James Root

Quality Engineer III & Founder of GoLitterPicking.org

Clearwater, Florida, United States

About

Experienced Quality Engineer leading the Clearwater plant's Incoming Inspection Team and supporting supplier quality engineering activities including validations, process improvements and compliance for the development, manufacturing and packaging of premium Intraocular Lenses (IOLs) and Inserters. Founder of GoLitterPicking.org, a new organization with a mission to simply inspire, educate, and empower everyone to go litter picking. Our website provides a wealth of information for anyone interested in learning how to start this worthy endeavor to help clean up their community.

Experience

  • Founder at GoLitterPicking.org
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Founder of a new organization with a mission to simply inspire, educate, and empower everyone to go litter picking. This is accomplished by providing the most effective method for cleanups known as the 6P’s of Litter Picking and by providing free downloadable PDFs as a comprehensive source of litter picking information.

  • Bausch + Lomb Surgical (Clearwater, Florida, United States · On-site)
    • Quality Engineer III
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Senior Quality Engineer (Contract)
      Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 · 6 mos

  • CoreRx, Inc. (Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area)
    • Manager of Technical Services (Pharmaceuticals)
      Feb 2016 - Oct 2022 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    • Validation Engineer
      Jan 2015 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Endo-Therapeutics, Inc. (Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area)
    • Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Medical Devices)
      Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs

    • Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor
      Mar 2012 - Jan 2013 · 11 mos

    • Manufacturing Engineer
      Aug 2010 - Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Quality Engineer II (Medical Devices) at Navalyst Medical
    Aug 2006 - Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos