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Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Ensure compliance with Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and BRCGS standards, prioritizing product safety and quality across all operations.• Develop, implement, and continuously improve HACCP, Preventive Controls, and Food Defense programs to maintain the highest food safety standards.• Lead and coordinate regulatory and customer audits (e.g., Costco), ensuring smooth audits and addressing any findings with timely corrective actions.• Investigate and resolve non-conformances, customer complaints, and internal quality issues through root cause analysis and effective corrective solutions.• Manage the supplier assurance program, collaborating with teams to meet strict quality and compliance standards.• Lead all plant inspections to ensure equipment, processes, and facilities adhere to safety, quality, and sanitation standards.• Lead the sanitation program, ensuring all cleaning and sanitation procedures are followed to maintain a hygienic environment and prevent contamination risks.• Oversee third-party laboratory testing for product quality, nutritional analysis, and environmental monitoring, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.• Deliver GMP and food safety training to employees, encouraging culture of safety, compliance, and continuous learning.• Review and maintain quality and compliance reports, ensuring accurate and timely documentation to meet internal and regulatory requirements.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Assist in implementing GMP, SQF policies, HACCP, and prerequisite programs.• Conducted quality checks, checked critical control points, and identify & rectify non-conformances ensuring adherence to HACCP and Quality Program requirements.• Collaborated with Operations team to meet food safety and quality standards.• Perform inspections and sensory tests on raw materials and packaging.• Maintain equipment calibration, ensuring accuracy in quality control.• Effectively communicate quality and compliance concerns while participating in internal auditing.• Managed customer complaints, implementing corrective and preventive actions as needed, and kept Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) updated.• Showcase innovative and out-of-the-box problem-solving skills while investigating and identifying issues and contributing towards a solutions-focused working environment.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• Registration of samples, media preparation, Calibrations, writing SOPs and conducting audits.• Using centrifugation technique, performing ELISA (IDEXX & Biochek) and slide agglutination tests to check diseases in flocks.• Performing tests for identifying presence of Salmonella, Enterobacter, E-coli, and Campylobacter.• Executed media preparation, streaking, spreading, sub-culturing, and colony counting with precision, and managed data efficiently using LIMS.• Ensuring all laboratory activities comply with regulations and guidelines, preparing and maintaining quality control documentation, writing SOPs, and assisting in the development and implementation of quality assurance programs.• Accurately recording test results, maintaining detailed records, and analyzing data to identify trends or deviations from standards.

Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand

• Conducted foreign matter detection tests and collaborated with senior scientists to address and resolve issues.• Performed internal audits of microbiology, chemistry, and sensory departments, ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 and IANZ accreditation standards.• Gained a comprehensive understanding of different products through sub-sampling while adhering to aseptic techniques.• Coordinated the dispatch of samples to various laboratories based on test requirements and efficiently handled queries or additional test requests.

Auckland, New Zealand

As a determined employee within AsureQuality’s Pathogen Microbiology Department, I have successfully showcased an expansive technical skillset while maintaining accuracy and precision in all day-to-day processes. • Manage the end-to-end process for all sample tests, ensuring samples are stored, handled and tested in line with stringent SOPs. • Conduct and process tests daily to determine the presence of salmonella, listeria, cronobacter and e-coli.• Facilitate rigid Quality Assurance checks within the sample and testing process thereby minimising the risk of errors while dealing with food samples, pharmaceuticals and a range of sensitive products. • Collaborate with the QA Officer to understand Internal Audit Processes within an ISO9001 and IANZ accredited environment. • Liaise with key members of the team to ensure open communication, transparency and diligence in all respective tasks and functions. • Undertake regular professional development including training on ELISA and PCR testing, continually seek on-the-job learning opportunities and apply my knowledge in all duties. • Gain and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of agarose gel streaking and spreading techniques, monitor samples to identify growth of bacteria colonies and manage the sub-culturing process. • Promote and maintain safe, tidy and hazard-free workspaces, ensure all health and safety standards are adhered to and proactively mitigate and manage risks. • Oversee all administrative functions relating to the sampling and testing process, ensure labels are legible and precise, detail any findings and submit results for further analysis. • Showcase innovative and out-of-the-box problem-solving skills while investigating and identifying issues, escalating critical incidents as needed and contributing towards a solutions-focused working environment.

Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

As an intern for a renowned institute, I facilitated the success of a project while gaining a thorough working knowledge of the Isolation and identification of paraffin wax degrading bacteria for application of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR).” This experience allowed me to gain hands-on experience working in a well-equipped laboratory environment while maintaining a focus on quality controls, standards and procedures. I gained invaluable experience using a variety of instruments including a Laminar Flow Cabinet, centrifuge, incubator, Autoclave, Microscope, Laminar Air Flow, Incubator, Autoclave, Rotary- Shaker, Vortexer, UV-Spectrophotometer and Rheometer.

Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

In this role, I was responsible for managing and maintaining the documentation of all project information for the “Identification and characterization of pseudomonas aeruginosa from soil sample" project. Leveraging off strong interpersonal skills and the ability to identify and facilitate a variety of procedures, I isolated the bacteria in a variety of samples and oversaw quality control processes whilst doing so.

Undertook extensive studies of the Zika virus, predicted and analysed antigenic determinants in virulence proteins and used Bioinformatics tools including FASTA and BLASTA.

Postgraduate Diploma, Biological Science (Biotechnology)

Activities and Societies: I have presented many seminars and completed group projects. I have developed my quality of leadership.

Bachelor Of Biotechnology, Biotechnology, 8.41 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Seminars/workshop/other events: • WORKSHOP:Hands on training / workshop on Foldscope assembly and imaging.

Certification Course, Food And Nutrition