WAQAS AKRAM

Food Safety & Quality Professional with 6 + Years experience

“I want to develop my professional career by working with a reputable dynamic food processing manufacturing OR handling organization under Food quality and safety that provides challenging opportunities allowing me capitalize on my personal strength” EXPERIENCE

F e b 2 0 1 9 t o C u r r e n t

Food safety & Quality Coordinator

at M.H Alshaya, Central Production Facility CPF, Central kitchen Dubai, UAE

M a r 2018 t o J a n 2 0 1 9

Food Safety officer

at Bundu Khan restaurants, Ltd, Fast food, Restaurant & Catering Unit Lahore, Pakistan

J a n 2017 t o Jan 2018

Quality Control Inspector

at Nutrition and Diet center, Catering & Ready to eat Meals unit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

J a n 2 0 1 3 t o A p r 2 0 1 6

Quality assurance

at Malmo Foods, Ltd, Bakery/Dairy & Juices Unit

Lahore, Pakistan

J u n 2 0 1 2 t o A u g 2 0 1 2

Production team assistant (Work based placement for Masters degree)

at John Pollock & Sons, Ltd, Dairy Processing Unit Scotland, UK

J u l 2 0 1 0 t o J u l 2 0 1 1

QC Lab supervisor

at Malmo Foods, Ltd, Bakery/Dairy & Juices Unit

Lahore, Pakistan

F e b 2 0 1 0 t o A p r 2 0 1 0

Production team assistant (Work based placement for Bachelors degree)

At Dawn Breads, Ltd, Bakery Unit

Lahore, Pakistan

CONTACT

Dubai, UAE

+971*********

adeikm@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS

• HACCP

• Food safety

• Food processing

• General lab skills and Practices

• Team working

• GMP

• IT skills

• Internal audits

• Industrial Hygiene

• Communication skills

• Training/Transferable skills

• Microsoft office

• Pest management

• Quality control

LANGUAGES

English

Arabic

Urdu/Hindi

EDUCATION

• 2012

Masters of Food Biosciences

Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK

Subjects studied: Food safety, Food toxicology, Analytical methods for research, Food and appliedMicrobiology,Food analysis. Master’s Research project: Detection of Aflatoxin in 10 imported spicesof Scotlandusing HPLC and rapid detectionmethod

• 2010

Bachelors of Agriculture

(Food Science & Technology)

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Punjab, Pakistan

Subjects studied: Poultry, fish and meat processing, Cereal technology, Dairy technology, Food chemistry, food microbiology, Fruit and vegetable processing, Post harvest technology, Oils and fats technology, Beverages technology, Food and nutrition, Food analysis and sensory evaluation.

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS

• Food Safety in Catering/Manufacturing Level 4 from Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance, UK

• FSMS (Food Safety Management System) ISO 22000:2005 Training from Bureau Veritas

• FSSC (Food Safety System Certification) ISO 22000:2013 Lead Auditor from SGS

• QMS (Quality Management System Certification) ISO 9001 Lead Auditor from SGS

• HACCP from Royal Environment Health Institute of Scotland, UK

• Food Hygiene from Royal Environment Health Institute of Scotland,

• Person in-charge in Food safety Level 3 (U.A.E) Dubai Municipality from Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, UK

• Food Labeling Training from Food Standard Agency, UK, under Department of Health UK & Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs

• Do Food Safely Certificate from Victoria State Government, Australia, under Health & Human Services, Australia

• Basic Food Safety, Dubai Municipality from Alshaya Foods, Dubai

• Supervising Food Safety in Catering Level 3 from TSI Quality services, Dubai, UAE, Under Ofqual UK

• Food Allergen Training from Food Standard Agency, UK, under Department of Health UK & Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs

Descriptive Job experience

M . H Alshaya, Central Production Facility, Central Kitchen,Dubai, UAE

*Overview of company

A leading international franchise operator of world’s most recognized brands. Well known food brands include Starbucks, Le Pain Quotidian, Potbelly, The Cheese Cake Factory, Texas Road House, IHOP, P.F. Chang’s etc.

Job Responsibility:-

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining quality and compliance targets. Monitoring and auditing of products to ensure high standards of quality. Ensuring products comply with legislation and quality assurance codes. Ensuring that all QA Tests are carried out on time and in full. Delivering presentations to an audience of Manager Level within the business. Provide weekly and monthly reports to senior managers on performance. Identify training needs and recommendations to improve product quality. Keeping quality documentation up to date.

