Shraddha Sharma Adhikari
Sydney
Summary
Enthusiastic and qualified personal with more than eight years of experience working in life science and food industries. I have developed various technical, organizational and personal skills required to excel through a job in life/food science industries.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Quality Analyst- Consumables
Inventia Life Science
07.2022 - 01.2025
- Establishing QMS and quality verification of raw materials and manufactured consumables and printer complying with customer and company standards
- Analysis of raw and manufactured bioinks and consumables to ensure the compliance with the product specification and customer standards
- Printer performance validation using Anaytical model, live dead analysis and integration and ejection analysis of fluidic pathway of printers
- Data entry and record management across different Atlassian cloud products like Airtable, Confluence, Slack, Comala, etc and Microsoft office suite 360
- Managing the cell stock and regular passaging to satisfy the lab requirement of cells
- Report; maintain record and resolve all internal and customer non-conformances
- Maintain the stock level and manage purchasing and maintenance of chemicals, equipment, PPE and other essential items
- Liaise with Engineering and Life Science department for new product development
- Successfully managed Sterility issue in both bioinks and printers
- Successfully developed a QC check for Bioinks and other consumables
- Collaborated in developing Dispensing valve test bench and QC method
- Collaborated in developing Analytical print model to validate printer performance
- Collaborated in developing Printer QC Validation flow
- Created a team to work towards implementing QMS and Non-conformance
- Improved product quality by implementing rigorous testing protocols and identifying areas for improvement.
Quality Environment Safety and Training Manager
Tacca Industries
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Managing safety and quality standards of products, personals, and equipment complying with Food Safety Program and Quality Management Systems
- First point of quality and technical contact for all quality and safety related information, inquires and complaints
- Maintain and create HACCP plan, product specifications, process flow charts, SOPs and other technical data
- Manage audit and certification process within the scope of quality management and food safety management system
- Manage routine and non-routine quality checks and verifications of raw material and manufactured product complying with QMS and company standards
- Maintain records using Microsoft platforms
- Liaise with Team leaders across different department to ensure all non-conformances and customer complaints are addressed and resolved
- Successfully curated a HACCP plan for a new Extrusion Plant
- Successfully implemented Woolworths Standard requirements and achieved WSE certification
- Successfully completed the surprised “Work health and safety” audit by SafeWork NSW
- Successfully managed various internal and external customer complaints
Quality Assurance/NPD
Tassal Group
11.2020 - 02.2022
- Monitoring and validating routine and non-routine FSQA requirement complying with customer requirement and FS&QA authorizing bodies
- Validate and manage daily documentation on CCPs and QCPs and customer requirements of incoming raw material, processing, packing, storage and dispatch
- Perform and maintain QA activities and objective fulfilling customer requirement and business demand
- Maintain and investigate Customer complain, Quality incident and Non-Conformance reports
- Conduct internal audits, risk assessments and GMP audits as required
- Participate and co-ordinate on external audits
- Manage purchase, repair and calibration of items and equipment used in processing and analysis
- Prepare and review SOPs and train operators when required
- Conduct and manage Self life trials for product validation
- Assist in preparation of new product, cooking validation and sensory
- Conduct and monitor trials and first production of new product launched
- Conduct and monitor trials and first production of product and packaging change over
- Coordinate analysis of nutritional panel information of new product
- Served on a cross functional departments enabling business to fill gap created due to COVID restrictions
- Improvised reporting by creating excel sheet to record all data related to laboratory testing
Quality Assurance Associate
Marley Spoon
05.2020 - 11.2020
- Conducting routine and non-routing Quality Checks on line and received ingredient complying with Food Safety Program and Quality Management Systems
- Perform pre-production line checks for label and rack orientation verification
- Scan random boxes (i.e
- Cooling bags and dish bags) to assure all the items (Meat products, Fresh products and Flavours) meets the specification, GMP, allergen control and food defence requirement
