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Niles, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating the Food Safety, Quality, EHS, Regulatory Compliance, Documentation Customer Support, Product/Technical Support, and New Product Development/R&D operations of the commodity trading affiliates Greenwood Associates Inc., Florida Bulk Sales, Inc., and their commonly operated manufacturing affiliate, Chicago Processed Fruit Group, LLC.

Greater Chicago Area

Oversees the activities of for 2 direct lab reports, multiple indirect production, maintenance, and shipping/receiving reports. Responsible for the design and implementation of quality systems and procedures; blend recipe design and scheduling, assignment and management of blend packaging inventory; logistics for internal product movement; coordination with sales and shipping/receiving personnel for return sampling and traceability; hiring new lab personnel when needed; management of HTST pasteurization and batch pasteurization processes; management of 3rd party lab services; formulation and R&D of potentially new or experimental products; engineering aid on production equipment and implementation.

6280 W. Howard Street, Niles Il

Active management of daily manufacturing tasks including scheduling, formulation, blending, finished product packaging, and finished goods storage while prioritizing and promoting Quality and Food Safety.

Niles, Illinois

Managed QC/QA laboratory activities and tasks related to pre and post-process quality control and assurance.

Lake Forest, Il

Niles, Il

Responsible for performing a variety of chemical and microbiological tests for production pre-approval, COA, and customer-specific testing, ensuring the quality of the products manufactured by our organization. Responsible for conducting in-process sterile sampling of products. Assisted in the development of procedures, policies, and forms. Became acquainted with HACCP, GMP, and GFSI principles.

Addison, Il

Tasked with opening and heading a microbiological laboratory for municipal and private water testing and food, beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical analysis. Certified the laboratory through the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for municipal drinking water testing of Coliform and E.Coli parameters (certification#17599.) Performed marketing and sales of laboratory services and global business development.

Greater Chicago Area

Cell Biology and Biochemistry independent research project at the laboratory of Dr. Michael Glotzer on the building of a protein dimer for future photoswitchable function and testing via PCA strategy.

Greater Chicago Area

Cell Biology and Biochemistry independent research work at the laboratory of Dr. Rothman-Denes on the characterization of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein GP2 via alanine scanning mutagenesis.