G.V.S. Ratna Kumar is seeking senior level positions in production, quality, regulatory, research and development with chemical and pharmaceutical companies. He has over 20 years of experience in these areas and most recently worked as the Senior Manager of Production at Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited. He has extensive knowledge of quality standards, cGMP compliance, audits, documentation, and production planning.

1. G.V.S.RATNA KUMAR
Mobile: +91-9629214384
+91-9940630190
E-Mail: gvsratnakumar@yahoo.co.in
Seeking Senior Level assignments in Production, Quality, Regulatory, Research and Development
with reputed organizations in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry.
_____________________________________________________________________CAREER
APERCU
A thorough professional with over 20+ years of rich experience in production, Quality control, Quality
Assurance, Research & Development, Compliance activities Regulatory knowledge and Literature collection. My
last assignment is as Senior Manager-Production with Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, APIDC;
Renigunta; AP (Malladi Group) and approved chemist by Drug control authority Govt of T.N. In-depth
knowledge about various Quality Standards and proficiency in implementation of the same. Proficient with
modern concepts of value engineering, costing with demonstrated abilities in optimum resource utilisation.
Experience of facing the regulatory audits of WHO GMP, all Indian and Multinational customer audits and
competing the work place with up to date changes in the industry. Possess knowledge of ICH guidelines for API
manufacturing. Ensuring compliance with Production, quality standards & maintaining all related documents.
_________________________________________________________________PROFICIENCY
FORTE
- Planning and Execution - Batch Release - Process Validation and Evaluation
- Internal Audits - Stability Studies - Training and Evaluation
- Inventory Control - Change Control Management - Team Management
- Man Power Planning - Vendor Approval - BPR & BCR Maintenance
- Support to Regulatory Affairs - Document Control - Annual Product Review
- Support to Marketing Department - Handling of OOS - Cleaning validation
- Regulatory and customer audits
- Handling of licensing work related to drug licenses, Bureau of India Standard ISI certification, FSSAI ,Kosher,
Halal, Health license, Pollution control License and Renewals etc.
Functional Skills
Microbiology
 Involved in the preservation, function & development of high yielding Lactobacillus cultures for
production of lactic acid, Bacillus cultures for production of xylanase and saccharhomis
cerevisae for the production of Phenyl Acetyl Carbinol and their maintenance by selecting from
various sources.
 Involved in the reduction of fermentation time, Increase Yields, and downstream processes.

2. Planning & Control
 Overseeing production related tasks including planning & trouble shooting in multipurpose plant.
 Ensuring effective resource planning for optimizing man & machine utilization, reducing wastes for
enhancing productivity and profitability.
 Participating in failure investigation (out of specification) and conducting complete analysis of the
problems and identifying major root causes and proposing corrective and preventive actions
 Reviewing and approval of BPR, MFR, SOPs , Protocols, Specifications and Test Methods
 Resolving customer complaints, implementing cGMP and ensuring its compliance.
Quality Assurance
 Conducting continuous audits to ensure cGMP compliance.
 Providing feedback to top management based on Quality Audits & rendering suggestions for improvement.
 Ensuring that the teams adhere to all the quality standards and procedures through monitoring sessions.
 Taking initiatives through various training programs in coordination with training teams to optimise and
take corrective actions on the basis of quality checks.
 Preparing Product specifications, MSDS, Sop’s and generating various reports / documents as per ICH
guidelines.
 Experienced on facing the regulatory audit like GMP and Customer audits for Indian as well as MNC
customer audits and getting audit closure certificates.
 Replying the customer based questioners / supplier forms / Vendor audit forms and their documentation.
Research and development
 Involved in the Development of Lactic acid and its salts, Sodium Lactate, Calcium lactate, Zinc Lactate,
Magnesium Lactate, Ammonium Lactate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Calcium Steoryl Lactylate, Methyl
Lactate, Ethyl Lactate, Butyl Lactate, Buffered Lactic acid, and Lactic acid powder.
Applications and development
 Involved in the development of various applications of Lactic acid including in the areas of confectionery,
biscuit, bakery, food, Pharma, Nutracuetical Agriculture and Biodegradable plastics.
 Development of new Lactic acid applications and their function.
Core Skills
Production
 Having experience in the manufacturing activities from material quality, planning, production and
scheduling till the dispatch of the material on customer priority basis.
 Handling of products like Lactic acid, Sodium Lactate, Calcium Lactate, Zinc, Magnesium, Ammonium &
Potassium Lactates and other Lactic acid salts.
 Handling and control over the fermentation of Lactic acid and Xylanase and Phenyl Acetyl Carbinol & its
production.
 Knowledge on Capacity, workings, identification and resolving of bottle necks in process.
 Knowledge on facility Identification for new products / intermediates manufacturing as per GMP.
 Knowledge of handling, packing, relabeling, and analysis of Cosmetic chemicals and their GMP.