- Maintain records of all QC checks in google sheets and report all non-conformances to QC supervisor and production team
- Liaise with Fresh and Inventory team to ensure the entire ingredient required for production is fulfilled and rejects are reported and substituted
- Perform QC checks on received goods to ensure all the ingredients received meets the QC receivable requirements, Reject non-conforming ingredients and report to procurement manger and QC manager
- Maintain CCPs and optimized ice management and temperature management
- Conduct internal audits and daily and weekly GMP audits required
- Perform various projects within FS&QA team
- Minimized customer complaints by increasing length of flags in bigger sized family bags
- Minimized sealing issue of tomato power by adding flavours with anti-caking properties
Quality Chemist
Ingredion ANZ Pty Ltd
11.2016 - 01.2020
- Conducting routine and non-routing quality testing on product, co-product and raw material complying with Food Safety Program and Quality Management Systems
- Perform laboratory test to ensure product and raw material are compliance with Food Safety and Quality requirement and timely release of product
- Data entry and record management into Laboratory Information system (SAP) and different Microsoft office suite like word, excel, access etc
- Procurement duties to maintain inventory of chemicals, equipment, PPE and other essential items
- Hosting daily, weekly and quarterly meetings on various agenda
- Preparing minute and maintain list of Corrective Action
- Liaising with vendors for procurement, Periodic Maintenance (PM) and calibration of laboratory equipment
- Training operators on new procedures and safety and quality updates
- Conducting Internal Audit and preparing templates and checklist whenever required
- Conducting monthly Safety and GMP walk around
- Seeking and implementing processes and equipment to continuously improve and optimize laboratory operations and efficiencies
- Monitor mycotoxin on incoming corn and co-product
- Work with agronomist to maintain the level of mycotoxin in co-products and assist farmers for aflatoxin analysis during harvest
- Environmental monitoring on waste water discharge according to EPA guideline
- Enthusiastically accepted the challenge and successfully completed Maize breeding Project within deadline when senior chemist went on a sudden holiday
- Improved QCAR (Quality corrective action record) system by creating a List of QCAR with Food Safety and Quality risk matrix
- Streamlined multiple testing of pH and moisture by doing trend analysis of potential risk and collaborating with in-line samples result
- Improvised sample collection system to minimize operator error as well as safety concern
- Improvised monitoring and record keeping of fine metal contamination collects from magnet
Executive, Quality Control
CG Brewery (Nepal) Pty Ltd
05.2012 - 07.2013
- Conducting routine and non-routing quality and microbial testing on-process and end-product and raw material complying with Food Safety Program and Quality Management Systems
- Analysing and recording quality of incoming raw materials, processed sample of different stage, product and packaging material
- Conducting microbial analysis of samples from different stage of production and end products for product and process validation
- Yeast Propagation and maintaining yeast quality and yeast count during propagation, fermentation and pitching
- Calibrating instruments and standardizing of protocols
- Maintaining quality of utilities like water supplies, cooling system, CO2 line, stem line and waste water management system
Education
Msc - Biotechnology
Bangalore University, REVA-ISM
01.2015
B.Tech. - Biotechnology
Kathmandu University
Dhulikhel, Kavre01.2011
Skills
- Analytical testing
- Cell Culture
- Quality Management System
- HACCP, ISO 9001, FSC 22000, SQF, WSE, etc
- Internal and external audits
- SAP, Unleashed, Kronos, Workday, etc
- Atlasssian, Microsoft Suite 360, etc
- Team leadership
- Agile frameworks
- Strong communication skills
- Continuous improvement mindset
Training
- Cell culture [Inventia]
- Aseptic techniques [Inventia]
- HACCP Certification [Elevating Foods]
- Internal Audit [foodsure]
- Food Regulation and Compliance [Ingredion]
- Chain of Responsibility – Awareness [Ingredion]
- Starch Chemistry and application [Ingredion]
- Corn Wet Milling [Ingredion]
- Yearly Safety and Quality Day [Ingredion]
Certification
HACCP
Languages
English
Full Professional
Nepali
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Quality Analyst- Consumables
Inventia Life Science
07.2022 - 01.2025
Quality Environment Safety and Training Manager
Tacca Industries
02.2022 - 06.2022
Quality Assurance/NPD
Tassal Group
11.2020 - 02.2022
Quality Assurance Associate
Marley Spoon
05.2020 - 11.2020
Quality Chemist
Ingredion ANZ Pty Ltd
11.2016 - 01.2020
Executive, Quality Control
CG Brewery (Nepal) Pty Ltd
05.2012 - 07.2013
B.Tech. - Biotechnology
Kathmandu University
Msc - Biotechnology
Bangalore University, REVA-ISM
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