Quality Assurance Manager

ALBERT MULLER

**** *** ******, **** *****, FLORIDA 33433, USA.

Phone (USA): 954-***-****

E-mail: ************@*******.***

FOOD SAFETY / QUALITY CONTROL / MANUFACTURING / PRODUCTION / OPERATION

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Highly experienced food safety professional, skilled in designing and communicating effective food safety control programs to meet consumer, regulatory, and operational needs demonstrating years of improvements in Quality, HACCP, Cost and Delivery functions. Strong and decisive manager leader giving appropriate direction with excellent analytical, organizational team building and planning skills. Effective technical and communication abilities. Core knowledge and skill areas include:

• Quality Assurance, HACCP, SQF-2000 Food Safety & Compliance Management.

• Seafood Decomposition.

• GMP’s & sanitary control.

• Quality control, shrimps and general seafood

• Operation Management & Improvement

• Ability to operate machinery and equipment.

• Ability to document and measure results.

• Planning System & Quality Development

• Estimation, inspecting and controlling skills.

• Training, supervise and motivate others.

• Ability to follow procedures.

• Logistic management.

• SAP, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point.

• Team player

WORK EXPERIENCE

Upon Request

08/2007 – Today

Ft. Lauderdale – Florida

Quality Assurance Manager.

Responsibilities:

• SQF-2000 Practitioner

• Quality assurance program-HACCP-SSOP-GMP’s-Pest Control-Sanitation-MSDS.

• Develop and implement programs to train managers and associates in all aspects of work safety, GMP’s, sanitation, food security, food safety and personal hygiene.

• Coordinate and inform Plant Manager, operation and sales department of any issue affecting production orders. Products recalled.

• Assure that all processing activity is carried out within specified quality standards for each product.

• Confirm process orders. Temperature Recorders (Data Loggers)

• Observe and enforce safety policies and rules. FDA regulations and CFR-21.

• Actively participant in the HACCP team, responsible for but not limited to internal auditing, training, implementation and corrective actions.

• Third party audit, FDA, Silliker (SQF-2000)

• Maintain teamwork, consistency, and fairness among all employees to create a positive work environment within the QA department and among other departments.

• Assures that all employees follow the company policies, procedures and established work instructions.

• Responsible for the supervision of a team of 30 involved in the daily operation, production and sanitation.

• Supervise and inspect all receiving fresh, raw materials and dry goods.

Achievements:

• Created a comprehensive, complete and detailed manual of Quality Systems; Food Safety Manual, Quality Manual and Policy Manual, including all training documents, policies, specifications, job descriptions, verification and validation schedule, fundamentals, pre-requisites and forms used to ensure quality at key points in the production process and scope.

• Implement and maintain SQF-2000 Quality and Food Safety controls.

• Maximized QA processes according to the actual needs.

• Supervising 7 persons in order to optimized quality control performance and accuracy by improving the whole QA process. Complaints reduced.

• Resourceful by continuously Training and Updating know-how Topics related to the QA and food safety regulation.

• Established excellent communication channels both internally and with relevant customer bases and provide solid and constructive communication with upper management conducting regular meetings with QA Director, Managers and Vice presidents.

• Provided ideas in order to solve any problems according to standards of quality and food safety.

• Excellent score (98.7%) in the last Silliker audit. All QA areas were improved.

• Designed and conducted test program; shelf life, environmental and pathogens.

• Improve food plant sanitation, pest control, food safety training, and GMP training.

• Procedures for incoming materials inspection and finished products to ensure compliance.

Agrícola Las Brisas, S.A.

2000-2006

Maracaibo – Venezuela

Processing Manager

Responsibilities:

Processing Plant:

• Full responsible of Shrimp Quality and Safety.

• FDA regulations

• National government regulations.

• Up 50 production employees supervision.

• Logistics: schedule for receiving and farm harvest.

• Inventory control.

• Marketing of product due to Quality.

• Complains and corrective actions.

• Report to Operation Manager and President.

Shrimp Farm:

• Logistic: Shrimp larvae, laboratory and farm

• Shrimp larvae quality

• On season time, harvest schedule and employees management; two shifts up to 70 employees for operation.

• Shrimp food, equipment parts and supplies buyer.

Achievements:

Processing Plant:

• Improvements in Shrimp Quality due to cutting time frame between the harvest and processing.

• Cutting looses during shrimp processing; new destination for each quality grading including international and national customers.

• New local market and new products developed.

Shrimp Farm:

• Employee’s performance with work instructions according to their job descriptions.

• Shrimp larvae quality improved: new schedule for logistic were generated.

• New technologies implemented in order to improve shrimp grow.

EDUCATION

ANIMAL PRODUCTION ENGINEER, UNIVERSITY RAFAEL URDANETA (URU) MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA – 2005

ZOOTECNITIAN, UNIVERSITY RAFAEL URDANETA (URU)

MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA – 1995

FOOD RELATED COURSES/SEMINARS & CERTIFICATES

SQF-2000 Certification (April 2010)

Power Point 2003 Level 2 - Excecutrain (August 2009)

Excel 2007 Level 3 - Executrain (July 2009)

Excel 2003 Level 3 - Executrain (July 2009)

Excel 2007 Level 2 - Executrain (May 2009)

Best team of the year 2008 (QA Department)

Employee of the Month (November 2008)

ServSafe Certification (August 2008)

Seafood Sensory Training. Massachusetts (February 2008)

HACCP Workshop. NMSF-FDA Certification (April 2005)

THIRD INTERNATIONAL SHRIMP SCHOOL (July 2004)

SHRIMP GROWING FOR INVERSIONIST (June 2001)

CANAL BOVINE QUALITY (June 1995)

CHEESE ELABORATION (December 1994)

LANGUAGE / OTHER SKILLS

FLUENT IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH

BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF GERMAN

SOLID COMPUTER SKILLS

REFERENCES UPON R

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