I worked with the best team to build a state-of-the-art lab. Ensure personnel safety. And deliver the best customer service a lab can provide.

My team and I worked to ensure the quality and safety of raw ingredients, Dietary Supplements, and Ready-To-Drink (RTD) finished goods. Facility QA supervisor and cultivator for team of six quality assurance professionals. Directly manage QA monitoring processes throughout facility including bacteriological testing, current Good Manufacturing Process (cGMP’s) compliance, and dietary supplemental process control(21 CFR 111 and 117). Navigate compliance to Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations for dietary supplement and food products. Proactively work to provide cross-functional support and leadership to product development, quality, operations, procurement, and other teams to enable unified success. Current CPR/AED/ First Aid certified. • Ensure federal and 3rd party food safety systems compliance during 3rd party audits including SQF, GFCO, QAI Organic, Kosher, etc. • Designed and currently manage a Hold & Release system for Finished Goods and Blends that has been adopted by other parts of Hain Celestial organization due to effectiveness and cross functionality.• Implemented and designed a NIST compliant job aid to comply with regulatory weight requirements surrounding the monitoring and packaging of dietary supplemented tea. • Worked cohesively with quality group to perform GAP analysis of supplement program opportunities and developing new systems to address and proactively improve review and release processes. • Development of new programs and training team members in QA and in operations on developed procedures. • PCQI, March 2022• Taste over 230 botanicals, vitamins and neutraceuticals used in manufacturing both tea, and dietary supplements.• Assist in Ideation and successive implementation of Innovation sessions with R&D

Worked to ensure compliance in food safety standards following the TN Food Safety Sanitation Requirements. Performed routine audits of the facilities that produce and sell RTE (Ready-To-Eat) foods for sale at retail. This included grocery stores, gas stations, and other retail firms that can include restaurants.

As a Quality Relief Technician my responsibilities are to manage and understand the essential job functions of our six different manufacturing areas. This includes all necessary testing, experience, and understanding of the processes that influence each lab: Raw Lab, Cheese Lab, Cheese Line, Microbiology Lab, Cheese Melt Lab, and WIP Powder Lab. Testing experience includes but is not limited to: Following SOP's and cGMP,s Environmental Monitoring, Using Air-Plates, Swabs, etc. Antibiotic Testing, Mojonnier Fat Extractions, Using an FT2, Spectrophotometer, Scales, Micron sieves, Ash and In-Process Air Hoods, Ro-tap, pH Meters, Babcock Fat Extractions, Kjeldahl Digestion Method. And many other types of analytical monitoring, PPBTH (preventing problems before they happen), HACCP, and AIRP/ TRIP inspections, Clean room facility and in-process microbiological testing experience. Compiling aseptic samples, and Titrations.

I help compile and test powder samples produced on the packaging line at Leprino Foods. This requires aseptic techniques, and the prioritization of micro sensitive samples. I then help test the samples under certain criteria to evaluate properties such as moisture, or fat content. All of our tests have written SOP's requiring adherence to cGMP's to best perform a task. For instance when we test for fat we use the Mojonier fat extraction method, following a SOP, as human error/ human performance is always a concern. I am responsible for updating compilation and testing techniques, and promoting quality as the basis of all of our testing, in this way we prioritize the customer's health, and in effect, Leprino Foods' reputation as a leading company in dairy foods. The people are who I work for at Leprino Foods. I come to work for my team, who come to work for me. Getting to work with bright, understanding, and energetic people everyday is no longer a luxury, it's a lifestyle.

I manufactured a drug that assists anemic patients called Epogen. Specifically: Epogen is a drug that stimulates the production of RBC's (Red Blood Cells) by the body. Epoetin and darbopetin, work in the same way that natural erythropoetin works in the body. Traveling to the bone marrow it stimulates erythropoiesis, which conclusively supplies additional Oxygen to cells throughout the body. Specifically: I am responsible for performing cGMP functions in manufacturing areas including: Cell Culture, Harvest, Media prep, Dispensing and Warehouse at Amgen CO, Longmont. Many of the hands on operations include set-up and assisting with: clean in-place (CIP), pressure test (PT), steam in-place (SIP), large scale production equipment operations, monitoring critical processes, executing validation protocols, and performing equipment troubleshooting along with the ability to recognize and accurately report problems.I review documentation for assigned functions such as equipment logs, routine area audits, and batch records. Note: I am responsible for complying with all SOPs, cGMPs and Amgen regulations required in order to aid in the manufacturing of Epogen.

As a Teaching Assistant for a Microbiology Lab I: Ensured and assessed understanding of concepts by undergraduates; ensured equipment maintenance; Selected proper media to grow bacterial cultures; and was responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for the undergraduate students.