Video profile | As CDR’s Dairy Safety & Quality Coordinator, Alex O’Brien assists dairy plants with food safety plans, quality issues, and performs third party audits. Alex has worked in the food industry for the past 10 years, serving as a quality assurance supervisor and quality assurance manager. He has worked at Kerry Ingredients and Maple Leaf Cheese Company. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 with a Food Science degree. Alex is a Wisconsin native with long family ties to the dairy industry. His grandparents and parents previously dairy farmed in east-central Wisconsin and his in-laws are dairy farmers.

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