Maria Isabel Moreno
Fontana,CA
Summary
A highly motivated person with over 29 years of Quality work experience. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Proficient in building relationships, proven ability to lead and teach a team.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Quality Control Supervisor
Everest Formulations
11.2021 - Current
- Supervise quality control and sanitation personnel through effective mentoring, coaching, and work delegation.
- Monitor sanitation validation logs to ensure they are being maintained.
- Sanitation chemicals and supplies purchase.
- Schedule annual calibration of scales, x-rays, and metal detectors.
- Reviews sanitation KPI metrics such as ATP, Micro testing, and Allergen swabbing to ensure sanitation performance is maintained.
- Trained workers in different departments in improved procedures designed to enhance quality and eliminate errors.
- Review and revise QC SOPs as needed.
- Works collaboratively with manufacturing staff to ensure that plant hygiene is maintained and controlled under FDA cGMP standards, implementing, improving, and monitoring critical cleaning and sanitization processes that prevent contamination risk.
- I managed staff hiring, training, annual evaluations, and quality inspectors and sanitation supervision.
- Supported audits (Organic, UL).
- Coordinate internal, customer, and Supplier NCRs
- Manages and oversees internal non-conformances and plant-related CAPA, ensuring that root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and final dispositions are performed promptly and compliant.
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly audits. (Glass / Brittle plastic, Pest Control, Allergen, Food Defense, GMP and Calibration)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with supervisors from departments such as production and customer service to coordinate effective solutions to systemic problems, directly reducing error and rework rates.
- Monitor production processes and ensuing batch documentation to ensure that each LOT is manufactured according to its validated process.
- Assist with plant internal audit functions and activities.
- Serve as backup to department members and Manager as needed.
Quality Assurance Lead
Wellington Foods
01.2017 - 11.2021
- Evaluated interactions between associates and customers to assess personnel performance.
- Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
- Enforce adherence to GMP and GDP
- Pre-operational inspection of equipment ATP / allergen testing as needed.
- Supervised, taught, and coached 6 QA techs
- Perform and Document various inspections, checks, sampling, and lab testing.
- Responsible for QA scheduling and Lab supplies purchase.
Quality Assurance Technician / Receiving
Nongshim America
12.2005 - 12.2017
- Receiving and Recording all incoming raw and packaging materials under SQF standards.
- Evaluated samples against standards by completing measurements, visual inspections, and other established tests.
- Routinely tested products to align temperature, specifications, and ingredient levels with best practices and quality standards.
- Hold and release disposition.
- Monthly mock recall.
Quality Assurance Inspector
Square H. Brands
11.2003 - 08.2005
- Oversaw pre-operational sanitation along USDA standards.
- Verify cooking and cooling temperature specs.
- Monitored performance and generated reports detailing quality of product.
- HACCP
Education
High School Diploma -
El Monte High School
El Monte, CA06.1994
Certification
Advanced HACCP Certification
LEADERSHIP
Timeline
Quality Control Supervisor
Everest Formulations
11.2021 - Current
Quality Assurance Lead
Wellington Foods
01.2017 - 11.2021
Quality Assurance Technician / Receiving
Nongshim America
12.2005 - 12.2017
Quality Assurance Inspector
Square H. Brands
11.2003 - 08.2005
High School Diploma -
El Monte High School
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