Quality Assurance Manager & HOD
IQF Foods Ltd.
Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months
IQF Foods produces tropical fruit, Ethnic and International Vegetables to customers' specifications for quality and taste.
• Presently working as Quality Assurance Manager & head of quality in the company.
• Worked in IQF Foods, Bangalore as Production Manager & H.O.D.
Presently working as Manager-Operations in IQF Foods Pvt Ltd and co-coordinating various department operations (Production, Quality, Stores and dispatch, Maintenance, Procurement, HR & Admin)
• Worked in Al-Ghurair Foods LLC, Dubai as Shift Process In Charge & Food safety ISO 22000.2005, OHSAS 18001-2007 coordinator.
• Managing the day to day production activities according to the requirement of the plant manager.
• Utilizing and managing the manpower and machineries to make the maximum output in production.
• Training the new employees, regarding the quality, production & safety aspects.
• Budget saving by strictly complying the production plans, minimum manpower usage & maximum production.
• Oracle production batch entries for the inventory purpose.
• IMS-Integrated Management System, implementation (HACCP, OHSAS & ISO standard integration and co-ordination)
• Taking active part in continual improvement plan, Lean training and 5S methodology.
• Training undergone- ‘IOSH Managing safely’ training course conducted by International HSE council & ‘ISO 22000:2005 implementation’ by TUV-NORD.
• Worked in Almarai Co. Ltd., P.O. Box No- 8524, Riyadh-11492, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as Team Manager in the Quality dept., Operations Division since Oct -2007 to Oct 2010.
• Involved in Team Managing in the Site Quality/laboratory division.
• To efficiently & effectively manage the day to day activities of main laboratory function by ensuring physical, chemical & microbiological tests are conducted consistently and accurately according to the sampling and testing regime.
• To ensure that the controlled documents and analytical data in the laboratory are correctly updated, provided to the higher management in timely and accurate manner.
• Minimize inaccuracies in results by reviewing the test results recorded by lab techs on daily basis to be able to highlight the non-conformities on time.
• Minimize the laboratory expenditures by planning the expenditures in the area of requirement to get maximum benefit of the spending & meet the set budgets.
• Maintain the highest level of Health & Safety (H & S) standards in the section by carrying out H & S tasks to minimize accident & thus loss of man hours.
• Aware of Food graded additives, ingredients and allergens, ISO/codex, food standard programs.
• Familiar with QA/ QC management and testing regime in Dairy industry products.
• Training undergone- ‘Internal Quality auditing as per ISO standards’ conducted by the Almarai Quality assurance, Almarai Co.Ltd., K.S.A
• Worked in Minaxi Fisheries Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, as Quality Assurance in Charge/ HACCP Team Leader (June 2006 - Oct-2007)
• Quality system monitoring for Food processing and export Industries, Quality Assurance In Charge/ HACCP Team leader of the company (Minaxi Fisheries Pvt Ltd, Mumbai) .
• Bacteriology- Culture, Enumeration, and Identification of total and pathogenic strains, HACCP implementation and monitoring, IPQC, Employee health check/training, finished product inspection, Documentation etc.
• Training undergone- ‘HACCP Auditing’ by MPEDA.
• Worked in UniRoyal Marine Exports Ltd. Company, Calicut, as Quality Controller/ Microbiologist. ( May 2005- May 2006)
HACCP implementation and monitoring, IPQC, Employee health check/training, finished product inspection, Documentation etc.
• Training undergone- ‘Basic principle of HACCP’ conducted by MPEDA.
EU approved processing unit with production capacity of 40 tonnes per day, The Company have 3 plate freezers and one IQF trolley freezer for production.
• Started career as Food Technologist. Got approval from EIC/ Ministry of commerce and Industry, Govt. of India for working in Quality assurance field.
Project Profile & Training Undergone • Assay of Beta-lactamase in clinical isolates. Antibiotic resistance in bacteria has emerged as a medical catastrophe, which results in the rapid spread of bacteria. This occurs due to change in their genetic constituent or by acquiring new resistant genes. Bacteria shows resistance to penicillin is due to the production of extra cellular enzyme Beta-lactamase. The enzyme deteriorates the antibiotic by biochemical reactions, which leads to rapid spread of drug resistant organisms. In the present study the isolated pathogenic organisms were tested for their antibiogram pattern and production of Beta-lactamase by Iodometric Method. • Training undergone ‘Microfeast-2003’ National Level scientists meet 23 & 24 January 2003; at Sengunthar Arts & Science College, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, sponsored by Tamil Nadu state Council for science and Technology, Chennai and National Council for Science & Technology Communication, New Delhi.