Technical Support Technologist
Johnson & Johnson - DePuy CMW
Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months
Responsibilities include: Carrying out technical work in support of Company projects in the areas of New Product development, Manufacturing Process Development, Reformulation and Quality. Carrying out testing for routine stability trials and support for packaging trials. Provided cover to other Departments such as QC when the need arises. I supported NPD through the concept and development stages of new products this included undertaking experiments to transfer lab scale preps through to large scale batch manufacture.
Responsibilities included: undertaking routine QC analysis of samples and the validation and development of methods of various pharmaceuticals.
Responsibilities included: undertaking R&D in area of silicates for dental applications, this includes toothpastes and other applications. I also changed current product specifications of products to customer requirements and did significant work at pilot plant scale. I also undertook routine testing of materials, their characterisation, process troubleshooting and raw material evaluation.
Responsibilities included: Undertaking research regarding phosphate binders, inorganic metal complexes and organic sorption materials. I was involved in increasing efficacy of the compound, whilst determining effective ways of reducing potential side effects, optimising the synthesis process and using inorganic precipitation methods at lab and pilot scale. I also undertook raw material analysis and optimised processes. Setting up and designing own experiments to provide QC correlation with clinical data, this involved continuous improvement of QC methods and introduction of new lab equipment and methods. Large amounts of IP and patent related work was also one of my main priorities, this involved significant amounts of QC testing to generate data for trend analysis and patent claims.
MChem Scholarship through university. Dissertation was the Investigation of an Anti-Keggin Ion: A New Inorganic Ligand • Project aims to extend the family of compounds by changing the organic group in the ligand and using various metal ions • Synthesis of new polyoxometallate compound [Mn(SbPh)12O28{Mn(H2O)3}4] • Paper References: (a) E. I. Tolis, M. Helliwell, S. Langley, J. Raftery, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 3804. (b) S. Maheswaran, G. Chastanet, S. J. Teat, T. Mallah, R. Sessoli, W. Wernsdorfer, R. E. P Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 5044