Susan (schwartz) Neadle BS, MS

Susan Neadle is a member of Janssen’s Global Product Quality Leadership and is a Design Excellence Black Belt. Her accountabilities include Criticality Analysis, Risk Management, DtV, and Quality Engineering for Janssen’s portfolio of products. This includes Combination Product quality and creating new quality frameworks for emerging platforms and technologies. Over her extensive career, Susan has played integral leadership roles in the product and process development of over a dozen new products. She was awarded the Johnson Medal, J&J’s highest honor for innovation excellence, for invention and development of a product platform central to J&J Vision Care’s portfolio. This technology was also awarded the “SILMO Award” for Innovation, Technology & Creativity in Europe, and the “Good Design Award” in Asia. She holds numerous patents and papers.

Her experience includes enabling and applying advanced product and process analytics to drive proactive process capability and product quality. She is a core-team member of the J&J Convergent Technologies Network. She has been recognized for her contributions in CTQ Flow-Down, DTV and PLM Initiatives, to drive improved robustness in product quality through the end-to-end lifecycle management. Susan has been a guest speaker at several venues, including multiple presentations related to Critical-to-Quality Cascade.

Susan earned an M.S. in Polymer Science & Engineering, and a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry, and Fellowships in the American Academy of Optometry and the British Contact Lens Association. Prior to joining J&J, she held R&D, quality and commercialization positions in controlled release technology, biomedical diagnostics, and materials analysis at Unilever, Organon Teknika and IBM.