QA Manager - Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed - Becker MN
(2025-04)
- Responsible for the quality and food safety of product produced in Renegade room Becker MN
- Manage complaints for Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed brand name (co-packed in multiple locations)
- Responsible for SQF certification, USDA, regulatory and customer contacts
QA Manager - Actus Nutrition (Milk Specialties Global) - Clara City MN
(2024-01 - 2025-04)
- Responsible for the quality and food safety operations for two (2) facilities that produced and packaged high protein cereals and puffs for Magic Spoon, Puffworks, ODO, etc.
- Manage organic, Kosher, gluten free programs, and audits
- Manage the department with three (3) supervisors and six technicians
- Point for customer audits, regulatory, SQF, and general visitor audits / tours
- Passed unannounced SQF / Costco audit in the first year of learning the plant process / paperwork
- Assist corporate sales in gaining the business of Seven Sundays, Happy Baby, Kabrita, and Quest which brought in over 1 million pounds to the facility
- Worked with operations to increase plant output to over 4.5 million pounds in 2024 from 2 million in 2023 by streamlining programs such as sanitation (chemicals and clean-up), process (equipment), people (hiring and training)
- Projected 6.5 million pounds in 2025
QA Manager - Valley Proteins, Inc. (Darling Ingredients Inc.) - Linkwood MD
(2019-07 - 2023-12)
- Responsible for the quality and food safety standards of the rendered pet food ingredient leaving the facility
- Lab analysis of meals and fat (NIR, FFA, pV., etc.)
- Manage plant's documents (FSMA, AFSP, FSC36, policy manuals, training, complaints, mock trace, sanitation, pest control, etc.)
- Complaint resolution
- Contact for customers (questions, concerns, informational packets)
- Prepared and supported multiple Valley Proteins plants for SFSF, Export, and customer audits
- Transition Linkwood to Darling policies
FSQA Supervisor - Clemens Food Group - Hatfield, PA
(2018-06 - 2019-07)
- Orchestrated an open forum meeting with USDA Officials (Deputy District Manger & Front-Line Supervisor) along with Plant Management to establish the plant's position on vital events and trending NR's
- Successfully appealed 20% NRs issued
- Mentor and trainer to FSQA Supervisors and provide support throughout the plant
- Responsibilities: schedules, technician training, daily production communication, sanitation, HACCP plans, general floor observations, etc.
QA Supervisor - Hormel Foods - Fremont, NE
(2012-12 - 2018-06)
Two periods: Dec 2012 - June 2018 and February 1997 - Nov 2000
- Designated as the FSMA point person for the facility - designed, trained, and maintained the programs and paperwork for the Rendering Department
- Point of contact for Customer Audits
- Facilitated the promotion of multiple quality technicians to Production Leads
- Supervised Hog Harvest, Fabrication, Sausage, Ham Bone, and various other departments
- Set schedules, revised / reassessed HACCP plans, strengthen USDA relations, work through production concerns
HACCP Specialist - Armour-Eckrich Meats - Omaha, NE
(2008-05 - 2009-05)
- Collaborated with team members to reduce HACCP and SSOP documentation errors by 15%. Improvements to the process flow and form set-up were key contributors
- Prepared plant from ground up for SQF desk and plant audit certification
- Point person for USDA contact and meetings, NR's, EIAO Lm audit, HACCP reassessments, and decreased NRs by 5%
