Provide leadership and coordination of Beef Quality Assurance and Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Programs in Minnesota for the Minnesota Beef Council. Provide leadership and coordination of BQA focused meetings and BQA supporting materials for BQA Coordinators in the Upper Midwest for the Midwest Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Center. Conduct BQA focused meetings and education for beef and dairy farmers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Communicate Beef and Dairy Quality assurance efforts to state agencies and agriculture media.

Assisted association leadership to develop a strategy to execute association policy priorities. Led membership recruitment and membership retention strategies that resulted in a 23% membership increase in 2015. Manage association communications and serve as editor for the Minnesota Cattleman, MSCA’s semi-monthly membership newspaper. Engage with beef industry partners to encourage financial support of association activities. Effectively develop and manage the associations budge and fundraising efforts. Plan and execute 4 quarterly board of directors meetings and association annual meeting and convention. Provide support for association board of directors to engage with beef industry members and elected officials to communicate association policies and priorities to sustain and grow the beef industry in Minnesota. Develop political action fund plan and legislative communication efforts. Manage Minnesota representation on national committees for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Assisted with the development of document control system and internal audit procedures. Assisted with program development to achieve customer and 3rd party audit compliance. Facilitated customer, regulatory and 3rd party audits and followed corrective actions identified through completion. Developed and trained on SOP’s throughout the plant. Conducted cross department internal audits and followed corrective actions identified through completion. Completed environmental monitoring throughout plant facilities with majority of focus on the cheese plant. Developed and conducted plant wide HACCP training and new hire quality assurance/quality control training. Supervised laboratory employees.

Assist pathologists with processing cases on necropsy floor. Work in parasitology lab running various assays for parasite detection and identification. Culture and maintain mammalian and aquatic cell lines. Run isolation procedures on samples received in virology and bacteriology department. Assist in various ELISA and other viral and parasite assays ran in the virology department. Work in Bacteriology department isolating Salmonella and serotyping Salmonella isolates. Write, organize and maintain laboratory SOP’s.