Senior Product Developer
Clif Bar
Formulation, nutrition, process optimization, and commercialization—including leading the development of a children’s product distributed nationally.
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About Nick
A food scientist with a maker’s way of seeing.
Nick Huemmer has spent his career turning observations into products: testing, tasting, measuring, building, and finding the next useful question.
Biography / short version
Science, craft, and practical curiosity.
Nick is a food scientist and product developer based in Richmond, Virginia. His work has crossed ingredients, formulation, sensory experience, nutrition, process improvement, and commercial scale-up.
He holds an MS in Food Science from The Ohio State University and a BS spanning biological sciences, food science, and nutrition from North Carolina State University. He has also worked in software engineering—another chapter in a longer habit of learning systems by building with them.
Outside the lab, his interests include sewing, hiking, reading natural science and philosophy, training dogs, and time with his family.
Selected food work
Product development, from the bench to the shelf.
Scientist II
Clorox / Hidden Valley
Product development for the Hidden Valley portfolio.
Product Application Technologist
Nestlé
Product development for the pizza division.
Scientist
Kraft Foods
Product development for spoonable and pourable dressings.
Education
MS, Food Science
The Ohio State University
BS, Biological Sciences, Food Science & Nutrition
North Carolina State University
“The best work starts with enough rigor to trust the result—and enough curiosity to be surprised by it.”