Stephanie Mcgaffick Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I began my career at Giant Eagle as a QA Specialist, but quickly transitioned to a Regulatory Compliance Specialist. As a QA Specialist, key activities include working with independently owned stores to generate nutritional information for store-made items in bakery, deli, prepared foods, and meat departments ensuring compliance with FDA Menu Labeling Law, and working to ensure that all partially hydrogenated oils are removed from all recipes. As a Regulatory Compliance specialist, key activities include label review and consulting on claims that can be made. Work with own brand managers to ensure that new product labels and their labels are complaint with all regulations and third-party standards. Create reference documents for those unfamiliar with regulatory compliance. Audit independently owned store locations to assure that food safety processes are being followed. Work with Oracle to create a system that would house all projects, from ideation to commercialization. Train and continue to assist the new QA Specialist while I transition to my new role.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Transitioned from being a Regulatory Coordinator in a team to being the only Regulatory Professional on staff at a new company. Charged with ensuring compliance of FDA, USDA/FSIS, and CFIA Regulations for existing products and new lines/products being brought in from other facilities. Key activities include the generation of labeling information, label review, and third party (UDSA, OTCO, non-GMO, and Kosher) certification. Work with the plant to ensure that new product lines (and products) being brought to the Pittsburgh facility can be made and be complaint with all regulations and third-party standards. Monitor relevant changes in a scientific and regulatory environment, implementing changes as necessary and communicating to cross-functional teams. Evaluate plant issue that may have significant impact from a regulatory perspective. Ensure compliance and assess risk when deviations occur in plant processes.

Began my job as a “lab assistant”, but worked to learn as much as I could about FDA and USDA regulations as related to food labeling. In doing this, I created a new position in which I was responsible for generating all labeling information for samples being sent out. The work that I was doing for Foodservice Soups was noticed by HPC (Heinz Portion Control) and I started working for that business unit as well. I also became an expert at the Oracle software that was used for generation nutritional information and trained all new employees to use this program. Generated finished product specification sheets for all Branded and Proprietary Foodservice items, uploaded to Heinz Web Sales Portal, and managed the content of the sales portal. Updated the sales portal to ensure that the most current spec sheets were available to the sales staff.  Worked to get vendors and ingredients approved for use.  Managed the sample tracker to give a clear picture of the many successes in Foodservice.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Worked as a chemist for the applications laboratory of the Maintenance of Business Group.Worked in the product development of solvent-based paints and coatings.Provided technical support and service to both internal and external customers.Worked as part of a team to develop powder coatings for the packaging industry.Utilized my knowledge of emulsion polymerization to solve an internal quality issue.

Harmarville, Pa

Supervised and assisted a group of analysts in the wet chemistry lab of a large, high-volume environmental testing firm.Ensured that all QA/QC parameters were met before test data could be considered valid.Reviewed and approved all test data before submission to customers.Functioned as a liason between analysts and project managers.Coordinated all testing on incoming samples.Worked to ensure that all testing was complete before hold times expired.Instituted a cross-training program for analysts.Maintained all paperwork,including calibration logs, for customer audits.Ensured that all routine and non-routine instrument maintenance was performed.Reviewed all SOP's with analysts to ensure that all lab procedures were being followed verbatim.Performed Ion Chromatography to detect the presence of various anions.Performed analysis to detect the presence of free, amenable, and total cyanide in water and soil samples.

East Liverpool, Oh

Supervised a group of laboratory technicians in a waste treatment facility.Ensured that all QA/QC parameters were met before test data could be considered valid.Reviewed all SOP's with analysts to ensure that all lab procedures were being followed verbatim.Approved waste to be incinerated without incident.Coordinated all testing on incoming samples.Performed GC and GC/MS analysis to detect the presence of volatile and semivolatile organic analytes, pesticides, and PCB's.Worked to ensure compliance of the facility with all Ohio EPA regulations.Contributed to the design and implementation of a very successful student outreach program.Trained and worked with technicians on ICP, Parr Bomb Calorimeter, IC, acid digestion, and TCLP.

Monroeville, Pa

Contributed to the commercialization of five PEO-based photographic paper coatings.Identified and corrected a coating defect.Performed stability testing on coatings and performed print quality analysis on coated media.Certified LabWave 9000 for solids analysis of raw materials and coatings.Conducted light fade testing using a UV chamber and maintained a database for all results.Analyzed and compared print quality of next-generation candidates to determine which coating best fit customer requirements.Provided technical support to PPG's Dover facility, which is a large coatings manufacturing facility, per process specifications.Worked closely with the Dover facility to troubleshoot problems with the scaling-up of various coatings.Performed organic synthesis of a porphyrin for a possible application in OLED technology incorporating column and thin layer chromatography, as well as UV Visible Spectrophotometry and NMR to ensure the identity of the end product.