Regional Quality Manager and a passionate Chemist, creates and maintains successful Quality Assurance strategies, procedures. Identifies the deficiencies and provide solutions to the problems. Providing quality data to the customers and protecting it is of utmost priority.
Eight years of extensive educational back ground in Chemistry
Twelve years of experience in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industry
Six years of experience in Quality Management
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Regional Quality Manager
Bureau Veritas Commodities And Trade Inc.
10.2021 - Current
Responsible for successful management, oversight and support of quality performance across multiple offices within region.
Providing leadership and support to region, to excel in business.
Contributing to continuous improvement of quality management system, by reviewing existing operations and processes for risks and opportunities.
Promote and support application and implementation of systems and processes to improve quality, service, customer engagement, and process management.
Working with site leaders, to provide guidance about quality related issues.
Meetings are being conducted with Laboratory management on regular basis.
Offices are being assisted in conducting root cause analysis, investigations to resolve complaints, discrepancies.
Offices are being supported, assisted during customer and compliance audits.
Internal audits are being conducted within and outside Region.
Indirectly supervise all department managers, supervisors and front-line employees within Region on matters concerning quality performance.
Laboratory personnel are being trained on QMS to include SQCs, managing PT programs, in order to help them meet KPIs.
Quality Assurance Manager
Bureau Veritas Commodities And Trade Inc
07.2019 - 10.2021
Maintaining SQC charts, investigating outliers, reviewing them on regular basis to ensure compliance
Performing Root Cause analysis and putting corrective actions in place
Monitoring Quality Assurance activities in Laboratory to determine conformance with authorized procedures and good practices.
Conducting all laboratory investigations, of discrepancies to resolve problems with clients and suggest management of required corrective actions.
Monitor key performance indicators (KPI) including turnaround times of samples.
Executing and participating in internal and external audits.
Handling all disciplinary matters in fair and consistent manner and maintain open communication with Division Manager.
Carry out all responsibilities with adherence to company’s health, safety and environmental policies and procedures. Quality Management System, compliance, ethics and exercising good judgment and diplomacy.
Played dual role by absorbing Assistant Laboratory Manager responsibilities for daily operations and managing people, during this time period.
Quality Control Chemist
Bureau Veritas Commodities And Trade Inc.
07.2018 - 07.2019
Instrument verification, validation, training, proficiency testing and Inter laboratory cross check programs.
Statistical Quality Control (SQC), application of statistical techniques, review and approval of data.
Performing Test Method Assessments,
Trouble shooting, maintenance, and complete authority over Laboratory equipment and its repair.
Maintaining laboratory quality records and training records of laboratory personnel.
Conducting laboratory safety meetings and participate in BMT meetings.
Laboratory Supervisor
Bureau Veritas Commodities And Trade Inc.
10.2016 - 01.2018
Responsible for lab equipment, its routine calibration and maintenance.
Responsible for verifying, approving raw data provided by technicians and issue quality certificates to clients in timely manner.
Chemist
SGS North America Inc.
03.2014 - 10.2016
Sample analysis by using variety of analytical equipment like GC, ICP, HPLC, AAS, FTIR and UV-VIS spectrophotometer.
Calibration, verification, maintenance and trouble shooting of analytical equipment.
Analyze sample according to ASTM, EN, ISO, IP, UOP and various internal test methods.
Laboratory Technician (Internship) / Chemist
Inspectorate America Corporation (BV)
08.2011 - 03.2014
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of various petroleum products.
Determination of various physical properties and chemical composition of products.
Determination of purity of various Solvents and products by Gas Chromatography.
Efficiently operate FTIR, UV-VIS, X-ray analyzers, HPLC, IC, SFC, ICP, and GCMS etc.
Research Assistant/ Synthetic Organic Chemist
Lamar University
08.2010 - 08.2012
Research in Organic Chemistry Projects under guidance of Dr. Xiangyang Lei (xiangyang.lei@lamar.edu).
Synthesizing and Characterizing Organic molecules, which are used as linkers in Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs).
Separation and/or Purification of mixture of compounds by Flash Chromatography and Preparative Thin Layer Chromatography and purification by re-crystallization.
Characterization of compounds by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and IR- spectroscopic techniques.
Developed research protocols and procedures to produce accurate results
Maintained up-to-date records of research activities and results for future reference
Education
Master of Science - Chemistry
Lamar University
Beaumont
08.2012
Master of Science - Organic Chemistry
Kakatiya University
Telangana, India
06.2008
Bachelor of Education - Physical Sciences
Kakatiya University
Telangana, India
06.2005
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Kakatiya University
Telangana, India
06.2003
Skills
Statistical Quality Control
Root Cause Analysis
Corrective and Preventive Actions
Test Method Assessments
Test Result Interpretation
Employee Training
Auditing in compliance to ISO9001, ISO17025 and BQ9000
Inter Laboratory Cross Check Programs
Equipment Maintenance and Trouble Shooting
Proficiency in utilizing software on various Analytical Equipment
Report Writing
Complex Computation
Certification
Statistical Quality Control and Root Cause Analysis certification by Bureau Veritas
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