William Organ Email & Phone Number

County Cork, Ireland

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Supplier Quality Assurance Lead for PGCS Flavours, Citrus oils, and juices for PepsiCo's suppliers for Beverage and Foods (seasonings & cookies).Key responsibilities include: 1. Supplier Relationship Management for Quality connectivity with all flavour and juice suppliers2. Raw material support centre for 7 PGCS global manufacturing locations3. Project and Change Management with PepsiCo R&D function.

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Founder and Co-chair of PepsiCo Ireland LGBT+ Employee Resource Group, EQUAL. EQUAL's root stretch back to 1993 and is now one of PepsiCo's largest global Employee Resource Groups. I co-founded the group in 2019 and have co-chaired the group 3 out of the last 4 years. We are one of the largest financial supporters of the Cork Pride Festival since 2019 and have a dedicated committee of 25 employees delivering internal and external events throughout the year, as well as employee and community focused campaigns. Proudly sponsoring the Cork Rebels FC since 2023!

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

County Cork, Ireland

Associate Data Analyst for the Flavours Team in PepsiCo Global Concentrate Solutions. Responsible for collation, communication, and analysis of pricing data for flavour systems and ingredients for beverage concentrate. Category lead for fermentation projects and powdered flavours. Supporting purchase of flavour materials in all PGCS plants through effective communication support with over 30 flavour houses for new innovations, reformulations, and repeating materials. Leveraging unique flavour chemistry, biotechnology and data analytics background to provide an effective technical and data support and pipeline to Global Procurement buyers. Proficient use of various software including Excel (incl VBA and Power Query), Tableau (Prep and Desktop), R-Studio, and other Microsoft Office Suite tools.Other responsibilities include development and sustaining of key interdepartmental processes and workflows between Supply Chain and R&D, and systems administrator for for several PepsiCo internal software platforms for flavour innovation.

County Cork, Ireland

Member of PepsiCo Global R&D Snacks Team. Key responsibilities include Lead in Brand Stewardship supporting the manufacture of all liquid concentrates for biscuit manufactured in PepsiCo Global Concentrate Solution plants. Accountable for traceability and the swift, efficient resolution of issues from initial report to root cause determination. Support for raw material gas chromatography analytical, maintenance of product specifications, and commercialisation of concentrates from laboratory scale through preparation of manufacturing instructions.Lead in introduction of PepsiCo internal Gas Chromatography analytical software to PepsiCo Cork R&D, and its use in supporting vendor preshipment testing in Little Island PGCS plant. Technical lead of R&D multi-team cross collaboration project investigating expansion of concentrate model into alternative soft drinks.General tasks include data analysis, cost analysis, instrument and consumable purchase, and vendor communications. Analytical instruments operated include GC-FID, GC-MS, Densitometer, Refractometer, Particle Size Analyzer, Particle Flow Analyzer, Auto-Titrator, Mercury Revolution, and Flashpoint Analyzer. Application equipment operated include industrial dough mixers, dough laminator, industrial ovens, and powder-liquid blender.Chemical Awareness Health & Safety representative for local Snacks R&D Team. Area owner of two fully functional flavour creation and application laboratories. Internal PepsiCo GC analytical software subject matter expert.

County Cork, Ireland

Chemistry Technician ensuring Quality Control for manufactured beverage concentrates in Fast Moving Consumer Goods plant. Testing primarily focuses on flavour concentrates and intermediates for volatile profiles through gas chromatography, as well as primary soluble material analysis through refractive index and specific gravity. Works as part of a multi-disciplinary Quality team including microbiology, sensory, physical chemistry, and compliance. Responsibilities include investigation of bulk concentrate deviations, root-cause determination, adjustment of out of specification concentrates into product specifications, reporting deviations using Trackwise software, key performance metric analysis, and generation and distribution of weekly reports. Highly proficient in data input software SAP and StarLIMS and supports Flavours Team as SAP, Stars, and StarLIMS Superuser. Responsible as primary end user for UAT Testing for StarLIMS role-out and internal software upgrades. Superuser responsibilities include setup and modification of Inspection Lots, generation of Certificates of Analysis and Certificates of Complience for manufactured products, and end user support.

