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Summary
This Fractional Quality & Regulatory Consultant is a hands-on professional leader with a broad background in multiple industries with proven expertise in startup and scale up brands within dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, food and beverage. Successful at developing, implementing, and gauging quality teams to establish and maintain a continuous improvement culture within the brand. Excellent intradepartmental communicator and collaborator achieving brand’s quality and regulatory goals to facilitate retail and e-commerce commercialization of the products and guiding sales and marketing teams with the industry’s regulatory requirements.
Highlights
- 20+ Years of Professional Tenure
- Quality and Regulatory expertise
- Operations and R&D background
- Start-up production lines/plant
- Lean management skills
- Gummies, capsules, Premix powder blends
- FDA/USDA/cGMPs CFR 21 111, 114, 117
- FSMA, SQF, ISO, BRC, GFSI audits
- Supplements, Food and Beverage
- Managing co-manufacturers
- Utilizing SPC and KPIs to boost efficiency
- Polyphenols, vitamins, tablets
Relevant Accomplishments
- Built a 3rd shift quality team, trained and established new procedures to lead sanitation and food safety measures to reduce micro incidences and improve quality scores by 34% and reduce ON HOLD product waste by 18%.
- Initiated quality protocols which helped reduce consumer complaints to 0.01%.
- Sourced, audited and qualified new co-packer and suppliers during pandemic on-set to remedy supply chain challenges and prevent out of stock issues.
- Piloted brand to its first HACCP/GMP/SQF certification required to expand sales and distribution channels.
- Achieved 96% SQF audit score or better year over year.
- Planned regulatory initiatives to help launch new SKUs for commercial sales in Walmart & Amazon e-comm.
- Implemented new preventative maintenance program to reduce RO waste and increase productivity by 10.5%.
- Improved process control of inclusions to SKUs to cut waste by 15% and achieve more consistent distribution and improve quality scores by 21 %
Roles
- Quality Manager, Heinz (PPI)
- Quality Manager/Process Improver, Nestle Dryer’s Ice Cream
- Quality & Regulatory Manager, Nellson Nutraceuticals LLC.
- Quality Manager, Coca Cola Enterprises.
- Director of Quality, Pom Wonderful LLC.
- VP of Quality & Regulatory, Neurobrands LLC.
- VP of Quality & Regulatory, Quest Nutrition LLC.
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