David Steinhauer Email & Phone Number

Black Diamond, Wa, Us

Specializing in food safety, FSMA, PCQI, FSVP, and HACCP working obtaining Food Safety audit documentation, Organic, Kosher Mycotoxins, GRAS, Aseptic, Hot Fill, Sanitation, Ingredients, FDA, USDA Enviromental Monitoring, International Shipping & Receiving Perquisite Programs, SSOP, SOP creation Leadership and People Managment.

Alameda, California, Us

►I have a broad array of responsibilities for this startup food and agriculture company that include but are not limited to the establishment of food-safety standards for this innovative product that has the potential to add an edible, ecofriendly, plant-based alternative to oils currently available for food manufacturing and culinary applications, such as palm and soy. Utilizing PCQI, FSVP, and SQF expertise, I create processes and best practices in accordance with GFSI (Global Foods Safety Initiative) and other relevant standards. ►Until this time, the Pongamia tree has been considered a bio-energy source—making the potential for our ability to get this new food application approved a truly differentiated offering to commercial food manufacturers. Our work is with suppliers in India who will be harvesting, shelling, drying, and storing the product until we import to customers in the U.S.►I work in close coordination with virtually all aspects of the supply chain on a global basis including close coordination with the FDA with the goal of accomplishing GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status with cross-functional internal communication that includes the Research and Development (R&D), Logistics, and Production/Manufacturing teams while conducting complete oversight and food-safety reviews of the pilot plant located in Northern Mexico.

Seattle, Wa, Us

►Actively supported and managed quality for the Starbucks at-home coffee platform providing food safety, quality assurance, production, and operations support for flavored roast and ground coffee, and K-Cup products. ►Provided significant support on all new functional coffee products for Starbucks that contained additional caffeine or vitamins. Role included sampling, analysis, and associated reporting to support manufacturing and research and development and extensive work with vendors/supplies regarding certifications, compliance, and safety. ►Extensive hands-on QA management work in manufacturing plants with responsibility for monitoring and maintaining the food safety/quality control relationships with plant managers and plant QA/FS teams. ►Conducted quarterly key business reviews using new IT tools that enabled tracking of quality assurance and food safety issues in a timely fashion.►Comprehensive involvement with new product launches, including 15 new product launches in 2019 and 2020 involving products produced in flavored roast and ground and K-Cup forms and categories. Work encompassed working through the transition of business from Starbucks to Nestle (Global Coffee Alliance) as part of a restructuring initiative.

Seattle, Wa, Us

►Responsible for addressing gap identified in the Starbucks food safety plan associated with the sourcing of fresh fruits and vegetables for Evolution Fresh Juicery (HPP—High-Pressure Pasteurized process) and the Starbucks lunch program. ►Food safety and quality assurance best practices were adopted and memorialized in Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for field growing and harvesting and Good Handling Practices (GHP) for packing houses. Researched and created the initial draft of GAP/GHP auditing for both field and packing houses. ►Conducted 35+ audits the following two fiscal years to establish a base line for food safety and quality assurance risk assessment, plus an education of products that were in and out of scope to prepare for future innovation.►Worked directly with internal and external partners to network with large and small agricultural suppliers on food safety quality assurance best practices, and served as subject matter expert on food safety, quality assurance for fresh produce. Conducted extensive training for the Evolution Fresh Food Safety/QA team.

Seattle, Wa, Us

►Provided QA and food safety support for the Tazo™ RTD (ready to drink) and concentrate business and Starbucks K-Cup business, including day-to-day operational support for wet tea concentrates, RTD products that included new product support, export documentation, consumer complaints, food safety audits, external state and federal documentation, and direct interface with all co-manufacturers and Pepsi Lipton Partnership (PLP) product-portfolio representatives.►Supported extensive new product launches on the Tazo Concentrate and RTD team that included variants of the traditional tea concentrate formula such as Oprah Chai and Pumpkin Chai in addition to line extensions/new product introductions in the growing organic tea segment. Active involvement in other partnerships such as that with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters resulted in impressive results that grew from $300,000 in sales to 1.5 billion for fiscal year ending September 2019.►Product support included all ingredient specifications, new product technical manual for each existing and new product, new product trials and commercialization runs, label verification, hold and release protocols, sensory testing, verification of existing internal quality assurance and food-safety standards.

Fresno, Ca, Us

►Responsible for QA and food safety for this grower-owned cooperative that processed and packaged an array of fig-based products. Role included complete oversight of 2011 FDA audit at the Fresno plant that included an FDA “stacked audit,” a formal training exercise for new food safety professionals employed by the FDA. The team conducted a successful rapid response to an FDA Form 483 document that reflected a positive result for listeria identified during the audit. ►This product had unique characteristics and parameters, and as the plant was 100 years old and the entity had limited funding for infrastructure projects, the role entailed proactive tactics and practices to optimize results with strict budget constraints for capital projects/CAPEX. ►Subsequent response activities ranged from coordination with a food-safety attorney, plant closure, conduction of a FMEA /5 Why exercise that identified the cause, and implementation of a robust cleaning and sanitation program with the creation of new SSOPs, the addition of an environmental sampling program to clear the plant for production.

►Managed quality control, regulatory affairs, organic certification, and domestic and international regulatory affairs for this grower, processor, and packer of California–grown natural and organic raisins including responsibility for USDA, FDA, CA DPH, and multiple organic platforms that included USDA NOP, MAFF JAS, EEC, and others. ►Led team of four direct reports for day-to-day operations, including daily interaction with USDA on-site representatives while also facilitating all sanitation, quality control, food safety and regulatory affairs for the entire facility.►Managed all microbial testing, chemical analysis, and qualitative testing for food safety and consumer requirements in addition to management of all quality documentation for consumer requests and complaint handling as well as the Integrated Pest Management Program and revised full range of existing GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, food safety, food defense, HACCP systems to reflect current GFSI/BRC certification levels.►Tracked and managed all consumer complaints and made key recommendations and in-process improvements that eliminated further ongoing complaints. Led a multifunctional team into the process of complete product traceability from incoming product through finished product. Handled all regulatory, third-party, and customer-driven audits.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Relevant Experience

Ms., Organizational Development

B.S., Organizational Behavior

Associate Of Arts, Biology

Additional Upper-Division Studies In Chemistry And Biology

Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry