Experience

PHUTURE® Foods

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

• R&D Scientist cum Halal Executive

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Research Scientist •Manage lab and equipment. •Product Analysis, Rheology & Texture Analysis. •Nutritional Analysis, Metabolomics and Nutrigenomics. •Safety and Toxicity Study (Rodents)-Study the effect of High Fibre Chick’N to tested rodents (Health) •Structure (Scanning Electron Microscope & Light Microscope). •Juiciness & Cooking Loss Analysis. •Physical Elements of Foods. •Development of Proposal on Plant-Based Protein & Fibre Food. •Research & Development of High Fibre Chick’n (Plant based). •Patent Filing on High Fibre Chick’n (Intellectual Patent). •Create Sales Pitching & Marketing Based on Science Fact. •Grant application (MOSTI, MTDC, CRADLE FUND). •Manage to secure RM500,000 grants in less than one year. •Set-up Blind Food Test (Sensory Evaluation and Consumer Acceptance towards High Fibre Chick’N) •Prepare Consent Form & Run the Blind Food Test for 300 people for 3 consecutive months. •Conduct Experiments on Transglutaminase Enzymes. •Collaboration with UPM, UKM, IBS, ITMA, HALAL, & COMET. -Faculty of Agriculture, Food Technology, Biotechnology, Engineering. Halal Executive •Liase with a government agency (MOH, MATRADE & etc) •Responsible to ensure the entire process of the procedure, new product, renewal / flow of Halal Certification Management System is in accordance with JAKIM/ JAIS and completely by Internal Halal Development (JKHD) • Provide and handle in-house or external training related to Halal especially for management, staff and supplier • Liaise with Operations, Purchasing, Food Safety and Hygiene, Human Resources, Maintenance and other departments to meet the Halal compliance • Develop and verified Raw Material Masterlist to any product changes, raw material, supplier, product and process flow from Approved Supplier List •Monitoring and ensuring that only raw material, packaging material and sample used in premises is meeting the Halal requirement •Responsible to ensure that IHCS compliances to comply effectively as per MHMS and MPPHM 2020 Show less



Universiti Putra Malaysia

• Malaysia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant cum Enumerator

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  •Prepare laboratory apparatus, consumables, include cleaning, sterilizing. •Maintaining laboratory equipment, organizing and cleaning the laboratory space, and ensuring compliance with safety rules and regulations. •Monitor the inventory and stock up when supplies are sold. •Plant Pathogen Isolation and Analysis – weed and vegetable disease •Plant Pathogen Identification Microscopic Analysis (Scanning Electron Microscope & Light Microscope). •Culturing Bacteria & Fungus. •Maintain pathogen stock culture in glycerol. •Collecting samples, DNA & RNA extraction. •Report writing, presentation, and journal publication. Reason for leaving: Ended contract. Show less



Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute

• Malaysia
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Research Officer

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2020

  Laboratory Works ●Prepare tools & lab instruments for sample collection. ●Prepare specific culture medium (broth & agar) with antibiotics or other supplementary substances. ●Pathogen Isolation, inoculation, & identification of pathogen ●Maintain & preserve pathogen cultures by Cryropreservation or Lyophilization ●Koch Postulates Procedure ●Develop formulation (Bio-pesticides) ●Analysis for Disease Incidence, AUDPC, Disease Severity Index ●Protein, RNA, DNA Extraction and cDNA synthesis. ●SDS PAGE, Western Blot, and Molecular Cloning. ●Recombinant Protein Production &AKTA-PRIME Purification. ●Gene Transformation & DNA sequencing. ●Restriction Enzymes ●Lowry and Bradford Assay (ELISA Based). ●Antimicrobial Test (In-Vitro & In-Vivo). ●Polymerase Chain Reaction and RT-qPCR. ●Gel Electrophoresis (1D &2D). ●Handling E. coli and Pichia pastoris. ●Competent Cell Preparation & Flow cytometry. ●Mass spectrometry (LCMS/MS, GCMS, HPLC) & UV-VIS &Nanodrop Spectrophotometer. ●Statistical analysis using SPSS, SAS and MINITAB. ●Manage Laboratory (Purchase, Stock take, SOP for each machine. ●Basic bioinformatics (KEGG Pathway, Gene Ontology, TargetP, SignalP, GPI-SOM, SSPred, and TMHMM). Fieldworks ●Run 5 years projects involving 500 papaya plants (sick & healthy plots) for preventive and curative control (Dieback disease) ●Physiological Analysis of papaya plant (Growth development -Parameter: Height, Number of leaves, Number of Stalks, Number of Flowers, Number of Fruits, Stem Diameter) ●Run experiments related to studying the effect of Bio-pesticides to growth development & disease control. ●Develop field and glasshouse experimental design (RCBD/CRD/LSD) ●Collect samples, process, diagnose, and application of treatments. ●Work on hotspot/non-hotspot area with different treatment (dosage/time of application& etc) ●Data analysis and data collection. ●Virulency test & Pathogen Inoculation. Reason for leaving: Ended contract. Show less