About Nam Pham — GMP Pharmaceutical Automation Engineer

About Nam Pham, pharmaceutical automation engineer in Vietnam

Pham Duc Phuong Nam (Nam Pham) is a pharmaceutical automation engineer and Sales Manager at ESTC (ESEC Group). He joined ESTC in March 2018. He has worked in industrial automation since 2015. GxP-related work started in 2018. He graduated in Automation Engineering Technology from the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City in 2014.

Career timeline

• 2010–2014: Automation Engineering Technology, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH).
• April 2015 – April 2016: Sales Engineer, Huynh Bang Company, Ho Chi Minh City.
• May 2017 – March 2018: Sales Engineer, Dai Viet Control Instrument, Ho Chi Minh City.
• March 2018 – present: ESTC (East Sea Technology Engineering), a member company of the ESEC Group. He joined as Sales Engineer; his current title is Sales Manager.

What he writes about

He publishes on ISA-95 / IEC 62264, ALCOA+ data integrity, the difference between EU GMP Annex 11 and 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5 (2nd edition) computer system validation, and readiness reviews before a plant spends money on MES, a historian, IIoT, or a digital twin.

On 1 July 2026, ISPE Pharmaceutical Engineering published his iSpeak article, “International Society of Automation–95 (ISA-95), Network Time Protocol (NTP), and Audit Trails: Three Architecture Questions Every GMP Site Must Answer Before the Next Inspection”.

The article is built around three questions:

1. Where does the original record live — and can it be proven?
2. Is every GMP-critical timestamp synchronized and protected?
3. Can QA trace every GMP decision back to its evidence owner?

On GMP audits he joins as the solution provider's advisor, not as the plant's or the authority's auditor.

Where to start on this site

The Vietnamese articles are published on phamducphuongnam.com for pharmaceutical teams in Vietnam. Articles on nampham.net follow the same topics in English, for engineering, QA and IT/OT readers in Vietnam and Southeast Asia who work in English. Good places to start:

• ISA-95 implementation in pharmaceutical plants — data boundaries between shop floor, MES and ERP.
• EU GMP Annex 11 compliance guide — what the regulation asks of computerised systems.
• GxP validation process guide — risk-based CSV following GAMP 5.
• eBR validation and deployment — electronic batch records in a GMP plant.
• ISPE FOYA 2026 facility architecture — what the 2026 award winners built, read from ISPE's published submissions.

Training certificates with a checkable record

Each line gives the course, the issuer and the month. A course is listed as a course, not as a job title.

• Foundations of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), USP Education — October 2026, score 93% (18/20).
• Data Integrity & Governance, Scilife — October 2026.
• Google Project Management Certificate, Coursera — March 2023.
• Neo4j Certified Professional, Neo4j GraphAcademy — October 2026, exam score 87.5% (70/80).

Project reference

One documented item, stated as a company project: Sanofi Vietnam (Saigon Hi-Tech Park) — Active harmonic filtering and power-quality monitoring, 2023–2024 — ESTC project. It is electrical infrastructure inside a pharmaceutical plant, not a validated GxP computerized system.

Vendor partnerships listed for the ESEC group are company capabilities, not personal certificates.

Methodology note and source limitations

Articles on this site separate three things so they are not confused: official regulations and standards, industry or vendor material, and working experience. Each article says which of these it relies on. The site accepts no sponsorship for technical analysis. Some research and editing steps use AI tools; the technical content is reviewed by the author, who is responsible for it.

This page was last reviewed on 22 October 2026 against his career records, course records and the published ISPE article.

Connect

Full profile: About Nam Pham. Vietnamese knowledge hub: phamducphuongnam.com. LinkedIn: nam-pham-n1992.