SUMMARY:

Reliable

Fast learning

Hard working, self-motivated professional with an eagerness to learn new processes and technology.

Dedicated and flexible and able to work under pressure

EDUCATION:

Associates Degree in Psychology

University of Phoenix-Online Campus, Milford, PA January 2005 to January 2008

EXPERIENCE:

12/2018 to BALLAS EGG Zanesville, OH

Present Quality Assurance Assistant Manager

Served as the interim Quality Assurance Manager for 10 months with additional responsibilities for: Certificate of Analysis and Product Release, documentation verification, GMP observations, and plant auditing.

Lead all sanitation management programs. Read Clean in Place (CIP) charts, and pasteurizer charts.

Perform pH and solids testing on finished product, performed water tests, charting and reporting results, clean lab practices, raw vs. pasteurized product contamination, and proficiency testing for qualitative and quantitative tests.

Conduct all preoperational inspections and verification points.

Report the daily micro results to management in the morning meeting and responsible for overseeing much of the quality assurance details in the plant.

Ensure completion of all raw sampling, air sample testing, and perform environmental monitoring and testing along with ATP swabs for morning start up.

Started in the micro side of the lab testing for pathogens and also plating incoming product for microorganisms.

5/2016 to JULIANS RECIPE New York, NY

12/2018 Production Manager

Oversaw all of our operations at the plant.

Responsible for a large cold sample program, sending our products from R&D to various customers and buyers.

Facilitated the move of all machinery from the New York plant to the new plant in Ohio.

Staged and started up the new lines, wrote SSOP’s, helped hire the new people, and contributed within usual duties of production planning and management, ingredient inventory and ordering, preoperational start up, and batching of all ingredients.

Supervised the workers, performed hourly weights and checks, moistures, pH testing and scale calibration.

Performed all Quality Assurance functions for the plant including internal and GMP auditing.

8/2015 to ECONO-PAK Milford, PA

4/2016 Machine Operator

Oversaw various different production lines and workers of up to 10-21 people in a busy packaging plant dealing with mostly cookies.

Started at Econo-Pak as a production line worker, and quickly moved up to a line operator

Set up the lines, keep it stocked with product and material, work with QC to ensure proper date coding and observation of GMP’s in an SQF level 3 facility.

SKILLS

Auditing

Internal Audits

Laboratory Experience

Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Research & Development

Microsoft Office

Certificate of Analysis

Project Management

Safety Management

CCP

Documentation Review

SQF

HACCP

SSOP

Sanitation

CGMP

Production Management

Calibration

Production Planning

Team Management

Microsoft Excel

English

Microsoft Word

Management

Food industry

Microsoft Outlook

Leadership

Process Improvement

CERTIFICATIONS/

LICENSES:

GDS Salmonella Testing Present

Certified through Biocontrol (milliporesigma) to run GDS Salmonella testing of finished product

Romer Labs Listeria Training Present

Trained and certified through Romer labs to conduct listeria pathogenic testing of finished product

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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