Profile
Abdo Sukari
Senior Quality Assurance Expert with fifteen years in pharmaceutical and biotech production and laboratories. I write and review the documents that keep manufacturing compliant, qualify equipment and systems, investigate deviations to a real root cause and prepare sites for Swissmedic. I like to leave a process simpler than I found it.
Experience
Where the evidence comes from.
Professional development Visp
Diploma in Next Generation Biosecurity at the University of Bath, three patent applications filed internationally, and intensive German towards business fluency.
Senior Expert Merck, Vevey
IQ and OQ for manufacturing equipment and utilities, readiness of the QC laboratory and a new DNA laboratory, an automated Hamilton robotic testing system, risk assessments with FMEA, FMECA and HACCP, and deviation teams led through root cause analysis.
QC Scientist and LIMS Specialist, then Laboratory Information Specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lengnau
SM LIMS implementation in Quality Control, three parallel validation projects from FAT to PQ, raw material and single use qualification, deviations and CAPAs in TrackWise, certificates of analysis and batch release, and a Swissmedic GMP inspection passed without critical findings. Led three scientists and five technicians.
Scientist Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel
User requirements, design qualification and FMEA for laboratory software, validation packages, method transfer, document control in Veeva Vault and preparation for a Swissmedic GLP and GCP audit.
Scientist Covance, UK
Validation of laboratory instruments, LIMS audit trail reviews and audits of study records, SOPs and deviations under GLP.
Associate Scientist Covance, UK
Internal site inspections, risk assessments, sampling, testing and reporting.
Research Associate University of York, UK
Protein expression and purification and medical device development in industry collaborations.
Education and training
- MSc Bioscience Technology, with meritUniversity of York, September 2013 to February 2015
- DAS Clinical Trial Practice and ManagementUniversity of Basel, 31 ECTS, awarded November 2024
- Diploma, Next Generation BiosecurityUniversity of Bath, June 2025 to June 2026
- BSc Pharmacy and PharmacologySeptember 2001 to September 2006
- Practical Process ImprovementPPI 8 step method, March 2023. Six Sigma Yellow Belt in progress
Languages and interests
- EnglishC2, fluent
- GermanB1, conversational, improving
- InterestsSwimming, chess, scuba diving and travelling
Certificates and reference letters are available on request.