Dan Osowski
Carol Stream
Summary
Corporate quality management professional with robust background in developing and implementing quality assurance processes. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adapting effectively to changing needs. Skilled in process optimization, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. Reliable and capable of driving impactful quality initiatives.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Corporate Quality Manager
Mondelez International
04.2023 - Current
- Responsible for managing E2E quality, food safety, and commercialization with external manufacturing (EM) and co-packer operations Quality oversight.
- Developed a risk-based approach to provide leadership, coaching, capability building for compliance reviews with sites across the NA network
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to lead improvements at to eliminate quality defects and brand project commercialization.
- Support consumer/customer complaint reductions strategies at assigned sites.
- Perform audit and coach sites with RCA and CAPA implementation.
- Maintain site KPIs, certification and compliance requirements to company, local and international standards
- Manage leadership and provided feedback to key stakeholders for quality escalations and SSMT as needed
Head of Quality
Bauderer Packaging
08.2021 - 04.2023
- Trained and led a team of three (3) Quality Supervisors, twelve (12) Quality Technicians and three (3) sanitation employees
- Developed and implemented procedural systems essential to BRC and FSMA compliance to include: CAPA, Customer Complaints, Recall, QC Holds, Environmental Monitoring & Positive Release Program
- Led customer and 3rd party certification audits. Drafted and monitored corrective action activities.
- Elevated site’s BRC score to from a Grade “C” to “AA” in the first year
Supplier & Contract Manufacturing QA Manager (think!)
Glanbia Performance Nutrition (think!)
07.2019 - 08.2021
- Managed food safety and quality expectations for contract manufacturers
- Provided quality oversight for new slabbed and extruded protein bar product commercialization and line extensions
- Managed integration of think! Quality operations into GPN corporate group.
QA Contract Manufacturing and Business Unit Support Supervisor
NOW Foods
11.2016 - 07.2019
- Trained and lead a team of four (4) Quality Assurance Specialists
- Managed $90 MM portfolio of contract manufacturing operations for solid dose, food, and cosmetic products to include:
- Sourcing and capacity evaluation
- Site audits and corrective action follow-up
- Negotiation of Quality Agreements
QA Contract Manufacturing Specialist
NOW Foods
12.2014 - 11.2016
- Primary quality assurance liaison for contract manufacturers (CM)
- Collaborated on reformulation of existing products aimed at product and process improvement
- Developed CM and supplier qualification program for bulk product and raw materials
- Audited contract manufacturing facilities for compliance against 21 CFR 11, 111, 117
Education
BSc - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Illinois State University
Normal, IL01.2009
Skills
- Oracle E-business Suite, SAP, ETQ, TraceGains, TrackWise, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Access), SharePoint, Adobe Suite, DocuSign, Minitab, ChemStation, LabVantage
- CAPA management
- Customer satisfaction
- Quality tools
- Quality management systems
- Quality audits
- Product quality
- Problem-solving
- Supplier relationship management
- Continuous improvement
- Team Training
- Regulatory compliance
Certification
- Preventative Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) – FSPCA (2020)
- Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) – American Society for Quality (2018)
- HACCP Certification – BD Food Safety Consultants LLC. (Original certification 2016 / Recertified 2022)
Affiliations
- American Chemical Society (ACS): 2006-Present
- American Society for Quality (ASQ): 2018-Present
Publications
- Symersky J
- Osowski D
- Walters D.E, Mueller D., “Oligomycin Frames a Common Drug Binding Site in the ATP Synthase” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (35) 13961-13965 (2012)
- Symersky J, Pagadala V, Osowski D, Krah A, Meier T, Faraldo-Gomez J, Mueller D., “High Resolution Structure of the C8 Ring of the Yeast Mitochondrial ATP Synthase in the Open Conformation.” Nature - Structural and Molecular Biology, 19, 485-491 (2012)
Training
- Conducted Vulnerability Assessments using Key Activity Types – International Food Protection Training Institute (ifpti) – (2020)
- Identification and Explanation of Mitigation Strategies – ifpti (2020)
- GFSI Internal Auditing and GMPs – AIB International (2018)
- FSMA: The Pathway to Compliance – AIB International (2017)
Timeline
Corporate Quality Manager
Mondelez International
04.2023 - Current
Head of Quality
Bauderer Packaging
08.2021 - 04.2023
Supplier & Contract Manufacturing QA Manager (think!)
Glanbia Performance Nutrition (think!)
07.2019 - 08.2021
QA Contract Manufacturing and Business Unit Support Supervisor
NOW Foods
11.2016 - 07.2019
QA Contract Manufacturing Specialist
NOW Foods
12.2014 - 11.2016
BSc - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Illinois State University
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