Bioprocess Engineer / Biotechnologist

Sumi Shyam

EDUCATION

Sep.****

Queen's University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom

Master of Science, Process Engineering

Expecting to graduate by September 2009 with a distinction.

Main Modules: Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering, Energy and Quality Management, Management

and Economics, Environmental, Health and Safety Engineering, MATLAB, Polymer Engineering

Apr.2007

Anna University India

Bachelor of Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology

Graduated with First Class, 77%.

Main Modules:Chemical Reaction Engineering, Mass Transfer and Seperation, Bioprocess Principles,

Bioprocess Engineering, Chromatographic Seperations, Downstream Processing, Protein Engineering,

Enzyme Engineering and Technology, Unit Operations, Instrumental Method of Analysis

EXPERIENCE

Jul. 2007 Prowins Agri Systems Trivandrum, india

Aug.2008 Tissue Culture Consultant

• Executed daily operations of Plant Tissue Culturing.

• Wrote, designed and produced tissue culturing protocol that was

implemeted succesfully for the increased yield and productivity.

• Experimented to develop new and improved varieties of products

having specific features, such as higher yield, resistance to

disease, size, and maturity.

• Trained and managed a team of 5 on tissue culturing and

achieved significant improvements in their productivity.

• Conducted experiments and investigations to determine

methods of storing, processing, and transporting food products.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

• Process Designing - Heat exchanger utility desing, Process control and optimization

• Bioprocess Engineering - Scale-up, Purification and Downstream processing techniques &

Process Equipment Automation

• Plant tissue culturing - media preparation, protocol developing and culturing techniques

• Microbial Fermentation

• Technical Report Writing

PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

• Thin layer modelling of egg-plant in a tray dryer

MSc Project - on going.

• Isolation and Characterisation of protease from alkaliphiles

B-Tech Project, Best Biotek Research Laboratories, bangalore, India.

• Production of biodiesel from sunflower oil

B-Tech, Dissertation and Seminar work, St.Michael's College of Engineering & Technology, India.

• Training in molecular biotechniques

B-Tech, Industrial Training - Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India.

• Pharmaceutical Quality Control Techniques

B-Tech, Industrial Training, Cipla Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai, India.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES

• Effect of Industrial waste water on macrophytes, Feb. 2006 - Feb. 2006

Udaya College of Engineering & Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.

Presented a paper at the national level symposium.

• Recent Trends in Animal Biotechnology, Apr. 2006 - Apr. 2006

Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India

Attended and presented a paper on 'recent trends in animal biotechnology at the national level seminar.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Diploma in Geoinformatics, Feb. 2008 - Apr. 2008

Centre for Environment and Development, India

MEMBERSHIPS

• Institute of Chemical Engineers (ICheE), UK, Student Member

• European Federation of Biotechnology, Barcelona, Personal Member

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

• OIKOS International Project Trainee, 2008-09, Switzerland.

Project proposal, ' A one stop webportal for Bioenergy', an interactive database, especially for students and

small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries to interact with the European technologists, got selected

as one among the top ten from all over the world.

• Public Relations Officer, South Asian Student's Society, Queen's University Belfast.

• Founder member, OIKOS Chapter Belfast, Queen's University Belfast.

SCHOLARSHIPS

International Student Scholarship, Sep. 2008 - Sep. 2009

Queen's University Belfast

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• English - Fluent

• French - Basic

• Hindi - Intermediate

• Malayalam – Fluent

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