R&D, food product development, food plant QA, Project Management

Vivian Allen, Ph D

FOOD SCIENTIST/TECHNOLOGIST

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Cell phone: 203-***-****; Email: ***************@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

* Expert in Cereal Science and Grain Ingredients, Certified Food Safety Manager with Food Protection certification in NYC and HACCP training certification, Certified Safety Engineer.

* Years working experience in Labs and Plants, R& D experience in New Food Product Development, product formulation, ingredients and raw materials, processing, especially for Grain based products, Flours, Starches, frozen dough, batter, pastries, proteins and bakeries.

* Lab application academic research on postharvest food preservation and materials used in the food and fine chemicals industry, such as hydrocolloids, polymers, proteins, lipids and starches and their crystallization, film formation and microstructure characterization by using physical characterization tools such as DSC, rheology, interfacial tension, protein florescence analysis, thermal analysis, microscopy, spectroscopy, HPLC, GPC and CD.

* Specially on Quality Assurance, Food Safety on Microorganisms, Ionizing radiation sterilization, air-condition packaging, marketing and customer service and project management in GM P.

* Solid mechanical engineering background with strong cross-functional team work and project management experience and staff-training by fluently English and Mandarin.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October, 2011 Present: Wonton Food Inc., Brooklyn, NY, U.S.

Food Technologist, R&D, New Product Development

* Planned and executed laboratory application projects for specific business needs and initiatives.

* Developed hands on innovation formulation and processing validation data on meat, poultry, seafood, egg, dairy cheese, vegetable proteins, oils, polysaccharides as gums, starches, different kinds of grain flours, dough research, flavors, as well as other ingredients and raw materials and additive functionality for snacks, bakery foods and new product development.

* Prepared samplers and built prototypes.

* Monitored production quality, established testing methodology.

* Ran studies on products’ texture, flavor, sensory evaluation, ingredients analysis, shelf life, and frozen studies in lab on fried snacks, bakery and gluten free foods.

* Developed and processed data and presentations and managed technical documents for FDA & USDA.

* Worked as cross-functional team for marketing support and plant training.

May, 2001 Sep., 2011 Sino Grain Co. Ltd, Guangzhou, China

Senior Food Scientist, Safety Engineer, R&D project leader

* Used chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods during storage, including growth of microorganisms and bio-based degradation of chemicals and toxicants.

* Analyzed food content to determine levels of water, fat, sugar, protein and other nutritional contents, as well as sensory evaluations, regulatory guidelines, cost parameters, processes and equipment along with other specifications outlines in customer briefs.

* Applied food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, storing and distribute food for technical support.

* Conducted additional research on Ionizing radiation sterilization, the effects of EB radiation on the nutrients quality of stored wheat as physiological and biochemical properties of food, including food color, flavor, texture, wheat dough rheological properties and ease of processing including Farinograph and Extensigraph characteristics, pasting quality, bakery quality, taste evaluation, and the TPA characteristics of bread and steam-bread.

* Conducted research on bio-based starch polymer and protein changes of molecular structures, Gel Electrophoresis, SEM damaged starch content of wheat, DSC thermal properties of wheat starch polymers, static multi-angle laser light scattering (MALLS), GPC weight distribution of irradiated wheat starch, wheat gluten protein molecular weight distribution, wheat gluten protein RP-HPLC, CD analysis and more.

* Led R&D projects in Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Pest Control, USDA, FDA, EPA, CQI, OHSA, HACCP, ISO9001 and participated in completing national regulatory.

* Installed a bakery lab for bake foods research, especially on flour and dough characters.

* Supervised and guided lab chemists, technologists and graduate interns in their research, lectured staff as part of their training.

* Helped complete company's manufacturing projects, which included developing soybean oil refinery, vegetable protein and rice milling plants with the total value of the projects amounting to more than $110 million.

* Completed all the tasks successfully including development, possibility analysis, budgetary estimates, public tender and bidding, documents presentation, making contracts, civil works management, travel to manufacturing or test facilities and equipment in the plants.

* Conducted supporting on sales and business, contributed to contracts, purchased food processing and logistic equipments.

July, 1996 August, 1998 China Overseas Trade Co. Ltd. (COTCO)

Trading and Customer Service Assistant manager

* Provided technical support for marketing and staff training.

EDUCATION

* Ph D Food Science and Technology(Cereal, Oil and Vegetable Protein Engineering), South China University of Technology(SCUT), Dec.,2010

* M.S Agricultural Products Processing and Engineering( Grain Science and Food Engineering), Henan University of Technology, 2001

* B.S Cereal Science and Food Technology( Grain Science and Storage), Henan University of Technology, China, 1996

* B.A English Language and Literature, Henan University, China, 2001.

* B.E English Education, South China Normal University, China, 2009.

CERTIFICATIONS

* Food and Water Safety Certificates, University of Minnesota, August, 2012

* Meat & Poultry Processing Certificate, US Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO). April, 2012

* Environmental Health Certificates, University of Alabama, April, 2012

* Food Protection Certificate, Department of Health &Mental Hygiene, New York City, Feb, 2012

* Senior Food Engineer Certificate, Personnel Bureau of Guangdong Province, China. May, 2009.

* National Safety Engineer Certificate, Ministry of Personnel, State Administration of work safety, Beijing, China, December 2007.

* Food Engineer Certificate, Personnel Bureau of Guangdong Province, China. Sep., 2004.

COMPUTER & LANGUAGE SKILLS

* Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet, Date process, SAS, Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Auto CAD, read blue draws.

* Speaking and writing fluently in mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and English, some Japanese and Korean, with USA permanent resident and valid drive license, willing to travel and relocation.

* About 28 papers published in Chinese and English.

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