DHANYA DODDAMANA, Food safety &Hygiene Supervisor

DHANYA DODDAMANA

Food safety &Hygiene Supervisor

Al Nawras Hospitality

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, Microbiology
Experience
13 years, 11 months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 11 months

Food safety &Hygiene Supervisor at Al Nawras Hospitality
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since August 2013

• Conducting and coordinating internal training related to Basic Food Hygiene & Food Safety on regular basis.
• Providing on job training related to personal hygiene and GHP

• Implement GHP and HACCP system.
-Conduct regular Basic food hygiene training for food handlers
-Conduct Monthly Internal Audits.
-Conduct HACCP Meeting leading as a team leader.
-Routine monitoring of CCP and prerequisite programmes
-Conduct food supplier performance evaluation.
-Manage and Review food complaints
-Manage and maintain effective cleaning program and pest control system.
-Manage and review food safety documentation and records
-Maintaining the records for due diligence purpose.
- Preparing and maintaining documents, records and procedures of HACCP.
• Manage and coordinate HACCP audit, and Sharjah Food Authorities Inspection related to Food safety & Hygiene to ensure all Food Safety activities.
• Participated meeting regarding reviewing Lay out (Catering Kitchen) as HACCP Team leader.
• Conducting regular internal auditing and submitting reports to GM.
• Collecting food sample for tractability purpose.
• Responsible for carrying the quality control checks during the raw material reception, in-process checks and final project testing
• Conducted regular inspections in the store to ensure FIFO system.
• Monitoring and following protocols for the complete hygiene condition of factory premises, machinery, equipments etc
• Checking the transportation vehicles and maintaining temperature records.

Quality Assurance and Hygiene Officer at Alpha Flight Services,Flight Catering
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • November 2010 to September 2011

• Responsible for carrying the quality control checks during the raw material reception, in-process checks and final project testing
• Regular inspection as person In charge of cold kitchen, hot kitchen, Bakery areas, Butchery, Salad preparation area, vegetable cutting areas, Juice preparation and Dish washing outlets
• Collecting food samples from each area for microbial testing
• Collecting hand swabs and surface swabs from each area for microbial testing
• Microbiological analysis of finished goods for:
Total Plate Count, Coli forms, E.coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Clostridium
• Inspection of garbage rooms and factory premises to conform safe and hygiene disposal of wastes
• Maintaining daily personal hygiene report end ensuring GMP
• Monitoring each CCP at regular intervals and taking Corrective actions.
• Preparing the daily hygiene report & reporting to the Quality Manager
• Monitoring the hygiene condition of factory premises, machinery, equipments etc
• Conducting and coordinating training related to Food Hygiene & Food Safety standards.
• Coordinating with pest control team to ensure proper maintenance of the pest control program.
• Assist the QA Manager in the implementation and the documentation relevant to GMP, ISO & HACCP
• Preparing and maintaining documents, records and procedures of HACCP.
• Regular checking of finished foods from chillers and trolleys just before carrying to flights
• Checking the transportation vehicles and maintaining temperature records.
• Inspecting restaurants and food outlets inside Airport and ensure hygiene and FIFO system

• Maintaining records and documents of the food outlets

Quality Controller and Hygiene officer at FIT FRESH
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2010 to November 2010

• Assisting Quality Assurance Manager in the day to day operations.
• Responsible for carrying the quality control checks during the raw material reception, in-process checks and final project testing.
• Regular inspection as person In charge of Juice room and salad preparation areas
• Final product checking inside chillers
• Maintaining Personal hygiene and Conducting the weekly GMP Audits
• Conducting regular inspection in the store and ensuring FIFO system
• Collecting food samples from each area for microbial testing and sending to Laboratories
• Preparing Daily Report of Hygiene management and Quality Assurance and reporting to the General Manager
• Monitoring each CCP at regular intervals and taking Corrective actions.
• Conducting and coordinating training related to Food Hygiene & Food Safety standards
• Receiving and disposing customer complaints appropriately
• Maintaining the quality objectives of the Quality Assurance department
• Reviewing the customer complaints in the management review meetings.
• Implementing and following up the corrective and preventive actions for the complaints.

Lecturer at St Joseph’s College
  • India
  • October 2008 to April 2010

Training & supervising students in laboratory works & teaching subjects, such as Food Microbiology, Biotechnology, Environmental microbiology, Cell biology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Bioinformatics & Application of Information Technology in Science.
Analysis of raw and cooked food products (dairy products, vegetables etc.)Quality checking by counting various parameters likes microbes, checking pH, temperature etc.

Microbiologist at District Co-operative Hospital
  • India
  • July 2008 to October 2008

Conducting microbiological tests include :- Isolation of microorganisms, pure culture methods like streaking, plating etc., Identification of microorganisms, Staining of organisms using gram staining method, acid-fast etc., Bio chemical tests, Chromatography, ELISA, PCR, PAGE.

Education

Master's degree, Microbiology
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University
  • July 2008

Undertaken a project in Agriculture Microbiology. •Antagonistic potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens and control of bacterial blight of anthurium caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv.diffenbachiae, done for the partial fulfillment of MSc Degree, under the guidance of Dr.M.S.Jisha , Reader in School of Biosciences , M.G University, Kotta

Specialties & Skills

Quality Assurance
Hygiene
Food Safety
MS WORD/EXCEL/POWER POINT ,Trainer,HACCP,Internal audit,Laboratory techniques,Hygiene Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
HACCP Internal Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Level 4 Managerial Food safety/Hygiene (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Highfield awarding body HABC,UK (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Valid Until:
July 2013
HACCP Intermediate Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
April 2010