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Job History |
1993 to date |
Principal, McDowall Consulting
- Providing consultancy in LIMS, chromatography data systems, computerised system validation, corporate validation policies, process simplification and redesign, laboratory automation strategies, auditing laboratories and vendors, and equipment qualification.
- Management consultancy for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical industries.
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1998 to date |
Director, R.D.McDowall Limited
- Provision of services for the testing and compliance of computerised systems in pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical industries.
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1996-1998 |
Director, BJM Limited
- Qualification of analytical equipment and computerised systems.
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1993 to date |
Advisor the following Consultancy Companies:
- Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultancy Services and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Management Consultancy Services.
- Cap Gemini Consulting.
- Digital Consulting.
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1993 - 1989 |
Bioanalytical Unit Head, Department of Bioanalytical Sciences Wellcome Research Laboratories
- Line management responsibility for up to 40 staff, responsible for the development of assays to support development, analysis of samples from research, non-clinical and clinical studies and reporting of this work.
- Responsible for improvement of effectiveness of the laboratory and liaison with customer Departments.
- Implementation of a LIMS and a chromatography data system to GXP regulations.
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1978 - 1988 |
Senior Analyst Department of Drug Analysis Smith Kline and French Research
- Managerial responsibility for a team of up to 9 staff in the Department of Drug Analysis with the remit to develop, validate and apply methods for the measurement of drugs in biological fluids.
- Project manager responsible for the purchase, implementation of a LIMS and automation that resulted in productivity increases of up to 10 fold.
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1972 - 1978 |
Research Assistant Department of Forensic Medicine, London Hospital Medical College
- Responsible for the development of analytical methods for analysing drugs in necropsy samples.
- Successfully completed research for a Ph.D. degree.
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