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Ganga Chandran
Senior Microbiology Technician
Flat 705, Al Zeyoudi Building New Sakkam Area
Summary
Professional Food Microbiology technician looking to take on new responsibilities and utilize skills in microbiology techniques, terminology, quality control, and assurance and actively participate in projects for developing products. Competent in setting up and undertaking controlled experiments and trials. Monitoring operations to ensure it meets production standards. Proficient in monitoring, inspecting, and proposing measures to correct or improve a final product to meet established quality standards. Capable of collecting, preparing, testing samples, and analyzing results. Have experience in maintaining, calibrating, cleaning, and testing the sterility of the equipment.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
4
4
Languages
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Microbiology Technician
AsureQuality Ltd
South West Auckland
11.2021 - 01.2023
- Supervise and conduct research on various microbiological activities on regular basis.
- Supervise and train lab assistants and lab technicians
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Develop and maintain validation in all protocols for various environmental controls.
- Responsible for testing of food samples using various microbiological analysis.
- Prepared sample for processing and maintained documentation of process to facilitate analysis procedures.
- Used aseptic technique to perform lab testing on dairy products, meats, raw food products, processed foods and pharmaceuticals.
- Prepared food samples of diverse matrixes of various microbiological testing including salmonella, listeria, cronobacter sakazakii, Escherichia coli, shigella and various other bacteria.
- Recorded, analyzed and interpreted data.
- Used RO water system for media preparation for microbiology testing.
- Taking daily environmental hygiene swabs and temperature checking
- Boosted lab efficiency by organizing, restocking and maintaining laboratory environments and equipment.
- Making controls, reading plates and finalizing results.
- Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Extensively utilized LIMS for entry of information retrieval of reports and tracking of various lab reagents
- Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
Production Assistant
Mount Cook Alpine Salmon (Processing Plant)
Timaru
10.2020 - 11.2021
- Maintaining safe working environment.
- Fish onboard processing(Pin boning, Trimming, Portion cutting, Scraping, Chunking).
- Maintain quality of fillets while processing.
- Ensuring quality of products while packing.
- Upholding sanitary and safety standards in completing all tasks.
- Clean equipment and work area at end of shift.
- Operated industry-specific machines such as Vacuum packaging machine, Thermoformer, Marel scale, Spiral Freezer, Portion Machine.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
Pizza Maker and CSR
GLO Foods Limited (Domino's Pizza)
Otago
04.2019 - 10.2020
- Maintain hygiene and clean environment
- Preparing Pizza
- Checking quality of raw products
- Implementing basic food safety rules
- Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns.
Education
MBA - Operations And Production
Amity University
Noida, UP 06.2023 - 06.2025
Post Graduate Diploma - Food Science
University of Otago
Otago, New Zealand. 02.2019 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Science - Botany And Biotechnology
University of Kerala
Kerala, India. 06.2015 - 06.2018
Skills
Quality Control
Quality Assurance
GMP
Microbial Inoculation, Plating/Streaking
Food Safety
PCR
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Absorption Spectrophotometry
Gel Filtration Chromatography
ELISA
Weighing and labeling
Food safety and sanitation
Critical thinking
Collaboration
Software
Certification
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points(HACCP, Level 3)
Timeline
MBA - Operations And Production
Amity University
06.2023 - 06.2025
Senior Microbiology Technician
AsureQuality Ltd
11.2021 - 01.2023
Production Assistant
Mount Cook Alpine Salmon (Processing Plant)
10.2020 - 11.2021
Pizza Maker and CSR
GLO Foods Limited (Domino's Pizza)
04.2019 - 10.2020
Post Graduate Diploma - Food Science
University of Otago
02.2019 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Science - Botany And Biotechnology
University of Kerala
06.2015 - 06.2018