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Polly Dixon [email protected] Other contact details available upon request I am an enthusiastic chemical and pharmaceutical scientist, currently working for a pharmaceutical company in a quality control setting specialising in nasal sprays and inhalation products. I am supremely well organised with a very mature attitude, passionate about continuous improvement and quality driven. I am eager to continue developing myself professionally within the pharmaceutical industry. Employment Jan 2016 – Present Stability Co-ordinator and Quality Control Analyst Pharmaserve NorthWest Part of the Professional Development Academy, working towards a Level 3 award in Leadership and Management from the ILM Academy Review analytical test methods and documentation, highlighting any issues and updating when necessary Guide QC analysts on out of specification procedures and writing the appropriate reports Prepare, review and approve GMP related documents “Workplace Trainer” – provide training, leadership and support to QC analysts Communicate testing status regularly to the team leader and stand-in in the team leader’s absence Control and co-ordinate the commercial Stability Programme: Plan and conduct studies in line with ICH guidance Regularly review the stability programme and make improvements to be more efficient Plan testing to guarantee timely reporting of data and manage schedule to ensure that stability data reviews are reported to customers swiftly and all goals met Work alongside customers to prepare stability monographs and protocols Liaise with commercial and NPI teams for smooth transition of new products and commercial products into the QC laboratory

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Polly [email protected]

Other contact details available upon request

I am an enthusiastic chemical and pharmaceutical scientist, currently working for a pharmaceutical company in a quality control setting specialising in nasal sprays and inhalation products. I am supremely well organised with a very mature attitude, passionate about continuous improvement and quality driven. I am eager to continue developing myself professionally within the pharmaceutical industry.

Employment

Jan 2016 – Present Stability Co-ordinator and Quality Control AnalystPharmaserve NorthWest

Part of the Professional Development Academy, working towards a Level 3 award in Leadership and Management from the ILM Academy

Review analytical test methods and documentation, highlighting any issues and updating when necessary

Guide QC analysts on out of specification procedures and writing the appropriate reports Prepare, review and approve GMP related documents “Workplace Trainer” – provide training, leadership and support to QC analysts Communicate testing status regularly to the team leader and stand-in in the team leader’s

absence

Control and co-ordinate the commercial Stability Programme:

Plan and conduct studies in line with ICH guidance Regularly review the stability programme and make improvements to be more efficient Plan testing to guarantee timely reporting of data and manage schedule to ensure that stability

data reviews are reported to customers swiftly and all goals met Work alongside customers to prepare stability monographs and protocols Liaise with commercial and NPI teams for smooth transition of new products and commercial

products into the QC laboratoryJuly 2015 - Present Quality Control Analyst

Pharmaserve NorthWest

Perform analysis on in-process, finished product and stability samples in accordance with the relevant analytical specifications and procedures

Complete documentation associated with laboratory functions in line with GMP Conduct analytical equipment calibration activities and maintain equipment Conduct all work, and maintain the laboratory in a clean, safe and compliant condition

Training Completed: Fundamental HPLC & HPLC Troubleshooting and Maintenance Technical Report Writing Awarded the ILM accredited certificate in Professional Trainer Techniques – Advanced LevelEducation

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2011-2015 BSc Applied Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.

Classification: 1st Class Honours

Core Modules Studied:

Advanced Instrumental Analysis, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacture, Topics in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Principles of Toxicology and Drug Safety, Project and Research Methods, Pharmaceutical Formulation, Drug Design, Drug Analysis and Spectroscopic Interpretation, Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Scientific Basis of Therapeutics.

Final Year Independent Research Project“An Investigation of the Properties of Mauve and Other Phenazine Dyes”

Included laboratory work, poster presentation, oral presentation and 7,500 word project report. Gained experience of practical aromatic chemistry techniques through the synthesis and

subsequent analysis of mauveine and other phenazine dyes. Skills gained included organic reaction set up, scaling up of materials, reaction monitoring and product isolation via chromatography and recrystallisation.

Time management and personal planning were essential to complete the syntheses and analysis of data in the specified time frame.

2009-2011 A-Levels: History (B), Biology (C), Chemistry (C)Cronton Sixth Form College, Widnes.

2003-2008 9 GCSE’s at A to C, including English (A), Science (B) and Mathematics (B)The Belvedere School, GDST, Liverpool.

Additional Information

Competent user of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint Experienced user of Chromeleon program

References available upon request