Chemical Engineer

RAGHAVENDRA NAGARAJAN

Email: *******@*****.*** ** W Central Avenue Paoli 19301 Phone: 240-***-****

SUMMARY:

• One plus years of Experience in Pharmaceutical Industry.

• Extensive experience in the scale up of the sterile manufacturing process of Remicade.

• Hands on experience on the Pharmaceutical process equipments including Chromatography and Ultra filtration.

• Experience with automated process control systems including Delta V and SCADA.

• Internship experience in the design and development of solid dosage forms.

• Experience working in the medical device Industry in the design and development of Ostomy products.

• In-depth knowledge of the statistical tool using Minitab.

• Sound knowledge on the FDA, EPA, OSHA regulations & cGMP Standards.

• Six Sigma Green belt Certification in Progress.

EDUCATION:

• Master of Science(M.S) in Chemical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology May 2009

• Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering at Anna University May 2007

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Johnson and Johnson (Sep’10-present) Malvern, PA

Manufacturing Associate

• Executed cell culture and DPC processes per SOP to support upstream cell culture process development.

• Performed set-up and operations of the Bioreactors, Harvest in the mammalian cell culture with automated control systems including Delta V, SCADA, and HMI.

• Document and maintain production activity records according to cGMP regulations

• Perform Mammalian cell culture and sampling operations using aseptic technique.

• Performed protein purification process using column chromatography, Ultra filtration process.

• Executed manufacturing processes according to FDA, EPA, OSHA regulations & cGMP Standards.

• Working knowledge of the Process flow diagrams, Piping and Instrumentation diagrams & PLC programming.

ConvaTec (Mar’10-Aug’10) Skillman, NJ

Research Associate

• Design and development of the Ostomy products for the Moldable technology.

• Formulation of various designs of wafers, analyze and interpret results.

• Experience on various types of Instron equipments in accordance with ASTM standards.

• Learned general lab practices and safety procedures in accordance with GMP standards.

GlaxoSmithKline, (June’09-Sep’09) King of Prussia, PA Formulator

• Design and development of gastro-retentive floating tablet using a swellable gas producing core and a flexible coating. Formulation of oral solid dosage forms, analyze and interpret results.

• Hands on Experience on the Korsch XL tablet press, SMI Riva Piccola tablet press and Vector LDCS tablet coater.

• Hands on experience on multiple pharmaceutical operations including; powder blending, tablet compression, aqueous film coating and dissolution testing.

• Performed in-process testing to evaluate tablet physical properties, tablet hardness.

SPECAILIZED COURSE WORK:

Pharmaceutical Unit operations: Liquid & Solid Systems, Pharmaceutical Facility Design ,Design of Experiments, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Transport Phenomena, Mathematical methods in Chemical Engineering.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

C,C++ ,Polymath, Mat lab, Minitab, Stanjan , MS-DOS, Windows XP, Windows Vista , MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop

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