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Renu Sitaula

Reno,USA

Summary

- Passionate Food and Nutrition Enthusiast with a positive mindset and a joyful spirit.

- To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Work History

Junior Food Technology Consultant (1 month Project)

Nepal Agribusiness Innovation Center (NABIC)
  • Duration: 2018
  • Learned and performed trials on a traditional product, Selroti, and increased the product's shelf life.
  • Implemented the latest packaging and labeling act on the product.
  • Performed collaborative work and developed Personal hygiene, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliance documents for food industries

Food and Dairy Consultant

Shree Nawa Prabhat Dairy
Lalitpur, Nepal
  • Duration: 2018
  • Learned assessment of manufacturing processes and applied productivity increment techniques.
  • Performed Laboratory tests of Dairy products
  • Learned working under pressure, decision-making, and strategic planning.

Food Technologist

Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology
Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Duration: 2017
  • Assisted senior Food Technologists assembling SOPs of diverse food products and learned attention to detail and time-management abilities.
  • Learned and performed Laboratory tests of diverse food products as per Nepal Standards.

Junior National Food Quality and Food Safety Specialist

EU Funded Project: “NEPAL EU Trade, Quality Infrastructure, and Private sector Development”
  • Duration: 2015 - 2016
  • Learned and performed market surveillance and risk categorization of domestic as well as imported food products.

Education

Master of Science - Nutrition

University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
07.2024

Masters in Home Science, Food and Nutrition -

Tribhuvan University
01.2017

Bachelor in Food Technology -

Tribhuvan University
01.2014

Skills

  • Research Computing - Utilizing UNR’s HPC system workshop, November 2023 at the University of Nevada (UNR), Reno
  • Fundamentals of Supervised Machine Learning, January 19 and 20, 2023 at the UNR
  • Python Crash Course with Introduction to Data Science, January 12 and 13, 2023 at UNR

Research

  • Ongoing MS Nutrition project: “Evaluation of Human Milk Microbiome and Its Importance on Infant Health”, 2022-2023
  • ISB Virtual Microbiome Series – “Analyzing microbiome data: from amplicon sequences to ecological insights”, October 11, 2023.
  • Submitted Dissertation: “Dietary Habits and Menstrual Distress among Adolescent Girls” for Master's Degree in Food and Nutrition, 2019
  • Submitted Dissertation: “Preparation of Mandarin Peel Incorporated Candy and Its Quality Evaluation” for Bachelor's degree in Food Technology, 2014

Publications

Physio-chemical and functional quality evaluation of mandarin peel powder, Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295327181_Physio-chemical_and_Functional_Quality_Evaluation_of_Mandarin_Peel_Powder, 18(2), pp.575-582

Training

  • 4 weeks internship in Diet and Disease in Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, 2017.
  • Training/Seminar on Quality Infrastructure and NBSM, April 3rd, 2017 by Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM).
  • One-day workshop Research Methodology and Risk Analysis in Food Safety Management System, January 13, 2014, by Nepal Food Scientists and Technologist Association (NEFOSTA).
  • Internal Audit Training on ISO 22000:2005- Food Safety Management System, January 11th and 12th, 2014 by Food and Nutrition Awareness Center (FONAC)
  • Volunteered in the public awareness event Food Activism 2013
  • Volunteered for UC Merced Food Distribution, Merced, California (2020-2021)

Timeline

Master of Science - Nutrition

University of Nevada, Reno

Masters in Home Science, Food and Nutrition -

Tribhuvan University

Bachelor in Food Technology -

Tribhuvan University

Junior Food Technology Consultant (1 month Project)

Nepal Agribusiness Innovation Center (NABIC)

Food and Dairy Consultant

Shree Nawa Prabhat Dairy

Food Technologist

Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology

Junior National Food Quality and Food Safety Specialist

EU Funded Project: “NEPAL EU Trade, Quality Infrastructure, and Private sector Development”

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