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Naas, Ie

• Update and support food safety programs and food safety systems: HACCP, sanitation and environmental monitoring program. - Conduct risk assessment and implement corrective actions. • Maintain, update and conduct of Environmental Monitoring Program and write investigation reports • Mitigate Food Safety risk and preventing hazards from entering products• Complete HACCP verifications for critical control points (CCPs) - Track and monitor FSQ Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and communicate trends to the site leadership team. • Ensure implementation and closure of CAP• Drive resolution of non-conformances through NCR/CAR in Intelex• Review certificate of analysis (CoA)• Leading the food safety and sanitation team• Oversee technicians and train employees • Assure compliance to corporate and global sanitation programs • Review and update Master Sanitation Schedule• Develop and review SSOPs • Review preventive controls (PC)• Write hold and near-miss reports and give updates weekly • Lead the hygienic zoning at the site and train employees on the hygienic design and hygienic zoning requirements.• Order QA/sanitation supplies (ATP swabs, EM or EB sponges, allergen swabs and chemicals)• Assists customers audit and internal SQF Audit • Assists in general audit of the quality assurance & food safety system• Verify pre-operational inspection and ATP swabbing. • Review sanitation documents (wet clean, ATP, EB testing, line clearance checklist) • Responsible for Allergen verification and validation • Responsible for annual APC/micro validation • Work directly with the 3rd party chemical representative, supplies rep and pest control services. • Familiar with Federal and State requirements including FDA• Pest control trending • Conduct weekly GMP using Intelex and create work order in SAP for any findings. • Monitor production to ensure adherence to company quality policies.- Support the ISO 14001 EMS implementation.

Naas, Ie

• Provided guidance to others to minimize food safety risk and achieve quality expectations based on understanding of quality and food safety systems.• Collaborated with Production to investigate and prevent out of spec• Run tests according to approved methods and accurately input data into varying product excel sheets.• Adhere to good laboratory practices (GLP), good manufacturing practices (GMP) and safety requirements.• Completed verification of correct ingredients are pulled for production use• Trained other laboratory technicians for cross training purposes• Maintains incoming and outgoing products (tracking, analysis, record keeping, database, etc).• Maintained product retains.• Performed equipment/calibration in the lab and plant where appropriate• Assisted in maintaining product specifications SDS, TDS, and kosher documents.• Responsible for analyzing test data to determine acceptability.• Line Checks (Checking cleans, equipment eval, ATP swabs, Sign off on these line) • Disposition of material produced as well as incoming material.• Assist for approving packaging and labels for use

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Instructed graduate students on laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs)• Performed various laboratory analysis (proximate analysis, BUN and AIA)• Maintained and operated laboratory equipment such as calorimeter, Kjeldhal, GC, ether extractor, fiber analyzer, spectrophotometer, microscope, ultrasonic probes, freeze dryer and viscometer • Monitored Bio-security integrity and health of animals • Managed experimental animals (nursery pigs, wean – finish, gilts and sows)• Operation and maintenance of Big Dutchman liquid feeding system • Collected samples and updated research and laboratory protocol • Performed mathematical calculations & analysis of laboratory data• Reported lab analysis results to Professors, grad students, research associates and clients. • Assisted in animal research, in-vivo studies and postmortem examination • Helped in surgeries, medical care and harvesting organs from animals for analysis.

• Taught animal science courses, including Poultry Production, Dairy Production, Animal Nutrition, Animal Breeding, Apiculture, Forage Production, Swine Production, Animal health, Beef Cattle Production, feed and fodder analysis • Quality control supervisor in the institute food processing plant.• Managed food safety programs, audits, and quality control systems, and ensured compliance with food safety standards.• Trained farm owners in animal production and animal-health promotion• Coordinated projects of the production unit of institute’s dairy and poultry farm

M.Sc, Agricultural Sciences

M.Sc, Sustainable Livestock Production

B.Sc, Animal Sciences