Jessica helps pharmaceutical companies bring complex packaging requirements from concept to reality. She’s an expert in pharmaceutical packaging automation, injectable device assembly, advanced technologies, and capital project execution.
Driven by a passion for applying engineering and innovation to solve complex manufacturing challenges, she shares Sharp's commitment to delivering innovative services that help bring client’s life-changing therapies to patients. She has been heavily involved in facility, equipment, and technology initiatives that increase capacity and support growth. She offers a deep understanding of packaging technology, engineering strategy and execution, and implementing scalable solutions in highly regulated environments.
Charles Strange is a skilled scientist with more than 12 years of quality control experience in the custom chemical and pharmaceutical industries. He currently manages a diverse team as the Senior Quality Control Manager in the Stability Department at Sharp Sterile Manufacturing (SSM) and directs 140 stability programs for over 40 clients.
In addition to his specialized knowledge in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, wet chemistry, and scientific instrument repair, Charles holds a deep understanding of Container Closure Integrity Testing (CCIT). Charles pioneered the development of SSM’s CCIT program and designed and implemented the processes tailored to unique and challenging drug products. His innovative approach and technical expertise have significantly enhanced the CCIT capabilities at SSM and established a new standard of excellence and reliability in ensuring product integrity.
Melissa brings over 13 years of experience in clinical trial operations and has led the implementation of more than 100 IRT studies across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
Her career began in the United States Air Force, where she specialized in managing electronic technology systems—a foundation that now informs her practical, system-driven approach to modern trial design. Based out of Sharp’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania office, Melissa leads the delivery of IRT solutions that help sponsors navigate complexity with confidence.
She brings deep expertise in oncology and pain management trials and a sharp focus on translating study needs into effective, scalable RTSM strategies.
Jennifer leads a team of skilled, experienced designers to create custom packages for pharmaceutical clients, offering unique insight into secondary and tertiary structural design, graphic design and sample development. She manages various testing programs (CRSF testing to CPSC and ISO standards, ship studies, accelerated aging studies, USP testing) at Sharp, ensuring that packs have been designed and tested with safety in mind.
Jennifer is committed to helping clients bring their drug product to market with quality, functionality and safety ingrained in the packaging design.
Working closely with Sharp clients throughout the package design and development process, she and her team create and deliver innovative packaging concepts that allow clients to visualize their commercial product for the first time. She collaborates with a cross functional team of Sharp experts and suppliers to ensure concepts are efficiently producible, helping to avoid disruptive and costly changes in the future.
Nick is an expert in packaging processes, equipment technologies, packaging design, costing model creation and execution.
Excited by the possibility to ‘imagineer’ processes and designs for complex packaging challenges, he shares a Sharp-wide passion for collaborating with our international clients and partners on projects which ultimately improve patients’ lives.
He has been heavily involved in delivering rapid solutions for COVID vaccines, developing assembly and packaging processes for medical devices and implementing sustainable mono-material packaging concepts. In this space, he offers a deep understanding of engineering, patient experience and innovating in equipment and packaging design.
John is an expert in lean six sigma methodologies, management systems, facilitation, strategy, process improvement, culture change and developing employees.
Inspiring people to think differently and seeing things not as they are but how they could be, John plays a crucial role in Sharp's continuous improvement program, which enables us to address complex engineering problems, continuously optimize our drug launch capabilities and make systematic changes that benefit all clients.
Passionate about helping our clients and their patients, he ensures Sharp is an invaluable extension of our client's supply chain. He often leads internal programs that explore new opportunities and emerging problems and ultimately scopes these into viable projects that deliver meaningfully positive change for our clients.
Lisa has 30+ years' experience working across a variety of quality roles at Sharp and has deep expertise in UK QP requirements for batch certification, UK QP Oversight of Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) imported from EU, Quality Management Systems and GMP manufacturing.
Providing essential guidance to ensure QP batch certification requirements are in place so IMPs can reach patients quickly and safely, Lisa plays a pivotal role in the clinical trials that Sharp supports.
Integral to Sharp's quality culture, she supports client and regulatory audits, quality investigations and trains Sharp colleagues on current GxP requirements as part of Sharp's commitment to the reliable, secure delivery of drugs that make a real difference to people’s lives.
