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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Representing a large number of ingredient suppliers for food and beverage manufacturing. Working alongside developers bench side to offer creative ingredient solutions!

Buda, Texas, United States

Member of Senior Leadership Team and Trained SQF Practitioner. Directed and developed 10 frozen products from ideation, commercialization, to continuous product improvement.Directed kitchen manufacturing operations.Owned recipe creation, management, and maintenance. Improved and maintained key customer relationships, listening to identifying goals and effective communication. Collaborated with Senior Leadership to identify gaps in processes, applied critical thinking to find short term and long term solutions to the root cause of a potential non compliance involved in safety, quality, and productivity.Managed the quality standard and currently working on developing, pressure testing, and finalizing in process specifications and final product specifications. Owned, developed, and improved the Supplier Maintenance and Onboarding programs with a more streamlined process in regards to supplier-company and internal communication. Standardized procurement processes company wide, by collaborating with the Director of Quality Assurance to develop, direct, and maintain an ingredient onboarding process to allow for the confident approval of raw materials that are needed for successful production runs, and is able to provide a deliverable within 1 business days. Onboarded emergency back-up suppliers due to the supply chain effects of COVID-19. Completed product improvement projects with goal orientation of recipe revisal, processing adjustments, ingredient replacement or removal, and/or productivity increase. Collaborated with the Director of Quality Assurance to develop an improved product label maintenance process from the ground up to prevent recall and withdrawals, with no gaps to date.Regulatory maintenance of frozen food products. Experienced in filing temporaries, sketches, and generics with the USDA.Lead communication with production, engineering, quality assurance, maintenance, procurement, and ownership.

Austin, Texas, United States

Developed and led commercialization of 5 new enchilada products. Gained experience and knowledge in the frozen food manufacturing process by performing daily quality checks, maintaining and implementing quality standards in a batch kettle cooking process and continuous production line. Qualified and approved new replacement ingredients. Developed and managed the traceability program. Collaborated heavily daily with the production, engineering, quality assurance, maintenance, and procurement teams.

Carrollton, Texas

- Collaborated with Food Scientists to develop 1 product that was purchased by acustomer, matched 3 products and developed 6 formulas according to thecustomer's needs and deadlines-Properly document raw materials, projects, and formulas using Ross, ProductVision, and Trace Gains- Worked with Technical Services and Regulatory Management to shadow thedocumentation of around 10 finalized products that are in compliance withgovernment regulations- Managed up to or around 5 projects at a time using time management skills andcritical thinking

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Culinary Science/Culinology, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Overflow - Off campus Christian Organization Graduate as a Certified Culinologist from the RCA. The degree.

Associate'S Of Applied Science, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, 3.77