Christine Ruswan
Burwood,NSW
Summary
Food technologist with 2.5 years of experience in the food industry, mainly product development and quality assurance. Knowledgeable about food ingredients, including food flavourings. Experienced in collaborations with internal and external, including international stakeholders. Have ability to work independently and collaboratively with great problem-solving skills. Enthusiastic about brainstorming and improving procedures. Adaptive, detail-oriented and always motivated to upskilling myself.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Development Technologist
Goodman Fielder
11.2022 - Current
- Successfully delivered trainings to local and overseas suppliers on product specification requirements that reduced workflow timelines by a minimum of 5 days.
- Translated customer's requirements for ingredients into a technical language to develop and deliver the best product meeting their specification.
- Proposed the revision of project brief form to include market and sales channel that successfully lowered the chance of missing approvals from relevant product technologists.
- Proactively condensed all requirements from cross-functional team and conducted application work for an alternative rice flour that contributed to strategic procurement and sales decisions on ~800MT worth of order volume.
- Built rice knowledge bank from ground up that facilitated successful skill development for the sales and R&D teams.
- Executed collaboration with regulatory team to develop a comprehensive label artwork guidelines that significantly lowered the total number of artwork revision cycles by 40%.
- Implemented a review process that expedited the PEAL compliance check from 2 months to 2 weeks, for 153 liquid oil products, including around 50 without preexisting documents.
- Accomplished building the company's knowledge base for rice flour and yeast to bridge knowledge gaps within the organisation.
- Proactively arranged alignment meetings with commercial, quality, and product technologist on roles and responsibilities that led to a smooth transition upon company's structural change.
- Critically assessed and identified gaps that led to improvement of shelf life extension (SLE) procedure and created of technical SLE guide that resulted in expedition on SLE approval decisions.
- Successfully utilised learning from audit and communicated refined procedures to procurement team that allowed permanent compliance to food safety standard.
Technical Assistant
Australian Food Ingredients Suppliers (AFIS)
11.2021 - Current
- Formulated a new liquid flavouring, generating an annual sales of approximately AUD$20,000.
- Initiated and completed internal shelf life validation tests for existing 22 products that enhanced company's legal compliance in the food industry.
- Improved and implemented product release procedure leading to significant uptick in punctual deliveries, consequently, elevating customer satisfaction.
- Provided technical trainings to sales team that significantly reduced response time from minimum 3-4 days to 1-2 days.
Food Technologist Intern
Alt Saints Pty Ltd
12.2020 - 02.2021
- Proactively negotiated with 6 ingredient and packaging suppliers that led to cost reduction by 9%.
- Collaborated with a raw material manufacturer to successfully develop the best food processing techniques tailored for crafting probiotics-added fruit and vegetable juices.
Supervisor
Ho Jiak Haymarket
06.2020 - 11.2022
- Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to set up new Point of Sales software (Abacus) with system integration streamlining operations that reduced error chance and enhanced user experience for customers and staff.
- Introduced allergen summary table for all dishes which resulted in overall ordering efficiency by 30%.
- Revised new starter guide that accelerated the completion of induction training by 23%.
- Implemented a food safety plan for the front of house team reducing number of complaints in 3 months.
Chemical Analyst Intern
PT Gunung Mas Cemerlang
07.2017 - 02.2018
- Successfully trialled alternative tanning agent that effectively reduce the amount of chromium in tanning liquid waste.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Food Science and Nutrition Science -
The University of Sydney
04.2021
Skills
- SAP
- Hamilton Grant
- Visual Basic Database Programming
- Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL)
- Country of Origin labelling
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook)
- Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- Safe Quality Foods (SQF)
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Laboratory
- Instrumentation
- Analytical
- POS System
Certificates And Achievements
- Implement HACCP Food Safety System (June 2022)
- Database Programming Visual Basic (October 2017)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Indonesian
Native or Bilingual
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual
Chinese (Cantonese)
Elementary
Korean
Elementary
Interests
- Drawing close-up portraits.
- Painting scenery.
- Cooking.
- Baking.
- Food blogging.
- Recording song covers.
- Event planning.
References
Upon request
Timeline
Product Development Technologist
Goodman Fielder
11.2022 - Current
Technical Assistant
Australian Food Ingredients Suppliers (AFIS)
11.2021 - Current
Food Technologist Intern
Alt Saints Pty Ltd
12.2020 - 02.2021
Supervisor
Ho Jiak Haymarket
06.2020 - 11.2022
Chemical Analyst Intern
PT Gunung Mas Cemerlang
07.2017 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Science - Food Science and Nutrition Science -
The University of Sydney
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