Quality Control Testing
Resume:
Taruj Patel
**********@*****.***
Jackson, NJ 08527
EDUCATION:
**** ****** ** ******* ** Forensic Science/Criminal Justice
Kaplan University, Chicago, IL
2010 Completion of Basic Medical Sciences Program
Windsor University, Cayon, Saint Kitts
2006 Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
The George Washington University
LABORATORY EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
Fibrocell Science Inc. - Quality Control Analyst/Environmental Monitoring Associate
August 2011- current
Achievements:
• Scientific Writing: Prepared clinical documents including standard operating procedures (SOP), protocols, corrective and preventative action (CAPA) initiatives, and investigational reports in eCTD format following regulations of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
• Process Development: Developed new systems to improve the quality and reduce the cost of existing and pipeline products.
• Trained to work in clean room environments while following gowning requirements for ISO-7 and ISO-5 classifications.
Responsibilities:
• Daily viable and non-viable environmental monitoring in ISO-5 and ISO-7 clean room environments in support of aseptic product manufacturing including air particulate monitoring and surface/personnel testing.
• Growth promotion testing to provide a quality control challenge to each lot of medium.
• Sterility testing of quarantined raw materials and final drug products using the direct inoculation method.
• Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) endotoxin testing to detect and quantify levels of endotoxin in raw materials and final products.
• Obtained accurate absolute total cell counts and performed viability assessments as well as determining apoptotic percentages from samples in the final product stages.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. - Microbiologist
August 2006-December 2006 (Temporary contract position)
Achievements:
• Became well versed in sterile microbiological techniques while working in a GMP environment.
Responsibilities:
• Quality Control testing of manufacturer’s products throughout developmental process
• Daily bacteriological water analysis using plate count methods.
• Weekly environmental monitoring including surface sampling and viable air particulate monitoring.
• Isolation of pure bacterial cultures using aseptic techniques for identification purposes.
• Media preparation including Tryptic Soy Broth (TSB), Trypic Soy Agar (TSA) plates, as well as TSA slants.
• Direct bacterial colony counting, as well as mounting and gram staining bacteria for microscopic observation and identification.
The George Washington University Biological Science Laboratories -Research Associate
September 2003 – March 2006
Achievements:
• Studied the role of serotonin and catecholamines in early embryogenesis using a chicken embryo model to simulate the role these neurotransmitters play on a developing nervous system.
• Studied signaling pathways of the hookworm infective process and nematode growth and development as apart of research to reduce infectious and parasitic diseases that initiate and perpetuate poverty and suffering, worldwide.
Knowledge and Skills Obtained during my Degree:
• Bacterial transduction, transfection, and transformation.
• Cell breakage, ELISA, immunoassays, and protein purification
• Western blot analysis, agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA and RNA extraction and spectrophotometry, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and DNA fingerprinting.
• Spectroscopy, gas chromatography, and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
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