AlfaTech Big Book: Life Sciences

L I F E S C I E N C E T E AM L E A D S

JAY CHOKSHI Principa l, Mechan ica l Engineer

DANIEL RAAB Principal Process Engineer

Daniel has over 30 years of experience in the Pharm/Bio, Medical Device and Diagnostics Industries and has been directly involved with the FDA, CDC, NIH and DEA licensing of manufacturing operations. Daniel assists clients in program/project management, conceptual planning, technology development and transfer, scale-up and economic analysis. His interface with client’s engineers, product development, regulatory and quality systems personnel provide cost-effective and timely completion of projects. Dan has assisted more than 50 client companies with strategic and long-range planning efforts, due diligence, technology and operational assessments, regulatory compliance, quality system processes and project management. This includes working with client’s technical staff (Manufacturing, Marketing, QA, Regulatory) to identify needs and assess best solutions taking into account timeline and budget constraints

Jay has extensive experience as a Principal-in-Charge and as project manager in design of major HVAC engineering efforts for Life Sciences, Mission Critical, Commercial, and Healthcare projects. His background includes design for laboratories, clean rooms, vivariums, pilot plants and commercial manufacturing. With much of his experience being in fast-track design/build, he works closely with architects and contractors to ensure an efficient, cost effective solution. In addition, Jay manages multi-discipline engineering design teams for large scale projects. An expert in energy efficient design, he specializes in post-occupancy commissioning.

SHERIF MESSIHA, AIA, NCARB Life Science Lab Planner

BILL HARRISON, RA Project Manager

Sherif has over 32 years extensive portfolio in designing Life Science Projects and Site Master Planning worldwide in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Nutritional, Food and Beverage, and Cosmetic industries. He has developed a six-step interview process that, captures, creates food for thought, documents, gets the client involved, and prepares the documents from Conceptual to signed Detail Design stage.

Bill is an experienced project and client manager with over twenty years of experience managing multi-discipline design projects and observing construction for multiple advanced technology, biopharmaceutical and hospital clients. His extensive experience includes architectural, mechanical, process piping, plumbing design, as well as management and coordination of multidiscipline design teams from conceptual design through construction close-out. He has served as project manager, project architect and designer on a variety of projects. His services include master planning, space planning, contract documents, construction administration and quality control.