Making sure that all QA records, data & information are available to managers. Ensuring non-conforming products are identified and placed on restriction. Responsible for the review and update of the programmequality plans. Awareness of regulatory requirement and customer specifications. Responsible for maintaining all aspects of the site quality management. Supervising all regulatory compliance activities and helping to enforce quality assurance policies and best practice principals covering the safety, design, production and inspection. Ensuring activities in the quality plan are carried out. Coordinating the investigation of customer complaints. Preparing and analysing information for the purpose of Management Review. Checking the Hygiene standards, GMP and sanitary standard operating procedure (SSOP) maintained in the Plant and HACCP pre-requisite programs like pest control, calibration, storage and waste disposal.

Provide Hygiene Induction Training for the new staffs. Coordinate the training plans with the other departments. Ensure the nutritional facts and the storage temperature on the packaging material. Co-ordinate with the R & D department to research and develop new products.

Nutrition and diet center, Catering & Ready to eat meals processing unit, Riyadh, KSA

*Overview of company

“It is a lebanese group working here in Saudi Arabia in 2 units; Frozen food ready-to-eat meals plant

& catering unit. Its customers are hospitals (special foods for patients suffering from Diabetes, obesity, Cancer, and improper functional disorder persons). Diet center also provide catering services to various events and Airlines. Schools and universities also have the franchises of Diet center”

Achievements & Projects:-

Successfully assisted in having 3rd Party Certification of factory for ISO 22000:2005 Standard. Devised HACCP plan and conducted HACCP Validation of all the processes including Sandwich Lines, Salad lines, Bakeries and Central Catering Kitchen. Upgraded the Quality Control department and quality control activities in factory. Devised and trained technical staff on sampling techniques and sampling plan for receiving inspection of Raw materials.

Successfully carried out the hospital internal audits and assisted in hospital audits done by hospital management in patients manufacturingunits. Coaching and training of Quality team on various aspects of quality control and food safety operations in hospital food.

Job Responsibility:-

Manage Food Safety & Quality Manual (FSQM) through HACCP principles, GMP principles, established pre-requisite programs, SOPs, and regulatory requirements. Perform a risk assessment of each process and develop the critical control points that will be monitored to assure the production of safe and wholesome food products. Develop and execute effective training programs for new and current employees in accordance to the FSQM.

Host customer and third party audits and ensure identified corrective actions are executed. Document customer complaints and respond with appropriate conclusions based on relevant data.

Responsible for the analysis of new and modified regulations, directives and notices with respect to food processing (i.e. SASO, GSO, CODEX, USFDA, Local Regulations etc.). Communicate with senior management and staff on a daily or weekly basis, at minimum, to continuously improve Company food safety and quality culture. Manage and improve Factory on-site QA laboratory through ongoing equipment calibration. Collect and analyze data to improve product specifications and create certificates of analysis. Perform internal audits, identify root causes and corrective actions, and verify completion of corrective.

Check hospital food items; special patient foods, hospital staff food and generate report. Ensure diet plan made as per requirement of the patient with correspondence to clinical nutritionist appointed on duty.

• Malmo foods

Designation: QA

Job Responsibility:-

--Laboratory analysis of product on hourly basis

- Ensuring Quality System implementation

- Ensuring food safety standards compliance

- Quality wall conducting and record keeping

- Data analysis, trend analysis, decision making and loop closing

- Data entry in Oracle

- Verification of qualitative and quantitative instruments

- Cleaning and hygiene checks after each shift

- Personal hygiene checks of workers and lab staff on daily basis

- Product holding if applicable and taking corrective action

- Quality checks for process and manufacturing defects

- Instrument calibration and record keeping

4. John Pollock & Sons Ltd, Bonnyhill Dairy Farm, BonnyBridge, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Designation: Processing team

assistant

Job Responsibility:-

- CIP conducting and manual washing of production area

- Gauge control of Pasteurizer, Homogenizer and sterilizer

- Provision of lids, PET bottles to dispatch area

- Sample collection for lab tests and record keeping of results

- Cold room storage monitoring of lot & dispatch

- Milking machine supervision

- Calibration of raw milk storage tanks (chillers)

• Dawn bread, Kot lak pat industrial estate Lahore Designation: Production shift incharge

assistant

Job Responsibility:-

-To assist manage the Entire Production process from raw material to final product by preparing recipes and ensuring availability of resources in order to achieve the sales orders.

- To consistently maintain hygiene standards, Policies and Procedures.

- To Plan the training needs GMP,GHP and HACCP for the workers.

- To maximize production output and minimize wastage.

- To ensure efficient dispatch of ordered products.

- To maintain documentation record

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