Carlos Aguilera Email and Phone Number

At Elite Food Safety Training we are the industry standard when it comes to food safety, and we deliver all food safety training needs. We partner with our trainees to keep the public safe. As an EFST Instructor, I continuously stay on top of the current industry regulations. My main role is teaching ServSafe's food safety material and then proctoring the exam for students to obtain their ServSafe Manager's Certifications. The scope of work also includes alcohol training, auditing services, and allergens management.

As an independent consultant and leader of my own business in the field of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, I work with businesses to develop safety plans and ensure food safety, helping food establishments to be ready for audits and inspections. The core objective is to identify problems, and design assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards. Employee training in different aspects of their position, helping them to improve safety, performance, and GMP.

(Airline Caterer) Implement, audit, assess, and train quality systems. Provide technical expertise relative to HACCP, food safety, sensory, and quality evaluations. Track performance and monitor plant KPI, Conduct HACCP audits, sanitation inspections, pest control, conduct local vendor audits, research and respond to all alleged food-borne incidents, monitor routine microbiological testing program, FDA compliance, exceed customer and LHI standards. Monitor and prepare reports for the quality management system, Chef Table, portion control, equipment handling, ramp-on time and safety performance. Keep manuals and documentation updated and implement new procedures and rules. Coaching the expanded GPS process, as well as additional career development activities to enhance the effectiveness and potential of the team. Plan, implement, and control the cost budget, and support sponsored initiatives such as GQS.

As Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FS&QA) Manager at Garland Food, I was responsible for developing and maintaining quality specifications for products, materials, equipment, facilities, process controls, investigation of customer complaints, non-conformities, determining production standards by establishing quality control systems and setting product requirement rules. Duties also included identifying the specifications for high-quality products, setting appropriate levels of variation, and monitoring quality assurance parameters.I worked closely with customers and areas such as procurement, production, and sales to ensure quality standards and customer satisfaction. In addition, this position leads the Food Safety Program under the Global Food Safety Initiative standards and generates corrective action and continuous improvement activities in collaboration with the company’s quality vision and strategy.

As operations manager (CBD products), I was responsible for the daily coordination, execution, and improvement of all the edible and non-edible product manufacturing operations. This included overseeing production, planning, maintenance, staff management, inventory control, quality assurance, customer service, accounting management, and regulatory compliance. Other duties included developing and implementing operational policies and procedures, managing time effectively and prioritizing, budgeting, and forecasting. In Food safety: Maintaining levels of quality, cleanliness, food safety, and hygiene in line with company GMP, safeguard, and local authority regulations, Inspecting the quality and consistency of finished products, and alerting Operations and Quality Control teams of any concerns.

As National Operation Manager at "Bioquimica de Venezuela" (Equipment and reagents for bio-analytical labs), I had the opportunity to lead the sales, marketing, and customer service operations, setting best practices, and evaluating performance. I also estimated, negotiated, and quoted prices, credit, contract terms, and delivery dates. From this position, I oversaw all aspects of the business operations, including: Ensuring accurate and timely results, planning and implementing policies and procedures, managing staff and resources, recommending solutions and improvement plans based on client requirements, negotiating and managing all service contracts on critical pieces of laboratory equipment or reagents. ensuring proper equipment, and supplies. The main brands handled were Abbott Diagnostic and Erba Mannheim.

As Production and Food Safety Supervisor, my duties were split in these two areas. Production: input and output information based on production data, supervising KPI information to assure completeness and conformance with operational standards and quality control of manufactured products. Food Safety: responsible for ensuring that manufacturing complies with food safety standards and codes. Monitoring food handling practices, identifying hazards, ensuring that staff are trained on food safety practices, Keeping the food safety program up to date, collaborating with operations on the initiation of corrective action and preventative measures, collaborating in food safety-focused audits, summarizing and reporting food safety and quality data.

In this position, I was assigned to update the pork meat products SOP, keeping in mind the products to be safe for consumption, products safety compliance, evaluating the facility's condition to ensure compliance with regulatory and HACCP requirements, quality product handling. Maintaining HACCP documents and other quality reports, and assisting the QA manager in reviewing and updating the HACCP Manual and SOP, routine inspections and quality tests: Performing analytical tests and inspections, ensuring product compliance, cleanliness and sanitation, finally ensuring factory food safety management systems and HAACP programs are implemented and maintained.

Criozuca (Fruit and Milk Pasteurization) I needed to understand the evaluation of fruit concentrates and milk. Accurately analyzed fruit concentrates, milk, and water samples, followed good lab practices, tested incoming and outgoing products for suitability and compliance with standards, performed bacteriological, chemical, and physical tests on raw and finished goods, conducted product sampling at various points through the supply chain, evaluated packaging to ensure conformity, collaborated in auditing the facility to drive continuous improvement, inspected cleaning equipment for proper operation and verifying cleaning and sanitation completeness, prepared media and reagent.