Mwangie Danny

Food safety and quality professional with 5+ years in dairy, hospitality, fresh produce and distribution. Experienced in assessing processes against standards (HACCP, ISO 22000, ISO 22002-5, FSSC), writing clear audit findings and corrective actions, and making sound judgement calls on compliance and product safety. Led successful customer and regulatory audits. Looking for flexible, remote AI evaluation and training work where domain expertise in food safety, quality and compliance is needed.

Quality Control Officer at Finsbury Trading Limited (2025-01 – Present)

Oversee quality control for storage, transport and distribution of food and non-food products at the Baba Dogo warehouse, working with other departments.

• Led customer audits by SGS, achieving a 96% compliance rating; audited by Unilever Kenya as a key distributor.
• Led regulatory audits by the Directorate of Veterinary Services, Kenya Dairy Board, Nairobi City County and Agriculture and Food Authority, with the company cleared to operate each time; oversaw successful NEMA and DOSH audits.
• Led development of the Hazard Control Plan and run food safety training, internal audits, performance monitoring and continual improvement.
• Aligned offloading, loading and racking processes with Unilever standards; introduced vehicle inspections before loading, offloading and distribution journeys covering hygiene, product safety in transit and segregation of food and non-food products.

Team Leader, Food Safety at Avopro Co Ltd (FSSC-aligned) (2024-02 – 2024-10)

• Led a food safety team across fruit reception, storage, ripening monitoring, sorting and processing.
• Spearheaded a food safety campaign that stabilised operations and reduced fruit waste from overripening and defects.
• Carried out oil quality tests including free fatty acid (FFA), organoleptic evaluation and dry matter analysis.

Quality Control Officer at Swara Acacia Lodge (2023 – 2023)

• Built a food safety programme from scratch covering supplier evaluation, storage, preparation, cooking, service, waste handling and hygiene.
• Introduced food production criteria aligned with ISO 22000.

QA Assistant (previously Intern from 2020) at Kinangop Dairy Limited (2021 – 2022)

• Worked in processing and field operations, including laboratory analysis.
• Performed sensory evaluation, resazurin, clot-on-boiling, antibiotic and alcohol tests, titratable acidity, lactometer readings and adulteration checks.

BSc in Food Science & Technology and Quality Assurance – Technical University of Mombasa (2022 – 2022)