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Culver City, California, United States

Managed production in 2,000 sq ft raw food manufacturing plant and managed team of 25 employees for 18 hour /7 day per week operations.Among my accomplishments: Reduced labor costs, reduced overtime, decreased employee turnover, refurbished Food Safety and Quality programs, streamlined production with shelf life studies,cultivated plant community of professional pride and mutual respect to improve attendance and work experience Furloughed in March due to Covid. The business environment in Los Angeles changed during this time and the position was terminated in October.

Panorama City

* Developed and built out corporate quality systems for fast growing company* Managed relations with various partner bakeries and staff from top down* Audited and developed continuous improvement plans to meet SQF standards and FSMA regulations* Established KPI for complaints and process for tracking with measurable goals * PCQI trained* Trained and mentored team* Supported safety programs and OSHA compliance

Hawthorne

Oversaw daily operations of a 12,000 sq. ft food production facility to ensure daily production goals were met and all processes met or exceeded FDA requirements for food safety.* developed and implemented food safety system* developed and implemented training program* managed all 3rd party certification programs* managed team of 25 including two managers

Long Island City, Ny

* Developed and implemented food safety system; including HACCP plan, SOPs and training program* Hired and trained quality team of technicians* Completed application process for all certification bodies (organic, kosher, gluten free, non gmo)* Managed relations with all regulatory agencies

Long Island City

Greater New York City Area And Long Island City

Oversaw all production operations including: inventory management, employee management, procurement and distribution.

Greater New York City Area

Blueprint Cleanse is a nutritional juice cleansing company whose mission is to make a lasting impact on the people we reach and to leave a meaningful contribution in the world of wellness.

As an Assistant Food Sytlist I have worked on numerous publications such as Gourmet, Food & Wine, O! Magazine, Everyday Food at Martha Stewart, MORE, Good Housekeeping, and Rachel Ray. Duties include preparing ingredients and tools necessary for the shoot, extensive shopping for the highest quality and most visually appealing ingredients, aiding in cooking and preparing food for magazine shoots, infomercials, and advertising, and serving as a go-to man for any additonal tasks to be performed. This is a fast paced job dealing with many ingredients, tools, people from different organizations all having different needs. Being highly organized, motivated, quick working and personable is necesary to make the work environnment pleasant for everyone. This experience has afforded me the opportunity to work with a variety of dedicated, highly creative people around the city.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

Responsibilities included monitoring outstanding customer cases, intervening with appropriate management to ensure prompt resolution, and serving as stand-in management for the Call Center when needed. Further responsibilities included serving as a single-point-of -contact to high visibility at-risk customers. These clients included leading mutli-national organizations from all industries including Banking, Automotive, Defense, and Pharmaceutical. Duties came to include managing service records for dozens of sites for numerous clients, communicating service issues to directors and others levels of upper management, and representing the company at on-site customer account meetings. This type of work eventually led to Equant providing a single-point-of-contact service option for all customers.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mcintyre School Of Business Summer Program

Activities and Societies: Spanish Club, Madison House volunteer teaching english to migrant workers and serving as a spanish tutor to high.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: English tutoring for migrant workers, Spanish tutoring for local high school students