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Dec. 2001-May 2003 Senior Research Associate - Developed new statistical process monitoring (SPM), control (SPC), and quality control (QC) methods for batch/fed-batch process operations. - Developed SPM and QC tools/software for batch data analysis, online monitoring and prediction and conducted data mining, SPC and QC studies in joint projects with pharmaceutical industry. - Developed an integrated statistical and knowledge-based system in Gensym's G2 for supervising and monitoring batch/fermentation processes. 1999-2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate - Took leadership role in the inception and the coordination of collaborative - Developed two simulators in Matlab and C for pharmaceutical and batch fermentation processes. Web-based implementation of the fermentation simulator is developed as an educational tool. 1996-1997 Development Engineer - Planned and conducted laboratory scale experiments for new products, improved the quality of the existing products and production processes for the leading Turkish pharmaceutical company. Supervised multiple process/product development projects for new productions including antibiotics. - Deployed troubleshooting plans for solid/liquid pharmaceutical dosage forms productions in cGMP environment. - Conducted retrospective and concurrent process validation for new products and problematic runs. Prepared validation reports based on the standard operating procedures (ISO 9001 & cGMP). - Served in total quality improvement and business process reengineering teams. - Performed troubleshooting and provided support for laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and SPC/QC software deployment and personnel training. 1994-1996 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant EDUCATION Ph.D. (1999), M.S. (1995), B.S. (1992), in Chemical Engineering, University of Istanbul, Turkey. TECHNICAL SKILLS General skills in statistics and computing. Specific expertise and interests in: - Statistics: empirical models for batch processes; multivariate statistical analysis; data mining and pattern recognition for chemical process data - Computing platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP, UNIX - Programming languages: Basic, Matlab, G2 and C - Statistical software: Matlab Statistics, Chemometrics and PLS toolboxes, SIMCA of Umetrics - Graphical User Interface Design: Matlab GUIDE and Visual C - Text formatting and office computing: LaTeX, MS Office, Adobe Illustrator, Visio - MS Project 2000: Ph.D. Course work on project/production management and operations research
AWARDS 1997-1999 Integrated Doctorate Scholarship Award. Awarded by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for conducting research as part of Ph.D. studies in an institution abroad. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) References are available upon request.
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