Quality Assurance Project Manager

Greg Burnham

Email: *********@********.***

Address: ** ***** ****

City: Brookfield

State: MA

Zip: 01506

Country: USA

Phone: 608-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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GREG M. BURNHAM, PHD, RS

81 Allen Road, Brookfield, MA 01506 608-***-**** *********@********.***

SUMMARY

High-performance, PhD degreed, and licensed food protection professional with three decades of progressive experience and leadership in the highly technical fields of; food inspection & quality assurance, systems auditing, food safety risk analysis & decision making, predictive food microbiology, defense research & development, and food protection programs & policy development/management throughout all segments of the food industry.

EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - Since 2007, as the Food Protection and Public Health Liaison and Food Protection Team Leader for the Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center - DOD Combat Feeding Directorate. Liaise with DOD Veterinary Services Activity, US Army Public Health Command, other services public health personnel, regulatory agencies, and academic partners on all matters related to food protection. Provide unique end-user perspective early in the defense acquisition process to facilitate transition of only the most relevant technologies to the Warfighter. Lead a newly established, high-profile, science and technology Team conducting research in; development and validation of novel agent identification and detection platforms, food safety risk analysis tools, and novel pathogen reduction.

* Alternate Responsible Official for CDC-Registered select agent laboratory

* Managed $2,000,000.00 annual research budget for labor, materials, and contracts

* Supervised more than 10 direct reports, interns, and contractors

* Published journal manuscripts, abstracts, magazine article, and book chapter

* Instructor for ServSafe course, certifying nearly 100 people

* Helped establish current DOD food/water testing guidelines

* Research project manager for on-line predictive modeling tool

* Manuscript reviewer for American Society of Microbiology journals

* Committee member for the 6th International Conference on Predictive Modeling in Food

* Presented abstracts and speeches at many professional symposia

DOD FOOD SAFETY - Since 1997 and most recently in support of operations New Dawn and Enduring Freedom as the Area Support Group - Kuwait Command Food Safety Officer, 2010 - 2011. Fully responsible for all aspects of the Area`s Directory of Sanitarily Approved Food Establishments for more than 60 geographically dispersed food manufacturing facilities within six Middle Eastern countries.

* Improved efficiencies by reducing annual travel costs by 20%, a >$30,000.00 savings

* Reduced overall workload 30% by eliminating inactive providers or reducing audit frequencies

* Conducted, reviewed and/or approved nearly 200 audit reports

* Amassed comprehensive food-defense-posture and program information on all facilities

Doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004 - 2007, conducting research for a United States Department of Agriculture funded proposal to assist small Wisconsin meat processors validate Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point program Critical Limits and process deviation corrective action. The major product of the research was an on-line predictive modeling tool, Temperature History Evaluation of Raw Meat or THERM which is accessible at: http://www.meathaccp.wisc.edu/therm/

* During Advisor sabbatical, managed all lab-group operations

* Provided technical oversight on as many 10 separate research projects

* Trained and mentored as many as 18 graduate and undergraduate researchers

* Published Doctoral Dissertation, four journal manuscripts, and three abstracts

* Research data was basis for the revision of DOD refrigeration failures guidance

Food Safety and Quality Assurance Officer, Great Lakes Branch, North Atlantic Region, Veterinary Command, 1997 - 2000. Fully responsible for executing all aspects of the Branch`s Directory of Sanitarily Approved Food Establishments for more than 100 geographically dispersed food manufacturing facilities within a six-state area.

* Reduced overall workload 50% by eliminating inactive providers or reducing audit frequencies

* Established prototype auditor certification through training and examination

* Participated in the initial development of current DOD auditing policy and program

RETAIL FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY ASSURANCE - 2000 to 2004 as a Department of Defense level special staff officer to the Director, Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), Midwest Region. As the Region`s Food Safety and Quality Assurance Officer was principle liaison with US Army Veterinary Command and US Air Force Public Health Service inspectors, FDA, USDA, and state public health officials for 59 DeCA stores in 21 states.

* Designed, and implemented a training program for food safety manager certification

* Working with regulators, established standardized auditing policy, a modified FDA Food Code

* Appointed as Staff Assistance Team Leader, evaluating store operational control programs

FOOD INSPECTION - 1988 to 1997 in multiple locations responsible for DOD procurement and surveillance food safety and quality assurance culminating as an Army Medical Department Center and School Instructor/writer. Areas of special expertise include food microbiology & preservation, red meats inspection, conducting sanitary inspections, the FDA Food Code, and ServSafe instruction.

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

* Leadership

* Food protection auditing - multiple schemes

* HACCP development - verification - validation

* FDA Food Code

* Regulatory requirements

* Food safety risk analysis & decision making tools

* Predictive microbiology

* Threat, criticality, and vulnerability assessments

* Quality assurance - product quality audits

* Training and lesson plan development

* Platform instruction

* CFR, GMP, GAP, GLP, etc.

* Trend and root cause analysis

* Food safety & defense

* Food science & microbiology

* Program and project development/management

* Public health epidemiology

* Food protection research

EDUCATION

* University of Massachusetts - Amherst Master in Business Administration Matriculated 01/2012

* University of Wisconsin - Madison Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science - Food Microbiology & Safety with a minor in Public Health conferred 2007

* Columbia College, MO Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration - Management conferred 2001

* City University, Bellevue, WA Associate of Science in General Studies conferred 1991

ADDITIONAL

* Licensed Professional Sanitarian (RS) Texas license #3740 since 2002

* Certified Food Protection Manager Instructor/proctor National Restaurant Association

* Member of the Order of Military Medical Merit

* Member International Association of Food Protection

* Member American Society of Microbiology

* Life Member Military Officers Association of America

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