Laboratory Manager - Built Brands, LLC - American For, Utah, USA
(2024-01)
Worked as the Laboratory Manager at Built Brands, LLC in American For, Utah.
- Oversee daily lab operations and keep workflows running smoothly.
- Supervise, train, schedule, and evaluate lab personnel and new lab hires.
- Maintain safety, and compliance with lab policies and regulations.
- Manage equipment calibration, troubleshooting, maintenance and repairs.
- Manage laboratory inventory, reorder supplies, and help control costs.
- Maintain documentation, databases, reports, and other records.
- Support quality control and process improvements.
- Key auditee of Built Brands LLC Laboratory first external audit by PJLA for ISO 17025 certification.
- Led Built Brands LLC Laboratory in achieving its first ISO 17025 certification readiness and successfully acquiring its first ISO 17025.
- Participated in Built Brands LLC first GFCO and RSPO audits for certification.
- Participated in Built Brands LLC SQF audits for certification.
- Implementing new laboratory procedures and methodologies to improve laboratory workflows, ensure efficient operations and produce reliable results.
- Collaborated with department such as Marketing, and R&D on their different projects.
- Key contributor to Built Brands LLC's robust Environmental Monitoring Program.
- Key member of the Built Brands Food Safety Team focused on microbial control.
- Participated in the development of the Built Brands HACCP Plan.
QC Manager/Lab Manager - Deibel Laboratories - Waco, Texas, USA
(2019-01 - 2023-12)
Worked as the QC manager/laboratory Manager at Deibel laboratories in Waco, Texas.
- Implementing and maintaining the quality management system of the laboratory for QM, QC and procedural SOPs.
- Familiar with FSMA and ISO 22000 regulations pertaining to Food Safety.
- HACCP for Processors and Manufacturers (certified).
- Training and managing new laboratory technicians according to company procedural SOPs.
- Participating in the startup and operation of Deibel Laboratory of Texas.
- Implementing the FMEA (Environmental Safety Standards) processes that meet clients' standards.
- Implementing GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) and cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Protocols) to company laboratory.
- Being a key participant in company internal audit, client audit, and A2LA (American Association For Laboratory Accreditation) audit.
- Being a key participant in the Texas laboratory obtaining its first A2LA accreditation certification in Biology and Chemistry.
- Installing Biology and Chemistry equipment such as: fume hoods, BSC class II, incubators, refrigerators, vacuum ovens, waterbaths, desiccators, a light microscope, an Orion Star pH meter, and heat blocks.
Microbiology Teaching Assistant - MNSU Mankato - Mankato, Minnesota, USA
(2016-01 - 2018-12)
Taught 5 regular semesters and 2 summer sessions of laboratory course for General Microbiology and acquired skills such as:
- Setting up media for several laboratory sessions.
- Setting up solid or broth microbial cultures for General Microbiology and Medical Microbiology laboratories.
- Teaching college students about microbial characteristics that help promote microbial growth.
- Developing good aseptic technique that help prevent microbial contamination when working in a laboratory.
- Teaching college students about microbiology biochemical tests for unknown identification.
Microbiologist/Laboratory Technician - Deibel Laboratories - Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA
(2013-01 - 2016-12)
Worked as a lab technician/Microbiologist at Deibel Laboratories Blue Earth, Minnesota.
- Testing for food related microbial contamination in processed food product, raw materials, finished food product and environmental samples (Salmonella Genus, Listeria Genus, S. aureus, E.coli O157, Coliforms, Yeast, Mold, Pseudomonas species, Enterobacteriaceae, Enterococcus faecalis etc…).
- Applied a variety of microbiological testing methods, including Vidas automated immunoanalyzer, PCR BAX (System Q7), Real-Time PCR BAX, SDI, FDA BAM, MPN, Petrifilm plates, and CMMEF Testing Methodology, for detection of the same bacteria.
- Developing different plating skills such as streaked, spread and pour plate.
- Reading plates and identifying any microbial growth.
- Conducting confirmation steps on any presumptive (possible positive for tested organism) samples using company standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Preparing media for multiple testing methods.
- Operating an autoclave to sterilize growth media and microbial waste.
