Balwinder Kaur Email & Phone Number

Canada

Canada

Ontario, Canada

• Developed campaigns and specific marketing strategies for clients.• Recommended appropriate marketing channels and target audiences for campaigns.• Developed highly empathetic client relationships, earning a reputation for exceeding service standard goals.• Delivered excellent customer service by providing tailored solutions to businesses, resulting in consistent customer satisfaction ratings and meeting company’s targets.• Assisted high revenue businesses with their advertising and/ marketing on different social media platforms.• Demonstrated knowledge and the value of solutions to businesses to implement new trends and creative solutions for their businesses.

• Assisted in maintaining the corn silk fly (Euxesta eluta) colony in insectary.• Assisted in conducting insecticide and variety evaluations for corn silk fly management in sweet corn.• Conducted a grid study to determine the abundance and diversity of corn silk fly among sweetcorn, sugarcane and woody/weedy habitats.• Conducted surveys at commercial farms to determine the seasonal abundance of corn silk fly among sweetcorn, sugarcane and woody/weedy habitats.• Conducted a field study to determine the active space of corn silk fly traps using hexagonal arrays.• Conducted a mark-release-recapture study in the field to understand corn silk fly movement.• Conducted a marking study in the lab to understand the effect of marking agent such as fluorescent dye Aurora Pink on the emergence, flying ability and survival of adults.• Assisted in processing and identification of insect samples using morphological keys

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

• Field work to quantify and compare the biodiversity of wood-inhabiting insect communities associated among emerald ash borer infested and non-infested green ash trees.• Monitored surveys to investigate the establishment of released parasitoids namely Oobius agrili, Spathius agrili and Tetrastichus planipennisi using yellow pan traps for emerald ash borer biological control.• Lead a project to study the response of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) to inundation.• Performed lab project to determine the effects of Jasmonate seed treatments on feeding of soybean leaf looper by feeding bioassay.• Assisted in rearing salvinia weevils (Cyrtobagous salviniae) for Salvinia molesta weed biocontrol.

Punjab, India

• Lab experience in conducting mass production of predators such as parthenium beetle (Zygogramma bicolorata), ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata), green lace wing (Chrysoperla carnea) and insects such as rice moth (Corcyra cephalonica).• Industrial Training in production and application of Trichogramma cards for stalk borer (Diatraea saccharalis) control in sugarcane.• RAWE (Rural agricultural work experience)- an on-farm village adoption to disseminate technological advances developed for better farm economic outcome.

Master Of Science - Ms, Entomology

Masters, Entomology

Speciality Course, Diversity And Systematics Of Coleoptera., A+

Attended three weeks OTS (Organization of Tropical Studies) specialty course on Coleoptera at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica..

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, And Related Sciences