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Orange County, California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

California, United States

Prosser, Washington

• Manages compliance with all regulatory and food safety standards, systems, procedures, and practices. Maintains an effective and complaint Food Safety/HACCP Program. 10 HACCP/Food Safety Plans.
• Experience in low-acid/acidified foods, aseptic packaging, hot fill and cold fill beverages, pasteurized beverages and retail food products
• Responsible for performing root cause and corrective action investigations (CAPAs) for non-conformances and customer complaints. Leads the quality improvement effort within the facility through CI projects.
• Provides risk assessment analysis. Manages issues with non-conforming product to ensure proper control, minimizing losses, and providing analysis to eliminate future occurrences.
• SQF Practitioner, IBWA CPO, PCQI, Low-acid/acidified foods: Better Process School, HACCP-certified and Internal Audit trained.

Dallas, Texas

• Created and implemented production “quality score card” to increase quality results on the production floor including increased food safety culture throughout facility.
• Responsible for all corrective action investigations dealing with all audit deficiencies.
• Responsible for all compliance, finished product, and environmental monitoring testing.
• Hired, trained and supervised all QA technicians. Monitored performance of staff.

Greater Pittsburgh Region

• Responsible for keeping the plant DEP-compliant.
• Collected samples and performed all laboratory testing of influent/effluent, microbiological and QA testing according to regulations.
• Performed all QC/QA checks and internal audits for the plant, such as PT studies, MDL studies, and DL/ML studies.
• Prepared all monthly and quarterly reports for regulatory compliance.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Responsible for hiring and training new employees. 15 direct reports.
• Responsible for reviewing and updated all SOPs. Kept all quality records. Performed CAPAs for audit deficiencies.
• Prep and analyze samples using a variety of methods and instruments including distillations, digestions, spectrophotometers, HPLC, probes, meters, ICP, GCMS, SmartChem discrete analyzer, Lachat flow injection analyzer.