Responsible for developing the company’s scientific growth strategy, providing guidance for leadership, and collaborating with Ag and Pharma clients and colleagues to develop business opportunities across existing and new service lines, including the Regulatory Environmental Fate, Plant, Animal Metabolism, Ecotoxicology, and Residue Chemistry. Charged with driving business expansion through organic and acquisition growth based on new and sustainable technologies or scientific innovations, as needed, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements. Maintaining industry thought leadership through constant engagement with clients, industry, academic innovators, and global regulatory agencies. Providing support to business development and participating in sales and marketing activities.

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Technical and business executive responsible for providing senior-level regulatory and technical guidance and leadership to various departments and assisting business development with sales for new business. Provided high-level program design to support client needs and provided technical or registration consulting services. Identifying opportunities for expansion of services or entry into new service lines. Maintain contact with the market, understand market trends, survey market dynamics for future directions, and stay abreast of global regulatory requirements. Align with technical leaders in Ecotoxicology, Environmental Fate and Metabolism, Avian Toxicology, and Analytical Chemistry and Crop Residue to establish, maintain, and improve technical standards.Significant accomplishments include:• Improved technical standards through training and mentoring Study and Research Directors.• Co-chaired a symposium on “Latest Trend in Environmental Fate SETAC in Vancouver, Canada.• Co-organized an “Environmental Risk Assessment of Down-the-Drain Chemicals” symposium at the 251st National Meeting of the ACS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August 2016.

Direct and supervise a global team of regulatory scientists in charge of conducting a broad range of regulated studies, primarily in crop protection, pharmaceutical products, and industrial chemicals; manage scientist activities related to the conduct, analysis, evaluation, and reporting of contracted studies in Environmental Fate, Plant, and Animal Metabolism. Ensure conformance to technical, quality assurance, and financial performance objectives, including budget execution and P&L responsibility. Oversee customer relationships.Significant accomplishments include:• Co-organizer and Member of the Environmental Science Forum Advisory Board “Advances in Metabolism and Environmental Sciences Conference,” Düsseldorf, Germany, in June 2013.• Recruited high-performing Ph.D. scientists, strengthened the department's capabilities, and improved on-time report delivery to >95%.• Presided over a symposium session on “Advances in Protection of Agricultural Productivity, Public Health, and the Environment” at the 242nd ACS National Meeting-Agrochemical Division in Denver, CO, in the Fall of 2011.

Developed and maintained regulatory expertise through involvement as a resource on Product Registration Teams. Organized regulatory agency meetings and participated in agency and industry task forces. Maintained expertise in technical areas through direct regulatory study involvement, technology transfer, monitoring projects at CROs, literature review, participation in professional associations, and responsibility for dossier development. Represented DuPont (within the Environmental Safety Assessment discipline) with regulators and industry peers. Significant accomplishments include:• Successfully negotiated with EPA and PMRA to accept some EU TFD studies that bridged regulatory data knowledge gaps for NAFTA registration requirements; the agreement substantially reduced expenditures and streamlined data generation to avoid redundancy.• Co-organized a symposium on “Soil Bound Residues and Relevance to Environmental Exposure” at the 238th ACS National Meeting-Agrochemical Division in Washington, DC, in August 2009.• I was an invited speaker at the 12th International Fresenius AGRO Conference in Mainz (near Frankfurt), Germany in June 2010; I presented “Challenges to acceptance of foreign field dissipation studies in North America and Europe.”• Regulatory and Product Technical Expert for several herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide products under Development or registered globally. Responsible for the preparation of the dossier and regulatory submission. • Successfully contributed to implementing a new Alliance Partnership with ABC Laboratories Inc. and Charles River Laboratories (DuPont-ABC Alliance “Spirit” Award 2004).

Teaching an introductory chemistry course and supervising the associated laboratory component of the course.

Design, conduct and direct most types of environmental fate studies required for the registration of pesticide products including those studies conducted at Contract Research Organizations. Served as environmental fate representative on compound technical teams and as expert on adsorption/desorption studies. Defend studies challenged by regulatory authorities. Performed environmental fate studies to meet current and anticipated international regulatory needs. Supervise and direct activities of research associates and other direct reports.Significant accomplishments include:• Worked as a task force representative for various compounds and successfully served as a study monitor for several studies conducted at ABC, Ricerca, Battelle, and SLFA contract laboratories.• Fostered collaborative partnerships with industry counterparts and regulators and helped influence the direction of regulations by developing a protocol for drinking water treatment experiments.

● Instructed undergraduate level courses in classical and instrumental methods of analysis.● Instructed an advanced course on soil, plant and water analysis and developed and supervised the laboratory component of the course.