Cork City, Ireland

Fermentation scientist in the Cereal and Beverage Research group in the School of Food & Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork. Research topic included investigation and practical production of low-alcohol fermented beverages from bacterial and yeast fermentation systems. In this role I performed an extensive review of both scientific and traditional literature on low-alcohol fermented beverages, along with a market report and consumer study on these types of beverages. I established methods for producing these beverages at research and pilot plant scale in the research group, and trained undergraduate and postgraduate students in this methodology.During the project, I quantified changes in various fermented beverages over time using a wide variety of techniques, including: 1. Isolation and purification of yeast and bacteria from complex starter cultures, microscopy, and growth over time by viable plate counts.2. Identification by isolates by DNA extraction, gene amplification, and identification through BLAST bioinfomatics software.3. Characterisation and quantification of sugars and acids by HPLC, proximate analysis assays, titrations, and Anton Paar densitometer.4. Investigation of varieties of substrates capable of supporting complex fermentations including sweetened tea and wort produced by Congress mash of malted cereals.5. Conducting standardised sensory analysis of produced beverages.As a regular member of the research group I performed lab maintenance including the ordering of consumable items and analytical equipment, as well as arranging repairs through liaising with various companies. Meeting were held weekly, which required regular Powerpoint presentations. I was directly responsible for two undergraduate Food Science students and one Masters Students, where I was required to oversee their research projects and assist them in thesis preparation.Participated in KombuchaKon 2015 as an invited speaker on The Science of Kombucha.

Cork City

I began working for the Franciscan Well Brewery & Brewpub as a part-time bartender during my undergraduate. I worked in a one-man bar, was responsible for my own till, and exclusively sold beer with limited availability. As such, it was required that I actively engaged in seeking out and familiarising customers in my product range.Upon graduating in 2010, I then began to work for the company full-time where I was more involved with providing graphic design, IT support, social media management, and administration. When moving to Galway for my postgraduate studies in 2011, I maintained a casual working relationship with the company whereby I would travel as their representative for Irish craft beer festivals, maintain IT support, and acting as a brewery consultant for the development of a long-term yeast strain library.When returning to Cork in 2014, I established a tour of the brewing facility and historical site, which included the training and rostering of tour guides, and representation of the service at tourism and marketing events. I also prepared various graphic and video media for the business including a virtual tour of the facility, training videos for new staff members, and promotional posters. I have also continued the IT support, social media management, and yeast library management roles that I previously established.

As a part of an overarching project focused on the improvement of polymer-catalysing enzymes derived from fungal systems, my main duties centred around data acquisition and analyses. I developed a series of assay methods for the quantification of biomolecule content in the harvested enzyme cocktail samples, and to determine the range of carbohydrate- and protein-degrading enzyme activities using purified and complex substrates. On a day-to-day basis, I maintained, upscaled and harvested a variety of fungal species under specific induction conditions to produce a variety of extracellularly exported enzymes. Using my developed assay methods, I constructed databases of biomolecular composition and enzyme activities for each combination of fungal species and induction medium at multiple growth timepoints. I then analysed these data using statistical tools, and graphed them for presentation.Other duties required of me as a regular member of the research group included instructing undergraduate students, participating in regular team meetings, providing technical assistance for other researchers, and assisting in the local organisation of the Irish Fungal Society's 2014 Annual Meeting.

Galway City

Upon winning a paid NUI Galway choral scholarship during my MSc, I was required to perform with a chamber choir composed of other scholarship winners, led by Mark Duley. As an active choir, we met for 2 x 3 hour rehearsals per week, and performed one Compline office per week and one Eucharist Mass per month. Additionally, our choir was recruited to perform at postgraduate graduation ceremonies in NUI Galway, and perform in the university's music festivals. Some of my favourite repertoire includes pieces composed by William Mundy, Thomas Tallis, Bach, Francis Poulenc and John Joubert.In addition to my performing role within the choir as 1st tenor, I also generated sound files (using Sibelius) for each other line to assist in learning new pieces.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Plant Biotechnology, 1St Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Philosophical (debating) Society, Choral Society, Environmental Society, LGBT Society, Ecotoxicology Journal.

Higher Diploma, Science In Data Analytics

Activities and Societies: Class Representative Modules include: Business Analysis & Communication Programming for Big Data Business Data.

Master Of Science (Ms), Glycobiotechnology

Activities and Societies: Choral Scholarship Chamber Choir, Yoga Society, Cycling Club My MSc project was run in close partnership between.

Professional Diploma In Food Safety & Quality (Fetac Level 9), Food Safety & Quality