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Expert in Seafood Sourcing & Processing, Carbon Monoxide Seafood Treating Technologies, Fish Traps
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert sells frozen seafood products directly and indirectly. However, ultimately the most valuable product Expert could sell is information. This is especially true if you are a fresh fish processor seeking to improve your product/process quality. His knowledge comes from decades of seafood consulting experience, ranging from locations across the globe. Expert has been instrumental in starting processing facilities, in addition, his consulting has improved the fresh fish processing facilities in many locations over the past several decades, having performed surveys around the world. Broadline Distributors:
A. Expert's School of Fresh Fish: As a restaurant owner or chef, how much do you really know about today's fresh fish?
B. Buying Better: Expert will work with the seafood buyer to help "broaden" the buying line. At times it is easier to go through a broker than to buy direct. He can also source products from specific countries and locations of production, all to spec.
C. Sales: Expert will ride with the salesmen in order to better help them understand product, supply them with reference materials on each product, and work with specific chefs in each account they work. Supermarkets: Fish/Seafood School Curriculum:
A. Health and sanitation
B. Eye appeal of seafood
C. Employee customer interaction
D. Retail case displays
E. Seafood handling - rotation of old and new, utilization of old
F. In-store floor demo's
G Menu planners roam the store offering menu & recipe assistance
H. Assistance to the seafood buyer - take advantage of the seasonality of certain seafoods such as salmon, which is at an all-time low. Expert can assist in planning for high periods of big landings/availabilities. Assistance at this level can be ongoing.
I. Fish cyberspace - Expert can assist a company's webmaster in a seafood-related site. Web-only specials and other promo's entice repeat visits and custom-niche branding. Seafood Processors:
Hire Expert to give you a complete analysis of your processing facilities at your location(s). Upon complete site inspection, He will assess any potential problem areas and recommend immediate to long-range solutions to address these areas of potential growth. Sometimes we as teachers must learn in order to achieve greater success - Teach the TEACHER. Hire Expert to consult with the staff and staff leadership in order to consistently produce the highest levels of quality in meeting increasingly exacting production standards of the highest quality. The Internet has made the world a smaller place. Hire Expert to consult/monitor production facilities, supermarkets and distributors. Mr. Hammmerman will optimize your Sales, Inventories and Packing Lists.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Fayetteville, North Carolina;
Wilmington, North Carolina;
Charleston, South Carolina;
and North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Degree |
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1972
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Bachelor of Arts
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English
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University of South Carolina
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1978
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Bachelor of Arts
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Vocational Education
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Rutgers University
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2008 to
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(Undisclosed)
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owner
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Owner along with culinary graduate daughter, operate a 85 seat restaurant and full line seafood market, utilizing fresh seafood.
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1998 to 2005
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Phillips Foods
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Fish Production International
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Director of Fish Production
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Opened new fish processing plants overseas, trained and taught quality control staff and cutting room personnel, new and innovative processing procedures. Became a carbon monoxide fish techonologist.
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1980 to 1998
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MR.FISH
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Wholesale
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Owner
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Started selling squid and other bait items in the myrtle beach coastal area, then opened a retail and wholesale seafood market.
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1979 to 1981
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United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization of the UNDP
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Bay of Bengal/ Small Scale In-shore Subsistence Fishery
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Master Fisherman - Fish Traps
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Was a fish trap inventor and passive fishing gear innovator, hired to go to Sri Lanka and show the small scale in-shore subsistence fisherman how to use passive fishing gear, meaning letting the gear catch the fish rather than hook and line. He also helped develop artisanal bottom fishing long line gear so the fisherman can catch fish for themselves and have some to sell as well.
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Licenses/Certifications
HACCP certificate; teaching certificates
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Publications and Patents Summary
fish trap patent; oyster shucking machine patent
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1980 to 1981
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FAO United Nations Development Program
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Master Fish Trap Fisherman
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Initiated biomass survey for the small scale inshore fisherman in Sri Lanka, object of the project was to use passive fishing gear utilizing locally obtained materials.
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Sulawesi Indonesia - Instituted new program in an area that had no idea as to what export fish quality is. Created world class frozen fish fillets and portions, hands down better then the world had seen up to that point in 1998, had to train the staff from administrators on down to the cutting room personnel as to how our quality methods must excel over what the norm was at the time.
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Baltimore, MD USA - High quality frozen products developement and shipping
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Have been deposed in a civil action with a mechanical contractor, also have been deposed regarding a quality issue with lobster tails shipped to USA by a Norwegian processor. The depositions were done in Myrtle Beach, SC USA.
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litigation consulting and support, forensic services, or any related expert witness services.
A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
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1981 to 1981
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Sri Lanka
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Worked for FAO utilizing the fish traps he developed in the USA and made more when in country. Fished around the entire country documenting catch data, developing criteria on the bottom fish biomass.
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1998 to 2000
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Indonesia
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Set up fish processing operation in a ex-shrimp plant, trained 60 people including quality control personnel, initiated the process of using carbon monoxide gas for the method of maintaining color in yellowfin and bigeye tuna.
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2000 to 2001
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Philippines
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Took over a empty space in the general santos fish processing plant laid out partition walls to make each process independent of each other, made world class export quality sushi grade tuna, shipped a 40,000lb container weekly to the USA.
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2001 to 2001
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East Malaysia
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Taught processing room and quality control staff how to process local species such as grouper, snapper and other bottomfish.
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2001 to 2001
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Thailand
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Set up small processing plant in an existing shrimp plant, bought fish from local boats and fish auction of fish from burma, trained all the staff and set up HACCP plan.
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Spanish
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fair competence of comprehension
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Teach the teachers, have trained quality control staff, restaurant staff and seafood market, wholesale and retail employees in the methods to make seafood a palatable and viable protein. Became proficient as a consultant in teaching how to use co gas(carbon monoxide) as a treatment for all scombroid species such as tuna, mahi, mackerals, etc.
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research needs. For research needs involving multiple experts or secondary research,
a Research Director can be assigned to coordinate the work into a custom report for you as a potentially quicker
and more cost effective alternative to doing this work yourself or hiring a boutique consultancy.
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Expert is free.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Training/Seminars
Guest lecturer at Horry Georgetown Technical School in their culinary department showed students how to cut 3 species of fish. Also taught fish processing safety and shelf life issues. In the past opened 7 fish processing plants and held classes and seminars in Thailand, Indonesia, Ecuador, Philippines , East Malaysia, Panama, Guyana, Suriname and USA.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Sourced suppliers throughout South East Asia, went directly to the fishermen to work up a vertically integrated operation. Have done the same here in the USA.
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Other Skills and Services
Proficient at finding flaws in operations and correcting them in the food and seafood industry. Have written HACCP plans to instructing how to correctly cut, portion and market seafood products. Set up a kosher processing plant in Ecuador for kosher tilapia, mahi and tuna.
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