David W Roberts, Cpag Email & Phone Number

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Regulatory Field Scientist specializing in compositional characterization of agricultural commodities. Leads agronomic and environmental safety assessments of ag-biotech crop plants; working within a highly interactive global network of people and work environments, both laboratory and field.

Mebane, NC

• As a contract study director or principal investigator, managed field studies through collaboration with sponsors, analytical chemists and sub-contracted scientists in the planning, conduct and reporting of.
• Supervised, provided technical support and coordinated with contract scientists in all phases of four multi-site pollinator (honey bee) residue field studies in 2016.
• Conducted all field activities as a principal investigator in a team environment, managing the documentation for 14 field trials in 2015-16.
• Improved the efficiency of pollinator (honey bee) residue field studies by developing and maintaining improved templates for field data notebooks.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• As a study director, managed ag-biotech field and greenhouse studies through collaboration with registration managers, contract scientists and chemists in study design, implementation, data interpretation and reporting.
• Developed and implemented GLP protocols for agronomic/phenotypic equivalence and protein expression field studies, and pollen viability environmental safety greenhouse studies (maize and soybean).
• Applied agronomic knowledge to field-phase protocol development and implementation for nutrient composition field studies (maize and soybean).
• Supervised contract field scientists in the conduct and data acquisition for six agronomic equivalence studies, including 18 test sites throughout North America.
• Collaborated with statisticians on data analysis/assessments to produce 12 high-quality agronomic/ phenotypic equivalence technical reports for timely support of aggressive registration timelines.
• Conducted assessments, and produced high-quality reports for pollen viability greenhouse studies.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• As a study director, developed and implemented GLP study protocols for protein expression, nutrient composition and agronomic/phenotypic equivalence (maize, soybean, canola). Interpreted and reported results.
• Improved the efficiency of field studies by developing an electronic field data notebook.
• Led a process improvement project to consolidate grain production, processing (soybean processed fractions) and characterization studies into a single protocol.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Managed studies or projects through collaboration with product development, regulatory affairs mangers, analytical chemists and contract field scientists in the planning, conduct and reporting of environmental fate, dietary exposure and ecotoxicological field and greenhouse studies in compliance with appropriate regulations.Studies completed: aquatic.

Bachelor'S Degree, Agronomy And Crop Science, 3.3

Activities and Societies: Active in the BYU chapter of the American Society of Agronomy; Undergraduate Research AssistantCrop and soil.

Environmental Science, 3.4

Masters-level course work to enhance technical knowledge