Christopher K. Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, Nc, Us

• Designs, develops and executes laboratory and field experiments with a wide variety of urban and garden pests, and C. elegans nematodes.• Manages insectary including insect availability, health monitoring, and dietary needs.• Manages C. elegans nematode cultures including nematode availability, health monitoring, and dietary needs.• Creation and management of Product Development databases utilizing Microsoft SharePoint. Includes maintaining the data integrity of all databases, creating and updating databases, and improvement of database features, such as data entry and search capabilities, and report generation.• Assists in the preparation of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) exempt insecticidal products and registration packages.• Develops, edits, and maintains all product development testing and insect rearing protocols.• Assists in summarizing and creating presentations and preliminary reports for Product Development.

• Creation and management of Product Development databases utilizing Microsoft SharePoint. Includes maintaining the data integrity of all databases, creating and updating databases as necessary, and improvement of database features, such as data entry and search capabilities as necessary.• Responsible for all data analysis for the Director of Product Development. Includes extensive use of Analyse-it! statistical software package for Microsoft Excel and LdP Line software.• Responsible for extensive review of all Product Development data.• Creation, maintenance and presentation project plans from product inception to delivery. Requires interaction with all business units within the TyraTech multi-disciplinary team.• Assists in the preparation of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) exempt insecticidal products and registration packages.• Assisted in the development of TyraTech Guerrilla Dust-4D including discovery, development, full characterization, label creation, collateral material creation, and registration document preparation.• Assisted with formulation work of TyraTech insecticidal dusts in the laboratory.• Responsible for maintaining and archiving records of all TyraTech product labels, MSDS, and product registration packages.• Develops, edits, and maintains all product development testing and insect rearing protocols.• Summarizes and creates presentations and preliminary reports for the Director of Product Development and the Vice President of Development.• Designs, develops and executes laboratory and field experiments with a wide variety of urban and garden pests.• Prepares, loads, and analyzes product samples onto a gas chromatography machine for quality assurance analysis• Assists the Director of Product Development in Florida School Integrated Pest Management (IPM) meetings.

• Developed and executed laboratory and field experiments.• Utilized entomology skills in the location, identification, husbandry and testing of a variety of urban pest insects.• Utilized nematology skills in the identification, culturing and testing, utilizing aseptic handling procedures, of pest nematode species.• Skilled in the use of Biosafety Level II (BSLII) hoods, centrifuges, autoclaves and standard laboratory equipment.• Collected, set up and maintained several ant colonies.

• Executed laboratory tests to quantify behavioral traits of Diaphorina citri (Asian citrus psyllid) and Diaprepes sp. (citrus root weevil) utilizing olfactometer and wind tunnel equipment.• Executed field tests to quantify ecological and behavioral traits of D. citri to include population counting of nymphs and adults, associated eulophid wasp ectoparasitoid (Tamarixia radiata), associated entomopathogenic fungi, and associated citrus disease spread which included citrus canker and citrus greening. • Responsible for setting up and monitoring incubation chambers used to facilitate breeding of D. citri in specialized egg deposition experiments.• Assisted in colony maintenance of D. citri including cohorting and feeding. • Assisted in colony maintenance of Diaprepes sp. colonies including egg and frass collection, feeding and diet preparation.

• Prepared deep lake sediment samples for charcoal fragment quantification to determine the surrounding ecosystem’s historic pyric activity.• Assisted in field collection of deep lake sediment samples from high Andean lakes to quantify pollens, diatoms, and charcoal fragments to determine the surrounding ecosystem’s historic vegetation, microbiology and pyric activity.

• Supervised and operated theatrical sound and lighting equipment.• Coordinated management of assets and personnel during theater events.

• Managed arrangements for visiting conference groups to include room preparations, theater setup and on-call availability.• Assessed, maintained and prepared existing campus facilities for all conference groups and for fall student enrollment.