Improver

Waiken Wong

Manager, Product Development Engineering at Catalent Pharma Solution

Oak Park, Illinois

Manager, Product Development Engineering; Catalent Pharma Solutions, Woodstock, IL; May2015-current

Directing a team that does formulation development, process development, and scale up for contract pharmaceutical manufacturing. Specializing in blow-fill-seal aseptic manufacturing. Ophthalmic, respiratory, and injectable drugs.
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Senior Development Engineer; Catalent Pharma Solutions, Woodstock, IL; current

Formulation, formulation development, process development, and scale up in non-/GMP aseptic processing. Includes analytical method development, physical characterization, laboratory management.
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Development Engineer; Catalent Pharma Solutions, Woodstock, IL; May 2011-March 2013

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Formulation Specialist; Catalent Pharma Solutions, Woodstock, IL; Sept 2010-May 2011

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Associate Scientist; Alpharma, Chicago Hts, IL, Feb-May 2010

HPLC analysis of APIs in various matrices, method development pursuant to GLP and GCP guidelines
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Research Scientist; Experimur, Chicago, IL; 2007-2009

Summary: Provide laboratory & analytical chemistry support for pre-clinical GLP toxicology.
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Sr Research Scientist; Maroon Biotech Corp, Chicago, IL; 2005-2007

Summary: startup company’s first scientific hire & sole scientist during tenure, directed & performed all duties related to scientific matters. Main goal was development of polymeric surfactants for wound healing, cell membrane repair, & protein stabilization.

Specialties: analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer science, polymer chemistry, polymer engineering, method development, method validation, process development, laboratory management, biotech, HPLC, GC, SAXS, MALDI-MS, SEM, TEM, NMR, particle size analysis, nanoscience, nanotechnology, GxP, formulation, scale up, aseptic processing

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Experience:

• formulation specialist (Catalent Pharma Solutions)
• Manager, Product Development Engineering (Catalent Pharma Solutions)
• Senior Development Engineer (Catalent Pharma Solutions)
• associate scientist (Alpharma)
• research scientist (Experimur)
• Product Development Engineering Manager (Woodstock Sterile Solutions)
• development engineer (Catalent Pharma Solutions)

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