Speaker Biography
Alex Konopka
Alex Konopka is currently an Engineering Consultant in the Engineering Technical Center at Eli Lilly and Company. He has spent the last 9 years concentrating on global regulatory issues, projects, GMP qualifications, and other activities related to clean waters and other critical utilities at Lilly. Besides involvement with ISPE on critical utilities, he has been a main committee member of ASME-BPE and participates with AICHE on these subjects. Over the last 29 years, Konopka has been involved with many engineering activities at Lilly. Engineering areas he has worked in include chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutical production plant facilities design/startup, environmental controls engineering including fume and liquid/solid wastes incineration and utility/power systems design and operation. He has a BS and MS in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Indiana.