• Obtain business results by managing a 12,000-acre growing area and organizational structure with a headcount of 68 through clarifying and aligning goals and priorities, ensuring accountability, communicating effectively, and optimizing work processes. • Communicate the broader organization’s mission, vision, and values while connecting it to the actions needed to implement the functions strategy. • Develop workforce planning. Attract and retain qualified candidates with an emphasis on valuing differences to build robust and diverse teams.• Manage performance and development processes by providing coaching and feedback, recognizing, and rewarding achievements, and resolving conflicts. • Ensure business activities and individuals adhere to the organizations safety policies, procedures, and programs to safeguard the environment, protect the wellbeing of individuals, and minimize business risk. • Identify and interpret local issues and trends to develop production and workforce projections. • Develop and submit capital and operational budgets.• Interpret and apply key financial indicators to make well balanced decisions regarding expenditures. • Achieve quality plan standards while maintaining high productivity.• Cultivate positive community relations through the coordination of and participation in public relations activities. • Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations as well as company guidelines.

•Supporting, coaching, and developing employees to demonstrate Corteva Values, reach their full potential, and deliver business results.•Driving a safe work culture through ensuring employee engagement with safety programs. •Establishing and backing individual and team goals that are aligned with the Corteva Business strategy. •Managing quality operations systems and processes and launching Root-Cause-Investigations when quality is not achieved.• Planning, organizing, and directing plant operations to ensure an effective return on assets.•Managing the daily plant activities such as: receiving, bulk management, conditioning, packaging, warehousing, and maintenance. •Communicating effectively with the site Leadership Team to deliver the best plan of work. •Encouraging direct reports’ career development through providing them stretch assignment opportunities and skill development that align with their overall career objective.

Innovating: -Create planting instructions for all corn hybrids and inbreds produced in North America, as well as all North America products produced in other geographical regions.-Discover opportunities for process improvement focused on data collection efficiency and accuracy while protecting data integrity that increase seed production effectiveness.-Advocate the adoption of new technologies and data interfaces in our seed production network resulting in increase employee usage and improved user experience. Critical and Strategic Thinking:-Set budget yields and determine biological risk factors that inform accurate seed product acreage needs.-Re-evaluate risk assignment processes ensure alignment with business goals and maintain clarityIdentify production trends via data analysis that supports data driven business decisionsCultivating Relationships:-Communicate best practices and field manufacturing instructions to the production network resulting in manufacturing efficiencies, increased quality, and product standardization.-Recruit potential employees on behalf of the Supply Chain and Seed Production group at career fairs and professional conferences with the outcome of high quality applicants for entry positions.-Participate as a Science Bound Mentor at Hoover High School in Des Moines to encourage STEM education in local and diverse communities. -Act as a point of contact for the relationship the Food Security Network has with Growing Hope Globally resulting in an actionable leveraging of the company’s sales network in support growing projects and Ag Education efforts; as well as internal employee development opportunities. -Work as a member of the Women Lead Change Conference Volunteer committee by increasing volunteer participation and ensuring successful execution of the conference events. -Collaborate cross functionally in strategic initiatives that align the goals of Supply Chain, Production, Commercial and R&D

•Lead herbicide trials in corn, sorghum, and sunflower, population trials, pollinator trials, and seed treatment storage studies across North America testing sites•Acted as a subject matter expert on chemicals and diseases for the Production Research group•Reported inbred characterization information from flowering and yield studies to inform product portfolio advancement, production placement considerations, and strategic business planning•Acted as the Production Research representative on the Dow AgroSciences Corn Product Development team to create business rules which provided clarity to decision making processes and considered up and down stream impacts. •Created all North America corn hybrid production instructions for all Dow AgroSciences seed brands. •Contracted land for research use. Communicated contract requirements. Maintained grower relationships and promoted proper plot maintenance.•Preformed the role of Marshalltown Research logistical leader- executing the research plan of work for 3 growing areas, planning for workload changes, sourcing and distributing research seed supplies, maintaining safe and working lab equipment and field machinery•Hired, trained, and managed one full time staff member and multiple contingent staff•Ensured regulatory, safety, and environmental compliance •Employee engagement committee member•Meals on Wheels Marshalltown and Mycogen Seeds partnership leader

Performed hand harvests of parent plant test plotsHarvested and handled regulated seed testing in accordance with EPA protocolsProduced and catalogued parent plant test dataCreated and recorded harvest notes on parent plant test plots

Assisted in daily research office operations. Participated in planting of research plots.Aided in data collection during wheat harvest.Completed gene checks in trait conversion corn.Pollinated inbred nursery. Supervised a section of the nursery and managed workers assigned to my section.Facilitated Beck's marketing projects by constructing and posting signs.Executed an individual study project on corn ear worm traits.

Collected and reported production field data. Monitored fields for tasseling and silking.Assisted with summer help W2 forms.Constructed field books for inspectors, area men, and detasseling crew leaders.Retagged seed boxes.Generated quality assurance dataCatalogued sample moistures, sizes, and locations in spread sheets for new technology studiesExecuted damage checks on products for quality assurance