Food Safety Quality

Profile

Certified auditor with experience and skills conducting audits, calibrating instruments, conducting research, developing testing methods, and managing documentation. Willing to contribute new ideas to help drive company growth. Strengths include attention to detail, quality focus, team collaboration, mentorship, and a willingness to take on new challenges.

Skills

Wet Chemistry

Instrumentation

Management

Administrative

Gel Electrophoresis

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Employee Scheduling

Audit

Preparedness

BOD, CBOD

Gas and Column Chromatography

Payroll

Problem Solving

Lab

Notebooks

Real-time PCR

Bench Chemistry

Mass Spectrophotometers, XRF

Employee Performance

NCR and CAPA

Inventory and

SDS Page

Light Microscopes,

Auto-Titrator

Database Management

Purchasing

Writing cGMPs,

ATP Swab Testing

Micro-Plating

Centrifuges, Atomic Emission (AE), ICP

Change Management

Policies, SOPs, and

SSOPs

Certifications

HACCP

PCQI Human Food Certified

PCQI Animal Feed Certified

CQA by ASQ (Inactive)

Audit Experience

Safe Quality Food (SQF)

Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

National Sanitation Foundation (NSF)

Organic Material Review Institute (OMRI)

Safe Feed Safe Food (SFSF)

Experience

Quality Assurance Documentation Specialist Jan 2020 – Present

Horizon Snack Foods, Salt Lake City, UT

Managed all regulatory compliance documents, sanitation reports, and CCP documents.

Prepared for SQF and FSMA Level 2 audits.

Perform GMP inspections, kill step validation and verifications.

Address customer concerns.

Serve as back up recall / withdrawal coordinator.

Quality Lab Supervisor

Compass Minerals, Ogden, UT June 2018 – Oct 2019

Acting as Manager:

Responsible for site wide FSMA preparedness, safe feed safe food audit, OMRI audit, NSF audit.

Reduced human capital requirements by streamlining and improved databases and change management processes.

Responsible for scheduling, payroll, and overtime reduction for 8 employees on a 24/7/365 schedule while understaffed during a hiring freeze.

Wrote policies and cGMPs for three different individual operating plants.

Acting as Supervisor:

Developed ICP methods, customer samples, and certificates of analysis.

Supervised technicians and all analytical testing to ensure compliance to procedures.

Established KPIs and updated SOPs.

Quality Lab Technician

Compass Minerals, Ogden, UT Oct 2013 – June 2018

Separated waste streams to reduce quantity of hazardous material to decrease the company’s corporate classification, which saved the company over $10,000 a year.

Performed wet chemistry for Mg, Cl and SO4 levels; auto-titrated to determined Cl level; ran AE for Na and K levels on raw materials, intermediates, and final products.

Developed and tested SOPs for auto-titrator, XRF, particle-size analyzer, and AE for the SOP lab.

Updated SOPs, performed particle-size analysis using sieves and instruments; obtained samples every half hour for main lab.

Trained new personnel.

Participated in site safety program overhaul and initiated Kaizen plans for the plant and the lab.

Quality Assurance Technician

Advanced Refreshments, West Valley City, UT May 2011 – Oct 2013

Performed pH, TDS, conductivity, brix, TA, ozone, microbiology, and chlorine testing on two water supplies in a SQF Level 3-certified lab.

Conducted surface environmental testing throughout the plant.

Received water shipments

Performed Krones blow mold and KHS filler operation and maintenance.

Batched minerals and flavors; loaded hoppers, performed clean in place procedures on tanks and fillers.

Operated KHS labeler and Douglas case packer.

Verified coding units were operating at-level for bottles and cases.

Trained new personnel.

Founding member of the Safety Committee.

Quality Control Technician

Biofire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT June 2009 – Feb 2011

Performed testing on raw, intermediate and finished materials for commercial and government products on Biofire Platforms. Biofire Platforms consisted of capillary- and pouch-based real-time PCR reactions from freeze-dried tube reagents.

Assisted in trouble shooting and stability testing on RNA-, DNA- and IVD-based reactions.

Material preparation conducted in a Bio-Safety Lab-Level 2

Education

Bachelors of Science in Biological Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Associate of Science in Wildlife Technology, Pennsylvania State University, DuBois, PA

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