Lucas Ramos

Lucas Ramos Education University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering September 2014-May 2018 Professional Experience Kaleido Biosciences Pilot Plant Technician June 2018-October 2018 Supervisor, Manufacturing October 2018-October 2019 -Supervisor to a team of 5 operators in a Pilot Plant running 5-7 days a week to produce microbiome therapeutics for stage 1 human clinical trials, hitting 100% of our delivery targets. -Responsible for scheduling operator shifts in coordination with a dynamic Pilot process operations schedule as well as optimizing the order of our processes across several trains to account for raw material availability, fridge storage space and length of operations. -Wrote and issued batch records to operate 5 different process operations during development and production campaigns of 4 different therapeutic products with unique raw materials and process conditions in accordance to cGMP for food manufacturing. -Trained pilot plant technicians to perform over sixty manufacturing related SOP’s and cGMP documentation practices and assessed their retention with monthly quizzes on crucial SOP’s. -Updated a mass balance spreadsheet for each therapeutic product to ensure accurate loading. -Wrote daily updates to Tech Ops Vice President listing: completed processes, incidents, a projection of the next day’s schedule and general concerns or changes in the pilot lab. -Created a shared inventory document for pilot lab listing raw materials and lab consumables to help manage consumables during manufacturing campaigns and anticipate material lead times. -Assembled and installed 25-Liter Rotary Evaporators, scales, vacuum pumps, controllers and other daily operations units. Performed installation, operational and performance qualification (IQ, OQ, PQ) for new large equipment entering the Pilot Plant. -Performed maintenance on 22-Liter reactor shaft seals, drain valves and Buchi Rotavapors. South Dakota State University Undergraduate Researcher May-August 2017 -Built a bench scale plasma-assisted catalysis reactor to refine biofuel in a continuous process from a previously developed batch process to increase its production. The presence of high voltage electrodes and gaseous oil at high temperatures placed a great emphasis on operational safety on top of posing many design challenges. -Catalyst used was then analyzed at the nanometer scale using a Transmission Electron Microscope to quantify the effect of plasma treatment on reducing catalyst coking across various plasma treatment durations, Research program funded by the USDA culminating in an oral presentation and a poster session to the entire SDSU agricultural engineering faculty and department head. Skills Software: Veeva, Microsoft Office, Autodesk AutoCad 3D, Matlab, Aspen Equipment: Rotary Evaporator, Distillation Column, Heat Exchanger, Gas Chromatograph, Polymer Extruder, Bomb Calorimeter, Karl FIscher Titrator, Thermo III Chiller, Vacuum Pumps Certifications: Institute of Industrial and System Engineering (IISE) Six Sigma Yellow Belt