Brad Stawick

About Brad Stawick

In the continually evolving world of food regulations, a thorough understanding of current compliance solutions is essential. I am willing and able to assist navigating this complex industry.As a food microbiologist and quality professional with over 25 years of experience in senior management, laboratory operations, quality and safety, I bring a background of creative solutions to your unique challenges. My focus on quality, operational excellence, and efficiency improvement brings highly defensible, profitable, reliable results to the table. Quality and operational professionals are often at odds. Having sat on both sides of the table, I am able to navigate those complex waters for solutions both see as wins! You can have strong quality with operational excellence!Specialties: • Quality system development• Cross-functional leadership• Collaborative management• Laboratory automation• Auditing• Training and development• Laboratory safety• Efficiency improvement• Senior management• P&L• Key performance indicators• Root cause analysis• Regulatory compliance• Food microbiology• Nutritional labeling• Food chemistry• Statistical process control• Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)• Strategic planning• Mergers and acquisition

Experience

1. Senior Director, Research Institute

   Aoac International

   Dec 2023 — Present

Education

• Quantic School of Business and Technology

  Executive MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations

  2020 — 2021

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  BS, Biology

  1988 — 1992

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  MS, Food Science

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Lims
• Haccp
• Good Laboratory Practice (Glp)
• Laboratory Skills
• Pcr
• Food Safety
• Analytical Chemistry
• Food Science
• Quality Auditing
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (Haccp)
• Chemistry
• Biotechnology
• Standard Operating Procedure (Sop)
• Challenge Studies
• Food Manufacturing
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Auditing
• U.s. Food and Drug Administration (Fda)
• Microbiology
• Life Sciences
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Management
• Hplc
• Laboratory Safety
• Shelf Life
• Fsma
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
• Quality Control
• Gmp
• Continuous Improvement
• Food Processing
• Laboratory
• Laboratory Automation
• Sop
• Fda
• Food
• Food Industry
• Food Technology
• Lifesciences
• Validation