Josh F.

About Josh F.

Senior MES Consultant with more than 12 years\' experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and more than 9 years designing, developing, validating, and supporting MES systems. In previous roles I helped develop a manufacturing process at a startup biotech company, used statistical process control (SPC) for detecting process changes, and led teams in two different manufacturing areas.

Experience

1. Senior Mes Consultant

   Skellig Automation

   Jan 2022 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   For Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN): MES Recipe Authoring - Creating Syncade MES recipes and master data for several manufacturing projects. Authoring requirements and validation documents- Using Jira for project management- Automated peer review checks with Python. This reduced the peer review time from several hours to minutes. This also mistake-proofed the review by catching every issue.For Lonza (Portsmouth, NH): MES Evaluation - Analyzed options for a new facility\'s MES implementation. This involved weighing the strengths and costs of several MES vendors.For Moderna (Boston, MA area): Continuous Improvement - Facilitating OQ and PQ guideline improvements using DMAIC (i.e, Lean Six Sigma).For Moderna (Boston, MA area): Syncade MES Recipe Updates and Validation - Updated and validated recipes for Moderna’s clinical and commercial operations- Used eValidation (Kneat) system to draft and execute validation documents.

Education

• Texas A&M University

  Master of Biotechnology, Entrepreneurship

  2011 — 2012

• Texas A&M University

  Biology, Business

  2007 — 2011