Quality Control Engineer

DEADRIA NICOLE WALTON

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Hoover, AL 35244 **************@*****.*** C: 256-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position that will utilize and strengthen the technical, communication, and engineering skills as well as expand my knowledge in the engineering field.

EDUCATION

Keller Graduate School of Management – Online, June 2011

Master of Business Administration, GPA: 3.18

Total Credit Hours Taken to Complete: 48 credit hours

Concentrated: Project Management

Tuskegee University – Tuskegee, AL

Bachelor of Science, GPA: 2.75

Major: Chemical Engineering

Total Credit Hours to Complete: 141 credit hours

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Valspar Packaging Coatings- Birmingham, AL 2010-present Quality Control Technician

• Performs a variety of routine or standard daily quality control tests according to the American Society of Testing and Materials. Tests include Nonvolatile Materials, Viscosities, Weight per Gallon, Color Analysis, Coefficient of Friction, and Gloss.

• Documenting test results for customers’ certificate of analysis as well as for statistical quality control data for higher management to review.

• Assists engineers with troubleshooting on solvent and/or color additions to finished products.

• Performs basic calculations on test results to determine if product meets specifications such as specific gravity and non-volatile organic compound calculations.

• Cleans, maintains and calibrates standard equipment such as balances, pH meters, gas chromatography machines, and particle sizers.

SURMODICS PHARMACEUTICALS – Birmingham, AL 2007–2010

Engineer

• Performed small scale lactide, glycolide and e-caprolactone polymer reactions for research and development.

• Maintained documentations on research and laboratory experiments.

• Analyzed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Gel Permeation Chromatography, and Differential Scanning Calorimetry data of the polymer products.

• Prepared analytical reports such Certificate of Analysis and Material Safety Data Sheets for higher management and clients.

• Served as a Team Leader in performing large scale lactide, glycolide and e-caprolactone polymer reactions under Current Good Manufacturing Practices and Standard Operating Procedures.

• Wrote and reviewed deviations and CAPAs.

• Performed investigations for root cause analyses.

• Prepared, reviewed, and executed Installation/Operation Qualifications and Oversee Factory Acceptance Tests on new manufacturing equipment purchases.

• Conducted environmental monitoring for clean room environments.

• Coordinated preventative maintenance schedules with facility maintenance.

NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS – Huntsville, AL 2005–2007

Manufacturing Technician

• Served as a Team Leader to perform and troubleshoot manufacturing operations such as running/monitoring reactions, distillations, implement and improve laboratory techniques.

• Perform operations under Good Manufacturing Procedures and Standard Operating Procedures.

• Worked with engineers in set-up and calibration tasks for reactors, tanks, balances, and pH meters.

• Performed rework and in process testing on products for customer satisfaction.

• Maintained all documentation for manufacturing product such as batch tickets and finished product labeling.

TECHNICAL & SPECIAL SKILLS

• MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Project

• Windows XP & Vista

• Aspen 12.1 Software

• MegaStat

• Oracle 11i software

AFFILIATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS

Member of American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Member of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

NASA-Oxymax Chamber Experiment, 2005

Examined composting as a method of degrading inedible sweet potato biomass to reduce bulk and release nutrients.

Determined the composition of nutrients and figured out to how to reduce re-supply costs associated with extended space flights.

Association of Carboxylic Acids in Supercritical Fluid CO2, 2003

Worked with IR spectroscopy focusing on the molecular structure of nonafluoropentanoic acid.

Determined the equilibrium constants of dimerization of nonfluorpentanoic acid dimer and monomer in supercritical carbon dioxide.

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