Assistant Quality Control

NIKKI TURAKHIA **** Summit Ave, *************@*******.*** Jersey City, NJ 07307 646-***-****

EDUCATION

• MS in Industrial Pharmacy, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY December 2011

• Bachelor of Pharmacy, Sinhgad College of Pharmacy, Pune, India May 2009

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Product development, scale-ups, manufacturing, stability testing and performance evaluation for related industries

• Principles of Industrial Pharmacy: tablets, capsules, suspensions, emulsion, ointment, creams and controlled release dosage forms.

• Cosmetic/Dermatological Formulations and Technology: cosmetic, toiletry and pharmaceutical topical products.

• Aerosol Science and Technology: topical, nasal and inhalation aerosol drug delivery products.

• Transdermal Drug Delivery: transdermal dosage form.

• Controlled Release System: Design and fabrication of devices used for controlled drug delivery systems and mechanism and kinetics of drug release from these systems.

Methods of Pharmaceutical Analysis: Principles of chromatographic and spectrophotometric analysis and their applications to clinical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic problems.

PHARMACEUTICAL INTERNSHIPS

Production and Quality Control Department Intern, Vapi Pharma Care Pvt. Ltd, Vapi, India 05/08 to 08/08

• Analyzed drug content using HPLC, UV Spectrometer, FTIR and Colorimeter.

• Observed the production and packaging (strip packaging, bottle filling) of tablets, capsules and syrups.

• Tested finished product to determine hardness, disintegration and dissolution time.

Pharmacy Assistant, Srinath Pharmacy, Vapi, India 05/09 to 08/09

Read case sheets to insure correct correspondence between patients’ health related information record and prescriptions.

In dispensing drug to the patients, explained drug regimen to patients and instructed them with respect to side effects and drug interactions.

PROJECTS

Review of benzimidazole derivatives: conducted a comprehensive literature survey of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1998-2008, using MS ISIS, and presented findings to a panel of deans of various schools of pharmacy. .

LABORATORY PROFICIENCY

• Operation of Franz diffusion cell, pH meter, dissolution apparatus, tablet press, friability testers, fluidized bed dyer, mixers, powder blender, granulators.

• Analytical Procedures: Ultraviolet-Visible (UV) spectrometry, Infra-red (IR) spectrometry, Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC).

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Indian Pharmaceutical Graduate Students Association

EXPERIENCE

Long Island University Brooklyn, NY 9/10 - Present

Teaching Assistant, Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program 01/11- 01/12

• Workshop Instructor, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and Biology.

• Tutor for undergraduate students, all science and math courses

Graduate Assistant, Student Support Services, 09/10- 01/12

• Tutor for Pharm.D. and undergraduate students with Learning, Visual and Hearing Disabilities

• Workshop Instructor, Basic Math for students with learning disabilities.

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