Heather McLemore has been with A2LA since 2019. She is currently a Senior Accreditation Officer and oversees the AOAC accreditation program. In January 2020 she became a staff-approved lead assessor and has successfully performed more than a dozen quality management system assessments. She has over 8 years’ food microbiology experience, having worked in both beef slaughter and furthered processed meats facilities. This experience allows Ms. McLemore to generate customer confidence with her knowledge of the ISO/IEC 17025 requirements, as well as understand the language used and tests performed by the labs she is responsible for, throughout the entire accreditation process.

Tim Akin is the former QHSE ‘Product Manager’ for Ideagen. His initial experience with the company was as a customer of Qualtrax, he joined the business as the ‘Product Consultant’ in 2017 to help businesses improve their quality systems. Prior to this, Tim graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Lyon College and worked as a forensic chemist for 6 years in ISO accredited government laboratories.