Gary Murphy
Director of Food Safety and Quality, Old World Spices
Gary has been part of the food and beverage industry for the last 26 + years working with a variety of products and processes. Beverages (hot fill, cold fill, powdered and frozen) Cereal (flaked and extruded) Pastry snacks. Protein bars, extruded plant-based proteins, agglomerated powdered ingredients, now spice blends and sauces.
He started as a line employee running a labeler and due to a background in database programming was brought into the Quality team to manage a project to implement SPC data collection on the floor. The software that we were using was in a database similar to the ones he used to program. Quality stuck and he stuck to Quality becoming Quality Supervisor and then Manager.
Later moved into a Contract Manufacturing role where he was responsible for multiple contract manufacturing locations. Now as director of Food Safety and Quality with OWS Foods, he has the opportunity to use all of the experiences that I have had and build our programs for the future.
He started as a line employee running a labeler and due to a background in database programming was brought into the Quality team to manage a project to implement SPC data collection on the floor. The software that we were using was in a database similar to the ones he used to program. Quality stuck and he stuck to Quality becoming Quality Supervisor and then Manager.
Later moved into a Contract Manufacturing role where he was responsible for multiple contract manufacturing locations. Now as director of Food Safety and Quality with OWS Foods, he has the opportunity to use all of the experiences that I have had and build our programs for the future.