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• Supervise and mentor staff, ensuring adherence to aseptic
techniques and quality standard
• Oversee microbiological assays (TVC, coliforms, yeast, moulds, LAB)
and environmental monitoring.
• Maintain laboratory readiness by managing equipment, autoclaving,
inventory, and documentation via LEMS.
• Applied HACCP principles to raw material and finished product
testing, proactively identifying microbial hazards in sugar- and
molasses-based substrates.
• Experienced in operating HPLC and spectroscopy techniques (NIR,
UV-Vis) for biochemical analysis of raw materials and finished
products, including molasses and sugar-based substrates.
• Implement SOPs, risk assessments, and safety checks to ensure
compliance with GMP and H&S standards.

• Prepared and maintained Production Documentation, including
clean sheets and weighing records, to ensure compliance with
regulatory standards

• Led assay optimization and validation for Triplex RT-PCR COVID
19 diagnostic kit in collaboration with international R&D teams.
• Developed, standardized, and documented SOPs for assay
workflow, ensuring regulatory and quality compliance.
• Managed sample and reagent inventory, ensuring traceability
through IQMS and laboratory documentation systems.
• Increased testing capacity by 30% during high-demand COVID-
19 validation phase.
• Delivered technical presentations to senior scientific leadership,
enhancing visibility of innovation outcomes.

• Streamlined BMRs by developing standardized, simplified templates
with mandatory auto-highlighted fields for each tissue block, marker,
and patient sample, reducing errors and accelerating the review cycle
by 15%.

• Optimized Phaffia rhodozyma fermentation, improving
astaxanthin yield and reducing batch variability by 20%
through media and incubation standardization.
• Executed DNA isolation, PCR, and microbial enumeration
for probiotic strain identification and validation.
• Conducted environmental monitoring and downstream
processing, including lyophilization and product
standardization.