Preston Merritt III
Stokesdale,NC
Summary
Intelligent Manager with talents in monitoring production quality and improving productivity. Deep understanding of the tools and concepts that go into quality management. Flexible, reliable and ensure standards meet expectations and legal compliance.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SR. Quality Manager
Coca Cola Consolidated Inc
Roanoke, VA
04.2020 - Current
- Enforcing employee and food safety as number one priority
- Developing, Implementing, and managing quality management system to ISO 9001-2015 standards
- Developed and implemented employee cross training skill matrix (manufacturing support)
- Investigated consumer complaints and performed root cause analysis to address consumer and food safety concerns.
- Created, modified, reviewed, and standardized checklist, process documents, and leading continuous improvement activities for manufacturing
- Maintaining quality system and equipment calibration
- Improved sanitation program and micro results
- Process capability studies
- Vanguard for cost savings.
FSQA Manager / SQF Practitioner
Golding Farms Foods
Winston-Salem, NC
07.2018 - 04.2020
- Managing (1) DC and (1) Food Manufacturing Facility (12 QA/QC employees 7 Sanitation employees)
- Effectively train employees in HACCP and SQF principles which meet the CODEX guidelines and all aspects of the HACCP System
- Developed and implemented employee training and skill matrix to better improve quality and manufacturing
- Conducted root cause analysis and the development of corrective actions plans, resulting in an overall reduction in defects and customer complaints
- Created, modified, and controlled hundreds of documents as part of a cGMP quality control
- Improved inspection methods, equipment, managed SQF 8.1 system
- Chaired weekly quality meeting while driving quality training and
- Served as primary quality and production liaison to support key personnel and clients, coordinating all phases of order management, production and ensuring quality standards were consistently met
- Created teams responsible for quality assurance data collection, correction action and internal audit validation and verification
- Developed and exercised process improvement strategies and documentation for warehouse shipping and receiving and traceability
- Improved the pest management program, GMP, PPE and Safety.
Regulatory Affairs Specialist 1
ECOLAB
Greensboro, NC
11.2006 - 07.2018
- Product Safety and Compliance for QSR and FRS division
- Authored Safety Data Sheets for domestic and foreign governments according to the GHS compliances and global inventory reviews
- Competitive Data Analysis of Safety Data Sheets for customers
- Advocated customer support for issues surrounding OSHA and health inspections
- Perform GHS analysis for Research and Development in the formulation of new formulations
- Quality Department – QA/QC Supervisor (5 years)
- Maintain JD Edwards’s AS400 systems for component and raw material compliance for 6 Ecolab facilities which include the QSR/FRS business units
- Sustaining over 40K items with a 99% JDE to EPIC specification compliance
- Monitor/Audit quality control over 7 wet production lines, one solids product line, and 8 dry packaging lines at 100% of completion target
- Standard and GMP products run on the wet lines
- Enact OSHA training to obtain 100% Safety record
- Team member on quality/production paperwork consolidation DMAIC project to reduce line paperwork by 60% - 25,000 sheets of paper saved annually
- 94 hours per year saved by quality tech and a 12% increase record traceability
- Team member on GSO JDE Set-up Process DMAIC project
- Outcome: Productivity gain of 7.3 hours/week
- 6,300 annual savings
- Material transition planning for old and new components
- (maintenance)
- Maintain regulatory code compliance for shipping at 100% compliance
- (Manufacturing shipping level)
Laboratory Technician
Quality Department
- (4 years)
- Quality control/Quality assurance testing on over 3k samples/month using advanced machinery to make sure chemical/finished raw materials met FDA/EPA/GMP standards
- 2oz for wet chemical/finished goods, 12oz samples for GMP chemical/finished goods and 20-30 grams for dry chemicals/finished goods
- Performed daily calibration on various high-end laboratory equipment including Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR), High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Gas chromatography (GC), Specific gravity hydrometer and pH meters
- Analyzed various incoming GMP raw and component goods to make sure they follow FDA/EPA/GMP regulations
- Accepted or reject incoming inspection using the single sample MIL-STD-105E & MIL-STD-414 procedure for sampling
- Box component total quantity 90K+
- Sample size 5/1000.
Line Lead/Machine Operator
Production Department
- Assigned full time and temporary employees to task based on their skill maximize production
- Reduced manufacturing changeover times on gallons bottle line by 50% adding back 30 minutes positive production
- Reduced quality defects by enforcing quality measures and monitoring quality systems.
Education
SQF Certification HACCP Certification FSPCA Certification -
01.2021
DOT Certified -
01.2018
IATA Certified -
01.2018
IMDG Certified -
01.2018
Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Certified -
ACADEMIC PREPARATION -
BS - Business Administration, Human Resource Management/Money and Finance
Guilford College
Skills
- Manufacturing Processes
- Time Management
- Defect Identification
- Budget Preparation
- Operation Monitoring
- Quality Processes
- Performance Monitoring
- Complex Problem Solving
- Team Collaboration
- Test Result Interpretation
- Excellent Researching Skills
- Mastery of Quality Processes
- Statistical Analysis
- Deadline Adherence
- Attention to Detail
Certification
- Intentional Adulteration Vulnerability Assessments
- HACCP
- SQF
- PCQI
Timeline
SR. Quality Manager
Coca Cola Consolidated Inc
04.2020 - Current
FSQA Manager / SQF Practitioner
Golding Farms Foods
07.2018 - 04.2020
Regulatory Affairs Specialist 1
ECOLAB
11.2006 - 07.2018
Laboratory Technician
Quality Department
Line Lead/Machine Operator
Production Department
SQF Certification HACCP Certification FSPCA Certification -
DOT Certified -
IATA Certified -
IMDG Certified -
Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Certified -
ACADEMIC PREPARATION -
BS - Business Administration, Human Resource Management/Money and Finance
Guilford College