Rakesh Kumar Chiturupula

- Responsible for Demand Management, Solution Design, Project Management, Service Management (Support Process), Vendor Management. - Acting as a liaison between the IT and Business for Quality topics. - Leading the deployment and rollout of projects (in agile) - Keeping abreast of all new technological developments in order to identify IT technologies - Driving IT innovation in the area of responsibility

- Act as IT Business Partner by providing functional and technical application management of implemented (parts of) quality IT systems in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). - Providing operational support for Research systems such as LIMS, ELN, CDS, Spotfire. - Validation Management (cGxP/GAMP5) of research computer systems in DBC by setting up Site Validation Master plan and involve in supporting Lab system Qualification activities.

- Support of Quality/Manufacturing Systems and Lab Automation consulting (e.g. Empower CDS, LIMS, MES, Trackwise, Documentum, CMMS, ELN) - Computer System Validation Consultant (e,g, GAMP 5, IT Supplier Assessment) - IT Quality and Compliance (e.g. SOX-IT, 21 CFR-Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, ERES, Risk Assessment)

- Site IT Lead being responsible for handling and executing multiple projects according to organizational needs for GLP Facility (INVIVO Laboratories). - Accountable for budget upto USD 2 million, Control USD 250K. - People management of team size of 5 resources supporting LIMS/SCADA/SEND/DIGITAL PATHOLOGY/BENCHTOP Systems. - Ensure IT Compliance in accordance with GLP regulations and responsible for CSV activities.

- As system manager responsible for managing the system to provide ITIL related support, including Application, change and release management and Laboratory Application support, sample lifecycle dynamics and analysis. - Responsible for strategic decision and projects for LIMS, EM and LimsLink Application. - Experience as ITQA and has detailed experience of CSV process and implementation. Has detailed test and compliance experience in the CSV area.

As a LIMS Systems Analyst, was responsible for - ILIMS support in Europe and Coordinate and work with support team to solve application issues. - Design and Develop/Modify Validation Protocol and Validation Master Plan. - Validate the system by Preparation and Execution of OQ/PQ Test Scripts of ILIMS for different Business Module (BM) Release. - ILIMS Rollout in Europe and Improve Software Delivery. Responsible for Software Quality Assurance and Enterprise Monitoring Tool

Worked through IT Consultancy as Lab IT System consultant and my roles include the Training and building the team for Lab Automation CoE. I have worked for clients such as Pfizer R&D, Manufacturing and Legacy Wyeth Manufacturing across global in SQL*LIMS, Labware LIMS and Empower Application. I have also involved in Supporting MODA, Developing Minitab Queries and Developing COA reports using Altova Style Vision.

Chemical engineering - Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Thermo dynamics, chemical reaction engineering, Material science, etc.