PUP-PCC First Global Alumni Reunion USA 2016

2016 Outstanding PUP Alumni
Jinky Mercado
Ms. Jinky Mercado’s esteemed career as as now
the the Plant Plant Manager of of Century Century Pacific Pacific Food, Food,
Inc.
Inc.
–
–
Meat
Meat
Division
Division
was
was
brought
brought
about
about
by
by
her
her
ingenuity, creativity, and perseverance.
ingenuity, creativity, and perseverance.
It became easy for her to be in supervisory
position It became at the easy Pacific for her Meat to be Company, in supervisory Inc.
after position she graduated at the Pacific with Meat the degree Company, Bachelor Inc. of
Science after she in graduated Food Technology with the from degree theBachelor of
Polytechnic Science in Food University Technology of the Philippines from the in
1992. Polytechnic Barely University after a year of of the being Philippines the senior in
Quality Assurance Supervisor, Ms. Mercado
1992. After a year of being the senior Quality
was promoted as Quality Assurance Manager
with Assurance oversight Supervisor, responsibilities Ms. Mercado in Research was and
Development. promoted as Quality With this Assurance position, Manager she codeveloped
oversight the responsibilities Argentina Meat in Research Loaf that and today
with
controls Development. over 70% With of the this Philippine position, she market. codeveloped
also made the improvements Argentina Meat on Loaf the Argentina that today
She
Corned
controls
Beef
over
that
70%
today
of the
holds
Philippine
over 45%
market.
of the
Philippine market.
She also made improvements on the Argentina
Ms. Corned Mercado’s Beef that contributions today holds as over now 45% the plant of the
manager Philippine of market. the Century Pacific Food – Meat
Division with four factories having a
workforce Ms. Mercado’s of over contributions three thousand as now employees, the plant
are manager noteworthy. of the Century She pioneered Pacific the Food use – of Meat
“Clean Division Coal with Technology” four factories for having Steam a
Generation in the Philippine Food Processing
workforce of over three thousand employees,
Industry with the use of negative pressure
burner are noteworthy. systems coupled She pioneered with multi-cyclones the use of
and “Clean water Coal scrubbers Technology” and this for project Steamresulted in
a Generation recurring Annual in the Philippine Cost Savings Food of Processing around 800
million Industry pesos with in the the use Company. of negative pressure
Moreover, burner systems she was coupled actively with involved multi-cyclones in the
Lead and water Team scrubbers that was instrumental and this project in reducing resulted in
the a recurring thickness Annual of the tin Cost plates Savings used of for around the cans 800
that million also pesos brought in a the huge Company. reduction in the
carbon footprint thus, causing another source
of Moreover, cost saving she in was their actively Company. involved in the
Lead Team that was instrumental in reducing
Her the being thickness resourceful of the tin and plates research-oriented
used for the cans
manager that also further brought gave a huge way reduction to her involvement
the
with
carbon
the
footprint
lead team
thus,
of the
causing
Company
another
that
source
pioneered the use of Microwave Thawing
Systems
of cost saving
in the country
in their Company.
which subsequently led
their Her technical being resourceful team to shift and research-oriented
to Steam-Vacuum
Thawing/Cursing Systems which led to major
manager further gave way to her involvement
improvements in process yields, energy usage
reduction, with the lead and team reduced of the curing Company time. that She was
also pioneered part of the use Lead of Team Microwave that pioneered Thawingand
co-developed Systems in the the country Logic-Controlled which subsequently Cookers led
with their engineers technical and team technologists to shift to Steam-Vacuum
from South
Korea Thawing/Cursing since 2005. Systems Finally, she which led led the to Team major
that
improvements
worked on the
in process
continuous
yields,
improvement
energy usage
of
Textured Protein Concentrate in Ashdod, Israel
to
reduction,
Porto Alegre
and
in
reduced
Brazil
curing
to Ningbo
time.
and
She was
Shandong also part of in the China. Lead Continuous Team that pioneered development and
is co-developed being done in the Indore, Logic-Controlled India. Cookers
with engineers and technologists from South
Truly, the works of Ms. Mercado has
contributed
Korea since
significantly
2005. Finally,
in the
she
field
led the
of Food
Team
Technology that worked even on the internationally. continuous improvement of
Textured Protein Concentrate in Ashdod, Israel
It
to
is
Porto
her desire
Alegre
for
in
the
Brazil
PUP
to
alumni
Ningbo
to
and
also
thrive thus, her commitment to send more PUP
graduates
Shandong
to
in
the
China.
Century
Continuous
Pacific, as
development
she has
been is being a channel done in of Indore, employment India. to more than
one hundred PUP food technologists and
Truly, the works of Ms. Mercado has
engineers.
contributed significantly in the field of Food
Technology even internationally.
It is her desire for the PUP alumni to also
thrive thus, her commitment to send more PUP
graduates to the Century Pacific, as she has
been a channel of employment to more than
one hundred PUP food technologists and
engineers.
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