Going into his senior year at Bryan High School, Ryan Jones began to take a vested interest in self-care, particularly wanting to live a healthier lifestyle and became interested in nutrition and the food industry.
“I was overweight most of my childhood,” recalls Jones. “This was the start of a dramatic lifestyle change and an interest in the nutritional aspect of the food industry. I wanted to help and still do want to help people that are dealing with the same problems I had to face.”
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The University of Akron’s (UA) School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences was able to help Jones with exactly that. Jones, who hails from Bryan, Ohio, graduated from UA in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in food and environmental nutrition.
Today, he is a quality systems and compliance specialist at Flavorseal in Avon, Ohio. He oversees the food safety, quality and regulatory compliance of products produced at Flavorseal. Jones also spends time working on quality and process improvements, implementing corrective and preventative actions from customer complaints or production issues, and performing personal and food safety training.
“Within my coursework I became disciplined, gained industry specific knowledge and further developed my critical thinking ability,” he says. “I felt well prepared to enter the workforce by the time I graduated.”