I specialize in microbiology quality assurance and control, and get a kick out of assisting pharmaceutical and FMCG companies in streamlining their processes and making them audit ready.

My goal is to ensure timely product releases while maintaining an audit-ready state, thereby reducing OOS incidents, minimizing audit observations, and ultimately saving costs.

Keeping up with the latest developments in the pharmaceutical and food manufacturing industries is a passion of mine. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and staying abreast of the evolving rules, regulations, and guidelines.

I quickly progressed to Senior Microbiologist, leading a team of 12-15 individuals. I then transitioned into project-based work as a Quality Assurance Microbiologist.  Later I moved up to Microbiology Team Leader position. Due a role redundancy in 2012 derailing things, I decided to create this website to share my knowledge and experience.

During Covid I secured a Quality Coordinator role with a dairy producer in regional Victoria. From October 2022 to January 2025, this included a secondment to a sister site in Melbourne as a Quality Manager.

I have worked in both generic sterile (FDA) and novel non-sterile production (TGA/EU) plants, where I have conducted equipment and process validations, staff training, audits, and honed my passion for documentation.

My area of expertise includes USP1116, ISO13408, ISO14644, ISO14698, ISO17025, ISO9000, PIC’s, HACCP and SQF. I am an adept and trained internal auditor and a certified trainer of small groups.

As well as my Bachelor of Science, I have a Diploma in graphic design, which emphasizes visual communication, as well as certification in training small groups. I have also accumulated valuable experience working as a second-level technical support engineer in the IT industry for several years.  At home I host my own LLM AI’s, mail, media and web servers for fun.