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Fresno, California, United States

Managed new postharvest laboratory in Fresno, California and satellite facility in Wenatchee, Washington. Managed all aspects of building new office and lab facilities for a company focused on postharvest shelf-life extension. PExecuted building of postharvest lab including new cold rooms, and laboratory. Planned and built a professional photo studio for trial and marketing material photography. Oversaw building of new office space and managed all aspects of the facility.Hired and managed science team working on domestic and international projects. Oversaw all protocol development, and final report creation. Supported sales efforts with direct customer interactions, and development of customer facing technical information.Developed budget for facility and trial work. Responsible for all financials including purchasing, and trial related expenses.

United States

Manage all aspects of experimental station, including substrate and soil-based trial farm and office facilities. Directly lead multiple teams and interact as primarily liaison with research teams. Interacted with partners and team members at all levels, locally and internationally. Manage on-site and hybrid work schedule employees. Responsible for all aspects of growing and trial management. Balanced needs of multiple departments based at the facility.Responsible for all aspects of facility safety. Developed and managed facility Covid -19 safety program.Reorganized multiple teams into one management structure. Implemented cross training which increased work efficiency and streamlined supervisory organization. Hired new supervisory staff and lead coaching and team development. Reviewed staff and set salaries and wages.Developed and managed OpEx budget of over $3 million. Developed and managed separate CapEx budget annually. Responsible for all purchasing and inventories. Responsible for all administrative paperwork including contracts, invoices, and permits.Regularly participated in remote work with local team and global colleagues via WebEx and Teams. Produced and led virtual facility tours and seminars.

Wasco, California

Responsible for non-rose product development, commercial production quality control, researching and implementing improved growing techniques. Developed and maintained databases for new crop build up and commercial production.Designed, implemented and evaluated trials. Documented projects by collecting data and photographing trials. Analyzed trial data and made commercial recommendations. Developed iris production SOPs that reduced losses to rot by 60% and reduced water used by over 50%. Implemented trailing of drip irrigation for new crops. Implemented soil moisture and well water monitoring and soil amendment programs to overcome infiltration issues. Designed and ran rose defoliation trialing.Manage development of new crop programs, including fruit trees, grapes and iris. Sourced fruit tree rootstock and scion material for new introductions. Set program pricing. Responsible for buildup of all non-rose crops to meet sales targets. Served as coordinator for non-rose crops between corporate office, customer service and sales.Develop and manage rose virus indexing and scouting program. Selected crew members and supervised field scouting team.Act as horticultural advisor for sales team and commercial customers. Reviewed credit claims to determine cause of crop failure and make decisions as to validity of claims.Manage national contract container growing program, including regularly traveling nationally to inspect and consult with program growers. Wrote and reviewed outside grower contracts. Set pricing for contract growing.Serve as company point person for rose rosette disease (RRD). Develop and supervise scouting and sample collection programs. Act as point person for company response. Worked with contract PCA and private researchers to develop spray program targeting Eriophyid mite virus vector. Work with academic community, including UCD FPS, on response to RRD, developed and supervised scouting and collection SOPs for genomic analysis of plant material.

Coordinate commercial development of all crops. Manage pipeline of new varieties from breeding through selection, evaluation, increase, and commercialization. Coordinate variety introduction work between Breeding, Production, Sales, and Marketing departments.Provide technical support for sales team. Develop commercial crop production guidelines for use by customers. Conduct plant growth regulator (PGR) trials for new varieties. Restructured new variety testing program and initiated trailing with Allan Armitage in Georgia and at UC Davis in California.Plan and execute greenhouse plant exhibitions for CAST and OFA/Cultivate marketing shows. Work with Marketing to develop advertising content, catalogs and marketing programs. Do all photography and photo editing for catalog, advertising, and intellectual property protection uses. Manage tissue culture program. Supervise on-site tissue culture lab. Coordinate international tissue culture program working with third party labs in Chile, Netherlands, and South Africa. Oversee hardening-off of plantlets for field planting. Manage international intellectual property registration and maintenance including variety protection and trademarks. Restructured USA IP legal program and lowered costs by consolidating representation from three firms to one new firm. Secured over fifty new variety protections including EU PBR, Japan PBR, Korean PVR, USA patent and PVR protection. Secured first instances of Utility Patent and PVR protections for Calla in the USA.Responsible for breeding new varieties of Eucomis spp., Scilla spp., and tuberous Begonia. Streamlined all breeding programs to increase efficacy of programs by standardizing selection and testing processes. Increased commercial Eucomis varieties from one to five and Scilla varieties from one to four. Developed pipeline of introductions for both species over the next five years. Initiated evaluation of Begonia commercial varieties and began new crossing program.

Manage Wasco, CA research facility, including all facility operations and maintenance. Manage production-level hybridizing, all aspects of growing 51 acres of variety trials, seasonal union workforce, and full-time non-union employees. Direct company virus indexing program. Manage hybridizing greenhouses and shade house propagation. Prepare annual budget and conduct monthly forecast updates. Manage departmental purchasing and A/P.Inter-departmental duties include developing and coordinating agronomic research trials for the Operations division, acting as agronomic advisor for 3600 acre commercial operation and trouble-shooter for production departments. Participate in Operations division leadership committees including business management committee, agronomic committee, technical committee, and management safety committee. Serve as primary interface between hybridizing, marketing, and production divisions. Act as lead national horticultural advisor and sales support for wholesale growers. Manage all horticultural aspects of national Container Program for greenhouse and outdoor growers in fifteen states. Travel nationally to work directly with growers to produce finished plants that met contracted specifications visiting each grower a minimum of three to four times each season. Manage and judge AARS trial garden.Developed additional responsibility of acting as regulatory specialist for the garden rose industry. Serve as an appointed member of, the CDFA Nursery Pest Advisory Task Force, the ANLA/HRI Working Group on P. ramorum, the USDA Pacific Area-wide MeBr Alternatives Customer Oversight Team, the CANGC Research Committee and Leadership Board, and the Garden Rose Council. Invited participant in USDA/ASR NP308 MeBr meeting, USDA/ARS Horticulture and Floriculture Research Initiative meeting, COMFT - USDA/PPQ SOD workshops and symposium, and Western Plant Board meeting. Member of USDA/CSREES National Plant Diagnostic Network Review Team.