3.  Handling of very fine Nutracuetical, and plant extracts, vegetable extracts used in cosmetics and
Nutracuetical industries and their trading process.
 Handling of ETP / STP plants and maintaining them as per the guidelines of Pollution control board.
 Involved in the set up and handling and regeneration of Reverse Osmosis water plants and their usage
and producing the HPLC / Endotoxin free water.
Research and Development
 Collection of information of Literature of all kinds of information regarding the development of active
ingredients.
 Have experience in the manufacturing of Lactic acid Sodium Lactate, Calcium Lactate, & newer lactic acid
Technologies,
 Have Experience in, pilot plant and commercial production and scale up of enzymes and Xylanase.
 Research on the byproduct usages and their applications in industry.
 Worked in the pilot Esterification plant in the development of downstream lactic acid purification in
chemistry department of IIT Madras.
 Experience in literature collection from IIT Madras, CLRI Chennai, CFTRI Mysore, & Vetenery college
Vepery in chemistry, and Biotechnology etc.
 Worked in the development of Bio degradable plastics.
Trainings
 Optimum utilization of existing facility and reducing the manufacturing costs by implementation of Value
stream Mapping (VSM) and SEDAC
 Up-keeping facility in cleaning implementation of cGMP, ICH guidelines.
Team Management
 Imparting training on manufacturing process and safety measures.
 Creating an environment that sustains & encourages high performance.
 Motivating teams in optimising their contribution levels and training the people in cGMP.
 Development of greenery and eco friendly environment.
 Arranging get together and events in the company.
_________________________________________________________________CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS
Apr’15 – Till Date: Senior Manager (production) – Looking after the fermentation of Yeast to produce Phenyl
acetyl Carbinol which is the key ingredient and Bio API for the manufacturing of ephedrine and pseudo
ephedrine (Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited ,Renigunta)
Mar’93 to Apr’15 : Carrier started from Trainee Chemist with learning from the scrap to holding various
responsibilities which progressed the carrier to the senior manager working as SPOC for (Quality Control lab,

4. Production, R&D, Effluent Treatment & Converting By-products into sellable Eco-Friendly products) and Quality
Assurance & Regulatory at Malladi specialties limited, Thiruvallur.
______________________________________________________________ACADEMIC
CREDENTIALS
 Bachelor of Science B.SC (CBZ) from Andhra Christian College, Guntur, A.P.
 Master of Science (Life Sciences), from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidya Nagar,
Anand, Gujarat.
_________________________________________________________________PERSONAL
DETAILS
Father name : Late.G.KrishnaDass
Date of Birth : 23 June 1968
Languages : Telugu, English, Hindi and Tamil
Address : No: 4,4th Street Anjaneyapuram, Kakkalur, Thiruvallur Dist-602003
Contact No. : 09629214384, 09940630190.
______________________________________________________________________Reference
1. Dr. D.V.Ramana,
(Ex IITM HOD OF CHEMISTRY
Email:devallavr@yahoo.com
Cell no: 09962423064
2. Dr.B.M Krishna
Food Technology Consultant
Cell no: 09916291901.
Email:drbmkrishna@yahoo.com.
The above information is true up to my knowledge.
Regards,
Date: 30-05-2016
Place: Thiruvallur
(G.V.S Ratna Kumar)