Chemist / Production Manager

Chirag Barchha

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Jersey City, NJ *****

Cell:551-***-****

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

To seek a position that assigns challenging task and making use of my skills and knowledge in pharmaceutical firm in realistic and logical way and to be in touch with the learning process that offers professional growth.

SKILLS

Lab Skills:

• Chemical Synthesis, Titration, Extraction, Assay Analysis, Wet Chemistry, LOD, Solid Dispersion, Chemical Solution Preparations.

• Lab Instruments: HPLC, TLC, UV/VIS, GC, FTIR, Karl Fischer, Titration, Dissolution apparatus, pH meter, Viscometer, Densimeter etc.

• Analytical Laboratory Techniques, Quality Tests for Pharmaceutical Dosage Form

• Standardization and calibration of the equipments.

• Industrial Pharmacy: Preparation of tablets, Capsules, Suppositories, Ointments, Suspensions, Emulsions, Creams, Paste, Granules.

• Identification and separation of organic compound from binary mixture.

I have knowledge and experience of cGMP/GLP regulations.

Knowledge of 21 CFR Part11, 210, 211

Computer Skills:

• Chemdraw, Spartan, WinNonline, Minitab 15, Microsoft Office: Word, Power Point, Excel Spreadsheet, Windows XP/VISTA OS

• Languages “C” and “PASCAL”.

JOB EXPERIENECE

Makcur laboratories ltd. Naroda Ahmadabad, India. (March ’09 - July ’09)

Chemist (Intern)

• I took training in Quality control, production and packaging department

• Analysis of in-process and finished products using HPLC, GC, Dissolution and bench Chemistry.

• Performed a variety of raw material and product analyses involving chemistry including UV/VIS, HPLC and GC

• Learned and supervise various dosage forms like tablet, capsule, liquid oral &ointment

• Knowledge of FDA and EU regulations

• Review batch records. Perform incremental approval of batch records.

• Analysis of materials using a variety of analytical instruments and wet methods such as titration, viscosity, density, PH, alkalinity tests etc.

• Analysis of commercial, clinical and developmental samples with adherence to GMP

• compliance/documentation

• Assisted in the method development by performing Assay tests and dissolution.

• Experienced working in the GMP compliant environment and followed Standard Operating procedures.

• Documentation of the experiments performed.

• Calibration of Equiment.

Rajdeep Pharmaceutical Ltd., Sanand,Ahmadabad, India. (March ’08 - August ’08)

Chemist (Intern)

• Took training under professional employees of the company for manufacturing of various ophthalmic formulations (Eye ointment)

• Chemical solution preparations and perform titration and assay analysis.

• Trained in departments of liquid oral solution, liquid manufacturing plant, filling line and packaging line.

• Visited sterile manufacturing unit and observed manufacturing process.

• Performed quality control test for semisolid topical preparations such as pH, titration, assay analysis, Loss on drying, residue on Ignition, Heavy metal tests etc.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

M.S. in Pharmaceutical Engineering: GPA-3.2/4.0

(New Jersey Institute of technology)

Major subjects :

• Principles of Pharmaceutical Engineering

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

• Validation and regulatory Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Pharmaceutical unit operations(Solid Processing, Liquid and Dispersed phase systems)

• Solids processing

• Pharmaceutical facility design (GMP,GLP)

• Principle of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Delivery (ADME)

• Pharmaceutical Packaging technology

• Industrial quality control

• Organizational behavior

• Pharmaceutical Reaction Engineering

Presentations in M.S.

• Pharmaceutical Powder Coating

• Parenteral Packaging –concerns of biotech drugs

• Powder blending and its types

• Tablet Coating

• Inhalation Product Manufacturing

• Blister packaging

B.Pharm (2005-2009) GPA-3.3/4.0

Indukaka Ipcowala College of Pharmacy

(SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY)

India

Major subjects:

• Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry • Human Anatomy

• Biochemistry

• Pharmacokinetics, Pharmaceutics • Pharmacology, Clinical Studies

• Medicinal Chemistry • Dosage Form Design

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing • Microbology

• Phamacognosy

Practical Experiments performed:

• Experiments using HPLC, GC, UV/VIS and TLC

• Analytical Experiments, Assay analysis, Chemical synthesis.

• Instruments Calibration, Titration, pH Tests and Alkalinity Tests

• Dissolution tests, Disintegration tests, Hardness and Friability tests.

• Organic synthesis, Chromatography, Quantitative analysis etc.

• Biochemical assays (ELISA, Western Blot), SDS-PAGE

Non-Pharmcacy Experience:

I was working with Enbee Education Center (EEC), of Cambridge University for 5 months (October08 – February09) as a tutor of GRE Quantitative(Mathematics) and GRE Verbal in city of Anand in India.

REFERENCES

1) Piero M. Armenante (Distinguished professor of chemical engineering

Director, Pharmaceutical Engineering program.)

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2) Boris Khusid (professor and Director ,Electro-hydrodynamic laboratory)

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3) Paul Melamud ( professor of validation and pharma industry)

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More References provided on request.

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