James Barton Email & Phone Number

Fayetteville, AR, US

United States

North America

• Served as the veterinary technical expert focusing, on gut-health and immune-function feed ingredients.
• Collaborated with sales managers, product managers, marketing managers, and global technical managers.
• Interfaced directly with customer veterinarians, nutritionists, production managers, and company executives.
• Initiated and organized customer-centric field trials in hatcheries, farms, and processing plants.
• Determined customer needs and communicated same to R&D, production, and marketing teams.
• Created and delivered presentations in small meeting rooms, regional and national conferences, and online.

Interfaced with poultry veterinarians and live production managers for technical and practical support of probiotics and direct fed microbials developed at Pacific Vet Group, USA. Advised internal managers of poultry production and disease control practices that apply to conventional and raised without antibiotics programs.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

• Initiated professional technical program, emphasizing sustainable poultry production and Salmonella control.
• Supported sales through customer interactions, design and execution of field trials, analysis of performance data, customization of product application, authorship of documents, and presentations at scientific symposia.
• Provided feedback regarding market opportunities for research and development, operations, and marketing.
• Traveled extensively throughout the US, as well as to Thailand, Brazil, and Denmark.
• Managed one veterinarian and indirectly supervised administrative staff, sales staff, and R&D scientists.

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Modernized a serologic laboratory, expanding services to include vaccine monitoring and disease detection.
• Advised Executive Director regarding disease control and food safety related to intensive poultry production.
• Served as primary contact to regulatory officials for certified National Poultry Improvement Plan laboratories.
• Prepared for and participated in certification audits conducted by regulatory officials.
• Enhanced the mass dissemination system used to notify industry of significant poultry diseases.
• Responsible for inventory management, laboratory P&L, and new business development.

As a PAACO certified Poultry welfare auditor, conducts welfare audits across North America on a limited basis.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

• Provided veterinary care, animal welfare auditing, program verification auditing, and product technical support.
• Traveled extensively to farms, slaughter plants, hatcheries, feed mills, offices, and trade shows.
• Invited by animal health suppliers and public sector groups to serve as featured speaker.
• Designed statewide compartmentalization program impacting multiple companies and poultry types.
• Created over thirty farm plans for entry of a poultry complex into the Global Animal Partnership (GAP) program.
• Initiated customer contacts for evaluation of novel direct fed microbial.

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

The Arkansas Livestock & Poultry Commission is the animal health advisory board to the state regulatory agency and the Governor. Served as commissioner and chair of the commission. Conducted public hearings to create and revise regulations, as well as to act on personnel matters. Featured as subject matter expert in a nationally televised news story.

Springdale, Arkansas, United States

• Developed and executed corporate veterinary and welfare programs for an integrated broiler company raising 30 million broilers per week.
• Presented technical and strategic information to customers.
• Designed, refined, and presented welfare training to company management, veterinarians, and customers.
• Conducted animal welfare audits and interfaced with external auditors.
• Developed welfare and on-farm food safety policies in response to customer interests and demands.
• Inspected US farms, hatcheries, slaughter plants, feed mills, offices, and customer sites.

Springdale, Arkansas, United States

Worked for 9 years as a veterinarian for the Cargill's turkey division covering Springdale & Ozark Arkansas, California Missouri, and Waco Texas, and Harrisonburg, VA Complexes. I left Cargill to pursue an opportunity to focus on Animal Welfare at Tyson Foods.

Fresno, California, United States

• Provided veterinary support to integrated poultry company raising both broilers and turkeys.
• Upgraded disease control and food safety practices.
• Interacted with line employees, managers, executives, and regulatory officials, as well as individual farmers.
• Managed serology, microbiology, and analytical laboratory, as well as on-farm quality assurance program.
• Created autogenous vaccines and pioneered use within the operation.
• Managed laboratory technicians, field quality assurance technicians, and receptionist.

Nacogdoches, Texas, United States

• Provided veterinary technical support to primary broiler breeders in the US, Europe, Asia, and Middle East.
• Delivered veterinary care for domestic flocks, including certification of health status for export.
• Interacted with customers, regulatory officials, company managers, and individual farmers.
• Oversaw in-house diagnostic and quality assurance laboratory.
• Managed team of technical services professionals and laboratory technicians.

Non Degree Program, Residency In Poultry Medicine

Dvm, Veterinary Medicine

Bs, Agriculture, Poultry Science

Education record