Waseem Tahir

FOOD SCIENTIST, TECHNOLOGIST & MICROBIOLOGIST (Quality / R&D / Production)

Oakville, ON

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Food Professional thriving to work in a vibrant, innovative and pro-active organization offering career

advancement in the course of achieving identifiable organizational goals and objectives.

WORK EXPERIENCE

QUALITY ASSURANCE COORDINATOR / SUPERVISOR

Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee - Mississauga, ON - March 2014 to November 2014

Transformation of Quality culture by robust quality management system. Development of Quality Assurance

programs including QC designs and Continuous Improvement. Supervision of QA/QC Technicians and

monitoring quality issues. Training of production operatives, quality techs, warehouse, contractors and partner

businesses.

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST

Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee - Mississauga, ON - March 2013 to February 2014

Quality Assurance to verify product safety, quality, and regulatory compliance of raw materials, work-in-

process, packaging, and finished coffee products based on Government regulations, HACCP Programs, and

specifications on state of the art Coffee Packaging Keurig (K-Cup) Lines.

QUALITY CONTROL TECHNOLOGIST / QC LEAD

Kraft Foods Canada - Oakville, ON - June 2012 to March 2013

Gained valuable experience in a Project as Quality Control Tech. on state of the Art Coffee Keurig (K-Cup)

Packaging Lines during Establishing, Installation, Trial, Commissioning and Production.

Team work in close collaboration with R&D (Product and Mechanical Engineering), Machine operators,

Production / Operations, Machine service Engineers / mechanics, Maintenance, Packers and Quality Control

Lead / Manager.

AUDITOR / TEAM LEADER

Halal Assessment & Certification Institute Pvt Ltd. Pakistan (HACI) - PAKISTAN - November 2010 to

March 2012

Halal Assessment & Certification Institute Pvt Ltd. Pakistan

Halal Food Assessment, Quality Assurance, documentation, review, inspection and audit of consumer

products for Halal and Tayyab (Hygiene).

RESEARCH FELLOW

Nuclear Institute for Food & Agriculture (NIFA), Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission PAEC. ISO 9000-2008

- Peshawar - March 2010 to June 2011

• Execution of national level research and development project as researcher on "Toxic metal assessment

in food and their relation with nutritional status of population", mapping of the areas for metal concentration

Collection of Water, Agriculture, Food & Human blood samples from polluted and control areas.

• Training of staff / students on Analysis of food samples by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer (AAS),

Multivariate Statistical Analysis. Statistical Analysis to find correlation between metals and nutritional status

by multivariate statistics using Unscrambler-X

• Compiled Project Technical Reports.

• Pilot Plant Production (10 Products at the rate of 5 Ton/hr) of tomato paste, squashes, syrups, preserves

(jams, jellies, marmalade, dips), mushrooms (quality control analysis: pH, acidity, ascorbic acid, polyphenols

by Spectrometer, sugars (total, reducing, non reducing)

RESEARCH / TEACHING ASSISTANT

Department of Food Science & Technology, NWFP Agricultural University - May 2008 to February 2010

Pakistan.

• Supervised 20 MSc(H) Research student thesis, 2 PhD Thesis Projects

• New Products developed (3) from blended (Mango & Seabuckthorn) pulp, smoothies, squashes, nectar

• Analysis of products for Minerals by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Carotene by Reverse

Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography (RP-HPLC), Total sugars, Vitamin C and Descriptive

Sensory Analysis by trained panel.

ANALYST

Mathew Algie Coffee Glasgow - Glasgow - July 2006 to February 2008

Internal auditing, maintenance of systems in line with BRC, other retailer practice requirements

Liaison with third party laboratories, customer complaint handling, supplier quality assurance documentation

administration

Liaison with NPD Manager, legal compliance for new products, process improvement projects and laboratory

Analysis

SCIENTIFIC OFFICER

Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) Laboratories - May 2005 to March 2006

Establishment of regional technical and testing facilities (Laboratories) for developing food and

Rural technologies in Public Sector Development Project (PSDP)

• Designed Laboratory layout (Food, Agriculture & Environment) construction, purchase of equipment,

glassware, chemicals, and training of 10 Laboratory technicians

• Improved Design and fabrication of Solar Dryers, Development of dried mango leather, vegetables

LECTURER / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Department of Food Science & Technology, NWFP Agricultural University - February 1999 to February

2000

Pak.

Lecturer in commercial Fat & Oil processing technology to undergraduates.

Investigation and reporting, Pilot Plant Production and joint ventures with private sector.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Food Science & Microbiology

University of Strathclyde - Glasgow

2004

Masters of Science in Food Science & Technology, Agriculture

University

2002

Bachelors of Science in Food Science & Technology, Agriculture

University

2000

CERTIFICATIONS

HACCP

March 2014 to Present

HACCP by SAI Global

Certified Quality Process Analyst (CQPA)

July 2014 to Present

CQPA of ASQ completed and certified from Skills Development Council

PUBLICATIONS

Influence of storage temperatures on physicochemical sensory and nutritional

properties of chemically preserved mango pulp

2012

Durrani, Y; Zeb, A; Xingqian, Ye; Ayub, M; Tahir,W; Muhammad, A. and Wahab,S. 2012 . Influence of storage

temperatures on physicochemical sensory and nutritional properties of chemically preserved mango pulp.

African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 11(13), pp. 3147-3152.

Assessment of Toxic Metals in Agriculture Products and their Relation with Nutritional

Status in NWFP-Pakistan

2011

Assessment of Toxic Metals in Agriculture Products and their Relation with Nutritional Status in NWFP-

Pakistan. 2011. Nuclear Institute for Food & Agriculture (NIFA) Peshawar & PARC. Project Report.

Coffee roasting and headspace volatiles-Head Space Solid Phase Microextraction Gas

Chromatography/Mass spectrometry (HS SPME GC/MS

2004

Coffee roasting and headspace volatiles-Head Space Solid Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography/Mass

spectrometry (HS SPME GC/MS). 2004. Thesis. University of Strathclyde and Matthew Algie Coffee-UK.

Effect of Sugar concentration, Fruit content and Chemical preservatives on

Acceptability and Shelf life of Mango jam

2002

Effect of Sugar concentration, Fruit content and Chemical preservatives on Acceptability and Shelf life of

Mango jam. 2002. M.Sc.(H) Thesis. Dept. Food Sci. & Tech. NWFP AUP.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Dynamic career in Applied Food Research and Development, Education and Food Industry.

• Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Food and Water, Coffee (Food Service & Keurig K-Cups), Fruit

and Vegetable Products including Physico-chemical, Sensory (Flavor) and Microbiological Analysis using

Spectrophotometer, GC, HPLC and AAS.

• New Food Product Development and Launched Pilot Scale Production.

• Established Food Analytical and Testing Facilities and Supervised Food and Agriculture Laboratories.

• Directed new business development for a Halal Assessment and Certification Institute from Registration to

Auditing and Certification.

COMPUTER SKILLS

1. Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Email, Powerpoint)

2. Statistical Packages Univariate & Multivariate (Statistica 7, Unscrambler-X, Minitab, MStat C, SPC)

3. Sensory Analysis Softwares (Quali Sense, Sense Tools).

4. Quality Software (SAP, Lotus Notes, AS400).

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