Work history
Education
Skills
Interests
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Sam Evans

Sam Evans

Seafoods
Melton Constable,Norfolk

Work history

Managing Director

Kildavanan Seafoods
Fleetwood, Lancashire

1994 to 2012

Managed a Pan European trading and production operation.Over90% exported which included scampi,scallops,whelks and crab .Turnover £5m.

Technical Director

Seafood partners
Basingstoke, Hampshire

1990 to 1994

Sourced and produced products for food service and retail.Salmon,shrimp,crab and scallops

Resources Manager

Clouston foods
Reading, Oxfordshire

1985 to 1990

Travelled globally sourcing products for the European operation of a large Canadian company.All seafoods including ,shrimp,scampi,salmon,crab,scallops.

Plant Manager

Kraft Foods
Carlisle, Cumbria

1983 to 1985

Produced crab and smoked mackerel for M& S and Waitrose.


Production Manager

Kraft foods
Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway

1981to 1983

Produced Chilled salmon ,mussels and trout for M&S.

Production Manager

Seabear seafoods
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

1980 to 1981

Produced nitrogen frozen whole scampi for Spain and Italy.

Production Manager

Shetland Norse
Mid Yell, Shetland Islands

1979 to 1980

Canned dressed crab,salmon and lobster pate for John West.

Assistant scientific Officer

Marine Laboratory
Aberdeen

1970 to 1975

worked on the shellfish section.Duties included working on research vessels,fishing vessels,diving.Worked specifically on Pink shrimp ,P borealis,mussel and oyster farming.Six months per year spent at sea.

Production operator( hygiene)

The Big Prawn company
Melton Constable, Norfolk
11.2022 - 04.2023

Worked on maintaining high risk hygiene and waste monitoring.12 hour shifts.

Education

Bsc - Fishery science

Plymouth university
Devon

Skills

Experienced shellfish managerWorked at sea on fishing and research vessels ,produced seafood in the UK and internationally in over 200 plantsTravelled globally sourcing and producing seafoodI have worked at all levels of production ,including canned,smoked,gas flushed,nitrogen frozen ,high risk

Interests

I am a keen fisherman ,cyclist and golfer.Sailed across the Atlantic and delivered yachts.

Accomplishments

Produced an Fao synopisis on the Pink shrimp P borealis,worked on a Codex committee for scallops .Wrote a column for Fish trader on International seafoods.

Timeline

Production operator( hygiene)

The Big Prawn company
11.2022 - 04.2023

Managing Director

Kildavanan Seafoods

Technical Director

Seafood partners

Resources Manager

Clouston foods

Plant Manager

Kraft Foods

Production Manager

Kraft foods

Production Manager

Seabear seafoods

Production Manager

Shetland Norse

Assistant scientific Officer

Marine Laboratory

Bsc - Fishery science

Plymouth university
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