Greensoft - Environmental Compliance Software
DHIVYA TAMIL
MSPS and CDGP
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Product Safety professional with a diverse skill set, spanning 12 years in the field. Demonstrates a deep understanding of evaluating, conceptualizing, and executing tactics to ensure business compliance with international product safety, environmental, and chemical regulations. Proven expertise in strategizing and aligning corporate portfolios to meet global standards. Worked in both the United States and India, demonstrating relevant professional experience in both countries.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Product Legislation Compliance (PLC) Expert
Project Manager III - Thermo Fisher, Phadia AB - Sweden (Remote working from India)
01.2022 - Current
- Lead the management of Product safety and environmental regulations, ensuring ongoing compliance with product registries, reporting requirements, and notifications to regulatory authorities and agencies.
- Drive Market surveillance readiness (MSR), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and Eco-design for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR) requirements.
- Collaborated with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders from departments including Global Supply Chain, Operations, Legal, Marketing & Sales, Research & Development, Quality and Design Engineering to effectively manage product safety requirements and integrate them into the product development lifecycle.
- Coordinated with external stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies and certification bodies, to stay updated on evolving safety requirements.
- Successfully completed product/substance registration with a solid technical acumen, adept at developing comprehensive proposals encompassing written content, pricing, presentations, and contracting.
- Implemented efficient supplier communication channels, fostering strong relationships to meet global environmental compliance requirements (eg: SCIP reporting) through Greensoft Technology.
- Managed and led multi-year and multi-layer product safety compliance programs, overseeing the entire process from the discovery phase to the launch phase.
- Implemented eco-design principles from the early stages of new concept development, optimizing physical attributes, material usage, production processes, distribution methods, end-of-life systems, and minimizing environmental impact throughout the product's lifecycle.
- Possess extensive expertise in reviewing external documents and data, like Safety Data Sheets (SDS), chemical declarations from suppliers, and conducting chemical composition calculations for ingredients and packaging.
- Experienced in crafting meticulous regulatory submission documents that effectively showcase the socio-economic implications of products through precise quantification of their environmental and human health repercussions. Skilled in employing calculated thresholds to assess adverse effects and incorporating them into risk and compliance evaluations.
- Skilled in analyzing and interpreting product safety, product environmental, and chemical compliance regulations like (REACH-like laws, classification/labeling regimes, ROHS-like laws, biocides, PFAS, POP, WEEE, Prop 65, TSCA, P&PW, UN model regulations, Korea MOEL, Japan PDSCL, WHIMS etc.,) with the ability to strategically integrate them into business processes.
Product Stewardship – Senior Specialist
Thermo Fisher - Rockford, IL, USA
09.2015 - 12.2021
- Managed end-to-end Product Safety and Global Dangerous Goods compliance program for 44 ThermoFisher sites worldwide.
- Business functional lead for product stewardship projects related to product lifecycle management (PLM), integration, implementation, acquisition, merger and Q2C.
- Served as the designated internal auditor for product safety compliance and transportation risk assessment. Led the facilitation of regulatory audits and inspections, reviewing audit reports to ensure appropriate responses were prepared in coordination with legal and leadership teams.
- Collaborate with R&D and NPI teams to incorporate sustainable design and green chemical alternatives.
- Work with external laboratories for various testing, certification for existing and new products.
- Accomplished $1.5M in savings through 25+ PPI projects on operational improvement, productivity, sustainability across BU.
Associate EHS
Thermo Fisher
09.2012 - 08.2015
Quality Assurance Executive
Anthem Biosciences
02.2011 - 08.2012
Regulatory Affairs Associate
VWR International LLC
02.2010 - 11.2011
Education
Master of Science - Product Stewardship - GPA 3.9/4
Public School of Health - Indiana University
Indianapolis, USA 08.2021 - 05.2023
Bachelors of Technology - Biotechnology
Anna University
Chennai 01.2005 - 04.2009
Certification
Certified Dangerous Goods Professional (CDGP) - IHMM
Accomplishments
Award: Most valuable player award (MVP) - 2017 by Thermo Fisher Scientific for outstanding initiatives towards productivity in dangerous goods transportation and packaging saving around $1.5Million.
Award: ThermoFisher EHS excellence award - 2020 for INVOLVEMENT in Dangerous goods and Paper cooler packaging project.
Skills
Program Management: Successfully managed and led end-to-end product compliance programs across multiple years and layers, overseeing projects from the discovery phase to the launch phase Accomplishments include designing and implementing various programs, some of which are highlighted below - 1 Waste Framework Directive - SCIP reporting program for Phadia Instruments 2 Product Stewardship productivity and sustainability projects 3 GHS label change control program for 63 sites across the globe 4 Lithium battery test summary rule project for 800 instruments
undefinedSoftware
Oracle cloud Agile - Cloud based product lifecycle management and governance tool
Gabi - Product Lifecycle Assessment software
WERCS & Intelligent Authoring - SDS authoring tool
LOLI - List of list Int'l regulatory data base
Timeline
Product Legislation Compliance (PLC) Expert
Project Manager III - Thermo Fisher, Phadia AB - Sweden (Remote working from India)
01.2022 - Current
Master of Science - Product Stewardship - GPA 3.9/4
Public School of Health - Indiana University
08.2021 - 05.2023
Product Stewardship – Senior Specialist
Thermo Fisher - Rockford, IL, USA
09.2015 - 12.2021
Associate EHS
Thermo Fisher
09.2012 - 08.2015
Quality Assurance Executive
Anthem Biosciences
02.2011 - 08.2012
Regulatory Affairs Associate
VWR International LLC
02.2010 - 11.2011
Bachelors of Technology - Biotechnology
Anna University
01.2005 - 04.2009
Certified Dangerous Goods Professional (CDGP) - IHMM
Project Management and PPI 8 step method
Advanced Multi-Modal Transportation Classification - SCHC
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