Manav Mistry

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Kennesaw, GA 30144 Cell: 617-***-****

SUMMARY

Results driven, self-managing, technically skilled engineer developing a career path where personal values, experience and education are applied to produce products and services that exceed the customers' expectations. Proven track record of strong work ethics, high energy level, approachability, strong interpersonal/leadership skills and commitment to corporate success.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Renmatix, Inc. (Kennesaw, GA) Jan 2009 – present

Process Engineer

• Carried out hands-on operations for manufacturing of fermentable sugars from biomass feed stock, developed process by control of process parameters and scale-up.

• Worked with operators and maintenance technicians to ensure safe, optimum and efficient plant operations.

• Carried out product separation using Membrane Filtration.

• Carried out product detoxification using Activated Carbon and over liming Techniques.

Leadership role:

• Lead design, development and optimization of lab-scale to 100kg/day pilot-scale continuous plant operation by performing tests throughout stages of production thus determining the degree of control over process variables that impact process efficiency, product quality and cost.

• Prepared and presented functional PFD’s, PID’s, material and heat balance, cost estimation summary, reports, charts and flow diagrams.

• Conducted operations training, determined safety procedures to be carried out during operations and prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and HAZOP on lab-scale processes.

Data interpretation and Data analysis:

• Prepared Engineering Memos.

• Constructed DOE on basis of performance report analysis through the use of JMP software.

• Prepared standards for YSI, HPLC, GC-MS, UV-Vis Spectrometer and analyzed samples of biomass for its constituents.

• Carried out process modeling using JMP software.

Edwards Lifesciences LLC (Irvine, CA) May 2008 – Aug 2008

Intern – Quality Control (Critical Care Department)

• Worked with the Glucose manufacturing engineering team to drive several equipment projects and development of test methods.

• Worked closely and cross-functionally with all areas of the manufacturing support operations including production supervisors, manufacturing leads, quality assurance and quality & manufacturing engineers.

• Performed investigations and root cause analysis and implemented the proper corrective and preventative actions and developed appropriate test methods.

• Performed QA tests and identified Root Causes of variations.

• Validated the present QC data analysis method by comparison.

• Completed various forms clean room training on hazard management, good documentation practices, CAPA, Environmental Health and Safety, Waste Disposal Management, Glucose and Peroxide Assays, Injury & Illness Protection Program, Incident Investigation.

University of Southern California (USC Bookstore) (Los Angeles, CA) August 2007 - May 2008

Buyers’ Assistant

• Assisted buyers in research and preparation of specifications and requests for price quotation.

• Conferred with departmental personnel and vendors regarding requisitioned products, purchased routine supplies, reviewed standing purchase orders for types and quantity usage and updated the same in USC internal database system on a regular basis.

CERTIFICATIONS

Qualified Engineer-In Training (EIT or FE 2011)

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Asset Appraisal using well Logging Tool Dec 2008

• Analyzed well log data sets using commercially available Formation Evaluation software (HDS) to determine pay zones.

Geo Pressurized Reservoirs April 2008

• Study included definitions and a brief introduction supported by various theories that exhibited the reservoir behavior.

• Provided analysis techniques like well logging correlations for the identification of overpressure formation.

• Identified problems that occur during the detection of geopressured reservoirs.

Biopreservation in Tissue Engineering Nov 2007

• Performed extensive literature survey on modern trends and techniques available and used for Tissue Preservation.

• Analyzed federal regulation and research in Biopreservation of cells and Engineered tissues.

Complete Analysis of Tri Calcium Phosphate Jan 2007

• Decided the type of manufacturing procedure of the process.

• Prepared PFD and PID and selected a plant capacity based on demand of the product.

• Selected the most optimum plant location.

• Estimated the cost involved in the project to determine the break-even point and feasibility analysis.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA May 2009

MS in Chemical Engineering -- GPA 3.36

Relevant Coursework: Viscous Flow, Principles of Tissue Engineering, Modeling and Analysis of Chemical Engineering Systems, Thermodynamics, Mass Transfer, Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Formation Evaluation, Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Subsurface Reservoirs.

D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India June 2007

BS in Chemical Engineering -- GPA 3.5

Relevant Coursework: Process Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Industrial Safety, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Reaction Kinetics, Material Science & Technology, Fabrication Technology, Process Equipment Design & Drawing, Instrumentation & Process Control, Environmental Engineering, Energy System Designing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Laboratory: Chemical Synthesis, Distillation, Process Development and Process Scale-up, Preparing Organic and Inorganic Solutions, Product Separation, Filtration, Chemical Analysis, Titrations, Assays.

Platform: Windows 95/98/00/XP/VISTA.

Applications: MS Office-Word, Excel, Power point, Visio, 2003, 2007, PDAQ, JMP.

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