Ramanan Raja

Profile

• A result-oriented food safety/QA professional offering a successful career spanning 10+ years in the fields of food safety management and quality assurance in hotels/restaurants/catering industries; possess extensive knowledge of FDA regulations and laws concerning food safety with excellent research and writing skills; expertise in providing technical assistance to the employees and management at the facility, regarding satisfactorily of food safety agenda, operational methods, pest control, cleaning practices, personnel practices, and maintenance for food safety; presently vying for a vertical shift in any company of repute.

RENAISSANCE SERVICES S.A.O.C

HYGIENE OFFICER - Renaissance Village Duqm Project Duqm, Oman

2016-Present

• Administer food service activities in the restaurants and ensure quality of the food.
• Conduct internal audits and givehygiene scores to all the units which includes receiving to service.
• Provide food safety training & implementing QA programs includingGMP, food safety,and sanitation.
• Implement and maintain food quality procedures as per HACCP, ISO, andOman food safetystandards.
• Prolifically assessed the HRA for all the production process and implemented the control measures. 
• Maintain all the documents as per ISO 9001:2008/ISO 22000:2005 standards.
• Conduct food safety audits in the client restaurants to identify safety gaps and rectify through coordination with the concerneddepartments.
• Magnificently designed and implemented the food Dry goods sorting department and achieved 100% reduction in physical hazards incidents.
• Monitoring the Pest control and kitchen stewarding activities to ensure that the schedule is followed.
• Attained 100% reduction in pest related infestation and complaints in the Production and service areas with stringent schedule and implementation.

FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022- Food Safety Officer& Trainer

• FIFA world cup held at Qatar,2022, Provided catering services to Players, Stadium Staffs& Volunteers, Securities

• Project that hosted 600 members of various teams participated in World Tent Pegging meet.

• Accomplished the mobilization project to mobilize the Oman dry dock employees around 3000 to the Oman's biggest facilities management site- Renaissance village Duqm.

SENIOR EXECUTIVE 2015- 2016

• Inspected incoming raw materials ensuring adherence to Big Basketquality norms.
• Monitored packaging activities of fruits& vegetables.
• Ensured FIFO method is followed by tagging properdate and using stacking method.
• Conducted surprise audits at vendor place to ensure hygiene maintenance.
• Monitored critical control pointsand periodically validated the same.
• Prepared meticulous reports (incomingmaterial quality, out bound cross checking, HUB return analysis,CCP monitoring, personalhygiene, etc.,) and escalated the issues to concerned department heads if any deviations observed.
• Executed root cause analysisfor food incidents(5 Why's) and took necessary steps to resolveissues.
• Performed cost analysis of internal dump & customerreturned items.
• Administered pest control activities and cross-checkeddilution record.

2014- 2015

• Ensured that staff alwaysmaintain hygiene whilehandling the dry foods. 
• Confirmed that fruits & vegetables are processed under hygienic environment and with food grade chemicalsas per CFTRI (Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore)regulations.
• Coordinated with NABL certifiedlaboratories for microbiological analysis of food/water/hand swab against food borne pathogens.
• Educated all staff on food safetyneeds and hygienestandards.

2013- 2014

• Conducted internal audits in the hotels including GAP analysis audit before implementation of ISO22000:2005/HACCP Standards
• Designated critical limitsat CCP’s to ensuresafe process flow and validatedthe same periodically.
• Developed ISO manual for externalaudit.
• Advised hotel management to control dump & to maintainhygiene.
• Implemented various supplierquality assurance programsto evaluate vendors.
• Equipped MRM reports with action plan and closeout 
• Confirmed that the food chainis under control with no deviation.

2012- 2013

Parikshanis a microbiology lab for quality tests on water, food, and air samples. In the hotel industry Parkishan is a service provider for food safety management system

Master of Science in Biotechnology, from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu

Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu