Summary
John Zazula is a Senior Project Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in pharmaceutical process and equipment design, currently based in Morris Plains, NJ. He specializes in scale-up and manufacturing for SoftGel, oral solids, and lyophilization, with a strong track record of driving process optimization, cost reduction, and capacity improvements. After a long tenure at Catalent and earlier work at Pfizer, he now brings that deep operational expertise to Ardena. Known for translating lab-scale formulations into robust commercial processes, he blends mechanical engineering fundamentals (BSME, NJIT) with practical drug-product manufacturing know-how. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance regulatory, quality, and throughput demands.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSME, BSME at New Jersey Institute of Technology