I am a Food Safety Manager at Western Growers. Where I work on developing guidance documents and science projects that support that produce industry.
I graduated with PhD in Food Science & M.S in Applied Statistics from the University of Illinois. Previously I worked in the areas of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance for 3 years. I obtained my B.S in Food Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of expertise include: Risk Assessment, Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Product Specifications, Labeling.
5+ years of research experience in the areas of quantitative microbial risk assessment, and food process modeling in R and Python.
Familiar with data science tasks such as: data cleaning, data visualization, data analysis, linear regression, classification algorithms