Anjana Devi
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Summary: MS Organic Chemistry with 6+ years of industry experience (including one year research experience) in Pharmaceutical & Semiconductor industries. Worked with instruments GC/MS, HPLC, FTIR, IC and followed GMP, GLP and SOP procedures.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Intel Corp -Santa Clara, CA
Duration: Feb 2011 - current (Agency Abacus)
Title: Research Assistant (Material Analytical lab)
Job Responsibilities
Performing analysis of slurry, chemicals (like IPA, hydroxyl Amine Sulphate, Glycine etc).
Using analytical instrument like agilent GC/MS, GC/FID, LC/MS-Quad, LC/MS-trap, Dionex cation/MSQ, anion/MSQ, IC/MS, ICS-3000 and other instrument FTIR,Raman spectoscopy, MALDI(TOF) .
Use of Chem Station and Chromelean software
Maintain lab independently.
Performing routine calibration of Ph meter, balance and UV-Visible.
Abbott Vascular - Santa Clara, CA
Duration: Aug 2010 – Dec 2010 (Agency Manpower)
Title: Chemist-III (R&D)
Job Responsibilities
Performed analytical testing for in-vitro drug release, purity, drug content, API,residual solvents using GC/FID,GC/MS(Agilent), and HPLC (Water).
Worked on Water 2695 Separation Module, water 2996PDA and Water2487 Dual absorbance Detector.
Worked on Agilent technologies 5975B, 6890N network GC system and Agilent technologies G1888 network Head space sampler.
Performed laboratory investigations and review analytical data.
Used SQL LIMS software for analytical reports.
Experience in HPLC instrument using Empower 2 build 2154 software and GC instrument using Chem Station software.
Chemtrace - Analytical Testing Lab (Applied Materials Company), Fremont, CA
Duration: July 2007 – May 2009 (contractor thru Adecco July 07-July 08)
Title: Lab Analyst
Performed analysis of samples using Ion Chromatography (Dionex DX500, DX300 & ICS 3000), UV absorbance, pH, conductivity and LPC.
Worked on TOC and Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM/EDAX).
Worked on auto, manual and Karl Fischer titration (wet chemistry)
Analyzed volatile samples using FT-IR and GC/MSD (HP6890 series).
Analysis and optimization of chromatograms.
Conor Medsystems (Johnson & Johnson Company), Menlo Park, CA
Duration: July 2006 –June 2007 (Contractor thru Kelly Scientific)
Title: QC Chemist
Performed and reviewed routine release testing, routing stability testing, and in-process testing for manufacturer of heart stents.
Performed detailed Out Of Specification investigations (OOS).
Conducted release kinetics study on a various drug eluting stents (Dissolution apparatus), comparison experiments including the water bath and release tester using HPLC and EZ Chrom software.
Performed accurate and timely reviews of lab notebooks and data packages for accuracy and GMP compliance using methodology and notebook documentation procedures.
Writing and editing of protocols, methods and worksheet validation.
Calibrated and validated various lab equipment and worksheets.
Dionex Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
Duration: March 2005 –July 2006
Title: Chemical Technician - I
Performed packing and testing of different types of polymeric columns using ion chromatography technique, which are used in HPLC, protein purification etc.
Worked on SOP, GMP and GLP.
Worked on Chromelean and Peak Net chromatography software
Worked on laboratory equipments like pH meter, sonicator, UV-Vis detectors etc.
Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR) – India
Duration: May 2002 – May 2003
Title: Research Assistant
Project: Characterization and Micro propagation of Important Medicinal Plants
& in vitro Production of Secondary Metabolites.
Research on various medicinal and aromatic plants from the Himalayan region and their extraction by different solvent, isolation and purifications such as Podophyllotoxin compound from Podophyllum hexandrum by different chromatographic technique such as Column chromatography, thin-layer chromatography(TLC), and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Conducted large numbers of experiments for improvement of analytical process for resin and Podophyllotoxin and development of micro-analytical technique for quantitative analysis of Podophyllotoxin.
Characterizations of isolated molecules by modern spectroscopic techniques such as NMR (1H-, 13C-), FT-IR, GC, MS and UV-Vis spectroscopy.
Multi-step synthesis (e.g. anti cancer drugs), Natural molecules design and synthesis, air sensitive reactions, compounds isolation, purification, identification, isolation and handling of compounds in small quantities. Characterization of molecules using modern instrumentation techniques.
TECHNICAL & INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS
Knowledge of modern analytical techniques such as NMR(1H,13C) spectroscopy, GC/MS, FT-IR, HPLC (analytical and preparative), TLC and UV-Vis spectroscopy.
Good technical writing ability for scientific results.
Proficient using MS-Office and chemical window.
Extensive experience in conducting the experiments with micro (10-15 mg) and gm to kg scale.
Knowledge of traditional and modern techniques in separating complex mixture of organic compound using normal phase/preparative/ion exchange/reverse phase/flash column chromatography and fractional crystallization.
HPLC IC (DIONEX DX500) ISO 9002
GC/MS Wet Chemistry ISO 17025
FTIR QC GMP/GLP
EDUCATION: MS Organic Chemistry, HNB University, Gharwal, India
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificate in HPLC from Foothill College, Los Gatos, CA – USA (Apr 04 – June 04)
Operation and working of NMR(1H-,13C)
Operation and working of EZ Chrom, Chem station and EmPower2 software.