Experience

Cérélia North America

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Present



English Bay Bakery (English Bay Batter)

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019



Kahiki Foods - CJ Foods Affiliate

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Area Manager

  • May 2005 - Aug 2018

  Quality Area Manager/ SQF PractitionerHandle the day to day operation of the quality assurance department. Manage and train 9 employees on 2 shifts - 6 QA technicians, 2 dish washers and 1 facility porter. Manage environmental sampling plan for both RTE lines and COMAN lines, sensory programs and finished product release. Provide technical expertise and direction to facility around product issue ensuring food safety and food quality. Investigate consumer complaints, foreign material issues and other deviation to determine RCA and CAPA to be taken. Create and implement SOPs for production and quality assurance department. Primary Contact for all third-party audits- SQF, COMAN, USDA, FDA. Train operation personnel (quality, production, maintenance, and warehouse teammates) in HACCP, Foreign Material, Food Defense, GMPs, and Allergen Control.Key Contributions: • Developed FSMA food safety plan for the facility. • Manage current HACCP plans, revised as needed, and develop new HACCP plan as needed.• Maintained SQF level III for 4 years and validated and verified company SQF program.• Develop and implement incoming ingredient inspection program.January 2009- December 2011 Production Scheduler Scheduled production lines based on sale forecast and customers’ order on a weekly basis. Worked with production team to determine required production staff at quarterly intervals to meet sale forecasts. Responsible for resolving delivery issues and the verification of customer orders as related to the production schedule process. Key Contributions: • Worked with software programmer to create a report that generate inventory versus order and project shorts.May 2005- December 2008 Production Manager Supervised a staff of 4 production supervisors and 65 teammates. Reviewed processing schedules and production orders to make recommendations on inventory, and staffing requirements to meet deadlines.



NCDA

• Food Regulatory Specialist I

  • Apr 2003 - Oct 2004

  •Provided formulation risk assessment for carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks, fountain syrups, flavor concentrates, juice concentrates and color components and conduct necessary studies for micro stability of these products and ingredients. •Assigned microbiological specification for raw ingredients (i.e., water, gums, sugars, color…), juice concentrates, and flavor concentrates and coordinated and managed standard testing areas for raw materials (i.e., water, gums, sugars, color…), flavor concentrates, and finished products. •Integrated a Microbial Identification System, gas chromatography, in to the microbiology department for the use of identifying spoilage organisms.



Pepsi- Cola Company R&D

• Microbiologist

  • Sep 1990 - Dec 2002

  • Provided formulation risk assessment for carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks, fountain syrups, flavor concentrates, juice concentrates and color components and conduct necessary studies for micro stability of these products and ingredients. •Assigned microbiological specification for raw ingredients (i.e., water, gums, sugars, color…), juice concentrates, and flavor concentrates and coordinated and managed standard testing areas for raw materials (i.e., water, gums, sugars, color…), flavor concentrates, and finished products. •Integrated a Microbial Identification System, gas chromatography, in to the microbiology department for the use of identifying spoilage organisms.