Brazos Minshew loves people. In all things he is motivated by this love! Beyond that he is a giving man. He helps people to read, to gain faith in God, Self and Life, helps them to be better husbands and fathers, wives and mothers. He is a healer of spirit and body, and is always looking for ways to help others.
Arizona resident from 2004-2016, Brazos has traveled the world as a speaker, writer and teacher. He has communed with curanderos in Reservations of Tohono O’odham and medicine men and women in the Amazon rainforest. Brazos Minshew practiced Qi Gong on Machu Picchu and taught pharmacognosy at the School of Pharmacy, Ankara, Turkey. He provided Continuing Education to Chiropractors at Parker College, Dallas TX and to physicians at the Hospital Especialidades in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Minshew presented clinical biochemistry at the University of Croatia, School of Pharmacy in Zagreb, Pain Management techniques to a conference supporting by the Canadian College of Family Physicians in Ottawa, Canada and presented clinical research on cholesterol reduction at the African Conference of Cardiology in Port Louis, Mauritius, Africa.
Earlier in his career, Minshew taught at the Beijing University campus in Dallas, TX, served as a clinical researcher in Vancouver, BC with Occidental Institute Research Foundation and as Director of Clinical Research for Dallas College of Oriental Medicine. He conducted in-service trainings as a guest speaker at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in Queens, New York and Yale University’s St. Raphael Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
As Chief Science Officer of TriVita, Inc., Brazos developed the products, messaging and IP around a catalogue of products reaching nearly $200 million (US) in sales annually. He became intimately familiar with Quality Control, raw ingredient sourcing, product formulations, manufacturing as well as the International legal requirement for more than a dozen Countries.
Brazos Minshew graduated Hollywood College of Traditional Naturopathy on May 6, 1981. He studied Mind-Body medicine through clinical biofeedback with Jack Sandweiss, MA of UCLA and Philip Hughes, PhD in Berkeley. He studied acupuncture and Asian Medicine with Ralph Allen Dale, EdD in Florida and Lucy Lee, MD in Hawaii. Brazos Minshew earned his Master of Science in Acupuncture in 1993 through Brantridge University – Hawaii.
- Product development/formulation
- Product development – Dietary supplements for IBD and hemorrhoids, skincare products and their production
- Sport performance supplement product development
- IP development – Antifungal concept, products and manufacturing process
- Developing premix formulations for dietary supplement, food and beverage applications
- Responsible for process development and innovation for manufacturing of new products, including fluid bed granulation, wet granulation, sterilization technologies, dry blending
- Responsible for manufacturing master batch record creation and approval
- Responsible for the maintenance of in-house software of technical and batch record system
- Reporting to CEO and President
- Managing QC department of three chemists, one microbiologist, and one lab technician
- Responsible for obtaining and maintenance of GMP, ISO and HACCP certifications
- Responsible for product formulation and formulation approval
- Responsible for defining product specification, customer auditing, contract testing lab auditing and approval
- Technical support for Customer Service, Sales, Production and Warehouse Departments.
- Training of company staff on important technical and regulatory issues, including testing of irradiated food ingredients, pesticides, heavy metals, food allergen regulations
- Designing, coding, testing and implementation of an Intranet web system with a backend database system
- Streamlined company business operation by implementing database and intranet system which centralize the business and technical data integration and data flow from analytical laboratories, microbiological laboratories, inventory, production, sales order, generating certificates of analysis, and shipping documents, batch record generation and production scheduling
- Developed digital imaging system in quality control of fine chemicals and natural ingredients
- Deciphered the formulation of adulterated Chondroitin Sulfate and developed methods to detect the adulterants
- Developing SIDI (standardized information datasheet for dietary ingredients) database for company products
- Reported to Product Develop Manager and Technical Service VP
- Developed formulations of multi-vitamins, sports nutritionals, herbal products in the forms of powdered beverage drink, tablets, and liquid
- Responsible for flavor formulation of new product development and sensory evaluation of finished products
- Botanical product supervisor, report to VP of Technology and QC Manager
- Developed botanical extract products for nutritional and flavor applications
- Developed extraction and purification technology for various herbal products
- Developed and validated analytical methods for botanical products using HPLC, GC and wet chemistry
- Developed botanical extracts and essential oils for nutraceutical and flavor applications
- Developed analytical HPLC and GC methods
- Teaching assistant to Dr. Chin, Chairman of Department of Plant Biology
- Research on genetic modification of tomato by yeast delta-9 desaturase gene
- Discovered anti-microbial activity of omega-7 fatty acids and structure-activity relationship
- Discovered a technology to increase lycopene content in genetically modified tomato fruits