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Gilroy, California, United States

Tidal Grow® AgriScience is a Tidal Vision company. Tidal Vision is a privately held biomolecular technologies company based in Bellingham, Washington.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led the North American Research and Development department’s daily efforts to develop new and improve existing seed technologies; ultimately enabling farmers to feed more people with less seed and resourcesSimultaneously mange research projects with variable commercialization timelines, while trouble-shooting technical issues which arise within the two commercial facilities within North AmericaSupervise the team’s technology transfer of new products and inline improvements from R&D to Operations, Quality and Commercial departmentsBuilding, directing and mentoring a team of 8 – 10 scientists and technicians, resulting in 2x-5x productivity gains as measured by multiple KPIs: number of scientific samples per FTE; increased field trials (acreage, unique products, crops); PMO Stage Gates passed per annum; and new products implemented while maintaining balanced operating and CAPEX budgets in a safe work environmentManage department’s evaluation of new materials and technologies provided by third parties for suitability as new seed treatments or inline improvements to existing productsLed technical efforts: i.e. formulation evaluation; formulation scaling; seed treatment sample preparation; field trials; data preparation, etc. resulting in the successful US (EPA) and Canadian (PMRA) registrations of ULTIM Fungicide, a non-biological, copper based fungicide for organic row crops

Gilroy, California, United States

Mentored fellow scientists use of High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) techniques / methodologiesCo-developed and refined multiple HTE discovery screens focused on discovery of powder-scale heterogeneous catalysts for the oxidation / reduction of bio-renewably sourced substratesStructured and responsible the daily operation of several discovery screening programs in batch reactors and various developmental screening programs in continuous flow reactorsDiscovered, optimized and scaled (10 mg powder → 50 g extrudates) multiple heterogeneous catalyst familiesOrganized, visualized and mined large data sets from multi-year screening programsCo-invented over 20+ published U.S. patent applications to dateManaged our company’s IT needs and ‘super-user’ for many of our company-wide client SW productsSupervised multiple research associates

Santa Clara, Ca

Co-developed multiple HTE primary screens focused on discovering novel homogeneous and heterogeneous catalystsContributed to the invention and development of seven unique catalyst families for olefin polymerizationCo-invented and co-authored over 30+ patent applications, papers and abstractsPrepared and presented routine technical updates to several international chemical company clients Organized, visualized and mined large data sets from multi-year screening programsPartnered with our software engineers in the multi-year development of a Chemical Inventory system unitized by our homogeneous catalyst teamBeta tested multiple Symyx software product offeringsSupervised multiple research associates

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Gail I. Neff Chemistry Demonstrator of the Year Award (1999); Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Chemistry.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.) With Honours, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Brock Archaeological Outreach (1994-96)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), General Studies

Activities and Societies: The Dean's Advisory Committee on Non-Academic Discipline (1994-1995); The Dean's Advisory Committee on Student's.