John Thornton

Automation/CQV/CSV Specialist

Documentation Generation | Programming | Technology

Summary

John is a multi-disciplined Engineer with much international experience (Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Ireland, Australia).

He has very wide and diverse experience with primarily Biopharma and API sites. At various junctures he worked as an Engineer in Commissioning, Qualification, Validation, Process, Project, Construction Turnover, or Maintenance.

His CV relates to project/operations work with Automation and Process & Auxiliary Equipment. He also has site-wide system experience from various stints in Construction Management.

Special Competences

Documentation Generation, Execution and Management within the life science industry framework for specification to included User requirements, System build, FAT/SAT Commissioning, GXP testing IQ/OQ both in process & automation.
▪ Technology including a wide range of Process and auxiliary equipment with associated automation systems.
Programming Languages: Has written code with VBA and SQL for data management, extraction and analysis from project and production databases.
▪ Personal: Prefers to have a plan with milestones, likes to be in a somewhat pressurised work environment, adapts to change quite well, always willing to learn.

Project Experience

C&Q Automation Engineer for OMS/DCS integration project
Project to integrate a new Emerson Syncade system on top of a pre-existing Emerson DeltaV system.
- – Finalised a 75% complete commissioning test plan.
- – Was incident custodian during active commissioning phase. Responsible forconfirming RTE/RA objects on Syncade production system matcheddevelopment system.
- – For Trial run phase, authored trial run test approach and test documents,including dry and wet runs.
- – Witness and approver to sFats.Novartis, Switzerland – 2020-2022
▪ Computerized Systems Validation Engineer on Greenfield site.
New build of a highly automated and integrated large-scale bio-production facility.
- – Confirmation of phase and control modules prior to CQV testing and review of completed testing on return on Kneat paperless validation system.
- – Design documentation red-lined changes confirmed as completed and documented. Used VBA and SQL programming to accelerate documentation review/organisation whilst querying vast amounts of data.