Walter Matoska

• Conduct Hazard Analysis / Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Critical Control Point (CCP) verifications
• Inspect fat-pumps for foreign materials and gear-bending units for tattering
• Ensure all staff are following SOPs and GMPs
• Perform hourly rounds and complete quality check points on documented quality shift reports
• Perform pre-flight investigation reports prior to the start up on any given line for production each given week. Production cannot start until QA signs off on this.
• Perform weekly bacterial swab cultures throughout the manufacturing plant to ensure no abnormal bacterial growth.
• Allergen testing
• Documentation with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SAP
• Place and manage product holds for nonconformities and coordinate dispositions within SAP
• Attend daily huddle meetings and address safety and quality issues as deemed appropriate per QA Manager/Plant Supervisor
• Lead root cause Analysis for customer complaints and implement Corrective Actions
• Daily silo sieve screen and tailing checks
• Daily cuttings and scoring or croissants done with supervisors
• Was awarded the Shining Star Award for Safety two months in a row (March 2026, April 2026).
• Liaison to Supervisors for quality control of production line, ensuring quality of product on continuous basis with process checks being done throughout shift on each line (three lines).
• Collaborated with team members to streamline workflow processes in high-volume production environment
• Trained new technicians on safety protocols and operational procedures for equipment handling.
• Implemented quality control measures to uphold product standards and reduce waste rates.
• Diagnosed equipment malfunctions, coordinating repairs to maintain consistent production schedules.
• Assisted in inventory management, ensuring availability of raw materials for uninterrupted operations.
• Maintained a safe work environment by strictly adhering to established safety protocols and guidelines.

• Work in a team-approach environment to manufacturing, while maintaining GMP's and SOP'. HIRED INTO Crown Bakeries.

• Filler and filler-helper working in a team approach along fast-paced production of aerosolized paint products. Accurately checked batch cards for materials used in production prior to each order. Hourly documentation thereafter
• Follow GMPs and SOPs.
• CPR Certified with the American Red Cross in December of 2022. Recently expired. Requirement for being on safety committee.
• Forklift Certification and Lock-Out-Tagout Certifications
• Served on safety committee and documented 2 weekly BSOE (Behavioral Safett Observation Evaluations). Attended mandatory monthly meetings with the plant manager to discuss concerns and implement new changes within the manufacturing facility.
• Changeover of various pieces of equipment, adjustments, set new gas pressures in gas house, adjusted water levels for water bath depending on can size, set new valves , crimp depths, heights. Can sizes. Day coder per batch card.
• Follow hourly shift OEE percentages and and be able to see areas for improvement to bring into target area.
• Performed daily CII's (clean-inspect-lubricate) and signed off on daily tasks.

• Hired into Rustoleum

• Supervised pharmacy department as night shift pharmacist, directing work-flow with pharmacy technicians and coordinating job responsibilities throughout shift
• Assisted Transitions of Care Pharmacist with out-patient medication reviews (OMRs) for new admissions to the hospital. Updated patient medication lists for MD review; assisted MD with formulary substitutions, examined profile for any pertinent drug-interactions, allergies, and documented work in clinical note for review
• Interpretation of medication orders, order entry, verification. Again checking for drug interactions, allergies, drug duplications, etc. Ultimately complete DUR review
• Provided pharmaceutical care through a multidisciplinary, team-approached model with MD's/RN's
• Made nightly rounds through hospital to the ICU, surgical step-down unit, general medicine floor, pediatrics, OB-GYN, & cardiac step-down unit
• Supervised pharmacy technicians as they filled various orders and followed Pharm. Chapter 797 compounding of sterile pharmaceuticals. Verified final products, ensure accuracy, exp. dating and sign-off on all final products
• Anticoagulation dosing and monitoring (warfarin, enoxaparin, heparin, argatroban); TPN dosing and monitoring; pharmacokinetics with vancomycin and aminoglycoside antibiotics
• Clinical instructor for University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
• Attended Trauma alerts hospital-wide; receiving orders and drawing up medications per MD's verbal order bedside in a timely fashion for RN's.
• Attended Stroke Alerts and assisted with inclusion/exclusion criteria along with dosing of TPA
• Joint Commission Standards of Practice, HIPAA, OSHA, and hospital-wide policy and procedures
• Contributing to monthly meeting agendas to help provide feedback, collaborate and help to identify critical business opportunities/changes.
• Assisted with decision to open third-shift at another campus due to concerns for compromised patient care and safety
• Assisted with procurement of policy and procedure for night shift. Identified process improvements to assist with planning of rollout of nightly duties
• Assisted with opening of St. Catherine's Night Shift Pharmacy. When I started at United Hospital Systems, there was only night shift at the downtown campus, called Kenosha Hospital. Well, within the first year or two of being there, the volume of work got so stressful that the amount of phone calls and work load alone placed on the Nursin Supervisor at St. Catherine's warranted launching night shift, which successfully was done with my supporting arguments for it.

• Worked as an intern during school, as a student alongside supervisors doing scholastic jobs, as a third-shift pharmacist in a stand-alone environment in charge of other technicians and cashiers, and as a floating staff pharmacist helping out on a part-time basis in various settings.
• Went to Arizona to train for 1 week for a consultation pharmacy specialty. Then came back and launched in home pharmacy in Kenosha. Designed Compound Pharmacy model within the pharmacy and trained the staff on the utilization of the compounding pharmacy specialists that we were now considered. Implemented policy and procedure for various preparations and also did local advertising within the community at various doctor and dental offices.
• Supervised the work-flow working night shift at a very busy location (800-1000 prescriptions/day average). Supervised pharmacy technicians and cashiers in the day-to-day operations within the pharmacy
• MTM, HIPAA Compliance; Company Policy Compliance; APhA Immunization Certification; American Red Cross BLS; Supervised pharmacy technicians; pharmacy interns, assisted training senior techs in day-to-day operations
• Undertook an internship with the district pharmacy supervisor, working with approximately 25-30 Walgreens in the Milwaukee area across SE-Wisconsin, being exposed to the upper management and the business side of pharmacy. Gained experience with supervisor's leadership of their market pharmacists and day-to-day decision-making responsibilities. I also participated in annual inventories, determining gross-profit and developing a business plan. I also assisted with the start-up of Workers Compensation billing with local businesses and their HR departments
• Introduced cognitive-service billing for medications for patients on Title XIX in Wisconsin, with increases of 100-200-reimbursements. Trained pharmacy staff at approximately 20-25 Walgreens and also at a managers meeting on what we can bill for and how to do it (specific DUR codes)
• Inventory control; order management; controlled-substance annual inventory; returns (Rx, CIII-CV, CII, salvage) w/in exp. dating to receive full credit; in-charge of expense ordering. Audits. Recalls
• Integral player in high-risk medications (Good Faith Dispensing) through interventions with the Wisconsin-PDMP (multi-state) database in efforts to evaluate trends and patterns. Assessed compliance for patients along with the parameters implemented by the CDC and DEA during the opioid epidemic

Graduated May 2003

August 1999 - May 2000

Worked in laboratory cleaning equipment and organizing paperwork. From Jan 2000 till May 2000 was involved in research done by laboratory

Graduated May 1999

Spent better part of final year learning the ropes on GC, HPLC, and ICP.