● Quality Assurance experience at a Global 500, GFSI-recognized, BRC-certified, VPO-based foodmanufacturing company● Shift Handover Meeting leader, provides structured guidance of daily, weekly and monthlytargets for the St. Louis Packaging Quality Assurance Team● Verifies or performs several process and safety audits: manufacturing equipment audits, processmonitoring equipment audits, HACCP auditing, Compliance auditing, Outgoing QualityInspection/auditing, Warehouse auditing, sanitation quality audits, out of area audit workflows● Responsible for Hold/Block Product identification, isolation and Root Cause Analysisinvestigations. Communicates and coordinates directly with the Shift Manager and WarehouseManager to identify, hold and recall all non-conforming products produced on shift● Performs Operational Work Diagnoses, SOP review, Job Hazard Analyses, Management of Changefunctions as needed● Utilizes Statistical Process Control principles to monitor production, reacts as needed whenprocesses deviate from desirability or become out of control● Performs sampling and laboratory analysis of high speed food production at several stages of theprocess

● Key player in the production, testing and analysis of proprietary technologies to secure millionsin grants and other forms of financing● Worked cross-functionally with Chemists, Chemical Engineers, Machinists, Electricians,Management and Purchasing to drive business goals and developments● Successfully operated and maintained an on-site pilot scale bioreactor at the National CarbonCapture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Alabama

● Contracted employee for Monsanto Regulatory Affairs, worked in a GLP Lab● Deployed and managed an Electronic Laboratory Notebook database● Performed reagent prep, Qiagen DNA extraction, then DNA analysis by TaqMan RT-PCR● Conducted QC review of lab reports prior to submission to QA