Experience

Innovative Research Solutions

• South Africa
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Microbiologist

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  - Routine microbial analysis on quality indicators and pathogens - Research, Troubleshooting/Route-cause analysis of microbiological issues in the food industry - Food micro research - Probiotic analysis - Shelf-life testing - Project management - Routine microbial analysis on quality indicators and pathogens - Research, Troubleshooting/Route-cause analysis of microbiological issues in the food industry - Food micro research - Probiotic analysis - Shelf-life testing - Project management



DuPont

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application technologist

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2016

  Application technologist in Dairy innovation (June 2013 - present) – DuPont, Cape Town DuPont Nutrition and Health is a global science company that specialises in food ingredients and food safety. Accountability for running production trials (fresh fermented, beverage and neutral) in the pilot plant, assist application specialists and sales with trial requests, shelf-life testing of products using various equipment, managing all purchases and payments for innovation lab, which includes continues interaction with the DuPont global finance teams, vendor creation, stock and lab consumables control and the ordering there of, trial stock ordering and blending, assist with factory trials, assisting in research- and collaboration projects with various universities, internal technical research or analysis for internal publications (technical notes), the writing and assisting of technical notes and reports, manage the food safety standard for the lab (micro), point of contact for sample submissions to external labs. June 2013 – July 2015: Installed and operated the DuPont diagnostics food safety equipment (Bax and Riboprinter), trained customers on the equipment in South Africa and parts of Africa, provided technical support for diagnostics customers, assisted sales with technical info, assisted in troubleshooting of equipment with customers. Show less



Reliance compost

• Lab Manager

  • Aug 2012 - May 2013

  QC lab manager (Aug 2012 – May 2013) – Reliance compost, Paarl Green waste recycling company specialising in Organic compost manufacturing. Accountability for the quality control of the compost process and final product, laboratory analysis of compost, investigated QC problems, ensured all documents for auditing purposes were in place, assisted sales in any QC documents required, assisted production in schedule setup, weekly report writing and managed four lab staff. QC lab manager (Aug 2012 – May 2013) – Reliance compost, Paarl Green waste recycling company specialising in Organic compost manufacturing. Accountability for the quality control of the compost process and final product, laboratory analysis of compost, investigated QC problems, ensured all documents for auditing purposes were in place, assisted sales in any QC documents required, assisted production in schedule setup, weekly report writing and managed four lab staff.