Liz Cuneo: I'm here with Cassandra Jane Pfeil. She's a senior packaging engineer at Cardinal Health. So, the question for you today is, how did you get into packaging?
Pfeil: Yes, it isn't really too much of a story. I have been in this current position for a little over 6 months, and my previous position with Cardinal Health was a senior analyst manufacturing engineer, under their Embark program.
It is their recent college graduates program, and I was able to apply and get accepted. So, that was a year long and I got a taste of what Cardinal Health has to offer. It's a big company, it's been fantastic so far and toward the end of that internship, I interviewed around because I still wanted to stay with the company and I found the the position of senior engineer packaging.
And I thought it would be a great opportunity to continue and grow my skills, but in a different department that I'm not used to and I took the chance and I did it. I wouldn't say that I'm passionate quite yet.
I'm still learning so much around the ropes, but it has been an exciting and fun experience so far because I never knew that there would be.
So much to deal with a package, whether it's a corrugate box, whether it is the medical devices that we have to package and deal with.
There is so much that we need to take into consideration to make sure that the end product that we make is In a sterilized field and we presented aseptically for our patients, for our doctors and our nurses and our medical professionals that handle these in a sterilized field. So it's been a fun experience so far.
I would say I'm starting to get pretty passionate about it.
Cuneo: That's cool. Is it similar to what you were doing with the manufacturing program or is it very different?
Pfeil: I would say there are similarities in some aspects, of course, the validations in my previous one I validated injection molding machines. I did IQ OQs, PQs and I did the same thing for packaging just in an entirely different machine, a different process, but it's the same underlying aspect of what you do, just making sure that you are essentially covering all your bases, that this is validated correctly and effectively, so, so our patients can get, a good product at the end of the day.
Cuneo: Awesome. Well, thank you so much.
Pfeil: Of course.
