Philip Glover

Research and Development Consultant

Versatile consulting engineer with a decade of experience applying scientific methods to enhance complex processes and resolve nagging problems. Skilled in defining client needs, aligning business requirements, and executing sustainable, innovative, and positive change. Diverse hands-on research experience at all scales of development, from lab bench to commercial platforms. Practiced in product development, tech transfer and scale-up of emerging technologies, and establishing process controls. Specialist in the application of rheological and interfacial properties to dispersion and atomization operations. Expertise in particle engineering for medical technologies.  Adept at communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.  

Skillset includes

Development

Manufacturing

Management

Professional Experience

Alcresta Therapeutics • Waltham, MA

November 2020 to March 2023 

Sr. Engineering Program Manager

Engineering manager of the iLipase development program, coordinating internal and external activities for the submission of a Food Contact Notification (FCN) for Alcresta’s next generation of Immobeads and iLipase. Defined iLipase specifications and managed production of material suitable for use in design verification and validation lots for Alcresta’s next generation RELiZORB medical device. Managed analytical method development and validations to demonstrate Immobeads and iLipase material as suitably pure for use in RELiZORB.

Key Accomplishments: 

Downstream Engineering Program Manager

Managed small-scale process optimization and troubleshooting studies to support technology transfer to the commercial scale for next generation iLipase, a food contact substance-enzyme complex. Designed and coordinated experiments to support scale-up of production for next generation Immobeads, macroporous polymer beads for immobilizing enzymes. Coordinated engineering study across the entire supply chain to demonstrate design feasibility for the next generation RELiZORB device, a single-use lipid hydrolysis reactor to aid in fat digestion in patients with pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) and short bowel syndrome (SBS).

Key Accomplishments: 

Pacira Pharmaceuticals • San Diego, CA 

October 2015 to July 2020 

R&D Engineer III

Led project team tasked with the containment of DepoFoam process, a multiple emulsion process with volatile compounds, with Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (HPAPI) at the laboratory scale. Lead engineer defining and executing DepoFoam product development at bench, lab, pilot, and commercial scales. Provided small-scale experimental support and technical guidance to commercial EXPAREL product process launch. Identified and investigated process analytical technologies (PAT) for intermediate and product characterization. 

Key Accomplishments: 

R&D Engineer II

Developed DepoFoam processes at lab and commercial scales, producing toxicological and clinical trial materials to support DepoFoam market expansion, and deployed CFD simulations to double capacity of continuous DepoFoam production platform.  

Key Accomplishments: 

Bend Research • Bend, OR

March 2008 to September 2015  

Research Chemical Engineer

Defined gas disperser design and spray dryer geometry, prototyping modular and rapidly deployable spray dried dispersion production platforms. Developed polymeric nanoscale dispersions for HPMCAS pseudolatex capsule production. Created predictive model for evaporative flash nozzle atomization. Designed equipment for commercial spray drying suites and implemented process improvements to pharmaceutical spray drying operations. Coded scripts and defined algorithm research for motion sensor data analytics for Nike+ products. Hands-on lab experience, prototyping Modular Automated Sampling Technology (MAST), automating aseptic vaccine bag filling machine procedures for non-sterile environments, and sequencing algorithms to maximize automated buffer production. 

Key Accomplishments: 

Engineering Intern

12 months of hands-on lab experience, prototyping Modular Automated Sampling Technology (MAST), automating aseptic vaccine bag filling machine procedures for non-sterile environments, and sequencing algorithms to maximize automated buffer production. 

Key Accomplishments: 

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, 

June 2011 

Oregon State University • Corvallis, OR 

Certificates & Licenses 

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, February 2019

UCSD Extension • San Diego, CA