Quality and Compliance Manager

• Feb 2022 - Present

Senior Quality Engineer

• Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

Principal Research Scientist Compliance

• Apr 2018 - Sep 2021

Responsible for ensuring compliant quality systems for seven manufacturing facilities producing a variety of products including food, beverage, supplements, drugs, personal care, and home care products. This includes assessing quality risk, interacting with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient utilization of resources and appropriate mitigation of risk while working with globally diverse cultural backgrounds. Oversight and approval of quality investigations, corrective and preventive actions and change control. Directing food defense team for four facilities, leading internal audits for all corporate locations, including California and India. Provide training and guidance on compliance for quality and manufacturing staff. Host and coordinator external audits including FDA, TGA, Health Canada, Department of Agriculture, NSF, Halal (MUI & IFANCA), Gluten Free and Kosher for all Ada facilities. Oversight and approval of quality investigations, corrective and preventive actions and change control. Show less

Principal Quality Engineer

• 2005 - Mar 2017

Responsible for maintaining all quality systems in multiple manufacturing facilities, including Cosmetics, Personal Care, Powder Drink, Soft gel and Beverage. Duties include completing all quality investigations, resolving deviations, determining root cause, ensuring corrective and preventive actions while maintaining compliance to all regulations. Work with manufacturing sites to develop and maintain compliant practices in manufacturing including training, documentation and change control. Quality lead for the start-up of four new manufacturing facilities including facilities in US and India for nutritional and beauty product lines. Mentored multiple interns on projects and technical programs. Show less

Quality Engineer - Supplier Quality

• Mar 2000 - May 2005

Supplier Quality Development for chemical raw materials. Responsible to approve, improve, and monitor suppliers utilizing quality systems audits, supplier improvement programs and quality metrics monitoring. Analyze supplier, operational and customer data, complaints, and defective product to determine trends. Interface with suppliers, operations and regulatory representatives concerning quality problems to ensure effective corrective actions. Quality lead on Strategic Sourcing Teams, work collaboratively across multiple departments to ensure approved supply base is appropriate. Ensure that materials comply with specifications and technical requirements through application of quality tools. Mentored multiple interns on projects and technical programs. Show less