Quality Assurance High School

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

**** ********** ****. ******* ********. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

Professional Experience (Summary)

• Chemist, ingredients formulations review

• QA Assurance Practioner

• Environmental Regulatory Practitioner [OSHA, FDA, USDA, TSCA, REACH, GHS, WEE-RoHs, Cosmetic

regulations (CIR, South America and EU)]

• GHS SDS development and Authoring

• Product Safety and Chemical Safety Assessments

• Chemical Safety Reports (EU REACH)

• GHS Hazard classifications

• EPA Air Emissions Reporting

• Project Management

• Development of Ingredients Lists (IL) and Certificate of Compliances (CoCs)

ThreeBond International, Inc. OH. Aril 2012-current

Environmental and Regulatory Specialist

Provide advanced technical leadership and expertise to sales and manufacturing staff covering the

following activities:

• GHS SDS Authoring (Environmsds) MSDS, IMDS, Product safety, Environmental Regulatory

compliance.

• OSHA 29CFR1910.1200 GHS employee Training

• Development and designing of GHS compliant labels for cosmetic and coatings

• Oversee employee occupational safety program

• Engagement with manufacturing, suppliers and internal supply base managers and other key staff to

obtain proper product environmental documentation and data.

• Perform validation and verification of product environmental compliance documentation.

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

• Respond to compliance certification and data requests from customers.

• Work with Testing Laboratories to perform waste analysis to ensure compliance with environmental

requirements.

• Provide product environmental compliance updates to internal teams as needed.

• Keep abreast of applicable environmental laws and regulations.

• Manage product environmental compliance teams on a global basis.

• Interface with all necessary functional teams to facilitate ThreeBond’s Product Environmental

Compliance program.

• Work with ThreeBond leadership team to identify necessary resources and implement plan to meet

product environmental requirements.

• Engagement with sales and marketing to capture and address customer product environmental

requirements, both common and unique to particular customers.

• Serve as a top technical advisor to other groups and clients.

• Review and authorize compliance documentation in accordance with company policy.

• Product Safety Database Population and Maintenance

• Product Safety Summary Preparation

• Preparation and formatting of finished product formula and test sample formulas used for comparison in

support of the finished product.

• Identification of suitable safety studies to use for individual ingredient safety support.

• Product Safety Summary Documentation

• Formula Ingredient Safety Review Report Generation

• Conflict Minerals Compliance

• Overseeing GHS roll-up program for compliance with 29CFR 1910.1200

The Wornick Company, Cincinnati. OH. 2010=2012

Quality Assurance Specialist/Regulatory Affairs Consultant.

The Wornick Co manufactures Market-Ready-To-Eat [MREs] for the military and for commercial purposes.

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

Quality Assurance Consultant with a contract to review all analytical methods to ensure they comply with the

customers’ specifications.

• Reviewed of analytical testing methods compliance with customers testing specifications and USDA and

FSIS regulations.

• Developed Analytical Methods to comply with customer’s product specifications (salt, moisture, fat, sodium,

pH, Vitamin C, ect.)

• Reviewed of testing requirements and needs for all Wornick products which include meats, snacks, and other

MREs products

• Developed Work Instructions for the Quality Department

• Advisor to QA Director of Quality on Testing requirements and needs

• Review analytical testing specifications for compliance with customer and USDA

• Advises QA Director on regulatory affairs.

• Developed Financial Justification summaries for new lab equipment

• Developed summaries for justification for methods deviations from specified testing methods

• Developed training manuals for QA Technicians

• Trained QA personnel in analytical methods testing

• Successfully prepared the two quality labs for the SQF audit

• Reviewed food packaging labels for USDA compliance

ARCADIS Jan 2007-Nov 2009

Regulatory Affairs Scientist/Chemist

• Lead member of EU law, REACH (Regulation, Evaluation, and Authorization of CHemicals) Implementation

Team providing coordination for ARCADIS’ clients.

• Member of the GHS (Global Harmonization System) Implementation Team responsible for advising

ARCADIS client on classification and labeling of raw and finished products.

• Regulatory Affairs expert providing technical expertise to the REACH Implementation Team, in particular

strategic planning, designing pre-registration strategies, CSI Development, and CSI validation. These

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

programs include various levels of REACH and GHS support, in the US and abroad, for more than a dozen

Fortune 20 consumer product manufacturing companies.

