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Anne Marie Dixon

Career Summary

Owner and President of Cleanroom Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm based in Carson City, NV that specializes in competitive benchmarking, training, and auditing of clean and aseptic operations and management.

Actively engaged in the field of contamination control for over 35 years with extensive experience in the areas of cleanroom operations, training, technical writing, strategic consulting, facility start-up, construction protocols, and process optimization. Has trained over 850,000 cleanroom technicians and managers.

Major Accomplishments

1978 Developed and tested cleanroom sanitization protocols
1979 Developed initial clean build protocols for the cleanroom industry
1980 Developed the first Cleanroom Management Training and Manuals
1983 Chairman of Institute of Environmental Sciences – Recommended Practice on Cleanroom Housekeeping and Sanitization Procedures, testing and equipment. In this committee the techniques and testing of 1978 were incorporated and proven.
1983-present – Developed aseptic gowning techniques
1984-present – Developed equipment move-in procedures
1985 Developed undergraduate course in Cleanroom maintenance and equipment installation techniques – used today at 5 major universities in the USA.
1986 Chairman of Institute of Environmental Sciences – Recommended Practice on Cleanroom Operations. In this committee the techniques for equipment move-in were incorporated and proven.
1988 Developed and expanded clean build protocols to include 3/5 and 8 phases
1990 Chairman of conference on Particle Detection Methodology and Control
1991-1992 President of the Institute of Environmental Sciences
1992 Chairman of conference on Mini-environments and Isolators
1993-present – Chairman of the United States Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 209
1993-present – Head of the United States Delegation to ISO Technical Committee 209 on Cleanrooms and Associated Controlled Environments
1995 Chairman Biocontamination Control Symposium – IEST
1998 Chairman of Symposium on Cleanrooms for the Healthcare Industry (PDA and IEST)
1998 Headed research to develop new techniques for sanitization and cleaning of walls and floors in cleanrooms and controlled environments
1999 Chairman of PDA Special Scientific Forum on Environmental Monitoring
2000 Keynote address – PDA Training Conference
2001 Keynote address – Barnett International – conference on Environmental Monitoring
2001 Updated Institute of Environmental Sciences Recommended Practice on Housekeeping and Sanitization Procedures. Included new techniques and methods as developed in 1998-2000
2002 Updated IEST Recommended Practice on Cleanroom Operations
2007 Updated IEST Recommended Practice on Housekeeping and Sanitization
2008 Chair of ISO TC 209 – Nanotechnology Cleanroom and Controlled Environment – WG-10
2011 Chairman RP on Controlled Environments

Awards

1993 James P. Agalloco – “Excellence in Education”
1997 Diploma in Validation – Pharmaceutical Association of Mexico
1998 Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Sciences
2007 Fred Hermann Award
2010 First recipient – Woman of the Year in Contamination Control
2012 Monroe Seligman Award – Contamination Control Educational Programs
2013 IEST President Award

Publications

Books

Cleanroom Management Manual – 1980, revised 1988
Guidelines for Cleanroom Management and discipline chapter 4 – Noyes publication, Handbook of Contamination Control in the Microelectronics Industry – 1988 – isbn# 0-81551151-5
Cleaning and Sanitization of Cleanrooms and Materials – Marcel Dekker publication, Validation of Pharmaceutical Processes – 1999 chapter 22 – isbn#0-8247-9384-6
How to Write A Training Manual –Micron Video International – 1999 Personnel Training – A cleanroom must – Interpharm Press – Sterilization of Medical Devices – 1999
2007 – Editor – Environmental Monitoring for Cleanrooms and Controlled Environments – Informa USA isbn# 10-0-8247-2359-7
2007 – Confronting Variability, editor R. Prince, chapter 2 – “People, Training and Variability”, DHI International.isbn# 1-933722-04-5
2011 – Aerosol Measurement – Principles, Techniques and Applications, editor – Pramod Kulkari, Paul Al. Baron, Klaus Willeke – John Wiley&Sons Publication, isbn# 978-0-470-38741-2chapter 36 – Aerosol Measurement in Cleanrooms, David S. Ensor and Anne Marie Dixon
2010 – Cleaning and Cleaning Validation – Informa USA – 2009 – Paul Pluta editor – chapter 11 – “Cleaning of Non-Product Contact Surfaces” isbn# 1-933722-37-1
Contamination Control in Healthcare Product Manufacturing, Volume 1 – Russell Madsen and Jeanne Moldenhauer Editors, DH Publishing, 2013, ISBN# 1-933722-71-1 – Chapter 5 – Facility Design and Control: Personnel; Chapter 6 – Facility Design and Control: Cleaning and Sanitization

Professional Organization Memberships