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Ludwigshafen, DE

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

US

Project manager leading monthly IT releases (building, testings, defect fixes, enhancements, and process updates) for rate reviews and compliance projects in Property insurance. Manage all budgeting, resources, and project plans for State-specifc home insurance policy changes. Develop and implement process improvement initiatives. Lead cross-functional.

Greenwich, CT, US

Lead manager for all process improvement activities in the IT and Operations departments and responsible for development of process and quality assurance procedures. Responsible for development of multiple IT projects converting four separate transportation management software systems into a single, company-wide system utilizing Agile project management.

• Lead Program Manager for Pioneer’s insect control, biotechnology traits in corn and soybeans responsible for developing product deployment strategies and planning, project management, and regulatory affairs. Managed.
• Prepared a project plan on a biotechnology product with an approximate $20 million budget and 100 participants. Created a project plan that obtained a one-year earlier commercialization target year adding an additional.
• Oversaw, coordinated, and completed a software migration from a Primavera P6 system to an MS Project system which was completed four months prior to target.
• Created and managed a team of marketing, business, Brazilian officials, local business leaders, and regulatory affairs managers to change the submission strategy of a Brazil cultivation submission resulting in.

• Supervised a staff of nine technical writers, responsible for completing over 200 documents annually, which ranged from 50 to 3000 pages in length. Accountable for the completion of all regulatory science study.
• Selected by senior leadership in 2009 to serve as the DuPont Pioneer representative on the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Nutrient Crop Composition Working Group and elected by the other members to serve.
• Created a technical writing group that in less than three years was responsible for completing all of the documents and reports needed for the entire department.
• Led a best practice improvement process to reduce the review time for government regulators of the CEA (nutrient composition, protein expression, and agronomics) studies by reducing the size of the reports form over.

Building 32, Suite 400, Overland Park, Kansas, US

Designed and conducted various ELISA methods for bulk stocks, prototypes, and final product vaccines to analyze relative potency for overall product effectiveness and quality. Developed PCR, real-time PCR using a Cepheid Smartcycler 2, DNA gel electrophoresis, protein content determination using spectroscopic tests, western blots, dot blot ELISAs, and.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

Assisted researchers with DNA extraction and performed PCR gel analyses in a high output setting. Organized and revised complex databases for tracking genotype and PCR results. Created a comprehensive database for tracking and reporting weekly PCR results of approximately 10,000 data points.

Completed a research project on characterizing 4000 different strains of B.t. using the real-time PCR Taqman® procedure. Developed the procedure and methods for using an ABI 7700 sequencer. Developed method and testing procedure for the implementation of RT-PCR for the company’s entire insect control gene screening program.