Senior Project Manager

Hirenkumar Sonani

E-mail: *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a fulltime position in the field of Chemical Analysis where I can contribute my knowledge, skills and creativity as well as expand the knowledge.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Learned operating and troubleshooting of GC, GC/MS, HPLC and LC/MS.

• Well familiar with UV-VIS spectrophotometer, FT-IR, AA and Karl Fischer.

• Performed data interpretation of NMR, IR, UV and Mass spectrum.

• Proficient with method development for HPLC, GCMS and LCMS.

• Experience of working under cGMP and GLP environments for pharmaceutical products.

• Used ChemDraw, Spartan, Chem station, Chem 3D, MS office.

• Studied western blot, SDS-PAGE, ELISA and different protein assays.

• Familiar with IQ, OQ and PQ of analytical instruments.

• Learned calibration of different analytical instruments and apparatus.

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS:

LC/MS (Agilent 1100 series LC equipped with DAD, Data analysis by Chem Station)

GC (Hewlett-Packard 5890 Series II with Chem Station software)

HPLC (Hewlett Packard series 1050 with DAD)

GC/MS (Varian 3800, Saturn 2000 GC/MS/MS and Data Analysis by Varian Software)

FT/IR (Nicolet 4700 with OMNIC Software)

UV/Vis Spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer 552-A)

Microplate Reader (Epoch BioTEK)

EDUCATION:

Governors State University, University Park, IL

Major: MS in Analytical Chemistry, August 2010 GPA: 3.82/4.0

Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, India.

Major: BS in Pharmaceutical sciences, April 2007 GPA: 3.60/4.0

EXPERIENCE:

Governors State University, University Park, IL

Research Assistant: (01/2010-08/2010)

• Method development for HPLC, GC and LC/MS for different synthesized products.

• Maintained GC/MS, GC, HPLC and LC/MS. (make mobile phases, maintain carrier gases and detector)

• Developed and maintained SOPs for different analytical instruments in the research Lab.

Lifeline Remedies (Pharmaceutical)

Quality control chemist:(05/2006-12/2007)

• Performed stability study of tablets, capsules and raw material.

• Testing the Quality of raw material, in process and final product by different analytical technologies (HPLC, GC, Titration, tablet dissolution testing, tablet friability testing, and polarimeter) according to pharmacopeial standard.

• Maintained Standard Operating Procedures, Batch Record documentations and cGMP.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

“Synthesis and Analysis of Inexpensive Folate-Fluorescein Dye Conjugate for Cancer Cell Detection”

Folate-fluorescein conjugate was synthesized by a simple and inexpensive method (solid phase peptide synthesis).

Synthesized peptide compound was analyzed by HPLC-DAD and LC/MS.

ACTIVITIES:

• Visited “Pittcon Conference & Expo 2009” and learned about the latest analytical instruments in the market.

• Member of ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering) New Jersey chapter.

• Presented a poster on “Synthesis and Analytical Evaluation of Folate-dye Conjugate” at Chicago State University.

• Member of Chemistry club at Governors State University.

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REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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