SUMMARY:

• Hands - on food industry manager with 40+ years’ experience leading and implementing successful food safety and quality programs, helping companies achieve and maintain compliance & operational efficiency.
• Decisive leader with deep knowledge of USDA processing and quality management systems, policies, procedures.
• Documented success in improving operations and efficiencies utilizing Six Sigma / Lean Six Sigma .
• Experienced processing facility manager focused on the safe and wholesome production of food products.
• Knowledge of food safety supply chain management; experience as an Army Supply Chain Company Commander.
• Bilingual, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Dedicated mentor, trainer and coach.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Sr. Lab Tech

Responsibilities:

• Conduct chemical analysis of batches and finished goods of five production lines.
• Perform studies of test wet and dry results: PH, density and viscosity of liquids.
• Analyze dry ingredient testing of bulk density. Container evaluations of: container conditions such as, code, # batch, weight control, tare weights. scale calibrations
• Input written documentation of test of results of on process documents and master logbooks.
• Ensure compliance to 21CFR 110.20 regulations.
• Track quality performance at 99.9%.
• Ensure that all standard operating procedures are in compliance through reviews
• Respond to all customer complaints with corrective actions
• Documentation of all customer complaints in records
• Records review of all processes.

Confidential

Plant Manager/Sanitation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently providing outstanding leadership and management of a team of 29 personnel, including a Sanitation Manager, R&D Manager, QA Manager, Micro Lab Manager, and 25 QC/QA technicians. Process control of battered fried and raw breaded onion products.
• Commissioned quality systems on new production.
• Reduced customer complaints from 2.5 per 1mm pounds to .85 through reducing unscheduled downtime and improving preventive downtime.
• Maintained economies of scale in Supply Chain operations
• Reduced rework percentage from 7% to 1% by Kaizen events on equipment capacity constraints .
• Reduced micro product holds through improving the efficacy on the master sanitation program and monthly employee
• Mitigate facility exposure to non-cleanliness
• Conduct ATP swabbing program on food contact surfaces
• Develop and ensure compliance of Master Sanitation System
• Maintained and control chemical inventories.
• Collaborated with chemical vendors relative to GHS and SDS
• Reviewed both and sanitation documents.
• Improved raw material quality requirements resulting in a yield enhancement of 8%.
• Implemented new SQF 2000 Level 3 standards.
• Coach and mentor staff and sanitarians
• Conducted quarterly mock recalls within allotted timeframes
• Daily performed inventory reconciliation of BOL and Purchase Orders
• Conducted confirmation of all pick orders
• Transitioned from contract sanitation program to in-house sanitation.
• Improved efficacy of sanitation program, and reduced total departmental spend by $125,000.
• Improved collaboration and working relationship with USDA inspector.
• Developed and implemented a Master Sanitation Program for the facility.
• Improved efficacy of ATP results resulting in reduced finished production micro holds.
• Reduced mock recall time from 2 hours to 30 minutes via internal audits.
• Trained Sanitation Manager skill sets regarding sanitation program.
• Contracted a new sanitation chemical to improve sanitation crew knowledge.
• Collaborated with Operations & Maintenance to develop CAPEX upgrade project to improve on bag seal holds.
• Improved vendor quality accountability through COA's on each load.
• Trained line employees on criticality of cGMP and impact on finished
• Insure FIFO rotation of incoming raw materials and finished goods
• Consistently document insure cleanliness and temperature controls of inbound and outbound transportation containers
• Perform daily inventory reconciliation of BOL and Purchase Orders
• Performed mock recalls quarterly with a 100% accuracy
• HACCP Risk Assessment and Review, SSOP Compliance, Allergen Program Management, R&D Management, USDA Collaboration, FSMA PCQI, FSSC Facility, GFSI SQF PRP Compliance Internal and External Audits, Vendor s, Chain of Custody Releases, Change Management, and Customer Complaint Systems.

Confidential

Sanitation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Increased sales volume by$1.5MM expanding markets to include the brewery industry.
• Improved division total sales for co-workers outside of market through providing Spanish language translation to their customer base.
• Demand planning to support supply chain and load balancing.
• Volumetric analysis to eliminate overages of supply chain and control costs
• Mitigated micro risks for my customer base through increased service calls and employee .
• Decreased customer spends on sanitation chemicals through on proper chemical titration levels.
• Produced incremental business growth for four states.
• Responsibilities: Line extension of chemical applications, value-added service support, mitigating environmental microbiological risk, customer employees on GHS, developing master sanitation program, strategic sanitation assessment of equipment, execution of strategic sanitation, in corporation of SSOP's.

Confidential

QA / Continuous Improvement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Decreased overwrap material rejects through Kaizen event utilizing DMAIC; decreased reducing scrap from 6% to 2.75%.
• Increased OEE from 85% to 98% through improved Preventive Maintenance Program.
• Initiated and implemented actions that enabled the facility to obtain SQF Level 3 from no SQF .
• Lean program development, customer relations management, internal audits verification, employee relations management, employee health and safety, continual third-party compliance.
• Converted a dry warehouse to a hot filled food manufacturing facility, coming in $200,000 below budget.
• Improved Costco customer pigmentation complaints on basil pesto by placing EVO in temperature environment containers while in transit from Southern California in winter. Reduced complaints and saved account.
• Decreased micro-finished goods hold by installing PH meters on raw basil parasitic acid wash tank to control PPM.
• Developed waste water system proposal to Washington State for matched funding -- reduced cost by $500,000.
• Positioned favorable fiscal spends and efficacy in operations on balance sheet in order to position it for sale. Transitioned from public to private ownership.
• Responsibilities: Annual operating budget, daily performance, scheduling of production, direct reporting and collaboration of Engineering, Operations, Warehousing, Maintenance, Purchasing, and Human Resources; hot fill operations, acidified process.
• Cycle counts of raw materials and finished goods
• Fifo rotation of raw materials and finished goods.
• Inspection and documentation of cleanliness and temperature control of all transport containers

Confidential

Area Manager

Responsibilities:

• Improved raw material yields by 4% on annual production of 40 million pounds.
• Collaborated with Engineering on new production line installation.
• Forecasting sales and developing supply chain production schedules.
• Analyzing sales data to coordinate volumetric purchasing
• Reduced EHS from total rate incident from 22.0 to 5.0 through employee involvement and trading both in Spanish and English.
• Completed 18-month management trainee program six months ahead of schedule.

Process Supervisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Executed deployment of troop supply chain to support military needs.Ensured company reserve unit was able to pass proficiency tests.
• Increased troop retention percentages to 50% through improving troop morale.
• Executed successful logistics support on nuclear missile deployment in Europe.
• Transportation unit management, munitions transportation, warehouse management asset management, troop deployment, rations distribution.