Narendra Kumar

About Narendra Kumar

Experienced Integrated Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. Skilled in Quality Management, Lean Six Sigma,Management, Research and Development (R&D) both API & Formulation, Process Engineering and Process Optimization. Strong program and project management professional with a Chemical Engineering & Certified LSS Black Belt

Experience

1. Associate Director- Project Program Manager

   Biocon

   Aug 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead & facilitate multiple cross-functional team by managing and directing project team resources / experts to identify relevant issues and effectively manage progress and change. Ensures integration of technical/commercial information and activities necessary to develop and support the success of the plan by utilizing project management skills/tools, including but not limited to, to successfully drive the project to meet established timelines Assesses critical data and contributes information to identify / facilitate critical “Go / No Go” project decisions. Provide proactive communication to all stakeholders, regarding issues, risks, contingency plans and potential negative impacts to the established milestones and timelines Risk identification and preparing mitigation plan Handling and responding to regulatory agency deficiencies and providing technical documents as needed Handling Peptide products, Complex Generics, OSD, Suspension, small molecules API’s and Intermediates product category Hands on experience in preparation of PFD, Equipment selection & sizing, Utility calculations, Material & Energy Balances, Basic Engineering Package for new schemes for debottlenecking of new and existing plants Hands on experience in new product development by Design of Experiments (DoE), Process development by DFSS, Optimization, Scale-up from Pilot to Plant scale, Product validations and commercialization on time Equipment sizing and selection, Material and energy balance across process and utility Preparation of Process engineering package, SHE package, Safety risk analysis and Environmental impact assessment/ Technology/process/changes/improvements as per the site objectives Worked on latest technologies of Pharmaceutical manufacturing, Continuous reactor technologies like Micro Reactor, PFR design set-up etc. Identify bottlenecks, Cost improvement, Cost analysis, Capacity assessment and enhancement, Cycle time reduction

Education

• Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

  Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering

  1999 — 2003