Result-oriented food scientist with BS in Agriculture (Food Science) & BA in Biology. Quality Assurance - Participated as the QA or R&D manager on cross-functional project teams. Interfaced with USDA, FDA, co-packers, customers, marketing, & plant management. Managed co-packer and licensee companies. Audited, approved and collected documentation on supply vendors. Led the effort to develop and update process sheets, HACCP, & Consumer Affairs documents. Supervised 6-10 quality technicians, managed busy lab. Extensive knowledge of Low and High Acid canning and glass pack QA and processes. * Food Science - Extensive experience developing, creating specifications, nutritionals, and launching new products for Albertville Quality Foods, Big Heart Pet Milo's Kitchen and customers including Panda, TGIF, Long John Silvers, Cracker Barrel, Dairy Queen, McCain, Smart Ones. For Great American Appetizers, matched appetizers for numerous customers including Pizza Hut and Red Robin. Updated 50 plus product specifications and/or labels for clients including Aldi Foods and Cavendish Farms. * Product Development - At Albertville Quality Foods developed a chicken tender for Long John Silvers and redeveloped chicken livers for Cracker Barrel. For Big Heart Pet and McCain Snack Foods, researched and developed new technology for extruded/co-extruded products. These included a extruded grilled steak griller, burger bites, and sandwich dog treats formed and extruded mozzarella cheese stick that simulated a real cheese stick, a stretchy mozzarella cheese stick that stretched more than a normal stick, and an extended mozzarella cheese and cream cheese that performed at or better than real products. * Regulatory, Specifications, Nutritionals, Data Analysis - Skilled at R&D documentation, Regulatory & CFR regulation requirements, HACCP, Nutritionals and label update, as well as cost-saving, margin and process improvements. At Albertville Quality Foods managed regulatory, product specifications, formula, labels and created nutritionals for AQF, Cracker Barrel, Long John Silvers, TGIF. At Heinz, developed an excel matrix to track shelf life resolution and cost savings history that represented a cost savings of $1 to 2 million. * Lab Management - Participated as the QA or R&D manager on cross-functional project teams. Interfaced with USDA, FDA, co-packers, customers, marketing, & plant management. Led the effort to develop and update process sheets, HACCP, & Consumer Affairs documents. Supervised 6-10 quality technicians, managed busy lab.

Highlights:

• Manufacturing
• Project Management
• Project Manager
• Research
• Research and Development
• Science
• Quality Assurance
• Test
• regulatory