Mark Wingert Email & Phone Number

Wheat Ridge, Co, Us

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Train and mentor a team of Lab Technicians, including developing weekly schedule, prioritizing tasks based on production needs, and ensuring all standard QA tasks are completed in a timely manner.• Oversee and analyze all QA data to ensure consistent fermentation, microbiological, and analytical specifications are maintained for all individual brands.• Responsible for leading a multi-departmental Quality team in investigations and root cause analysis of all internal and external quality issues, including customer communications and follow up.• Assist in founding and act as Co-Chair of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points team ensuring that all FDA and cGMPs are being regularly evaluated and followed throughout the facility.• Collaborate with the Head Brewer and brewing staff to develop and evaluate new and legacy recipes through ingredient evaluation, sensory investigations, and shelf-life testing.• Investigate ingredients and refine recipes for multiple non-alcoholic R&D beverages including CBD infused seltzers, along with overseeing all third part testing to verify CBD potency and stability.• Oversee panel of validated tasters for daily sensory operations to ensure consistent and quality products, including the development and administration of sensory training courses.• Monitor multiple strains of yeast, including the scheduling of all yeast harvests, verification of microbiological purity, and adequate diversification to successfully meet production requirements.• Act as a leader, sounding board, and champion for all Quality projects throughout the facility, collaborating on interdepartmental projects to decrease the risk of issues emerging.• Manage specific QA budgets while ensuring all consumable inventory is kept at appropriate levels.

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Led project updating all the QA databases to include control charts for data analysis and VBA code to automatically transfer and organize data, increasing efficiency and ease of analysis.• Responsible for writing and updating all QA SOPs, while also ensuring all parties are trained on applicable changes.• Act as lead trainer for all new Lab Technician with an emphasis on teaching the theory behind tasks to encourage an environment suitable for continuously improving and optimizing tasks based on changing production needs.• Ensure a safe, sanitary, and organized lab and common areas through standardized cleaning and sanitizing procedures.

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Perform standardized chemical and microbiological analyses on fermenting and finished products to ensure shelf stability, food safety, and consistency across numerous beverages.• Collaborate in scientific investigations and root cause analysis to diagnose out-of-specification results.• Maintain, clean, and troubleshoot all Production instrumentation to ensure accuracy and consistency.• Conduct daily and weekly sensory operations and analyze data to ensure long term product quality.• Ensure a safe, sanitary, and organized lab and common areas through standardized cleaning and sanitizing procedures.

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Operate/troubleshoot a 200 bottle/minute automated packaging line including start up and CIP/SIP operations• Operate kegging line including keg cleaning, filling, and palletizing, along with keg machine CIP/SIP operations• Safely utilizing bulk chemicals in full strength and dilute forms, titrating to determine proper concentrations• Perform preventative and reactive maintenance on equipment following proper Lock Out/Tag Out procedures• Perform QA testing periodically during packaging to verify proper carbonation, crowning, taste/aroma• Participate in weekly tasting panels to insure packaged product is true to brand, minimizing product variance• Maintain a clean bottling hall through daily and weekly cleaning procedures

Milpitas, Ca

• Reports and presents on Failure and Root Cause Analysis of major yield losses of final solar cell products and implement solutions • Worked extensively with the Scanning Electron Microscope including imaging, sample preparation, polishing, and maintenance and image analysis in regards to solar cell defect characterization• Responsible for creating and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures for solar metrology equipment, including I-V and Quantum Efficiency measurements, Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence imaging, and Reflectance measurements.• In charge of tracking and documenting delivery of completed products to outside vendors

Milpitas, Ca

• Responsible for yield management for key process steps including pareto analysis • Developed a tracking system for key process parameters • Identified underlying causes of major yield losses and provide solutions• Presented results and conclusions to company executives in a formal setting• Worked extensively on various advanced tools (CNC, Wet Bench, Nanosecond Laser, Optical profilers)