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Binu Varghese
Pharmacist
Indore
Summary
Proactive manager with demonstrated leadership abilities, strategic planning expertise and problem-solving acumen. Assists senior managers with accomplishing demanding targets by encouraging staff and coordinating resources. Methodical and well-organized in optimizing coverage to meet operational demands. Friendly Deputy Manager committed to creating a positive work environment through effective mentoring and coaching. Skilled in delegation and communication. Talented in leadership, staff development and training. Sought out continuous professional development opportunities to further develop expertise in Pharmaceutical industry operations while strengthening support for team members. Resourceful leader with good organizational, multitasking and project management abilities. Discerning and performance-oriented in tackling operational problems. Multi-tasking Manager well-known for creating positive workplace culture and high-performing teams. Demonstrated expertise, including competitive offerings, pricing and market positioning.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Languages
Work History
Manager of Quality Control
Ajanta Pharma Limited
Indore
10.2019 - Current
- Procurement, installation and qualification of instruments/Equipments in Quality control.
- Commissioning of the laboratory at Pithampur.
- Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
- Evaluated suppliers to maintain cost controls and improve operations.
- Assumed senior management workloads in absence of general manager to maintain operations continuity.
- Eliminated functional bottlenecks by streamlining communication channels between management and employees.
- Interviewed, performed background checks, hired and trained employees to depute the various functions in Quality control.
- Enhanced supervisory and leadership abilities by working closely with supervisor.
- Partnered with upper management in executing functional strategies and reporting capabilities.
- Conducted Quality and safety audits periodically to ensure the cGMP practices followed Quality Control and other departments as part of self inspection and contract laboratory audits.
- Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
- Created reports, validated and analyzed and interpreted data to immediate reporting and release.
- Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
- Maintained, documented and presented progress reports to leaders.
- Correspondence with external agencies for maintenance under AMC/CMC and calibration. Responsible to complete all the Preventive maintenance an calibration in Laboratory.
- Leading an team to complete the Method Validation, Verification and Method transfer of all the products, API and cleaning.
- Procurement, Preparation of standards required in Quality control
Assistant Manager of Quality Control
CIPLA LIMITED
Indore
11.2014 - 10.2019
- Mentored team members to enhance professional development and accountability in workplace.
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced participation in exercises focused on developing key skills.
- Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.
- Maintained the Laboratory with quality standards with all the requirements of good laboratory practices, good documentation practices, maintaining the data integrity, etc.
- Responsible to assist the auditors to explain the various functions in Quality control, QMS, practices, procedures, etc.
- Submitted all compliance reports with supporting documents against audit reports and queries received from various regulatory agencies and customers.
- Coordination and submission of all documents to RA for product registration, and variation filing.
- Responsible to lead the members on documentation section in Quality control.
Senior Executive
Nectar Lifesciences Ltd.
Chandigragh
04.2012 - 11.2014
- Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
- Team leader for Raw material and Gas chromatograph section.
- Responsible for sampling, analysis, review and release of all raw materials received at planned.
- Over all compliance of Laboratory in accordance to practices and safety.
- Training to all new entrants and revised procedures in Quality control and all other departments.
- Maintenance and calibration of instruments in Quality control.
- Attending the audit and submitting the response against any observation received from authority.
- Investigation of OOS/OOT, Incident and deviations reported in Quality control.
Research Associate
Surya Pharmaceutical Limited
Bannur
09.2010 - 03.2012
- Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
- Validated incoming data to check information accuracy and integrity while independently locating and correcting concerns.
- Helped team meet regulatory requirements by coordinating documentation and filings.
- Set up equipment, organized inventory and maintained facilities.
- Team leader for Stability and wet lab analysis and reporting of results.
- Receipt, Scheduling, trending and submission of data to RA for registration.
- Review of all data generated in ADL to confirm the acceptance and preparation of method transfer to various sites of Surya Pharmaceuticals.
- Procurement of Chemicals , spares and consumable required for analysis and instrument maintenance.
Senior Analytical Chemist
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd
Visakhapatnam
12.2005 - 08.2010
- Lead a team for sampling of all the raw material, packing material, inprocess and Finished product.
- Instrumental to commission the new laboratory (Main Quality Control lab) at site and a inprocess laboratory in manufacturing area.
- Registration of samples, release and labeling to release the batches.
- Submission of all documents to RA for registration and variation filing.
- Initially as analyst to perform the analysis of various instrument on HPLC, GC, FTIR UV spectrophotometer, Malvern particle size analyser, Potentiometric analysis.
- Team member for method transfer analysis and reporting.
- Calibration of various instruments and reporting.
- Submission of trend data to QA and preparation of all document (Specification, STP, GTP and SOP) of Quality control.
Quality Control Chemist
Balaji Solvents
Hyderabad
06.2003 - 12.2005
- Performed standard and proprietary physical testing and chemical analysis of raw chemical materials and finished products.