• Performed fate, and exposure data analysis from published studies,

• Performed analysis of closely related organic substances to assist in classification,

• Performed chemical triaging of chemical databases of organic compounds

• Prepared Executive summaries and memos on REACH and GHS

• Developed Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP) for EPA Projects (Research Triangle Park, NC)

• Performed EPA supervised decontamination studies. (Research Triangle Park, NC)

• Assisted ARCADIS clients meet FDA requirements by establishing FDA Compliant Quality Systems [Good

Laboratory Practices, GLP, and Good Manufacturing Practices, GMP].

• GHS SDS Authoring

• GHS Label developments

Sara Lee Foods Cincinnati, OH. January 2003-December 2006.

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Managed 15 union affiliated QA Technicians who managed raw and dry supplies in a USDA compliant food-

manufacturing environment. Sara Lee Cincinnati Plant processed lunch meats [chicken, pork and beef]. Under my

supervision the QA Technicians:

• Inspected raw meat and poultry

• Audited and inspected meat grinders.

• Oversaw and audited pre-ops [packaging lines, grinders, smoke houses and chillers] performed by the sanitation crew.

• Audited and inspected packaging lines.

• Audited the packaged product in shipping dock

• Interfaced with the USDA office on compliance issues

• Performed thorough quality checks and in-process inspections to ensure compliance with USDA regulations.

• Took samples and performed pH tests for quality compliance.

Other Responsibilities:

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

• Trained QA inspectors, supervisors, and plant associates in good manufacturing practices (GMP’S).

• Reviewed and audited quality records, manufacturing processes and HACCP documents.

• Set-up organized and managed Plant laboratory.

• Oversaw implementation of 5S- Work Place Organization Program.

• Created Standardized Work manual which ensured procedural consistency.

• Managed all packaging material; dry ingredients, and other operating supply inventories.

• Oversaw extensive movement of supplies between plant warehouse and other Sara Lee facilities.

Chemistry Assistant Professor (Miami University), Oxford. OH. Jan 2010-December 2010

Instructor in charge of the Organic Chemistry lectures, laboratories and General Chemistry Laboratories with the

following responsibilities:

• Designing the Organic Chemistry Manual and General Chemistry Manual

• Developing organic and general chemistry syllabus.

• Instruct chemistry lectures

• Supervising Teaching Assistants

• Evaluation of student’s work.

• Ensuring safety in the lab

University of Cincinnati Ohio, USA. 2003-2007

Position: Organic Research Assistant

Organic Research Assistant while in attendance of the University of Cincinnati. Responsibilities included among

others:

• Running Solventless and solution based experiments to develop environmentally friendly organic synthetic

techniques

• Setting up of experiments in the organic laboratory

• Performed extraction and purification using automatic column chromatography.

• Analyzed and interpreted NMR and IR spectra.

• Maintained accurate documentation and lab logs, and conducted maintenance of scientific instruments.

• Trained and supervised several undergraduate research assistants to conduct experiments and use laboratory

equipment independently.

• Conducted laboratory safety training to achieve safe environment for students.

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

• Conducted seminar presentations both at divisional and departmental level.

• Attended seminars on current research topics presented by professors, scientists, and industry leaders

• Purified and characterized new molecules though performing spectra analysis.

Other relevant skills

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) developer.

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Language Proficiency

• English

• Spanish

Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe, 1992-1999

• School High School Chemistry Teacher

• Acting Vice Principal, 1994-1995)

Ministry of Education, Namibia, 1999-2001

• High School Chemistry Teacher

• Head of Science Department

Publications

Rate Enhancement of Multi-component Reactions. Green Chem. 2007, 9, 287 - 294. Maxwell

Shumba, James Mack

Presentations

OESPER Chemistry Symposium (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

ACS Conference. Kentucky/Cincinnati USA. (2007).

REACH/GHS Seminars (MonoSol. Portage In. 2008, 2009. GE (Louisville. KY. 2007, 2009)

REACH Webinar Seminars (2007, 2008, and 2009)

Maxwell Zeb Shumba, PhD [Organic Chemistry]

6355 Stonehenge Blvd. Liberty Township. OH. 45044. Cell: 513-***-****. Email: ********@*****.***

Education

• PhD (Chemistry) University of Cincinnati, 2008

• MS Chemistry (Organic) University of Cincinnati (OH) 2006

• MS (Chemistry Education) (Havana. Cuba. 1992

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