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St. Louis, MO, US

• Facilitate resource planning and resource optimization to achieve product development budget and timeline targets.
• Drive resource efficiency while optimizing the skills of the organization to deliver products to market.
• Develop and implement system and process improvements to increase efficiency of work and transparency and utilization of project and resource data.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Conducted process reviews and process development activities to implement of process improvements across the Operations organization.
• Scoped and developed a Project Management system to funnel Process Development requests, including functionality of form input, resource forecasts and allocation, time tracking, and project updates.
• Supported the sales organization by developing cost and timeline estimates and enabling high-value and often novel products and/or processes for custom and bulk (non-catalog) customer orders.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Supervised a team of 3 Project Managers and 5 Operations Specialists driving process and systems integration and organizational success to enable global regulatory submissions and license to operate for global product.
• Built, monitored, and reported a $60M budget while analyzing workload capacity.
• Directed project planning, study timelines, and resource capacity management for 100+ projects valued around $40B across 7+ technical safety centers and regulatory affairs groups.
• Monitored project health for global product pipeline against key KPIs (data targets, research submission deadlines).
• Managed contracts and purchase-to-pay for $44M+ of external study implementation and on-time payment administration.
• Defined and implemented processes to ensure business-critical execution of external lab and field projects.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Supported Regional Project Management Office in project evaluation, budgeting, strategy, and prioritization for product pipeline totaling over $1.5B.
• Integrated 20+ sources of project data into a single repository by creating a regional project database with customized form input.
• Built regional budgets of $40M+ annually by developing project plans for globally approved projects and assembling cost and resource project data.
• Led the regional launch of global Planisware Resource and Portfolio Management system including requirements, testing, and training, meeting the global target for roll out.
• Executed and managed all US regulatory research contracts with expenditures totaling $12M+ annually.
• Used Planisware data to provide forecast analyses and budget-tracking reports for executive management and regularly met year-end budget targets within 3%.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Led the North America launch of global R&D Planisware application for Planning, Performing, Cost & Resource Management to the Crop Protection business. - Performed functional, usability, and performance testing of the.
• Developed and implemented Oracle IT system for bidding, awarding, contracting, and funding 300-500 external regulatory field trials annually.
• Facilitated and maintained contracts and purchasing documents with external Contract Research Organizations totaling over $12M annually.
• Generated financial reports for management tracking actual to budget/forecast variance. Facilitated strategic timing of contracts to meet budget targets.
• Analyzed spend reports from SAP as compared to Planisware data. Ensured accurate allocation of study costs to the correct activities in Planisware for asset KPI evaluation to support business decision making.
• Liaised with Procurement to ensure legal and financial compliance of documents and transactions.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• As the Principal Investigator of seed treatment application phase of GLP residue studies, supported data packages for EPA registration of new compounds, planned, performed, and documented analytical practices described.
• Managed the yearly execution of 500+ SeedGrowth Field Development research trials for North America Region, used for determining optimal use patterns and product combinations for registrations, and generating sales.
• Extracted and normalized protocols from global trial database and managed seed receipt, processing, and shipping to cooperators.
• Optimized and automated process spreadsheets increasing efficiency and accuracy of laboratory methods.
• Initiated, managed, evaluated, and documented seed safety and disease efficacy research projects with 2 to 36 month duration periods.
• Created reports summarizing high volumes of data profiling the benefits of product packages to support product development, marketing, and sales.

Raleigh, NC

• Designed and managed applied field research projects studying disease management strategies in agriculture.
• Collected and analyzed crop response and disease development data on farms across North Carolina.
• Assisted in authoring pathology reports used by growers state-wide to develop site-specific integrated pest management plans.
• Conducted independent research on Rhizoctonia solani inoculation methods under Principle Investigator of research program.
• Assisted in the execution of annual Farm Tour attended by US and global growers, researchers, and other agriculture affiliates to survey research findings.

B.S., Environmental Studies

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B.S., Botany

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Diploma