La Wanda Phillip
About
La Wanda Phillip is from Atlanta Metropolitan Area. LaWanda is currently Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance at Sugar Bowl Bakery, located in San Francisco Bay Area. In LaWanda's previous role as a Food Safety Auditor at Food Defenders, LaWanda worked in Atlanta Metropolitan Area until Mar 2023. Prior to joining Food Defenders, LaWanda was a Director of Quality and Food Safety at DöhlerGroup and held the position of Director of Quality and Food Safety at United States. Prior to that, LaWanda was a Director of Quality Assurance at CSM Bakery Solutions, based in Tucker, Georgia, United States from Jan 2016 to Jan 2019. LaWanda started working as Regional Quality Manager –Tucker, GA at CSM Bakery Solutions in Jan 2014. From Jan 2008 to Jan 2014, LaWanda was Quality and Food Safety Manager at Kellogg Company, based in San Jose, California, United States.
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La Wanda Phillip's current jobs
Accountable for the development and management of Quality and Food Safety Programs for North America. Full leadership and supervision of the Quality Assurance and Food Safety activities. Creates, develops, and maintains the Quality Management System. Engages with customers, client service and operations leadership directly in the resolution of quality complaints. Drives cross-functional teams to perform effective root-cause analysis, corrective action implementation, and validate solution effectiveness for both internal and external quality issues. Ensures that established manufacturing inspection, sampling and process control procedures are followed and are driving expected outcomes.
La Wanda Phillip's past jobs
• Conducted comprehensive audits for food manufacturing facilities and restaurants, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and GFSI-benchmarked standards. • Generated actionable audit insights and compliance road maps, facilitating faster certification readiness for clients. • Guided organizations in addressing systemic compliance gaps through scalable solutions, enhancing food safety systems.
Areas of Responsibility: Establish and delivers all food safety, sanitation, and quality strategies across leading frozen food brands manufacturing facilities. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, manage and lead direct reports and processes including Corporate Food Safety initiatives, HACCP, SQF, Quality Systems, and compliance to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Work with suppliers to improve incoming raw materials and address packaging issues. Accomplishments: • Completed FDA Visit successfully without receiving any citations, nonconformity, or 483s. • Achieved SQF 2000 Recertification and passed annual internal audit. • Reduced Consumer Complaints by 30% through preventive and corrective actions • Delivered Continuous Improvement Projects focused on Sanitation yielding $150,000 in savings • Drove R&D new product launches Kellogg's® Eggo® Wafflers™ Brown Sugar Cinnamon Roll • Developed and implemented a Compliance Matrix Calendar to manage and measure all areas related to Environmental Monitoring, FSMA, Food Safety, HACCP, SQF, SOCs, 5s and SPCs.