• Responsible for developing and implementing Jenny Craig Food Safety, Quality and regulatory compliance programs to ensure continuous food safety produced by multiple co-manufacturers.• Responsible for qualifying co-manufacturers by auditing food manufacturers plants on their Quality and Food Safety programs, as well as implementing and developments a product manual, and finished product specifications according to the type of food category. • Provides technical support and… Show more • Responsible for developing and implementing Jenny Craig Food Safety, Quality and regulatory compliance programs to ensure continuous food safety produced by multiple co-manufacturers.• Responsible for qualifying co-manufacturers by auditing food manufacturers plants on their Quality and Food Safety programs, as well as implementing and developments a product manual, and finished product specifications according to the type of food category. • Provides technical support and comprehensive risk assessments for new product development, renovation and product improvements related projects to internal team and co-manufacturers.• Drives continuous improvement at co-manufacturer plants by evaluation and troubleshooting non-conformance incident, conduct root cause analysis and advise correction, corrective action and preventative measurement Show less

Directing Quality Assurance and Food Safety, Regulatory, and Product Development activities for 2 Bakery manufacturing facilities. Skilled in the development and implementation of Quality Management Systems, HACCP, Continuous Improvement, CAPAs, Verification & Validation, Supply Chain Management, Complaint Management resolution, Environmental Monitoring, Food Defense, Internal Auditing, and maintained SQF audit certification. Directly supervised 4 persons.

Managed and maintain the Coca Cola quality assurance programs, by reassessing of HACCP, GMP, SOP program obtaining the FSSI certification. Responsible to maintaining and operating the quality testing laboratories (chemical and microbiological). Strong hands on sampling and development of testing protocol. Actively worked with operation to reduce the inventory on hand of concentrate of 25% by reducing product change over time and validating extended production runs. Improved sanitation process… Show more Managed and maintain the Coca Cola quality assurance programs, by reassessing of HACCP, GMP, SOP program obtaining the FSSI certification. Responsible to maintaining and operating the quality testing laboratories (chemical and microbiological). Strong hands on sampling and development of testing protocol. Actively worked with operation to reduce the inventory on hand of concentrate of 25% by reducing product change over time and validating extended production runs. Improved sanitation process in order to qualified and certify two production lines to produce sensitive beverage, increasing the production lines in 15% volume. Investigate non-conformances of ingredients in order to provide information to suppliers and facilitate resolution through a supplier management program. Directly supervised 12 persons. Show less

Responsible for Quality process control. Improved HACCP and GMP’s programs for USDA food manufacturing plant. Interfaced with FSIS-USDA in a daily basis. Validated specification for new product. Increased 20% line efficiencies by coordinated the continues improvements process on sanitation by reducing the downtime at start up.

Implemented SPC program in six plants, 24 lines. Established new data base providing real time information. Validated specification for new products. Provided technical support for operations, R&D, and marketing departments. Instructed Quality and productivity programs from management to operations personnel. Investigated / responded to customer complaints. Directly supervised 12 persons.