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Luan Nguyen

Modesto

Summary

  • Professional with strong background in food safety and quality assurance. Skilled in hazard analysis, compliance auditing, and regulatory standards. Known for fostering team collaboration and driving results. Highly adaptable and reliable, with focus on continuous improvement and safety protocols.


  • Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Food Safety Manager

Frito Lay
09.2013 - Current
  • Train 1500+ employees awareness on food safety standards/practices by conducting regular training sessions and self inspections.
  • Develop guardrails/processes that ensure a production of well over 800,000 lbs safe and legal and of the highest quality product daily
  • Develop robust food safety programs to ensure the plant executes quality/food safely programs to adhere to corporate, state, local and federal standards.
  • Manage a diverse work force comprises of 160+ quality/food safety professionals that has over 4 millions dollars in yearly pay roll budget
  • Manage the department yearly supply budget of over a million dollars
  • Managed multi vendor relationships effectively, evaluating their performance/service based on predefined criteria related to food safety standards.

Processing Manager

Frito Lay
06.2011 - 09.2013
  • Manage 26 highly skilled technicians that operate the most complex Universal Tortilla Chip processing department in the plant. .
  • Develop run right process that improve the department operating effeciently by maximizing throughput and reduce down time
  • Lead the department Kaizen event identify waste that lead to a reduction of wasted by 5% thus improve the department productivity and efficiency
  • Analyzed and compiled complaints data to continuously optimize processes that improve the department product quality. Ranked #1 in the country quality complaint frequency in consecutive years
  • Collaborate with other department within the supply chain to ensure accuracy of daily production that meet sales demand

Extruded Packaging Manager

Frito Lay
10.2008 - 06.2011
  • Managed packaging labor budgets of 60 packaging opeators, financial tracking, and reporting for all aspects related to the Packaging Department''s operations..
  • Achieved 3 successful launches packaging automation projects. A total of 24 packaging automation tubes that worth over20 million dollar. Laid the foundation for the site future automation projects.
  • Collaborate with other function to ensure seamless transition from manual packaging to automation from the people and equipment perspective

Warehouse Manager 3rd Shift

Frito Lay
11.2006 - 10.2008
  • Manage a team of 30 warehousers
  • Redesigned warehouse layout to maximize space utilization, Create lane purity to improve cases handling per hour and optimize processes.
  • Led the team to Frito Lay nation wide top quartile in warehouse key performance metrics such as cases ship per hours, cases handle per hour

Battalion Assistant Operation Officer

Untied States Army
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Responsible for the training and operation of 200+ soldiers of the 78th Signal BattalionS
  • Specifically responsible the unit readiness status by conducting monthly progress report to HQ on the unit readiness
  • Secured 1 million dollars funding from the GWOT(Global War On Terrorism) funds for a Land Mobile Radio project that equip tactical communications for 9 Army installations 1st responders( Military Police, Army Installations Security Forces, Fire Departments and Medical Services)

Platoon Leader

United States Army
12.2001 - 12.2002
  • Responsible for the training and developing of 45 soldiers in a tactical communication in the US Army Korea.
  • Provided long haul tactical communication for the 2nd Republic Of Korea Army
  • Supported 2 major joint theatres exercises in Korea that provide long haul communication for artillery units

Education

US Army Communication Systems

United States Army Basic Signal Officer School
Fort Gordon GA
12-2001

No Degree - Leadership & Basic Army Tactics

United States Army Officer Candidate School
Fort Benning, GA
06-2001

Basic Training

United States Army
Fort Knox
04-2001

Bachelor of Science - Biology

University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
12-1998

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Food safety crisis management
  • Cross-contamination prevention
  • Pest control management
  • Sanitation management
  • Allergen control
  • Pathogen testing
  • HACCP implementation
  • Traceability procedures
  • Food defense strategies
  • Problem-solving
  • Strong data analytics skills

Accomplishments

  • Led the Modesto Frito Lay site to 6 Quality/Food Safety awards from 2013-2025
  • Achieve Frito Lay North America top quartile in the in terms of labor cost per pound.
  • Secure millions of funds and manage multiple large scale projects in the United States Army and Frito Lay

Certification

  • Kaizen Leader
  • HAACP
  • PCQI

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Vietnamese
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Quality Food Safety Manager

Frito Lay
09.2013 - Current

Processing Manager

Frito Lay
06.2011 - 09.2013

Extruded Packaging Manager

Frito Lay
10.2008 - 06.2011

Warehouse Manager 3rd Shift

Frito Lay
11.2006 - 10.2008

Battalion Assistant Operation Officer

Untied States Army
01.2003 - 01.2006

Platoon Leader

United States Army
12.2001 - 12.2002

US Army Communication Systems

United States Army Basic Signal Officer School

No Degree - Leadership & Basic Army Tactics

United States Army Officer Candidate School

Basic Training

United States Army

Bachelor of Science - Biology

University of South Carolina

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