Marianne O’Halloran
11 December 2016To whom it may ConcernCarol Cullen: Quality Assurance and Health and Safety ConsultantIce Construction Ltd is a small civil construction company which specialises in; bridge repairs and strengthening, tunnel repairs and lining, work around power generating facilities, small suspension bridge construction, timber bridge and boardwalk construction, concrete work, rock fall protection work and industrial abseiling.We therefore carry out a wide variety of work, much of which is specialist and hasdifficult access. We engaged Carol Cullen to prepare Health and Safety and Quality Assurance systemsto cover our variety of work. With her assistance we achieved Accident CompensationCorporation Tertiary Level accreditation and ISO 9001 quality accreditation in 2005. These are both externally audited systems. Carol continued to run our systems, take monthly health and safety meetings with all ourstaff and maintain our accreditations until she left for Australia in 2007.Yours faithfully,Marianne O’HalloranContracts Manager
Geerten Lengkeek
Carol is a very detailed person who is focused on the outcome and not easily led off-topic. She has conducted numerous audits in the plants I have ran and has always added value in terms of systems and process improvements. I highly recommend Carol as an auditor.
Ian Treloar
Carol Cullen was a member of our internal quality audit team in the early 1990’s. Our business was the supply of specialised milk products to the international dairy food ingredient business. Carol participated effectively in this team for more than 3 years. Her specialist skills were food safety, technical aspects of milk composition and laboratory test processes. She was a competent member of the audit team. Ian Treloar Global Supply Chain Integrity Specialist Fonterra Co-operative Limited
Trish Astwood
When Carol worked at Edgecumbe, the site had a group of internal auditors to help us meet the requirements for our customers and the ISO Quality Standards . A regular internal audit programme was in place and Carol was a key part of the audit team. Carol was always well prepared , objective & thorough in her approach. She went through the requirements in detail comparing what we were doing with what the standard required. Trish AstwoodCheese TechnicalManager, National Product Technical
Scott Hern
Production Manager, Austchilli Pty Ltd To whom this may concern, This document is a testimonial for the professional work Carol has conducted within our company at Austchilli. Carol was contracted 6 years ago to fast track systems for our newly implemented retail processing line. Carol guided our team through the SQF and HACCP requirements. This commenced in assistance with the initial product formulations and testing regimes, through to the operations of process controls with staff and systems development. This also included system upgrades with changes to the standards, including document control and internal auditing. Customer visits and external audits is where Carol excelled. Our site achieving a rating of Excellence in our last audit. Carol ensured our company complied and supported with a well-structured corrective action process. Carol was also a key person in guiding our team to implement ‘High Risk’ compliance. For the last two years Carol has overseen our entire site with best practice of Quality standards in all divisions of our company. Carol has developed systems to action customer requests with heat testing of our chillies, product testing and coaching and educating our teams and developing a structured process to action customer complaints that details root cause analysis. Carol is a very professional individual that consistently delivers above expectations.
Rosemary Hancock
Executive Manager, NZ Institute of Food Science & Technology Inc I have worked with Carol to deliver conferences and training courses for the NZ Dairy Industry. She is organised, highly knowledgeable in her field, always professional and can be trusted to deliver on time. I have no hesitation in recommending Carol. Rosemary was with another company when working with Carol at QA Carol
Ian Gaffel
General Manager at Austchilli Carol is a consumate professional without the pretentions that often accompanies this level of knowledge and experience. She owns the challenges and workload pressures of our business while she is working here. I always feel comfortable in trusting Carol to obtain the best results for the business, a situation I am yet to feel with any other Consultant. Ian was Carol’s client
Geerten Lengkeek
General Manager Bay of Plenty at INTENT Group Ltd I’ve worked with Carol and have found her a very capable and knowledgeable Quality Systems professional. She has a critical mind and attention to detail, both attributes that are of critical importance in her profession. Geerten worked with Carol at QA Carol
Graeme Milne
Professional Director Carol held senior positions in our Laboratory and Quality departments at Bay Milk Products. Carol’s positive can do attitude combined with great analytical skills and energy meant that she was an invaluable member of our team. Great to see how Carol has moved on to bigger and greater things with her own company. Graeme managed Carol indirectly at QA Carol
Steve Flint
Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology at Massey University I have worked with Carol on a number of occaisions when we were both working for Fonterra. Carol has a great depth of knowledge in the quality systems area and is very practical in her approach in auditiing. Carol works well in a team, is keen to contribute but also listens to others. I can confidently recommend Carol for any QA role. Steve worked with Carol at QA Carol