Carin Gerhardt - Freelance Business Consultant in California, United States

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Profile Summary

Food engineer with 4-Year experience in R&D innovation, project management (PM) and consulting, with more than 1000 R&D innovation project/business plans. My team created a new PMO for a >100-project portfolio, designing all processes/standards and enabling a strong skill set in PM. I’ve revised and supervised applied R&D innovation projects in many different areas such as renewable energies, nanotechnology, biofuels, polymers and automation.

My technical food background is structured in 3 main areas:
1)	5-Year hands-on experience supervising the organic standards compliance of a fresh produce farm and jam industry, the quality of final fresh products and being responsible for jam R&D and the food safety standards compliance.
2)	6-Year hands-on experience in natural disinfectants and antibacterial lab testing, with a Master´s degree in exploring the efficacy of organic citrus extracts as a new food disinfectant.
3)	1-Year hands-on experience in a multinational poultry processing industry, where I collaborated supervising and adjusting production/equipment parameters for higher productivity and yields, led the 5S quality program , planned/executed trainings and developed a new sodium-reduced product.

My Engineering and Master’s degrees were obtained in the #2 best university of Brazil called UFRGS. I am a certified innovation facilitator in the FORTH method developed by Gijs Van Wulfen and have more than 700h consulting experience in innovation management applying a method transferred by Strategos, one of the world's leading strategy & innovation advisory firms founded by Gary Hamel.

Subject Matter Expertise

Services

Writing
Research
Consulting
Data & AI
Product Development

Work Experience

Senior Associate

TERRA Food & Agtech at RocketSpace

January 2018 - Present

Columnist

Sra Inovadeira

January 2017 - Present

Project analyst

SENAI-RS

March 2013 - October 2016

Project analyst

SENAI - RS

March 2013 - October 2016

Technical supervisor

Sitio das Acacias Organics

June 2011 - October 2016

Technical supervisor

Sitio das Acacias

July 2011 - August 2016

Teacher/Graduate professor (contract)

Many

March 2011 - July 2016

Graduate fellow

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Food hygiene lab

March 2011 - May 2013

Trainee

JBS Foods (previous Doux S/A)

October 2009 - October 2010

Undergraduate research assistant

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Food microbiology lab

June 2008 - October 2009

Undergraduate research assistant

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Food hygiene lab

June 2006 - August 2008

Undergraduate research assistant

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Food engineering lab

June 2004 - October 2004

Education

Master's Degree in Food Science and Technology

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

March 2011 - May 2013

Master's Degree in Food Science and Technology (Food Science and Technology)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

March 2011 - May 2013

Licentiate in pedagogy (Education)

Centro Universitário Feevale

March 2011 - July 2012

Pedagogy licentiate

FEEVALE University

March 2011 - July 2012

Food Engineering

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

March 2004 - December 2010

Food Engineering (Food Science and Technology)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

March 2004 - December 2010

Certifications

Certification details not provided.