WaltonDetermined quality management leader overseeing 21 facilities

Overseeing facilities, Reducing quality non-conformances, Improving testing pass rate

Walton is a results-driven Quality Management Executive with 25+ years of experience in cannabis, CPG, and food service industries.
- He also has extensive expertise in new plant start-ups, lean manufacturing, contract manufacturing, project management, quality improvement, and innovation quality.
Walton has an exceptional combination of supplier quality, operations quality, consumer affairs, laboratory, and customer quality leadership.
Walton leads quality management at a premier cannabis company and currently oversees 21 facilities with 8 direct reports.
- He reduced quality non conformances by 50% in 12 months and improved the testing pass rate from 85% to 96% in 12 months.
Walton is experienced with GFSI schemes, including FSSC 22000, BRCGS, and SQF.
- He is also experienced with other quality systems, including ISO 9001, ISO 17025, ISO 22716, and IPEC-PQG.

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