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Westfield, Indiana, United States

Lead soybean Supply Team. Allocate supply out to sales based on supply and demand. Own and manage all soybean seed quality specifications and data. Manage team that creates all packaging orders to fill current demand and expected demand. Collaborate with sales support and sales to align supply as demand changes.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Responsible for developing and communicating the performance and quality testing requirements of licensed out traits globally. These traits can be used in breeding programs and/or in commercial varieties/hybrids. Have to lead collaboration with groups from Discovery, Research & Development, Breeding and Commercial to understand internal requirements and.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Work with 3rd party manufactures to ensure the QMS met or exceeds our expectations, did this by auditing and following up on any customer complaints. New challenge to learn the Research & Development of traits and how these traits would be tested by licensee to ensure the purity and performance, without causing additional cost or complexity to these.

Greater St. Louis Area

Advanced to oversee the production and quality of 11 internal and 10 external soybean sites. Responsible to ensure the sites had support for the following: Grower Accounting, SAP/IT support and enhancements, packaging supplies, supply demand and quality data analysis. - Project Manager for developing IT system to capture soybean quality data in the field..

Centralia, IL

Gained multi crop experience working with soybeans. Primary role was to evaluate all aspects of the production process and increase productivity or reduce constraints. Managed all warehouse, shipping and receiving activities with schedulers, carriers and warehouse staff. Ensured SAP, Quality data, Production receipt and non-conforming product were in place.

Illiopolis, IL

Field Operations SupervisorResponsibilities included all activities for producing 9,000 acres of hybrid seed corn. 12 full time employees, 35 part-time employees, detasseling crews that managed 500 employees. Activities included: contracting, demand planning, planting schedule, variety placement, detasseling, spraying, quality checks, harvest activities.

Dumas, TX

Selected into the Operations Management Program. Sorghum Parent Seed Quality lab Lead for all testing and quality data. Supervised small group of employees to ensure seed quality was maintained throughout process. - Learned and trained employees on GPS mapping tool to measure and map all production fields. - Managed and reviewed all seed testing.

Constantine, MI

Hands on base knowledge learned and experienced. After one season in each area, promoted to area lead the following year: growing area, green sort/husk building, conditioning tower and treater. - Received Monsanto Manufacturing Excellence Award. Developed and implemented seed treat system that would reduce and reuse waste water. Annual savings of $5,000