GARY GITLIN

**** ******** ****** * Deerfield, Il * Email:acpja9@r.postjobfree.com

Home: 847-***-**** * Mobile: 847-***-****

Distinctively qualified Bi-Lingual, English/Spanish, Warehouse & Operations

Management professional with multiple years of Frozen Food Production and

Processing plant experience

CAREER SUMMARY

Operations management professional with a background spanning over 30 years in the food

industry with extensive experience in warehouse management and warehouse operations.

Businesses experience including a family-owned, private label seafood company with full

management and production responsibilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FORTUNE FISH & GOURMET - Bensenville, IL

Fresh fish processor and full line food distribution

August 5, 2013- January 24, 2014

Director of Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Managed the maintenance and repairs for all equipment in the production

facility. Scheduled and managed all preventive maintenance.

• Responsible for organization and cleanliness of plant.

• Improve, create, enforce and maintain all Standard Operating Procedures(SOP)

and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedure(SSOP)

• Worked close with production and special packaging needs.

• Spot checked incoming product for quality.

• Involved in third party audits and (HACCP)

• Checked and inspected returned product

• Managed all hourly employees

• Responsible for Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP)

• Inspect all delivery trucks for cleanliness

BROLITE - Streamwood, IL - Dry blending for the bakery industry

February 11, 2013 - August 1, 2013

Director of Safety & Sanitation

• Conduct weekly safety meetings

• Involved in third party audits

• Check and monitor metal detectors

• Make daily sanitation schedule

• Take physical daily and monthly inventory

• Planned daily production schedule

• Made labels for daily production

• Weekly insect t inspection

• Monitored allergen program

• Spot checked incoming & outgoing products

• Purchased safety & sanitation products

• Scheduled hourly employees - Calculated weekly time cards

• Inspected plant for safety and maintenance issues

MILFICO FOODS, INC./ROSEWOOD FOODS – Elk Grove Village/Lake Zurich, IL

1981-2012

Custom Seafood Processor and Distributor. $15 Million in private label sales to retail and

distributor channels. 50+ employees. Specializing in innovative and creative custom breaded

seafood solutions to the food industry. Business closed down in 2012.

Plant Operations Manager - 2nd Generation Owner

Responsible for all aspects of the production and manufacturing as well as all warehousing

operations. Includes leadership of a 40 person food manufacturing plant along with 5 local

drivers.

• Successfully trained and grew the delivery staff from 1 local delivery truck to 5

• Managed the company retail store

• Scheduled and ran 2 frozen food production rooms and processing lines

• Responsible for all production, packaging and associated materials for 2 processing lines

• Conducted QC reports required by the buyers

• Supervised the maintenance and shop departments as well as all shipping and receiving

dock related activities

• Implemented inventory bar code scanning system

o Resulted in reducing costs by increasing efficiency

o Reduced time to do physical inventory from 1 week to 5 hours and lessened

margin of error from over 10% to under 1%

• Created strong staff relationships due in part to being bi-lingual.

• Strong background and hands-on knowledge of packaging and material handling

equipment

• Reduced driver overtime by implementing GPS tracking in the delivery vehicles

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