Food Safety Manager

Richard G. Harris

*** ********** ***** *****, *******, CA 95382

Tel (Home): 209-***-**** ~ (Cell) 209-***-****

Email: ********@***.***

Certifications: : HACCP (2003, 2014), SQF (June 2015, FSMA PCQI (April 2016)

Food Safety Training Leader

Supplier Program - FSVP

Hill View Packing QA Manager March 2018 to Present Gustine, CA Juice, Concentrates, Dried Fruits

Hosted GFSI-IFS and buyer

audits; new buyer

questionnaires and sample

development.

Food Safety Training,

Department and Refresher

Training incl. bilingual training.

CAPA

Liaison with FDA, CA Public

Health, Safe Food Alliance, Hill

Sales, Buyers & Marketing

Micro Lab Manager

Revised training methods

Oversee Pest Management

And Sanitation Departments

HACCP, Food Safety Plans and

Quality Manual

KPI improvements; SPC Customer Complaints Monthly Internal audits Successes:

Overhauled domestic supplier and FSVP programs; developed food fraud program Modified sanitation program wrought with microbiological problems and developed successful CIP systems Changed GFSI audit results from substandard to excellent (99.29% 2019 IFS audit) Helped develop a hot water retort new product for production of pasteurized prunes (without preservatives) Rewrote Quality Manual, HACCP and presented new Food Safety Plans Crystal Creamery SQF Practitioner July 2015 to March 2018 Modesto, CA Dairy Products

Hosted SQF, internal audits

and buyer audits.

Allergenic Ice Cream Products

Scheduling

Annual and New Hire Food

Safety Training for 500

employees

Audited Suppliers Regulatory Liaison Planned Sensory Training

Developed Supplier Program Wrote and coordinated Mock Recalls with all 18 managers.

Revised HACCP, new Food Safety

Plans

Monitored Pest Control GMP, Glass Internal Audits CAPA Successes:

Assumed responsibilities all four QA Managers and Director of Food Safety & Quality whom had left the company Wrote 11 HACCP programs and Food Safety Plans

Developed on-line food safety training programs with IT Department Trained from president, managers, employees and drivers on FSMA Programs, STR, FSMA) SupHerb Farms Food Safety Coordinator October 2012 to April 2015 Gustine, CA Frozen Herbs & Commodities

Developed new Supplier

Program

5-log kill experiments of raw

herbs

Hosted Monthly Food Safety

Meetings MS Dynamics (DAX)

Audited local and international

suppliers. HACCP, FSVP and QM

Hill View Packing QA Manager January 1999 to October 2015 Gustine, CA Juice, Concentrates, Dried Fruits

Startup operation. Customer Complaints SDA & HAZ-Mat training

Developed all food safety

programs - SSOPs, HACCP,

SOPs

Daily production reports for

juice and concentrate

HACCP, FSP and Quality Manual;

SPC

Managed production and lab

personnel.

Hosted IFS, HACCP and buyer

audits

Sanitation Manager & Pest

Management

CA Fruit Packing Co., LLC QA Manager March 1998 to December 1998 Yuba City, CA #10 Canned Peaches

USDA programming Heat penetration tests (Ball) Set up computer system (Access) Plant SSOPs

California Prune Packing Co.,

Inc.

QA Manager July 1997 to March 1998

Yuba City, CA Dried Fruits

Audits; hired 22 techs for QC

functions.

New prune pack development Food Safety Training Artichoke Industries, Inc.

Castroville, CA

Director of Research & Tech

Services

Acidified and Frozen Foods

March 1982 to January 1997

Wrote Food Safety programs Heat penetration tests (Ball) Operated food wastewater plant; SPC

Education: Oregon State University, B.S. AAsAssociations: IFT since 1982; NFPA Environmental Panel

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