FDA U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationInvestigator
Aug. 2008 - Apr. 2022Denver, Colorado, United StatesIndependently and as a team lead perform complex inspections, investigations of facilities. Main responsibilities included: Preventive Controls, Seafood HACCP, Acidified Foods, Low Acid Canned Food, Juice HACCP, Cheese/Dairy, Interstate Travel Program, Foreign Food Inspections, Traceback Investigations, Dietary Supplements, Aseptic, Environmental Sampling, Compliance Follow-up Inspections, and Seizure Case. From 2015 - 2021, I worked in Beijing China. During that time I was responsible for developing and overseeing the overall foreign food investigational and inspectional operations plan to assure coordinated, efficient, and effective use of foreign resources to advance the public health mission. Actively engaged in the hiring process and recruitment of food Investigators for the China Office. Communicated program and management goals to staff; identified targeted results/outcomes, and timeframes. Provided coordination between foreign offices and FDA Center/Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) investigational programs of all FDA activities throughout China. Served as the Agency focal point in providing authoritative guidance and consultation regarding inspectional and investigational methods and procedures necessary to accomplish compliance objectives. Serve as FDA focal point for foreign manufactures in which I provide authoritative guidance and consultation regarding inspectional activities and how to comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) or other regulatory requirements, and investigation methods and procedures necessary to accomplish compliance objectives. Serve as the U.S. FDA technical expert on food safety to work with World Bank on a China: Foods Safety Improvement Project to improve food safety from farm to fork. Ensured international public health and trade standards, guidelines and policies are adhered to throughout the development and implementation of major food and cosmetics regulated programs and systems