KEDER OMER
SUMMARY A broadly experienced professional with recognized achievements in Environmental Health facilitation. 23 years of experience in environmental training and compliance. A passionate 23 years advocating environmental health via instruction and inspections. BS degree with continued education. Supervisory-level and proficiency in:
Oral Presentation Sales Management
Environmental Health Training
EXPERTISE
Results oriented team player with the ability to multi-task, work independently, and be flexible.
Creative with strong organization, analytical assessment, and problem-solving skills.
Efficient data collection identifying and correlating results to specified needs to targeted populations.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Environmental
Provide training in ServSafe as well as customized training with emphasis placed on details of restaurant operation.
Identify risk factor, implement mock food service inspections and provide expertise on how to modify practices to ensure compliance with sensitivity to the culture of operation.
Capable of managing the build out of new restaurants from scratch to operation.
Reviewed and approved architectural plans of restaurants and hotels submitted to Fulton County Environmental Health Services Department.
Enforced the ordinance, issue notice of compliance and issue citation if warranted.
Issued permits for compliant restaurants, swimming pools, hotels, septic tanks and well constructions.
Management
Developed curriculum for Food Safety Education for Food Service Managers and Employees.
Accomplished sales objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, and counseling; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
Achieved sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
Accomplishes marketing and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
Compliance
Assessed and conducted complaint investigations and routine environmental health inspections pertaining to food service safety, tourist accommodations, community sanitation, septic wells, and nuances.
Communicated identified findings of investigations and inspections via reports and orally to assist in compliance and ensure prevention of imminent health hazards.
Instruction
Educated business patrons, staff of food industry companies and students of Environmental Health Regulations in order to ensure health regulation compliance and application as it pertains to food service safety, tourist accommodations, and nuances.
Technical Writing
Create, maintain & edit reports, correspondence, SOP’s and other pertinent documents as it pertains to the case management of facilities regulated by Fulton County Health Dept. within assigned territory.
Presentation
Guest speaker at the following institutions: Georgia State University Hospitality Department, Culinary Art Institute of Atlanta, Clark Atlanta University, and Morris Brown College. Hotels, Hyatt Regency, Hilton and Marriott Marque.
In February 1996, quest speaker at the Symposium for Georgia Association of Food Protection discussing the 1996 Olympic food safety and inspections.
Administration
Established / prioritized daily assignment distribution; work performance evaluation
Enforced various health regulations of Fulton County via Environmental Court
Managed and maintained a caseload of 500 facilities within 1 territory
Prepared spreadsheets, charts and graphs for reports and presentations.
Inputted reports into the Garrison System
Rendered awesome customer service
EXPERIENCE
UL EVERCLEAN: March 2015-Present
Food safety educational & Consulting Services, Atlanta, GA 1998–2015
Consultant / Facilitator
http://nehatraining.org/states/georgia.htm
Fulton County Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA 1987 – 2010
Environmental Health Specialist
Hovan Gourmet, Atlanta, GA 1985 - 1987
Management/ Sales
EDUCATION
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 1979–1982
Bachelor of Science
Major: Environmental Health
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificate CDC Community Hygiene
HACCP certified
Registered National Sanitation Foundation Food Safety Trainer
Registered SerVSafe Instructor
Certificate SerVSafe “ Train the Trainer “ National Restaurant Association the Education Foundation
ASSOCIATIONS National Environmental Health Association (Active member since 1987)
Government Employees Health Association
LANGUAGES English, and three Ethiopian Languages, Fluent in English, Amharic and Oromo
SKILLS Proficient in the following:
Corel Word Perfect MS Word 7.0 MS Excel 7.0
MS Power Point 7.0 MS Access 7.0 Lotus Notes 4.0