Work Experience

Coca-Cola Company, Auburndale, FL

LAB TECHNICIAN February 1980 – August 2013

•Analyze test results to classify products or compare results with standard tables.

•Taste or smell foods or beverages to ensure that flavors meet specifications or to select samples with specific characteristics.

•Clean and sterilize laboratory equipment.

•Measure, test, or weigh bottles, cans, or other containers to ensure that hardness, strength, or dimensions meet specifications.

•Order supplies needed to maintain inventories in laboratories or in storage facilities of food or beverage processing plants.

•Prepare slides and incubate slides with cell cultures.

•Sample and analyze incoming products from outside warehouses and citrus plants import products(orange, grapefruit, tangerine, citrus pulp, tropical fruits) frozen and ambient, micro testing, total plate count, E-coli Howard molds, used hand and automatic, Titrators, refractometers, Spectrophotometers,microscopes, digital imaging analysis machine. Meet deadlines on # of samples received and analyzed

Coca-Cola Company, Auburndale, FL

FINISHER OPERATOR October 1978 - February 1980

•worked in citrus plant juice room as a machine operator (finishers, extractors, centrifuges), pay attention to juice and pulp tank levels and cleaning of machines.

Education

Auburndale Senior High, AUBURNDALE, FL. May 1975

Additional Skills

Hazmat training, delicate instrument operations, works well with others, ability to train fellow employees or new hires such as temporary employees, and foreign employees from sister labs on certain criteria, (BRAZIL, CHINA, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY)