Monica Lopez
Deltona
Summary
Experienced Quality Control Technician focused on assisting quality operations with creating compliant products offering years of experience in quality assurance. Systematic and driven professional familiar with scheduling and conducting analysis and inspections to help solve production issues and maintain quality. English/Spanish.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Food Safety Quality Assurance II
Country Pure Food
04.2024 - 10.2025
- Inspect incoming ingredients and packaging material for conformance to product specifications.
- Audit blending operation for conformance to process and packaging specifications.
- Maintain QA record keeping, filing system and housekeeping programs in the QA areas.
- Monitors compliance with CPF water quality monitoring program and executes the CPF Retain program.
- Monitor all aspects of production for compliance to HACCP, GMP's, SQF, and SOP's.
- Calibrates laboratory & operational equipment.
- Performed analytical testing on products to ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance
- Inform the QA Manager of any out-of-spec situations or negative trends.
- Ensure appropriate packaging and timely shipping of all Co-pack samples.
- Monitors job tasks to ensure food safety and quality.
- Promptly reports any concerns or issues to the supervisor or FSQ department.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Quality Assurance Technician
Florida Food Products Inc.
01.2020 - 02.2024
- Reviewing and revising testing procedures.
- Performed analysis for nitrite/nitrate and worked with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Agilent instrumentations
- Reporting safety and quality infringements to the QA Manager.
- Conducting inspection checks on goods and production processes.
- Writing and enforcing standards operating procedures. (SOP)
- Performed variety of chemical analysis.
- Calibrating and cleaning testing equipment
- Reporting with technical reports to the quality assurance manager.
- Fostered culture of analytical thinking and precision to diagnose quality issues.
- Completed routine inspections of components and products to fulfill quality assurance requirements.
- Ensured that all products meet customer requirements prior to shipping.
- Learned new testing methods through continued education and research.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
- Prepared samples for bacteria identification
Laboratory Analyst
Pace Analytical
04.2015 - 09.2018
- Perform sample analysis on ICP and Mass spec instrumentation
- Prepared calibration and QC standards
- Digest samples for analysis
- Performed mercury Analysis with Analyzer Instrumentation
- Determine Moisture Content Procedure
- Prepared and standardize chemical reagents and solutions
- Maintain and prepared a variety of technical report
- Analyzed and interpret routine test results, data and graph.
- Conducted analyses for liquid, solid and waste samples.
Environmental Technician
ECS
03.2013 - 07.2014
- Performed field observation and material testing
- Sampling soil, ground water and aggregate.
- Performed Phase I and Phase II Environmental Assessment
- Structural inspection for new construction
- Performed project monitoring and air sampling for lead, mold and asbestos.
- Analyzed data collected from environmental testing activities using standard laboratory equipment.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Universidad Central De Bayamon
Bayamon, PRSkills
- Routing Inspections
- Samples Comparison
- Trend Tracking
- Quality Assurance Requirements
- Corrective Action Implementation
- Testing Procedures
- Documentation Skills
- Safety Protocols
Accomplishments
- Conducted Kaizen Process in the lab. at small scale to maximize space and production
- Certification for being a team player
- OSHA licensed in Safety and Health
- Participation in the Safety and health committee at work
- Develop a SOP and guide for a new Chromatography instrumentation
Timeline
Food Safety Quality Assurance II
Country Pure Food
04.2024 - 10.2025
Quality Assurance Technician
Florida Food Products Inc.
01.2020 - 02.2024
Laboratory Analyst
Pace Analytical
04.2015 - 09.2018
Environmental Technician
ECS
03.2013 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Science -
Universidad Central De Bayamon