YUE CHONG FOO

Food Technologist at Prestige Foods Australia
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Croydon, Victoria, Australia, AU
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Cantonese Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Mandarin Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Malay Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials

  • Approved Person for Thermal Processing of Low Acids Foods (required for shelf stable foods/ canned foods manufacturing)
    CSIRO & DWC FoodTech Pty Ltd
    Nov, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Label Foods According to Legislation Requirements (FBPST4009) - National Recognised Training
    Correct Training Systems
    May, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Food Labelling Requirement by Quality Associates
    QUALITY ASSOCIATES TRAINING (RTO 41341)
    Jul, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Online Internal Food Safety Auditor ISO 22000:2018 & ISO 19011:2018
    SAI Global
    Jun, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certificate of Fungal Wizardry (Low Tech Mushroom Growing Class)
    Urban Kulture
    Sep, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Provide First Aid
    -
    Oct, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Principles and Applications of Hazards Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
    Sai Global
    Sep, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Six Sigma White Belt (Dutch BKO Accredited)
    Udemy
  • Lean For Manufacturing & Services (Dutch BKO Accredited)
    Udemy

Experience

  • Prestige Foods Australia
    • Australia
    • Food Production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Food Technologist
      • Aug 2020 - Present

      • FSSC22000 certified contract food manufacturer producing high quality retorted/frozen stocks, broths, sauces, retorted rice, grains & pulses, and others • Approved Person for Thermal Processing of Low Acid Foods (able to approve shelf-life of retort/ canned foods based on heat penetration study data). • Innovative approaches product development with clean label ingredients focuses. • Artworks and food labelling reviews as per labelling requirement of FSANZ and Country of Origin (CoOL Label) according to regulation requirement (certified) • Experience in latest FSANZ labelling regulatory standard code including the Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL) requirement • Experience in FSANZ Nutrient Profiling Scoring Criterion (NPSC) calculation for specific health claim requirement & nutrient content claims. • Experience in Healthy Eating Advisory Service Guideline (Victorian School/ Workplace Requirement) • Administrate & organize and New Product Development (NPD) projects from beginning to commercialization of products (stage gate process) • Coordinate and cooperate with other departments in across different stages of product development • Identify and act on continuous improvement oppurtunities in process proactively. • Review and establish specification/product information form (PIF). • Develop standard operating procedure (SOP) for new product & ensure the SOP is practical and effective. • Understand machinery and hands-on cooperation with production and maintenance team to integrate new product production into existing manufacturing process • Continuous improvement and optimization on existing production process with analytical approaches to identify the root cause of the problems • Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting in manufacturing process • Experience in KM Water Spray Overpressure retort machine operation Show less

  • Hussey & Co
    • Australia
    • Farming
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Production Shift Supervisor
      • Apr 2020 - Jul 2020

      • Daily production scheduling, planning and execution in fast changing and dynamic situation. • Ensuring safe working conditions, incident reporting and risk assessment. • Ensuring smooth production by task delegation, problems solving, and orders fulfilment. • Production staffs rostering and management. • Daily production scheduling, planning and execution in fast changing and dynamic situation. • Ensuring safe working conditions, incident reporting and risk assessment. • Ensuring smooth production by task delegation, problems solving, and orders fulfilment. • Production staffs rostering and management.

  • Covino Farms
    • Farming
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Quality & Production Lead Assistant
      • Feb 2018 - Feb 2020

      • Daily production scheduling, planning and execution.• Ensuring smooth production by task delegation, problems solving, and orders fulfilment.• Executing Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) in practice under challenging circumstances.• Involved in computing and digitalization of company documents and records.• Familiar in operational functions such as operating BOSCH bagger, ISHIDA multihead weigher system and CoLos (Markem Imaje) label printing software.• Identifying bottlenecks and optimizing processes in production.• Ensuring safe working conditions, incident reporting and risk assessment.• Effective inter-departmental communication concerning process & policies changes, customer complaint occurrences and implement suitable corrective actions.• Responsible, responsed and solved to all issues/ incidents occured during shift. Show less

    • Quality Control Officer
      • Feb 2015 - Feb 2020

      •Process fresh produces for quick service or fast food industries.•Conduct pre-operation environmental bacteria swabs and ATP swabs to ensure hygiene compliance.•Develop processes flow charts and floor plans for better processes design and issues identification.•Conduct Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audits and provide solutions to identified issues.•Maintain validity of food safety program, approved supplier program and Quality Management System (QMS) documents.•Inspect raw materials (such as whole vegetables and salad leaves) and finished products in compliance with customers’ specification.•Identify, report and resolve non-conformances in daily processes and products quality through liaisons with multiple departments and stakeholders. •Assist in continuous improvement program, internal audit and external audits preparations.•Establish products dispatch database for product tracking, recall and audit purposes. •Organise chemical cleanings and deep cleaning using commercial-grade detergents and sanitizers to ensure equipment are properly disinfected and sanitised.•Familiar with Sopura, Ecolab & Cyndan chemical application.•Investigate products non-conformances and customer complaints and prevent reoccurrence of issues.•Rotating shift role in 24/7 days operation basis.•Establish effective communication and liaison between all level of staffs through multiple languages to ensure smooth and efficient production.•Calibration of testing equipment, including Ishida X-ray machine tempereatures probes and other general maintenance of laboratory.•Able to operate multiple types of machines and processing equipment including vertical bagger, dicers, translicer.•Proactive in machine and processing equipment troubleshooting or issues identification.•Hands-on and dynamic role. Show less

  • UGL
    • Australia
    • Engineering Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Office Support
      • Dec 2013 - Feb 2015

      • Project documents control and preparation (such as maintenance copies and manuals). • Assist in administrative and adhoc duties for signalling engineers. • Maintain and update documents archive system. • Confident in Excel and Microsoft works application. • Learnt to have an eye for details and structural approach in problem solving. • Project documents control and preparation (such as maintenance copies and manuals). • Assist in administrative and adhoc duties for signalling engineers. • Maintain and update documents archive system. • Confident in Excel and Microsoft works application. • Learnt to have an eye for details and structural approach in problem solving.

  • Dessert Story
    • Australia
    • Hospitality
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Waiter Supervisor
      • Nov 2012 - Feb 2015

      • Perform food handling and preparation. • Customer service and staff liaison through multiple languages and cultures. • Handle and resolve customers’ complaints. • Perform food handling and preparation. • Customer service and staff liaison through multiple languages and cultures. • Handle and resolve customers’ complaints.

  • Peters Ice Cream
    • Australia
    • Food and Beverage Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Peter's Ice Cream Student Intern
      • Feb 2014 - May 2014

      • Transfer data from Product Information Form (PIF) including nutrition information panel (NIP) and allergen information into Hamilton-Grant (HG) recipe management system. • Assist in preparation of trial samples and new product testings in pilot plant. • Attend internal project progress meeting and learnt the importance of structured communications. • Transfer data from Product Information Form (PIF) including nutrition information panel (NIP) and allergen information into Hamilton-Grant (HG) recipe management system. • Assist in preparation of trial samples and new product testings in pilot plant. • Attend internal project progress meeting and learnt the importance of structured communications.

Education

  • University of Melbourne
    Master's Degree, Food Science
    2012 - 2014
  • University of Melbourne
    Bachelor of Science (BSc), Food Science and Technology, Microbiology
    2009 - 2012

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