Nishal's CV
Profile summary
Strategic Food Technology Professional with 2 years of experience shaping food processing outcomes. Known for expertise in thermal sterilization, quality control, and production planning. Multilingual professional fluent in 4 languages. Committed to maintaining high standards of food safety and operational efficiency across all processing cycles.
Career highlights
Food Processing Operations: Directed high-throughput fresh food processing operations across poultry, meat, seafood, and fruit and vegetable sections at a specialized facility in Mumbai.
Quality Control and Compliance: Managed quality control at the facility alongside production, establishing hygiene controls and corrective action protocols that reduced customer complaints from 25% to 10%.
Thermal Processing Control: Controlled critical control point parameters including temperature, pressure, holding time, and cooling cycles during 70-minute retort operations to ensure commercial sterility.
Food Safety Certifications: Maintains professional credentials including ISO 22000:2018 internal auditor certification, level 3 HACCP, and level 4 advanced food safety management qualifications.
Key skills
Professional experience
Shaped business strategy, steering the small-scale food processing venture through full operational cycles. Directed brand identity and managed production, procurement, and distribution directly.
- Developed and standardized regular and turmeric coconut paste variants with consistent formulation and preservative-free positioning.
- Managed end-to-end production including fresh coconut procurement, small-batch processing, hygiene checks, and pouch packaging.
- Created the Cocograte brand by designing product labels, selecting packaging formats, and building retail-ready presentations.
- Handled direct retail sales and distribution by building shop relationships, collecting feedback, and managing order fulfilment.
Directed retort production and bakery operations within a manufacturing environment, overseeing batch preparation, thermal processing control, and end-to-end product manufacturing. Coordinated activities across cooking, filling, sealing, and packaging sections while ensuring adherence to food safety standards and operational workflows.
- Controlled critical control point parameters including temperature, pressure, holding time, and cooling cycles during 70-minute retort operations to ensure commercial sterility.
- Supervised bakery production from ingredient verification and dough mixing to baking and packing while conducting quality checks on moisture content and texture.
- Identified and calculated critical points and critical control points within the retort packing process and supported new product development for a seasonal buttermilk-based drink for dogs.
Reported to operations management while overseeing processing operations across poultry, meat, seafood, and produce sections. Managed daily production across multiple shifts, coordinated resource allocation, and maintained cold chain integrity, GMP compliance, and HACCP-aligned quality checks.
- Supervised daily production across multiple shifts, allocating manpower based on real-time requirements to maintain continuous workflow and meet output targets without unplanned stoppages.
- Managed quality control at the Andheri mini-factory alongside production, establishing hygiene controls and corrective action protocols that reduced customer complaints from 25% to 10%.
- Established operational procedures, production planning, and manpower management as sole supervisor for the newly set up Fruits and Vegetables section at the upgraded facility.
Observed industrial-scale fruit processing operations within an export-oriented aseptic technology facility, focusing on production flows and inter-departmental coordination.
- Evaluated raw material condition, freshness, and quality during receiving inspections before processing.
- Monitored critical parameters including temperature, hygiene, and processing time during routine quality checks.
Education
Food Technology
- 2019 – 2023
- CGPA 8.37
- Grade A
Computer Science
- 2017 – 2019
- 80%
- 2016 – 2017
- 94%
Certifications
Languages
English · Professional
Hindi · Professional
Malayalam · Professional
Tamil · Professional