Michelle M. González

Ms. Michelle M. González – Senior Principal Corporate Engineer – Director (Retired), with Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California, has had extensive experience in leadership activities dealing with facilities and process systems design, facilities engineering, and management of projects.  Since relocating to the United States in 1965, she has held technical positions of increasing responsibility in mechanical and process engineering with firms such as Shell Oil, Kaiser Engineers, Bechtel Corporation, Fluor Daniel, and Amgen.

Ms. Gonzalez holds an MS in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.  She has been a regular lecturer at the Stanford School of Engineering, and holds professional memberships in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Bioprocessing Equipment (BPE) Standard, where she serves as Chair of the BPE’s Subcommittee on Surface Finishes, voting member of the Executive and Main Committees, as well as the Certification, and Dimensions & Tolerances Subcommittees.

For the past 20 years, Ms. González has also been an active member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), where she has been a regular speaker, a member of the Membership Committee (MSC), the North America Educational Committee (NAEC), and the Body of Knowledge Committee (BOKC); President of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter (2007-2008), and a participating member on the preparation of the ISPE Good Practice Guide for Commissioning and Qualification of Pharmaceutical Water and Steam Systems, the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities Baseline® Guide, the Packaging, Labeling and Warehousing Operations Baseline® Guide, the Laboratories Baseline® Guide, and the revision of the Water & Steam Baseline® Guide.  Also, she is the author and editor of ISPE’s Glossary of Applied Terminology for the Pharmaceutical Industry.