engineering drawings to determine application to production

Managed the purchase and installation of many types of equipment on 20 Packaging Lines in the Packaging department. This effort required the complete reconfiguration of the Lines.

These projects also required the management and coordination of regulatory requirements and any technical disciplines both direct and contract.

Provide technical support for Production, Packaging, Maintenance and Facilities.

Prepare User Requirement Specifications for GMP equipment and Facilities as required.

Prepare Commissioning documentation for GMP equipment and Facilities as required.

Assist the Validation department in the qualification of equipment and Facilities as required

Assist department managers in generating SOP’s and operator equipment training.

Manage and coordinated the activities of many technical and construction disciplines.

Represent the Dept. in every day Change Control evaluation group. 19 Lincoln Road

Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

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Review and confirm the correct template is used in all PKG Components.

Write and evaluates all Specs in coordination with incoming QA.

Contact the MFG for any PKG concern. Review all Art-work Labels, Cartons, films etc.

Be part of the Track-Trace evaluation and coordinate the Company plan.

Work every day in Documentum program and Track-Wise programs.

Develop New PKG Specifications according with R&D Group.

Production Supervisor

Cooper Lighting (Hicksville) 2008

Orlandi Inc (Melville) August 2005 - September 2007 County Frame (Ronkonkoma) March 2005 -August 2005

Organize plant personal in order to coordinate plant activities

Manage and control workflow and Read Blue Print to MFG Finish Good

Interface with the plant personnel to coordinate the shipping and receiving activities. Packaging Engineer - Packaging Department

LEVITON MFG. COMPANY, INC., (Little Neck) 1999-2005

Responsible for the physical design of all packaging components pertaining to design introduction, new products and spin-offs. Designed new product Packaging components (boxes, cards, clamshells, displays, sleeves,) for form, fit and function, based marketing requirements.

Work in conjunction with Packaging Vendors and MFG Plants in finalizing design.

Coordinate with Art-Dept. all Art-work changed with the new logo & consolidate

Evaluate existing packaging for improvement design.

Review and approval all packaging related changes issued by Manufacturing Facilities, Engineering, Marketing, or any relevant Department.

Specified and approved item carton sizes and palletization schemes.

Maintained mainframe-packaging databases. Initiated requests and worked in conjunction with Information Systems for mainframe packaging database improvements.

Created purchase specifications for packaging raw materials and high volume product specific preprinted packaging cartons and labels.

Interfaced with all manufacturing facilities for purposes of cost effective product packaging designs.

Review all Drawings for Packaging Components and Coordinate with the Pkg. Mfg. to product 3D Samples as requested.

Developed and maintained the packaging portion of bill of materials for all active catalog items to ensure proper customer packaging via Legacy and Oracle Systems. EDUCATION

Pontifical Universidad Catholic Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic B.S., Industrial Engineer LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish

SKILLS

Microsoft Word & Excel, CAPE (pallet configuration software), Box Gen Program, Logitech Quick Cam Pro 4000, ME10 System Carton Drawing software, data entry on AS400 system, Oracle, Lotus Notes 6.5, Nova Manage- 8.1, SAP, and Documentum.

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