Experience

LALA U.S., Inc

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Sr. Director Of Quality Assurance - North America

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Sr. Director of Quality, leading a multi-plant organization from standard to “world class” in quality, food safety and sanitation by providing skills mastered in every facet of corporate and plant operations to build strong quality & food safety teams in the food and beverage industry. Extensive background in plant start up, high performance work teams, customer service, quality & food safety, operations, engineering, process improvement, maintenance and logistics. Developed and coached quality managers to drive results from procedures, processes and programs to provide the best controls for product quality & food safety in any industry. Utilizing lean techniques and quality management techniques accompanied with engineering experiences to develop data driven processes which contribute to food safety, quality, and profits. • Performance Improvement & Leadership Development – 25+ years of experience in creating change and developing cross-functional teams. Executing a proven plan for quality and food safety process improvements across organizations for any industry. Expert skills in internal and external auditing. (regulatory - FDA, FSMA, USDA, PMO, etc.) • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Hosted 12 FDA representatives and 3 health inspectors in FSMA auditing training for the milk industry in Oct 2018 – Hosted FDA new hire training in snack baking industry Dec 2015. • FSMA & FSVP Development - Results driven, hands-on quality professional with experience in developing quality management systems, integrating quality into manufacturing processes, building a productive FSMA foundation and executing regulatory requirements which improves quality from corporate development through the plant levels. Intricate developer for FSMA rollout at Kellogg’s and directed all FSMA rollout efforts for LALA US, Inc. • (Please see resume' for additional information) Show less



Kellogg Company

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senoir Quality & Food Safety Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Jan 2016

  Sr. Quality and Food Safety Manager with a proven track record of turning regional quality & food safety programs into world class programs. Partnering with quality directors in the development of strong mission and vision statement which promotes highly effective quality, food safety and sanitation teams. Developed quality system strategies to link quality, food safety and sanitation to obtain optimal auditing results. Provided regional support in directing multiple plants from poor audit ratings to excellent. Effectively driven business critical methods and KPI’s through departmental processes and procedures to achieve exceptional performance results. Redesigned departmental guidelines, methods and standards to drive the business units to high performance work teams. Responsible for partnering with all regulatory agencies, administrating visits, corresponding and following-ups to ensure company compliance. Expert in internal, external and third-party auditing. Negotiated contracts and managed multi-million dollar budgets, with contracts not limited to areas such as the plant bulk cleaning chemicals, contract maintenance services, pest control services, facilities cleaning services, waste management services. Responsible for project reviews, assuring all engineering projects are designed hygienically and provides the best cleaning opportunities with no risk of product contamination. Utilized lean management concepts (smart, kaizens & mini kaizens) to deliver cost savings initiatives across all departments. Implemented departmental processes and procedural best practices for the corporation. Created an environment where all plant management is trained to work in unison with the quality, food safety and sanitation departments to become quality, food safety and sanitation experts Show less



AB InBev

• Belgium
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality , Food Safety & Sanitation-(CI)

  • 2000 - 2010

  Plant Manager’s Process Improvement Team (CI) -Started up the Cartersville’s Brewery Q&FS department. Developed and managed the sanitation and chemical budget. Initiated the aseptic/non-aseptic cleaning programs. Created SOP’s for equipment/ facility detail cleaning, microbiology sampling and sterilization which exceeded FDA industry standards. Led auditor for facility and Q&FS audits that drove performance levels to gold industry standards. Tracked and reported key performance indicators including Right the First Time, Faulty, Consumer Complaints, Period Infrastructure and Equipment Cleaning (PIC/PEC). Drive corrective actions if trends indicate potential out of compliance conditions• Performed facility audits and implemented yearly projects for plant facility upgrades ranging from $10,000 to $250,000. • Installed an automatic chemical feed system to 7 pasteurizers. The previous system manually fed chemicals in uncontrolled proportions. The automatic chemical system provided controlled mixture of 3-5% solution. This saved the company $250,000 per year. • Reduced the plant’s HVAC electricity bill $66,000 per year by implementing a project to connect all the HVAC units to one central control station, which allowed the units to work more efficiently. • Developed start up and preventative maintenance procedures for the reclaim water project, so reclaim carbon filtered backwash water could be used for landscape irrigation and reclaimed production rinse water to reuse/retreat for pasteurizers. These saved the company 87,992,000 gallons of water per year. Show less

• Mechanical Continuous Improvement Engineering-(CI)

  • 1994 - 2000

  Mechanical Process Engineer - Plant Manager Process Improvement Team – Project Management Skills on implementing process improvement projects to increase line efficiencies, reduce process loss and lower utilities cost. Provided leadership in resolving manufacturing process issues, utilizing reporting tools that identified quality, productivity and maintenance opportunities. Directed activities that drove asset utilization through equipment analysis and reliability. Technical resource for Packaging Operations in utilities usage, pasteurizer operating systems, reclaim water collection systems, and chemical distribution systems. • Plant Start up with aseptic experience• Optimized in-process troubleshooting efforts to resolve problems that were preventing the can lines from reaching their monthly efficiency goals. This was done by daily auditing can lines for non-performing equipment and writing work orders to correct maintenance issues. Also, improved the preventive maintenance programs by ensuring the PMs were timely and included critical analysis of major can line equipment. Due to this effort the can lines’ quarterly efficiency rose from 82% to 91%, which equated to an increase of 7,800 cases per shift across all the can lines. • Reduced the brewery’s compressed air usage by lowering the maintained pressure set point from 82 to 70psi. To help accomplish this, performed a detailed study of packaging equipment to determine which machines needed air amplifiers so they could operate at a pressure higher than 70 psi. The calculated daily compressed air usage savings is 150scfm, which translates into a savings of $12,000 per year. • Saved 1,821,600 gallons of water per year by stopping the routine process of dumping the line pasteurizers by upgrading the pasteurizer water weekend holdover program. • Sanitary Design Engineer - Sanitary design approval & project upgrades - (SME) troubleshooting micro issues on existing equipment, new equipment & facilities. Show less