Business owner in charge of all customer management, including grain purchasing, hedging flat price risk, supply chain and logistical support for customers in Central America. Design and execution of buying plans for basis, futures, options and ocean freight for feed and flour manufacturers. Establish comprehensive business goals for performance and growth. Day to day management, contract signings, negotiations, risk and operations financing.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:• Pooled freight for small and medium sized agricultural commodity end users in Central America that resulted in cost savings of 3% -5% annually ($1 million – $4 million). • Designed and executed a purchasing plan that reduced yearly cost spikes, allowing customers to increase local lines of credit by 25%.• Improved quality of originated commodities savings of 3% -5% of processing margins ($2 – $5 million).• Negotiated directly with vessel owners to lower ocean freight costs through increased turn around efficiency of shipments including demurrage and discharge, cost savings between $1- $2 million per year.• Keynote Speaker, US Soybean Export Council.

Price risk, purchasing plans, supply chain and logistics management for grain, sugar and seed oil customers.

Director of all operations for the country of Columbia, including commercial operations of corn, wheat, soybeans and soymeal imports.

Hedged futures risk for corn and soymeal sales to Latin America.

Rail wheat, truck sorghum and corn, corn, rice and soybean barges