bakery technologist

i am a bakery technologist a lebanese male from london south bank university. i am looking for a consultancy job or for a start up for a bakery from small, medium or full automated. please find below my resume and contact details

AHMAD ISSA

El Mina Street Tripoli, Lebanon

, 009613590851 available after 3 noon

aissa1978@hotmail.com
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Passed General Certificates of Education in Physics, Chemistry and Applied Mathematics

University Of London, London, England

Food and Bakery technologist

London South Bank University, London, England

City & Guilds, Food Science and Hygiene, Master Baker

London South Bank University, London, England

EXPERIENCE

(Project manager), Cali food, bir hasan , Beirut, Lebanon .( June 2009- till present )

(An industry into the production of prep roofed frozen dough’s; part baked and fully baked long shelf life products)

Duties and responsibilities;

● Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.

●Define project scopes, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management.

●Draft and submit project proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes when necessary

●Determine and assess need for additional staff or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.

●delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel

●sourcing and selection of bakery production lines and lab set up for the project.

● Provide organisational chart for operation of industry.

●Responsible for commissioning and starting up of bun roll, croissants, grissini and baguette production lines.

● Recruitment and training of bakery staffs (plant management, production managers, quality assurance, quality controllers, production controllers, and bakery supervisors).

(Plant bakery Manager), Malco Group Pain d’ or Factory
Choueifat, Lebanon (2005 – May 2009). (Senior food & bakery technologist). Saudi malco Riyadh, KSA (2005 till June 2009)

( Lebanese owned Industry operating locally with over 350 employees producing for the local and export market, frozen laminated products, breads and long shelf life cakes and croissants. Saudi malco group a sister company operating with machineries over 100 million dollars producing all variety of breads, pastry and confectionary for the Saudi market)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Member for budget
• Research and product development
• Development of new packaging
• Member for costing
• Responsible for raw material selection
• Responsible for production of fully, partially baked and frozen dough on automated production lines
• Control and direct manufacturing personnel through production managers.
• Coordination with logistics for purchase and procurement
• Reduced down time from 13% to 9% and waste from 12% to 4%
• Responsible for inventory control of Raw Material & Production Modules

• Responsible for QA systems improvements & taking care of quality control
• getting maximum use of machinery and manpower & optimizing their performance
• Coordination with machine manufacturers to installed machines in extension of the plant
• Coordination with sales and marketing to develop and promote new products and find packaging solutions
• Control and improve the HACCP and ISO system in the plant
• Coordination with Human Resources for the planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training and performance appraisal of all production staff within the group
• Responsible for selection of machinery specifications for Malco Saudi project to meet with company portfolio.
• Commissioned a hundred million dollar bakery in Riyadh Ksa producing various bakery and confectionary products for Saudi market.
The facilities include the following:
1, Cape way line- fully automated line with 4000 bread/hr capacity.
2. Make up line AMS bun plant for various buns and roll production.
3. Mecatherm Line- fully automated line with VMI mixing station for production of baguettes.
4. Comas/ Tonelli line for commercial cup cake production
5. Fritsch line for production of prep roofed and fully baked packed long shelf life products
• recruitment manpower required from Philippines and India for production operation
• Design and set up laboratory equipments for testing of raw and finished products.

Bakery Technologist the National Bakery School
London, United Kingdom 2003-2005

(A bakery college based in south London, borough road se1 0ap for understanding and training of bread, patisserie, biscuit and chocolate technology)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Food Safety and hygiene
• Apply techniques for frozen dough’s, sourdoughs, prep roofed and partially baked technology.
● Production planning techniques
• Pastry, confectionary and chocolate technology
• Material selection for bakery application
• Understanding, selecting and handling lab equipments for different applications
• Implementation of HACCP and ISO systems & regulations
• Apply cleaning methods of bakery tools and equipment
• Recipe calculation methods for costing and accountability
● Packaging and labelling techniques
● standardizing flour with bakery additives and enzymes.
● Technology of bread improvers (know how of producing improvers with selection of standard bakery enzymes, oxidising agents, emulsifies and astringent agents to suit each production process)

Production Manager Asda Bakery
Colindale London, United Kingdom 2002- 2003

( Bread and confectionary industry located in north London into the production and supply of frozen breads, biscuits and other confectionary items for over 100 stores spread all over the kingdom)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Produce a variety of breads, such as Baguettes, Ciabattas, Pan Breads, Buns, Croissants, Danish Pastries, Puff Pastries, Pizzas, Cakes, Biscuits and others on automated lines.
• Quality assurance department operation
• Recipe modifications and maintaining product quality
• Supervise production personnel in a 2 shift plant operation with over 150 employees.
• inspect bakery raw material and store at premises.
• Downtime reduced from 11% to 8% and waste from 5.8% to 3.8%
• Implementation of ISO and HACCP
• Member of the research and development centre

Production Manager (Deli Foods)
Lagos, Nigeria 1998-2002

(Biscuit industry consisting of 4 automated plants into the production of soft dough biscuit production, located in the heart of Nigeria Lagos and operating with over 400 employees. Lately a shared company and partially owned by mcvities biscuits united kingdom)

Duties and Responsibilities:

. Position staff in designated production departments
. Control mixing, baking, packaging and creaming departments for 3 automated biscuit lines
. Improve quality systems and procedures
. Resolve customer complaints
. Responsible for training and development of employees
. Maximize use and performance of machinery and manpower
. Coordinate new product development with Sales and Marketing
. Maintain hygiene standards & comply with food safety regulations.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Languages: Proficient in English and Arabic
Computer Skills: Good knowledge of MS Office Suite and related applications. Basic knowledge of Oracle program.

REFERENCES

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