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• Championed food safety and quality principles to help resolve cross-functional operational issues for a RTE salads and prepared foods manufacturer.• Verified quality control criteria such as CCPs, weight, labels, packaging, and organoleptics on ingredients and finished products.• Assisted with the overall supervision of QC technicians to ensure that resource allocation is consistent with production and customer needs.

• Collaborated in the design, implementation, and enforcement of food safety control points for a producer of gourmet soups, side dishes, and entrees.• Investigated and dispositioned non-conforming finished product and worked with production management to establish the resulting corrective actions and preventive measures.• Directly supervised one shift but trained staff across all shifts, assuring that all essential duties were completed in a timely manner.

• Coordinated new raw material/supplier approvals, raw material specification updates, and alignment of existing raw material specifications.• Tracked and reviewed raw material specifications and supplier food safety information to perform risk assessments and evaluate supplier performance.• Generated formal complaints for non-conforming raw materials and reviewed supplier corrective actions.• Created and maintained Microsoft Access databases to house internal audit findings/corrective actions and raw material/supplier data.• Performed second-party audits on external storage warehouses and select suppliers.

• Performed QA-related customer complaint investigations and generated responses for the Customer Care department.• Orchestrated corrective actions and root cause analysis with necessary internal departments.• Monitored and trended issues highlighted by customer complaints.

• Oversaw laboratory technicians to ensure that necessary tasks were completed.• Collected and reviewed documentation from suppliers such as product specifications, food safety assessments, 3rd party audit certificates, and allergen programs.• Ensured quality of raw materials, water sources, in-process samples, environmental samples, and finished products through visual, microbiological and chemical tests.

• Prepared and tested various components used in protective paints and coatings to ensure that products met specifications.• Properly handled and disposed of chemicals such as ethanol, chloroform, sodium hypochlorite, and sodium carbonate.

• Maintained and operated immunoassay software and instruments.• Analyzed and reviewed statistical data to ensure reagent reliability.• Worked individually and as part of a team to meet testing deadlines and brainstorm methods to improve testing efficiency.

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• Synthesized and characterized natural product compounds.• Researched and developed procedures for chemical syntheses and natural product extraction and purification.

Master Of Science - Ms, Food Safety

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Chemistry