Kitchen Health Inspector

Lead Kitchen Health Inspector — Cascade Valley Health Department

Seattle, WA | January 2024 – Present

• Conducted 320+ comprehensive food safety inspections annually across high-risk culinary operations, reducing critical code violations by 28% through the implementation of risk-based monitoring protocols.
• Led 14 investigations of suspected foodborne illness outbreaks, performing trace-back hazard analyses that identified pathogen sources and resolved cases 5 days faster than department average.
• Partnered with 85 local restaurant operators to design custom HACCP compliance programs, resulting in a 42% decrease in recurring sanitation failures over a 12-month period.
• Streamlined field audit logging by migrating team to Accela Civic Platform, reducing report generation times by 24 minutes per inspection and saving 12 hours of weekly administrative labor.

Food Safety Inspector — Summit Environmental Services

Portland, OR | June 2021 – December 2023

• Inspected 240+ commercial kitchens and food processing facilities annually, ensuring 100% compliance with USDA regulations and the FDA Food Code across all assigned districts.
• Evaluated and updated food safety training curriculums for 180+ hospitality workers, increasing post-training knowledge assessment scores by an average of 34%.
• Investigated 95 customer health complaints regarding local dining venues, implementing corrective action plans that reduced consumer safety risks and code infractions by 22%.
• Authored 45 detailed compliance reports and formal enforcement notices, coordinating with legal counsel to resolve 100% of disputed violations without litigation.

Food safety audits, FDA Food Code compliance, HACCP principles, Environmental health, Pathogen tracing, Public health education, Corrective action plans, Accela Civic Platform, HealthSpace, GIS mapping, Sterile sampling, Temperature monitoring, Regulatory enforcement, Stakeholder communication

District-Wide Food Safety Digitization Campaign

Role: Co-Lead Inspector

Tools: Accela Civic Platform, GIS mapping, iPadOS

Led the migration of 450+ physical inspection files to a cloud database, reducing inspection time by 20% and improving public transparency.

Street Food Vendor HACCP Initiative

Role: Lead Health Inspector

Tools: HACCP guidelines, FDA Food Code, multilingual training booklets

Designed a compliance framework for 120 mobile vendors, reducing safety violations by 35% and foodborne complaints by 50%.

• Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) (2023)
• Certified Professional - Food Safety (CP-FS) (2022)
• Certified HACCP Auditor (CHA) (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Food safety workshops for local community kitchens and shelters (2022–present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice