Experience

Ascona Foods Group
• Canada
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Research And Development Coordinator

  • Sep 2020 - Present


Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Product Developer

  • Jun 2015 - Jan 2020

  Chartered full lifecycle development of products from concept to market. Provided technical expertise in product development, sensory evaluation, and product process interaction. Partnered with packaging, QA, sensory quality, production, category, and marketing to achieve set business goals. Chartered full lifecycle development of products from concept to market. Provided technical expertise in product development, sensory evaluation, and product process interaction. Partnered with packaging, QA, sensory quality, production, category, and marketing to achieve set business goals.



Sensient Technologies Corporation

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Development Technologist

  • Dec 2013 - Feb 2015

  Led day to day formula management duties to support the production facilities daily operations. Subject matter expert for operations software programs. Assisted with all levels of departments within manufacturing to provide support for services such as QA, operations, costing and development.

• Process Improvement & Applications Technologist

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  Collaborated with Directors and Managers to simplify, streamline and reduce times of a projects lifecycle through to FTO. Spearheaded cheese powder development and assembled application prototypes using in-house flavour ingredients.

• Flavor Compound Technician / Formula Managment Coordinator

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2013

  Provided maintenance of the internal flavour libraries and formula management for production. Compounded sample prototypes; prepared sensory evaluations for quality inspections; researched, improved and created new flavours for applications.



Smiths Detection

• United Kingdom
• Security Systems Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chemical Laboratory Technician

  • May 2004 - Jul 2008

  - Prepared chemical solutions and laboratory samples for purpose of calibration and quality control of the instrumentation. - Conducted quality control and audit testing on final products and sub-assemblies. - Preformed analytical and instrumental analysis on Ion Mobility Spectrometer’s for the purpose of research and product enhancement. - Assisted in the development of new test procedures needed for new or redesigned products. - Continually processed data analysis and reports. Show less