Quality Control Engineer

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position to apply my technical and analytical skills as an Engineer.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Possess six years of academic experience and lab experience in Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering.

• Strong working knowledge in Process Scale up, Validation, Optimization and Quality control.

• Experience in bench top and pilot plant commissioning for fermentation.

• Knowledge of Unit operations , and equipment validation.

• Knowledge about FDA, cGMP and PAT regulations. Passion to learn and quickly grasp new standards.

• Experience in working as a team and consistently finish assigned work ahead of schedule.

• Excellent communication and troubleshooting skills.

EDUCATION

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL August 2007 – May 2009

M.S. Biological Engineering

Anna University, India August 2003 - May 2007

B.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology

COURSE WORK

Biochemical Engineering, Principles of chemical engineering, Bioprocess Lab,Transport Phenomena, Thermodynamics, Enzymes Kinetics & Technology, Mass Transfer & Separation, Microbiology, Unit Operations, Instrumental Method of analysis, Process Analytical Technology, Stastics and Quality Control.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Industrial Techniques Process Scale Up, Down stream Processing and Process Optimization.

Lab Techniques HPLC, TFF, Solvent extraction, Enzymatic bioconversion & Immobilization.

Software & Languages Used Matlab, RS View 35, Aspen Hysys, Empower 2, Minitab, Fortran, C++,MS Office

EXPERIENCE

HNC Products, Inc. February 2010- Present

Research & Q.C-Q.A Engineer

• Working on cosmeceutical product development , scale up, process optimization, tech transfer to production plant and quality control.

• Analyzing the applications of organogels as active drug carriers in cosmeceuticals cream and lotions.

• Setting up an analytical lab with HPLC and other analytical equipment.

• Developing new test methods, writing SOPs for new equipment, cleaning validation, and documentation of test process.

IIT-Online Technical Services, Chicago, IL January 2008- May 2009

Student- Supervisor

• Assessed quality control in video editing from Internet media developers.

• Trained 28 students with new software tools used on video editing.

• Simplified the video editing, reducing the cycle time from 2 hours to 40 minutes.

• Scheduling work for student in accordance to their availability.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Research Assistant August 2008-October 2008

Study of Plasmid Variation with change in carbon source on B.lichiformis.

The project involves:

• Plasmid sequencing with electrophoresis and amplification by PCR.

• Analyzed the growth pattern of bacteria with variation in concentration in carbon source.

• Coordination between software analyst and biology student in developing algorithm to study sequences.

Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, India

Process Engineer Trainee September 2006-April 2007

Process Development and Scale-up –Citric Acid Fermentation

• The project aimed to ferment citric acid from commercially viable media using wild strain of A.niger.

• Process economics was considered to replace glucose broth with cane molasses media.

• Upstream processing was done to mimic cane molasses media as glucose broth.

• Downstream processing was designed to extract citric acid crystals.

INTERNSHIPS

Sai Mirra Innopharm Pvt Ltd,India (Contract manufactures for Dr Reddy labs, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals)

Intern-Granulation and Production June 2006- August 2006

• Trained in granulation of API and capsulation units under USP and EP standards.

• Worked on granulator, blender, fluidized bed drier, capsulation and tablet packing machines.

• Trained in validation engineering like cleaning, equipment validation and CIP.

Sai Mirra Innopharm Pvt Ltd,India

Intern- Microbiology and Quality Control June 2005-August 2005

• Onsite microbial count in the granulation and capsulation units.

• Bacterial and Fungal contamination tests for tablets and capsules.

Balaji Distilleries- (Brewery Division), India

Trainee- Fermentation June2004-December2004

• Trained on Commercial Scale fermentation of 1500 hl per day

• Worked on RS-view 35 software for process control.

PROJECTS

Univariate Stastical analysis in gas separation using vortex tube separator.

• Determined variation of temperature with respect to time and correlated using Minitab.

• Statistical tools like I-MR and EWMA Chart was applied to prove that instrument is reliable.

Application of Bioinformatics in Bionanorobotics.

• Analyzed various aspects of Bionanorobots design, Biofunctionalization and fabrication.

• Application of bioinformatics algorithms (MSA) if biofunctionalization of Nanomaterials was analyzed with cost cutting approach; this includes quality control by increasing the specificity.

CFD approach for bubble pattern in a fluidized bed reactor.

• Simulated the Bubbles and Flow regime Computation with respect to density variation for a vertical column.

• A CFD simulation was carried out using FORTRAN.

Wind Energy as alternate source energy for developing world.

• Coordinated a team in assessing wind energy potentials of INDIA and BRAZIL.

• Energy demand, Environmental issues and potential source of wind energy were studied using wind flow patterns by taking geographical features into consideration.

Business Plan Primer for Bioprocessed drinks manufacturing.

• Worked in a team on balance sheets, cash flow statements and marketing methodologies.

• Plant commissioning features were studied for most economical plant designing.

Effect of aeration rate on production of Carotenoids using isolated yeast of Rhodotorula glutinis.

• Optimized the production media on shake flask.

• Studied growth pattern of Yeast Rhodotorula glutinis on Petri plates and culture broth.

• Conducted upstream processing of media as the carbon source needed to be diluted to 50% (w/w).

AWARD

Deans Fellowship- Armour College of Engineering-IIT Chicago August 2007-May 2008

References available on request.

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