Experience

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  Western India Cashew Company Pvt. Ltd.

  • Assistant Manager Quality & Food Safety

    • Nov 2023 - Present

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  Best Food Company LLC

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Quality Assurance Officer

    • Nov 2016 - Aug 2021
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Best Food Company is a prominent chocolates and confectionery manufacturing company of the Middle East. If I list some of my work responsibilities it will be:  Continuously identifies food safety risks and executes the implementation of risk managing strategies. Contribute to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of food safety policies and programs like FSSC, HACCP, GMP’s, sanitation, food defense, pest control, quality, and continuous improvement of the Quality Management Program. Analyze food safety and quality data and prepare reports (incl. consumer feedback and complaints, Non-Conformities and Corrective actions, ingredients, finished products, products & processes specifications). Develop a strategic plan for food safety and product quality (from raw materials to finished food products, including in-store handling and disposition of finished products). Assures the Food Safety Strategies implemented in the plant comply to all local, state, and federal food laws. Builds professional relationships with plant leadership teams, quality leaders, R&D chiefs, suppliers, regulators, and auditors to ensure the food safety strategies are implemented and followed. Promote development of food safety attitude in the facility through continuous training and evaluation.  Ensure that all processes related documentation and programs are managed and maintained. Supports the manufacturing facilities during Regulatory, Customer and 3rd Party audits and assist in corrective actions, as necessary. Functional Competencies: Passion for Quality and Food Safety, risk and opportunity identification and management, product quality custodian and excellent technical depth in food safety and processes.

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  Barakat International Food Company LLC

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Quality Control Officer

    • Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A state of art meat processing plant.  Performs quality checks of in-process & finished products. Conducts microbiological examination of food items, operational water, machine, environment& employ’s hand swabs & its proper documentation. Responsible for keeping up Hygiene and Sanitation standards in the facility compatible withFSMS / ISO 22000 guidelines. Managing the clients with respect to the non- conformity by tracing the origin of deviations,and resolving the issue by generating corrective action plans.ans. In charge of calibration of all measuring devices before due date and maintaining the records. Handling the label approval process through the Dubai Municipality web portal. Conducting supplier evaluation by validating supplier credentials. Creating various forms and SOPs according to the ISO standards. Conducts training for the staff on food safety and hygiene.

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  Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University

  • Puducherry Area, India

  • Research Fellow

    • May 2011 - Dec 2013
    • Puducherry Area, India

     Biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles using microbes. Characterization of thus produced nanoparticles through various biophysical techniques such asFTIR, XRD, SEM, TEM, EDX and UV spectroscopy. Analysis of biological activity of the nanoparticles.

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  Tex Biosciences

  • Chennai Area, India

  • Research Trainee

    • Feb 2011 - May 2011
    • Chennai Area, India

     Industrial training as part of Biotech Industrial Training programme (BITP -2010-11), sponsoredby Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Microbial strain development for cattle feed production.

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  Energy Alternatives India

  • Chennai Area, India

  • Industrial Research Analyst

    • Sep 2010 - Dec 2010
    • Chennai Area, India

     Conducted online research on algae based biofuels. Developing novel models in the field of algae centred alternative energy Day to day management of the company website and blog Contributing role in the creation of annual reports (Oilgae annual reports - comprehensiveresources for oil and fuel production from algae).

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  • Chennai Area, India

  • Project Trainee

    • Jan 2009 - Jun 2009
    • Chennai Area, India