Apr 2025 – Nov 2025 · 7 mos

Aug 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Training and Development Committee Lead.
• Coordinated and successfully implemented several training programs across 95 stores in upstate New York. Change management was a core function of the delivery of these programs. High energy and identifying the value of the new training programs was critical to ensure all attendees were onboard immediately.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Overseeing a network of stores across Upstate New York with a focus on cost leadership.
• Fostered an environment for continual personnel growth. Achieved consistent sales growth and ensured commercial success of the stores.

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos

Jun 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Mar 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Created a stable and symbiotic relationship between two opposing departments. Represented the 70+ store network to ensure key concerns were discussed. All meetings were solution driven to ensure the business objectives were at the core of all actions to taken. Ideas were piloted and decisions were quickly made to roll out across all stores or fold on the pilot.
• Strong communication skills were key in this role and vital relationship were forged with colleagues in the logistics department.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2025 · 10 yrs 5 mos

Dec 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Working between 2 projects, iFAAM and ODIN. Both projects require a knowledge of allergies, which I have acquired from my PhD career.
• iFAAM - Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management, the world's biggest study of allergies. Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy, by patients and health practitioners, and allergens, by industry, is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. I will be working on the project to evaluate the assocation between maternal and infant nutrition and the development of allergic disease.
• ODIN - Food Based Solutions for Optimal Vitamin D Nutrition and Health through the Life-Cycle. I will be evaluating vitamin D status in early life and development of childhood asthma and allergies.

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

• From 2014-2015 I was the Nutrition and Health course lead, liaising with the Adult Continuing Education staff to ensure
• availability of competent lectures
• modules/lectures delivered would reflect the course
• communicated with attendees during each 8-week course
• compiled a list of participant expectations
• documented all feedback and if possible implemented suggestions in the following course
• Delivered lecturers on
• 1) food labeling,
• 2) diet and physical activity,
• 3) food allergy and food intolerance

Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 · 9 mos

• Worked as part of a team in a double-blind intervention trial for vitamin D. Recruited older adult participants for a study duration of 16 weeks. Administered a screening questionnaire over the telephone. Analysed vitamin D and calcium intake through a food frequencies questionnaire (FFQ) . Contacted participants for baseline, mid- and end-point visits. Provided participants with study supplement at baseline visit and compliance at mid- and end- point visits was determined by a pill count. Clinical assessments were performed at each visit.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Worked as part of a small team in the first prospective birth cohort study in Ireland, Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort. It involved a interdisciplinary team led by a team of principal investigators from pediatrics, nutrition, dermatology, food allergy, neurological and development.
• Postnatal visits involved detailed questioning and clinical assessments (anthropometry, body composition (PEAPOD) and assessing eczema).
• Measured serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in umbilical cord blood by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) technology, a gold standard method method when NIST standard reference materials are applied.
• Conducted data analysis through SPSS, using basic descriptives through regression analysis.
• Attended and presented at conferences nationally.
• Demonstrated to undergraduate Nutritional Science students, provided guidance to final year and MSc students.

Mar 2008 – Sep 2008 · 6 mos

• Worked as part of a team in formulating products for the Nigerian market. Some products required shelf-life stability tests and if failed changes were necessary. Other products were at the baseline stage and needed further development. Traveled to other companies to use pilot plants.Researched and compiled journals to support health claims which were presented to The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)

Dec 2006 – Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 4 mos · West Cork

• Duties involved:
• meeting and greeting customers
• ensured customer satisfaction
• working well with the team (chef, kitchen porter, waiters, bar staff, managers)
• completing the count of the cash register to ensure it was balanced
• stocking the bar
• cleaning the premises