Miguel Cerezo
Kite Pharma, Inc.
Senior Director Engineering and Facilities
Miguel Cerezo is currently the Facilities and Engineering Site Head at Kite Pharma’s flagship T-Cell therapy commercial manufacturing facility (TCF03) in El Segundo, California. He has responsibility for all engineering, maintenance, construction project management, calibration and EHS operations at the site. He joined Kite in 2018 serving as Head of Facilities, Engineering and Operations for Kite’s network of Research, Development and clinical Manufacturing Centers located in Santa Monica and Emeryville, CA as well as in Gaithersburg, MD.
Prior to this, Miguel was a founding Engineering Technical Director in Amgen’s Corporate Engineering Technical Authority. As the recognized company subject matter expert in the fields of Instrumentation, Measurement, Reliability and Controls, he was responsible for company-wide ownership and establishment of Engineering Standards, Specifications and Maintenance Requirements for Instrumentation and Controls. Miguel was Amgen’s Corporate Calibration and Maintenance Quality Process Owner, its Maintenance and Operations Global Network Leader and served in the capacity of its Chief Metrologist. Also, he was the corporate business process owner of Amgen’s global instance Maximo engineering asset management system.
Upon coming to Amgen in 1996, he proceeded to quickly advance in escalating levels of management responsibility within the Thousand Oaks Site Facilities and Engineering organization culminating in becoming Director of Facilities and Engineering, where he oversaw all aspects of F&E operations at Amgen’s Thousand Oaks (ATO) headquarters campus.
Prior to joining Amgen, Miguel spent 10 years at Cal Tech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) under contract with NASA where he began his technical career in the Earth Orbiting Systems Group focusing on the development and worldwide field operation of precision sub-centimeter accuracy GPS receivers and microwave water vapor radiometers used in tectonic geodesy and very long baseline interferometry. Subsequently, Miguel was a member of the technical staff in the JPL Instrumentation Section where he developed and implemented testing and calibration solutions for the Spacecraft Environmental Testing Laboratory and the Metrology Standards Laboratory. During this time, he contributed to the mission success of many NASA space flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera, Mars Pathfinder, Sojourner Mars Rover and TOPEX/Poseidon among many others.
Prior to this, Miguel was a founding Engineering Technical Director in Amgen’s Corporate Engineering Technical Authority. As the recognized company subject matter expert in the fields of Instrumentation, Measurement, Reliability and Controls, he was responsible for company-wide ownership and establishment of Engineering Standards, Specifications and Maintenance Requirements for Instrumentation and Controls. Miguel was Amgen’s Corporate Calibration and Maintenance Quality Process Owner, its Maintenance and Operations Global Network Leader and served in the capacity of its Chief Metrologist. Also, he was the corporate business process owner of Amgen’s global instance Maximo engineering asset management system.
Upon coming to Amgen in 1996, he proceeded to quickly advance in escalating levels of management responsibility within the Thousand Oaks Site Facilities and Engineering organization culminating in becoming Director of Facilities and Engineering, where he oversaw all aspects of F&E operations at Amgen’s Thousand Oaks (ATO) headquarters campus.
Prior to joining Amgen, Miguel spent 10 years at Cal Tech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) under contract with NASA where he began his technical career in the Earth Orbiting Systems Group focusing on the development and worldwide field operation of precision sub-centimeter accuracy GPS receivers and microwave water vapor radiometers used in tectonic geodesy and very long baseline interferometry. Subsequently, Miguel was a member of the technical staff in the JPL Instrumentation Section where he developed and implemented testing and calibration solutions for the Spacecraft Environmental Testing Laboratory and the Metrology Standards Laboratory. During this time, he contributed to the mission success of many NASA space flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera, Mars Pathfinder, Sojourner Mars Rover and TOPEX/Poseidon among many others.