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Siegfried AG
- Sr Vice President, Managing Director
2015 - 2016
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BASF Pharma
- Managing Director
Levallois-Perret
2012 - 2015
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BASF Pharma
- Production Director & Technologies
Levallois-Perret
2011 - 2012
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Nextpharma Technologies
- Production Director
2009 - 2011
Daniel Lasanow
- Member of Site Direction Committee, Deputy Chairman for Work Council (CE) and Safety Council (CPPT /SHE).
- Budget definition and control of x million € OPEX and x million € CAPEX (Y 2010).
Manufacturing: (140 FTE):
- Build high performing teams to meet corporate goals
- Re-size and re-organization: deploy transformation & associated social plan.
- Technical expertise related to Sterile and Aseptic Fill & Finish Products.
- Proven experience with cGMP, Regulatory & Quality systems.
- Excellent results with FDA and Japan PMDA inspections.
Equipments maintenance & Projects management (18 FTE)
- Equipments maintenance and shutdown management.
- Technical projects management: annex 1 (1Mio €) , new production line…
Process Operational Excellence Management (5 FTE):
- Optimisation of production systems by deployment of Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen and Kanban methodologies
Product Development Services (6 FTE):
- Develop synergies between Manufacturing and Sterile Production Development Centre (R&D).
- R&D technical projects management: Pre-filled syringes, Ultra-Filtration…
- Technology and process transfer from development to manufacturing organizations.
Contract Manufacturing Management :
- Business development, Contract management & Project management.
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Lonza
- Head of Production
2002 - 2008
August 2002 – December 2008: Head of API Pharmaceutical Production at Lonza ( Belgium)
Synthesis – Purification – Isolation (Lyophilisation).
- Experience in building, developing strategy and driving change in pharmaceutical production organisations. Turn around management of underperforming organisation. Cultural change management.
- Optimisation of production systems & processes by deployment of Lean Manufacturing philosophy, 5S method, Kaizen and Kanban systems. Implementation of Risks Analysis Methodology System (Unitary operations, equipments, staff...).
- Strong results in developing cross functional management at all levels of Lonza-Braine site organization. (QA, R&A, R&D, Customer service, Supply Chain HR, Engineering, SHE …).
- Active participation in budgeting, results in control expenses including large decrease of the work in progress stocks.
- Strong technical expertise related to pharmaceutical production processes (API): Synthesis / Large scale HPLC purification / Lyophilisation / API Packaging / Cleaning validation /IPC Laboratories....
Effective problem solving abilities.
- Ensure and drive for improvements the production operations in compliance with the cGMP, Regulatory & QA Lonza quality system. Results as direct representative for three FDA inspections.
- Project leader skills: Define User Requirement Specifications and ensure that execution meets expectations : Buildings, Industrial preparative chromatographic columns, freeze dryer …
- Major improvement of the relationships with the various union representatives.
- Additional responsability: Lonza Product Manager representative to Millennium Pharmaceutical Inc. / Takeda (Boston, MA, USA).
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UCB-Bioproducts
- Production Manager
2000 - 2002
April 2000 – August 2002: Production Manager at Lonza-Braine (UCB-Bioproducts).
- Validation/qualification of peptides manufacturing processes.
- Transfer of peptides validated processes from R&D to Manufacturing department including in-house expertise, process definitions, manufacturing techniques, procedures, batch-records, analytical methods, and information packages. Manage and develop manufacturing staff by providing training, coaching and and empowerment.
- Additional responsability: UCB-Bioproducts Customer Product Manager representative to Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA,USA), Praecis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston, MA, USA) and The Medicines Company (Parsippany, NJ, U.S.A).
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GSK
- Plant Support Manager
1992 - 2000
March 1992-April 2000: Plant Support Manager / Production Projects Coordinator at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals.
- Active participation in Technology Transfer of pharmaceutical production activities (Flucloxacilline and Temocilline).
- Scaling-up and optimization of amoxicillin chemical processes. Strong expertise in oral and sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing processes (Chemical synthesis and spray-drying).
- Qualification and start-up of new equipments (hydrolysis reactors, spray-dryers, distillation columns for recycling of solvents).
- Validation related to amoxicillin trihydrate scaling-up and optimization processes.
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Novartis
- Junior Scientist
RUEIL MALMAISON
1987 - 1988
August 1987 – January 1988: Junior Scientist at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.
- R&D work performed in organic chemistry, synthesis of macrolides antibiotics derivatives.