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Bernie Waruru

Cedar Springs,MI

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Owner/ Managing Director

Berngo Safaris, LLC
Cedar Springs, Michigan
01.2017 - Current
  • Directed and Managed 5 Full Time employees and other temporary help to provide clients with wildlife tours, mountain hiking, slum tours, beach and water activities in East Africa
  • This involved tailored tours for families, schools and other institutions, Religious organizations among others
  • Arranged for flights, accommodations, safety, food and other requirements for our clients
  • Handled marketing, customer service, consular information and conflict resolutions for clients
  • Daily management of the company involving payroll, budget, forecasting, supply chain, hiring and retention
  • Representing company in networking and business events and meetings.

Manufacturing Technician

Amway
Ada, Michigan
01.2013 - Current
  • Lead monthly inventory management Cycle Count to ensure accuracy, identify and resolve discrepancies, assess trends, and provide recommendations on system improvements to upline
  • Management of this process includes recruitment, training and distribution of assignments to a team of twelve
  • Selected as the recipient of the Founder’s Growth Mindset award 2021 and 2022 in recognition of collaboration, initiative, and leadership of projects outside of job scope and positively impacting the goals of NPP and Amway
  • 1 of 6 out of 200 departmental employees to receive this award
  • The only 2-time recipient
  • Selected by upline as PIV Certified Trainer for NPP for successful training of new and tenured employees and proactive focus on all safety aspects to reduce the number of incidents
  • Charged with certifying employees in Safety and PIV operations
  • Mentor, train and build capability of team members on warehouse processes and standards using successful “why and how” training techniques
  • Coach and train employees as a Safety Function Leader and BBS Coach to ensure adherence to protocols and to prevent incidents and damages
  • Partner with Quality Assurance and Control to ensure CGMP are followed for food safety
  • Leveraged organization and strategy to partner with QA and singlehandedly tackle all the material moves needed in 2019 in order to inspect and sort product during large contamination
  • Coordinating and leading employees from Maintenance, Temporary, NPP and other Departments in identifying and removing defective pouches in our new Bodykey product brand while partnering with QA, Product Scientist and I &S
  • This ensured that no defective products reached to market and impacted our ABOs and customers
  • Conducted and lead safety incident investigations and RCAs to help prevent them from happening again
  • This has lead to a 50% reduction in number of recordable injuries in NPP
  • Member of the various NPP Charter Teams to improve different processes in safety, quality.

Quality Technician

Litehouse
Lowell, Michigan
01.2010 - 01.2013
  • As a Lab technician tested over 20 samples of salad and fruit dressings before production- taste testing, acidity, PH, Brix, Water Activity, Salt concentration, temperature, viscosity, Micro, Fat, Moisture to ensure quality and per spec products were shipped to our customers in time and prevent downtime.

Owner and Managing Director

Exquisite Mobile Auto Detailing
Newark, Delaware
01.2003 - 01.2009
  • Exquisite Mobile Auto Detailing employed 2 full time employees and provided car wash and detailing services to in residential and business settings
  • This included outside and interior cleaning with add on services like upholstery and body vehicle wax shining, steam cleaning of rugs and general sanitization
  • Some of my clients included company fleets, racing vehicle drivers, PODs, TV station vehicles, Philadelphia Eagles athletes, Delaware University Police vehicles, Newark based Fire Department, Christiana Hospital employees and many other local businesses.

Biotechnology Technician

Johnson and Johnson Inc
Malvern, Pennsylvania
01.1997 - 01.2006
  • Worked in the Down Stream Processing division in a Biotech company as a manufacturing associate and performed operations in the aseptic processing of biological product
  • These included S/D inactivation, aseptic buffer removal and purification, by S-Chromatography Viresolve virus removal, Filtration by Ultra Filtration, Q1 and Q2 and final Ultra filtration processes
  • Then finally product stabilization and concentration leading to the sterile final fill in the production of Remicade.

Safety Function Leader/Behavior Based Safety Coach

Amway
Ada, Michigan

Education

Pharmacy Technician -

Delaware Technical College
New Jersey

Skills

Technical & Systems Proficiency Operations & Supply Chain Management Manufacturing & Quality ControlBusiness & Strategic Leadership Soft Skills & Leadership

Leadership Experience

  • Safety Function Leader/Behavior Based Safety Coach
  • Safety Step Up Card Certified Trainer
  • PIV Certified Trainer
  • Two-time recipient of Founders Growth Mindset Award 2021, 2022
  • Multiple nominations for Manufacturing Excellence Award
  • 2022 Manufacturing Excellence Award Recipient
  • Engagement liaison for Amway Young Professional Network for 2023-2024
  • Skill Development Warehouse Certified Trainer for over 20 employees
  • Planning Team member for the 2022 Professional of Color Conference that had the highest employee attendance 0f over 200 and rated most impactful by peers
  • Planning Team member for the 2022 POCC Debrief which is an annual follow up after the main POCC in October meant for Amway Leadership with a panel discussion to highlight POC career development and progression
  • Coaching panelist members and also a panelist for the 2022 POCC Debrief for leadership in 2023
  • Selected as a member of Amway DEI Focus group to help change Amway culture to be more diverse, inclusive and equitable for everyone
  • Member of Amway Community Champions instrumental in continuing Amway community social responsibilities by volunteering in events that have direct impact on the communities
  • Lead role for the River Bank Run’s Post race refreshment responsible Coordinate and oversee Post Race Refreshments and attend monthly planning meetings to learn and stay connected to the execution of the event for 2024 and beyond
  • Managing NPP Allergen and Environment storage process by tracking, fixing and giving feedback to employees to conform with Food Safety requirements
  • Training new employees from Distribution and contractors about warehouse operations, safety protocols and quality standards in 2023
  • Leading a team comprised of Engineers, Quality Control, EH&S, Line Technicians, PIV trainers, Facilities to come up with a safe walkway on the packaging floor for employees to use while a PIV is in operation. Plan was adopted and implemented in 2023
  • Leading NPP warehouse inventory management system to ensure we maintain proper and accurate inventory to mitigate line shutdowns and TNA to the markets
  • Team member in recruiting of Manufacturing employees to AYP and other INs affinity groups, leading NPP Plant tours, DE&I New Employee Onboarding in 2023
  • Team member representing warehouse operations in revamping of NPP SDS(Skill Development System) to align it with the One Team that helps to standardize Amway manufacturing skill development. The new revamped NPP SDS training has been implemented in 2023
  • Chosen to be a Qualified Qualifier(QQ) formerly Certified Trainer(CT) in NPP in the new SDS system for 2023 and beyond
  • As AYP Engagement Liaison leading members and non members in volunteer events, new members recruitment, facilitating events and planning

Timeline

Owner/ Managing Director

Berngo Safaris, LLC
01.2017 - Current

Manufacturing Technician

Amway
01.2013 - Current

Quality Technician

Litehouse
01.2010 - 01.2013

Owner and Managing Director

Exquisite Mobile Auto Detailing
01.2003 - 01.2009

Biotechnology Technician

Johnson and Johnson Inc
01.1997 - 01.2006

Safety Function Leader/Behavior Based Safety Coach

Amway

Pharmacy Technician -

Delaware Technical College

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