Experience

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  Riviana Foods Canada Corporation

  • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  • Senior Product Development Technologist

    • Jun 2024 - Present
    • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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  NO SUGAR COMPANY

  • Food & Beverages
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Operation and Repack Project Specialist

    • Nov 2023 - May 2024

  • Innovation Project Lead and Coordinator

    • Dec 2020 - Nov 2023

    * Managing innovation projects including new launches, sku change, repacking project, artwork refreshes, ingredient/packaging changes* Developing and maintaining projects timelines based on the project and cross-functional team requirements and supplier lead times* Leading project calls with formulators and internal stakeholders, ensuring all projects are on track proactively mitigating challenges as they arise* Managing formulations, ensuring all information is accurate and up to date* Sourcing contract manufacturers and maintaining relationship with them, keeping informed of their capability and timelines* Sourcing ingredients and packaging, determining packaging dielines, and developing display pallet components* Establishing BOM for new SKUs and working with cross functional team to ensure information is accurate * Managing product costing, conducting costing analysis, and advise senior manager of current cost and if any cost saving options* Managing ingredient documentation

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  Le Bon Croissant

  • Canada

  • Research And Development Scientist

    • Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
    • Canada

    • Worked closely with all functional groups, including assisting QA on “Supplier approval procedure”, “internal audit” to ensure complying with food safety procedures, and also provide support during SQF audit and customer audits • Worked with QA team as a coordinator, review documentation, and lead internal audit • Managed new product launches from ideas to commercialization, and successfully launched more than 20 new products with our customers • Experienced at promoting new ideas to potential customer and satisfied their requirements, and coordinated with suppliers, and labour workers to ensure completion of projects • Managed continual improvement projects, providing improvement and optimization to existing products; conducted processing performance analysis to save cost and successfully saved company thousands of dollar• Excelled at maintaining key project documents to complete annual SR&ED project reports• Worked with plant manager to plan production and manage inventory through modifying ordering system

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  University of Guelph

  • Canada
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Assistant

    • Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

    • Collaborated with Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and developed an intelligent food packaging prototype, used printing method and indicator array methodology, as well as pattern recognition statistic analyzing method• Conducted extensive experiments, gathered secondary data, analyzed data using Excel and MATLAB, and generated reports in a highly efficient manner within a strict timeline

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

    Dealt with student consultations; Grading assignments; invigilating exams

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  Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Shanghai City, China

  • Office Assistant in Office of Strategic Planning

    • Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Shanghai City, China

    • Collected and collated useful information via internet and documents• Photocopied materials, filled forms and data entry • Optimize excel sheet for report, processed word to summarize the outcomes

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  Kao Corp.

  • Internship at Research & Development

    • May 2013 - Jul 2014

    • Followed the project including measuring, collecting the data and carrying out the experiment • Processed massive data using VAB via Microsoft: modified codes for data process; analyzed the results in Excel; reported to supervisor in forms of documents

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  Royal Canin

  • Shanghai City, China

  • Customer Service Internship

    • Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
    • Shanghai City, China

    Worked as a specialist in Customer Care Center. My responsibilities as followings:• Successfully responded to customers’ complaints about dog or cat food using professional knowledge by email• Translated complaints data and call-list into English and submitted the database to the head office in France• Reported to manager every two week in forms of PowerPoints