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Work History
Education
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Accomplishments
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Krzysztof Turek

Dublin

Summary

Hardworking person with nearly 20 years of experience in medical device, pharmaceutical and bio pharmaceutical industry. Highly creative and innovative with reputation for driving measurable results. I do enjoy of working in cross functional teams and start-ups. Currently focused to gain new skills in area of AI.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

SPECIALIST UPSTREAM MANUFACTURING

Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dublin
07.2023 - Current
  • Working in Upstream area within Harvest/Cell Culture & Media
  • Operating Bench Equipment: NovaCell, Vi-Cell, Microscope
  • Operating STERIS Part washer and autoclave equipment
  • KanBan Materials management
  • Daily Sampling (NovaSept) and Sample submission
  • CIP & SIP
  • Aseptic Connections (DAC & MPC)
  • Balance Daily Calibrations
  • PH & DO probes calibration
  • Peristaltic Pumps operation
  • Production Batch Record reviews

BIOTECHNOLOGIST

Lonza AG
02.2022 - 06.2023
  • Working in USP area (Start Up ORCA project)
  • Writing SOP's and Work Instruction
  • Overseeing construction works and equipment installation
  • Safety Walks
  • Defining strategies for Depth Filtration and Harvest Process
  • Defining SWAB Process for USP area
  • Defining strategies for FIT process for USP, Buffer/Media and DSP Area
  • Including implementation of new to Lonza site FIT device (Sartocheck 5)
  • CIP/SIP, FIT
  • Media and Buffer Prep
  • PPQ

MANUFACTURING TRAINING SPECIALIST

Viatris, formerly Mylan
Dublin
11.2018 - 01.2022
  • Assisting in the development, implementation, and facilitation of technical/non-technical training programs and coursework covering all Manufacturing Operations (equipment and processes)
  • Implementation and execution of Site Training Plans
  • Identifying training needs
  • Training new starters (setting up objectives and execution)
  • Training Folder maintenance, audit readiness and archiving
  • Training Matrix day-to-day updates and coordination
  • Training Plans issuance and coordination
  • External Visitors training (Work Permits)
  • Cross-training employees
  • Scheduling and delivering site training sessions.
  • On-Boarding Curricula and Task-Specific Curricula (Issuance and updating)
  • Leading Quality Investigations (SME), Complaints Laboratory experience.
  • Validation Duties: Member of Validation Team - FAT/SAT participation - execution of validation protocols including: DQ, IQ, OQ and PQ (Upgrade 1st Device Assembly and Packing Line)

MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIST

Mylan
Dublin
10.2015 - 11.2018
  • Operating Automatic Device Assembly and Packing Line
  • Writing, updating reviewing SOP's, Work Instruction, Protocols, Reports, Production Batch Records
  • Team Leader for Device Assembly Team
  • Acting as Subject Matter Expert
  • Area Training Coordinator - Maintaining and delivering training modules and related work instructions
  • Designing Training Modules, Training Matrix
  • Setting up personal training objectives, daily and weekly training reports for department
  • Supporting internal, corporate, and external audit (HPRA, FDA)
  • Quality inspections of components and finished product
  • PMSI - carried on for incoming materials
  • Problem solving using defined methodology (RCA)
  • Kan-Ban implementation (dealing with several vendors, setting up a list of required items and location, minimum stock, delivery time)
  • Risk Assessment Evaluation for equipment, process and area
  • Supervisory duties
  • MES and SAP
  • Validation Duties: Member of Validation Team - FAT/SAT participation - execution of validation protocols including: IQ, OQ and PQ (for 2nd Device Assembly and Packing Line)

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIST

Mylan
Dublin
01.2012 - 10.2015
  • Operating Semi - Automatic and Automatic Medical Device Assembly Lines and Testing equipment (DFAT - Device Final Assembly Tester)
  • Writing, updating and reviewing SOP's, Work Instruction, Protocols, Reports, Production Batch Records
  • Equipment Daily calibrations
  • Sampling as per R&D protocols as part ANDA
  • Defining Equipment and Area cleaning regimes
  • Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and equipment
  • Supporting internal, corporate, and external audits (HPRA, FDA)
  • Liaison with major stakeholders and vendors for plant visits
  • Acting as coach for junior team members (Training Coordinator for department)
  • Chemicals management: MSDS (Master Safety Data Sheet)
  • Validation Duties: Technology transfer of Medical Device Production Line
  • FAT/SAT execution of validation protocols including: IQ, OQ and PQ, Verification of Electrical and P&ID diagrams as part of FAT
  • Purchasing equipment (balances, lifters), CAPEX
  • PFMEA and FMEA of Medical Device and Packing Assembly Line
  • Design of testing kit for Assembly Line
  • Environmental monitoring of HVAC system: Operating Particle Counter, Settle Plates and Air Sampling

MANUFACTURING OPERATOR & MANUFACTURING TEAM LEADER

Gerard Laboratories
06.2008 - 09.2012
  • Operating blistering/packing/bottling lines
  • In Process Checks (IPCs)
  • Daily calibrations
  • Maintaining and review of Production Batch Records (PBRs)
  • Quality Inspections and Investigations
  • Finish Product Sampling
  • Cleaning equipment and Maintenance
  • Team Leading Duties
  • Training duties

