Doris Oribamise, a Chemistry and Analytical Sciences (CAS) Supervisor, is based in our Maple Grove office. She manages a team that conducts tests that helps ensure we formulate pharmaceuticals that have the right potency, behave in the stomach the right way, and have limited impurities. She loves the fact that her days have a bit of variability to them, though she spends most of her time managing all tasks related to testing, from scheduling to filling out paperwork. Married with two young children, she loves to reread book series she had previously read; one of her all-time favorite is a sci-fi series named the Sword of Truth. Doris also likes to travel, with some of her favorite places being London, England; Winnipeg, Canada; Nigeria, Africa (where she was born); Florida; Colorado; and California.

Amilcar Orengo, a Principal Scientist for Pharmaceutical Development, is based in our Maple Grove office. Originally from Puerto Rico, Amilcar moved to the U.S. in 2019. He says every day at Upsher-Smith is an adventure. “I’m always learning new things. I attend project meetings, evaluate experiment data, review and update product development plans, create or review documentation, and run experimental processes … It’s like being in an amusement park—lots of fun, but never enough time to enjoy it all in one day!” During his free time, Amilcar practices bonsai (the art of recreating nature in miniature, including those famous bonsai trees) and watches movies with his family. Once the pandemic subsides, he plans to resume his love of going out to weekend dinners, visiting parks, and attending concerts and art and crafts exhibitions.

Dustin Neiman is a Senior Scientist II based in Denver. One of the things he enjoy most about his job is that no two days are identical. Working at a small facility with a few employees, he says he’s had the opportunity to wear a lot of different hats. Some common day-to-day activities he can be found doing include process validation, equipment qualification, troubling shooting production issues, working a new manufacturing process, or writing a deviation, batch record or SOP. Born and raised in Minnesota, Dustin went to school in Oregon and now is happily settled in sunny Denver, Colo. with his girlfriend, kids and chickens. He loves camping, fly fishing in the mountains and making homemade noodles from scratch: ramen, soba, Chinese egg noodles, spaghetti … you name it.

Tom Sicheneder, a Senior Material Handler, is based in our Maple Grove office. His duties mainly consist of unloading trucks; prepping and labeling products; staging pallets in the racks and eventually putting them away with a turret truck. Tom has a passion for helping others by volunteering, ringing the kettle bell for Salvation Army and donating blood. “I like to dress up for bell ringing because I can’t sing and I can’t dance, so I draw people to the kettle by doing something totally different. It really works.” He’s also known as one of the first people to welcome new employees to Upsher-Smith, and he is widely admired and appreciated for his sincere and kind attitude.