- Analysis on various instrument (HPLC, Gas Chromatograph, KF Titrator, Moisture analyser, pH meter, Oven, etc.).
- Preparation of new SOPs, protocol & Reports and to update written procedures by periodic review to ensure that the current guidance and updates are captured to be inline with cGMP.
- Performed preventive maintenance and calibrated equipment to keep laboratory in compliance.
- Generated technical reports and other documentation to record analytical test results and conclusions.
- Prepared and standardized test equipment, test solutions and reagents to enable successful testing completion.
- Monitored consumable laboratory supplies and replenished inventory to enable timely completion of testing activities.
- Coordinated and performed analytical tests to comply with established standards and specifications.
- Modified and adapted standard methods and procedures to solve analytical problems.
- Performed technical laboratory functions in compliance with regulatory agencies and safety requirements.
- Distillation of Solvent mixture to determine the quality to assess the costing for procurement.
Education
Bachelor of Science - B.Tech in Chemical Engineering
Karnataka State Open University (KSOU)
New Delhi 06.2011 - 09.2015
Higher Secondary Education - Secondary Education
Government Higher Secondary School
Chittar, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India 06.1998 - 04.2000
Secondary School Education - SSLC
S.A.V.HS
Angamoozhy, Pathanamthitta, Kerala 06.1988 - 04.1998
Skills
Approved chemist for Chemical and instrumentation analysis from Madhyapradesh government
undefinedAccomplishments
- Commissioning of new Quality Control laboratory for two organizations.
- Collaborated with Analytical development Laboratory to optimize the various methods of HPLC and Gas chromatograph.
- Development and validation of validation of method for cleaning samples.
- Validation of blender, microniser and compactor used in power processing area.
- Template development and Validation of excel sheet for various calculation in Quality control.
Affiliations
- Approved Chemist for Chemical and instrumentation analysis from Government of Madhyapradesh.
Additional Information
Advanced training of Quality Control instruments at Medicaps University for Pharmacy students.
Following software are handled to execute the various functions.
a) Chromeleon 6.8 and 7.2, Empower, Chemstation and LC/GC solution (HPLC and GC)
b) Trackwise and Smart solve for (Deviation, CAPA and Market complaints)
c) Cipdox and QMS (Change control Management)
d) ERP and SAP (For planning and transaction)
e) LIMS software (Laboratory data control)
f) LMS and SABA (Training)
Following instruments are handled in Laboratory
1) High performance Liquid Chromatography (Make: Agilent, Shimadzu, and Waters)
2) Gas Chromatograph (Make: Netel, Agilent, Shimadzu, Perkin Elmer)
3) UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (Make: Shimadzu and Model: 1700, 1800 and 1900.
4) Dissolution Tester (USP) (Make: Electrolab)
5) Autotitrator (KF and Potentiometer) – Make: Metrohm and Model 856
6) FT-IR Spectrophotometer - Make: Perkin Elmer-Spectrum Two and Shimadzu-FTIR-8000S
7) Polarimeter - Make: Rudolph and Model: Autopol IV&V.
8) Particle Size analyzer -Make: Malvern, and Model: Mastersizer 2000, Scirocco for dry method mode and Hydro 2000 SM for wet method and Mastersizer 3000.
9) Friabilator - Make: Electrolab and model : EF-1W
10) Disintegration tester (USP) - Make: Electrolab and model : ED-2AL
11) Lyophillizer - Make: Virts
12) Bulk Density Apparatus - Make: Electrolab and model: ETD 1020
Viscometer, Oven, Muffle furnace, pH meter, Vacuum Oven,
Surface Area anlayser (Make: Micromeritics)
Software
Interests
Analytical research
Reading the books
Playing games
Playing Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton
Captain of Brilliant arts and sports club and Cipla Limited, Right hand opening batsman and off spin bowler.
Team Captain for volley ball Player. Team won the Ajanta Pharma Trophy 2023.
Singles Badminton player.
Timeline
Manager of Quality Control
Ajanta Pharma Limited
10.2019 - Current
Assistant Manager of Quality Control
CIPLA LIMITED
11.2014 - 10.2019
Senior Executive
Nectar Lifesciences Ltd.
04.2012 - 11.2014
Bachelor of Science - B.Tech in Chemical Engineering
Karnataka State Open University (KSOU)
06.2011 - 09.2015
Research Associate
Surya Pharmaceutical Limited
09.2010 - 03.2012
Senior Analytical Chemist
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd
12.2005 - 08.2010
Quality Control Chemist
Balaji Solvents
06.2003 - 12.2005
Higher Secondary Education - Secondary Education
Government Higher Secondary School
06.1998 - 04.2000
Secondary School Education - SSLC
S.A.V.HS
06.1988 - 04.1998
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