CLEANROOM PROCESS OPERATOR

Adecco, Hewlett- Packard Ltd
Leixlip
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • Operating OAMs(Orffice Attaching Machines) in a high specification clean room (ISO regulated semiconductor manufacturing)
  • Microscopic In Process Checks (IPC) of a product
  • Maintenance and cleaning of production equipment
  • Daily handover and troubleshooting reports
  • Review Production Batch Manufacturing Records

GENERAL OPERATIVE

IBM International Holdings BV
Dublin
09.2006 - 12.2006
  • Final Assembly and packing of computer servers
  • Packing and unpacking finished units
  • Final assembly and quality control checks
  • Daily production handovers

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Validation And Digitalization (LEVEL 9) - Validation, Digitalization and AI

Atlantic Technological University
Sligo, Ireland

MASTER OF SCIENCE (LEVEL 9) - MEDICAL DEVICE BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

Innopharma & Griffith College
Dublin, Ireland
01.2023

CERTIFICATE IN VALIDATION (LEVEL 7) - VALIDATION

Institute of Technology Tralee
Tralee, Ireland
01.2020

CERTIFICATE IN BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING (LEVEL 8) -

Institute of Technology Tralee
Tralee
01.2020

CERTIFICATE IN CPD IN MEDICAL DEVICE DECONTAMINATION (LEVEL 7) -

Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin
01.2018

HIGHER DIPLOMA IN SCIENCE - PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING (LEVEL 8)

Institute of Technology Tallaght
Dublin
01.2016

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (LEVEL 7) - PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Institute of Technology Tallaght
Dublin
01.2014

HIGHER CERTIFICATION IN SCIENCE (LEVEL 6) - GMP - PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Institute of Technology Tallaght
Dublin
01.2012

CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE (LEVEL 8) -

Institute of Technology Tallaght
Dublin
01.2010

BACHELOR OF ARTS - SERBIAN-CROATIAN LANGUAGE

University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw, Poland
01.2006

Skills

  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
  • Syncade (MES)
  • SAP
  • Delta V
  • PI - Vision
  • LIMS
  • MODA
  • Documentum/D2
  • TrackWise
  • KNEAT
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Quality Assessment
  • Schematics Interpretation
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Emergency Response
  • Quality Assurance
  • Resource Allocation
  • Documentation Management
  • System installations
  • Validation & Commissioning
  • Tech Transfer

Accomplishments

  • I am proud to be a member of start up team within Mylan Dublin Respiratory Group (from R&D Scale to fully commercially operational plant, FAT, SAT, Tech Transfer)
  • OJT's, SOP's, WI's and Protocols design, issuance, and execution
  • Maintenance and Continuous Improvement of the Innovation and Learning Program (design new OJT - On the Job Training)
  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) for current products and equipment
  • Triage Team Member (Actively participating in QI/QIR, CAPA's)
  • Validation Team Member (Design Review, Design Qualification, Transfer Technology)
  • Member of cross-functional teams (Leading Quality Investigations)
  • Supervisory duties
  • Team Leader during Upgrade Project of Device Assembly and Packing line (4 months long project)

Languages

  • English, C2
  • Polish, Native
  • Serbian, C2
  • Croatian, C2
  • German, A1

Timeline

SPECIALIST UPSTREAM MANUFACTURING

Bristol-Myers Squibb
07.2023 - Current

BIOTECHNOLOGIST

Lonza AG
02.2022 - 06.2023

MANUFACTURING TRAINING SPECIALIST

Viatris, formerly Mylan
11.2018 - 01.2022

MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIST

Mylan
10.2015 - 11.2018

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIST

Mylan
01.2012 - 10.2015

MANUFACTURING OPERATOR & MANUFACTURING TEAM LEADER

Gerard Laboratories
06.2008 - 09.2012

CLEANROOM PROCESS OPERATOR

Adecco, Hewlett- Packard Ltd
01.2007 - 01.2008

GENERAL OPERATIVE

IBM International Holdings BV
09.2006 - 12.2006

Postgraduate Diploma in Validation And Digitalization (LEVEL 9) - Validation, Digitalization and AI

Atlantic Technological University

MASTER OF SCIENCE (LEVEL 9) - MEDICAL DEVICE BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

Innopharma & Griffith College

CERTIFICATE IN VALIDATION (LEVEL 7) - VALIDATION

Institute of Technology Tralee

CERTIFICATE IN BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING (LEVEL 8) -

Institute of Technology Tralee

CERTIFICATE IN CPD IN MEDICAL DEVICE DECONTAMINATION (LEVEL 7) -

Dublin Institute of Technology

HIGHER DIPLOMA IN SCIENCE - PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING (LEVEL 8)

Institute of Technology Tallaght

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (LEVEL 7) - PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Institute of Technology Tallaght

HIGHER CERTIFICATION IN SCIENCE (LEVEL 6) - GMP - PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Institute of Technology Tallaght

CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE (LEVEL 8) -

Institute of Technology Tallaght

BACHELOR OF ARTS - SERBIAN-CROATIAN LANGUAGE

University of Wroclaw
Krzysztof Turek