E. Danielle Rhine Showmaker Email & Phone Number

St. Paul, MN, US

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Effectively managed global efforts for developing microbial (bacteria, yeast, fungi) and enzymatic prebiotic and probiotic solutions for improved feed efficiency, production, and overall animal health.
• Utilized bioinformatics and “omics” methodologies to characterize ruminant microbiomes.
• Identified and engaged key commercial and academic partners to drive animal health technology development.
• Successfully incorporated Agile principles and Scrum framework to manage Sprint backlog, goals, and daily development work.

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Cross-functional team lead managed the development, evaluation, and validation of value-add fiber utilization platform products for enhancing product brand and developing new business segments.
• Record of success identifying and engaging key industry partners to drive downstream fermentation processing understanding, product and technology development, and best practices.
• Pivotal in the collaborative creation and implementation of short and long-term strategies that deliver sustainable business development.
• Report directly to executive steering groups to ensure deliverables and timelines are aligned.

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Successfully led technical and market feasibility evaluation of potential near-to-market products.
• Evaluated technical feasibility of potential partnerships, collaborations, and acquisitions.
• Led Competitive Intelligence gathering, evaluating, and disseminating industry products and technology trends used to guide long-term industry strategy and growth plan.
• Wrote technical white papers and developed online training modules.
• Led the establishment and implementation of laboratory safety program for Technical Services.

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Responsible for all aspects of the effective management of 15+ chemists, microbiologists, and chemical engineers across multiple sites, including performance monitoring, professional development, and delegation of work.
• Used market trends to build and execute regional industry strategy and growth plan.
• Built strong relationships with key decision makers of global strategic CPG customers (consumer and professional laundry, biomedical cleaning, hard-surface, and food service cleaning).
• Collaborated with industry partners on new technical innovation projects and platforms for entering new industry segments and white spaces.

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Managed team of highly productive laboratory scientists responsible for supporting product launches, customer projects, and developing tools and customer facing assays.
• Developed and delivered internal and external training to ensure scientific robustness and best practices to industry partners and customers.

Bagsvaerd, DK

• Led an ambitious initiative to grow product portfolio; developed and launched first NZ protease to enhance yeast-based grain ethanol fermentation.
• Evaluated technical feasibility and market impact of potential yeast innovation partner.

• Led global new product development projects to develop and launch microbial and enzymatic product platforms for applications focused on pathogen biocontrol on hard-surface and in aquaculture, enhanced biomethane.
• Managed relationships with global industry partners to develop innovation platforms for biomethane production and for hard-surface microbial control applications.
• Initiated and coordinated academic collaborations to develop external validation of NZ product claims.
• Isolated novel microorganisms (bacteria, yeast, fungi) for use in various industrial applications.
• Developed microbial characterization, application, efficacy, and formulation stability assays.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Isolated, identified and characterized novel microorganisms able to utilize arsenic from geological environments
• Combined molecular tools with traditional microbiological techniques to investigate the role microorganisms play in mobilizing and cycling of arsenic
• Isolated, identified and characterized novel microorganisms able to transform environmental contaminants under different redox states while utilizing heavy metals as terminal electron acceptors or electron donors
• Examined the role microorganisms play in the biogeochemical cycling of arsenic and chromium within environmental systems under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Chicago, IL, US

• Isolated and evaluated microorganisms from a variety of agricultural soils that could produce compounds of interest during fermentation of corn-steep liquor

Ph.D., Enviromental Microbiology And Microbial Ecology

B.S., Natural Resources And Environmental Sciences Agronomy And Soil Sciences Concentration