Quality Assurance Manager
Resume:
Darrel Patterson
**** ******* ***** *********, ********* 38002 Home: 901-***-**** Mobile:
***************@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
SUMMARY
Accomplished, established results professional with over 20 years of
Quality Assurance, GMP & Process Control experience with progression from
front line technician to departmental supervisor to unit manager.
Developed multiple programs, protocols, and SOPs for strategic oversight of
laboratories, production, sanitation, and warehousing
Managed critical training, specialized performance, and new hire career
development for professionals, operators, management, and external
contractors for corporate compliance
Managed unit budget of over $2 million annually ensuring timely, efficient
purchases, salary payments, complex plant systems acquisitions, sanitation
program, HAACP program, ISO9000 & Baldridge Criteria Quality Assurance
program
Business and operational system experience in Sharepoint, LIMS, WMS, Lean
Management and ISO9000 software applications as well as MS Office programs
and SAP
CORE
COMPETENCIES
Total Quality Management . Project
Management
Sanitation GMP and HAACP .
Training and Team Leadership
Lean Management .
Strategic Planning
POSITION CHRONOLOGY
SUMMARY
May 2011- present: Quality & Sanitation Manager-Blues City Brewery
January 2007 - May 2011: Quality Supervisor-Hardy Bottling Company
October 2005 - August 2006 Quality Supervisor Team Lead-Coors Brewery
Memphis
March 1993 - October 2005 Lead Quality Technician-Coors Brewery Memphis
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Blues City Brewery Quality Assurance & Sanitation Manager May 2011-
2013 present
Position
Overview
Managed 18 person team of laboratory professionals and hourly operators for
oversight of all Plant QA/QC & Micro laboratory testing, plant Sanitation
program, FDA compliance, Organic production, GMP and HAACP auditing, and
Pest Control Contractor. Reported to Plant Manager and Director of Quality
Assurance
Administration, training, and development of laboratory technicians for
Corporate Quality Program of production, manufacture, and warehousing of
contracted client's beverages and raw ingredients
Administration, training, and development of hourly Sanitation technicians
for general housekeeping, recyclables management, Clean In Place (CIP) and
Sanitation In Place (SIP) programs, and microbial control, reduction,
elimination, and management of diverse grain, allergen, and beverage
ingredients.
Installation, development, and oversight of Sharepoint based database of
specifications, corporate SOPs, equipment utilization, and budget
management
Developed GMP, BMP, Food Safety, Allergen, and Sanitation Programs using
AIB, ISO9000, and Baldridge Criteria-Lean Management protocols
Responsible for Operational improvement of 35% Quality efficiency,
sanitation control and downtime improvement measurements from May 2011
startup to 2013 present production
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6035 Carters Bluff Arlington, Tennessee 38002 Home: 901-***-**** Mobile:
***************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cont'd
Hardy Bottling Company-Memphis Quality Assurance Supervisor January 2007-
May 2011
Position
Overview
Supervised 6 professional technicians for testing, validating,
auditing, and warehousing of 3rd party client
beverage production as well as Plant Safety & Radiation Officer, Pest
Control, Waste Effluent Control and Operations & Company GMP Training
Creation of Quality System program for microbiology and microbial control,
Plant GMP -Sanitation program, HAACP program, laboratory testing and
document control
Primary Contact for 3rd Party and client auditing programs of Hardy
Bottling facilities and system
Development and oversight of company NOP organic program to meet FDA
regulations and clients' specifications
Served as Lead Contact and manager of Plant Safety & Radiation, company
POTOW Waste Effluent, and Pest Control management
Created QA and Operations data records system for legal and corporate
compliance
Programs increased business contracts with 10 long-term 95,000+ case orders
over the 4.5 years
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Corporate and External Training Programs, Certificates, and Technical
courses
AIB Workshops: GMP, HAACP, SANITATION, Malcolm Baldridge Criteria:
FOOD SAFETY Level 1 Assessment Examiner (2000)
Coors Budget Management System--SAP Total Quality Management
Warehouse Management System-LIMS for MS Sharepoint
Quality
IS9001 MSQPC--Internal Auditing for Success
Quality Management System--MSQPC Testing Management
EDUCATION
LeMoyne-Owen College Memphis, Tennessee B.S.--
Natural Science-Chemistry Major
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