Ryan Byrnes Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

As the Global Coffee Data Impact Lead at Starbucks, I lead the development and operational deployment of our comprehensive approach to monitoring, reporting, and verifying the impact (MRV) of our global coffee initiatives. We are transforming a previously fragmented system into a cohesive, technology-enabled framework. This transformation allows for a clear understanding of our impacts on farmer livelihoods and our efforts in mitigating climatic effects.Key Responsibilities:Impact Monitoring and Reporting: Lead the development of a unified system for monitoring and reporting the tangible impacts of Starbucks' global coffee sustainability initiatives and all Enterprise ESG reporting for "The first ten feet of coffee", from seed to mill.System Integration: Overcome the challenges of fragmented systems by integrating diverse data sources and tools, facilitating a holistic view of our sustainability efforts.Change Management: Drive change management processes to ensure smooth adoption and effective use of new systems and methodologies across the Sustainability, Agronomy and R&D teams.Collaboration and Partnership: Work closely with various stakeholders including Starbucks' global team, technology department, coffee traders, coffee suppliers, and external partners to align efforts and maximize impact.Technology Utilization: Identifying, testing and enhancing advanced technology solutions to enhance data accuracy and insight generation, ensuring our sustainability efforts are data-driven and impactful.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

● Organizational data quality product lead, owning data quality vision and product roadmap for USAFacts ● Released MVP of data quality framework to apply to all USAFacts platform data● Environmental data product owner - subject matter expert● Leading data product delivery enhancements, resulting in two-month earlier delivery of 170 datasets for site products● Led product management efforts to develop and test site feature enhancements and targeting that resulted in improved annual organic sessions by 25%● Led product development of improved data collection methods – deployed a new data API ingestion platform and processes that reduced data ingestion costs by $100k/year● Manage and oversee staff to ensure that data are of the highest quality and usable in USAFacts annual reports, external marketing, and external content generation

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

● Lead Data Strategy Steering Committee to identify and remedy cross-cutting data quality issues to unlock insights from farm machine generated data● Owned product management of internal quality data metrics; requirements gathering from internal stakeholders, prioritization and build out with Engineering, and rollout of user focused visualization suite● Developed key internal data products for use in machine learning modeling efforts that resulted in improved model accuracy by 5-10% or 6-10 bu/acre● Coordinated a cross-organizational pilot study to determine root cause issues impacting digital tooling efficacy for agricultural customers and stakeholders, socialized results across Climate and Bayer North America Agronomy organizations and resulted in product enhancements that drove improved customer engagement● Coordinated requirements and roll out of internal agronomic data quality products among teams of engineers, scientists, and non-technical leadership – unlocking 20% more data for predictive modeling efforts● Communicated and championed internal data quality products across the company to foster an inclusive culture of quality agricultural data products● Analyzed millions of acres of vector and raster farmer machine planting, harvest, and application data to define and implement quality thresholds and metrics for use in developing grower facing products, services and metrics reporting to leadership

Watsonville, Ca, Us

• Managed the project workflow and milestones of simulated soil-water models (ArcGIS SWAT) for predicting soil nitrate and salt accumulation in the California Central Valley using ArcSWAT interface.• Managed modeling team to update SWAT crop models to reflect updated research findings, to update SWAT model coding to improved irrigation schemes and more accurately model nitrogen cycling• Conducted data analysis in R to develop statistical models to determine important covariates for ground water nitrate loadings• Management of field level experiments; soil and water quality sampling, to demonstrate the efficacy of improved grower irrigation and fertilization management in the California Central Valley and reduced human health impacts of nitrate in potable water• Management of data flow of millions of rows of simulation model runs from the central valley of California irrigated agricultural lands in the R programming environment• Contributing technical revisions to nitrogen removed report used by California farmers in quantifying removed nitrogen from their crops and applied to their yearly nitrogen management plans

• Conducted meta-analysis on soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in livestock grazed landscapes to determine how grazing impacts soil nutrient cycling• Utilized R statistical packages to organize, analyses and visualize model results (i.e. glmulti, metafor and ggplot2).• Results will be used to inform public and private stakeholders on management policy directions that manage environmental health and economic returns• Presentation of research results at scientific conferences and invitation of submission of scientific manuscript to the Journal of Environmental Quality (In Press)

New York, New York, Us

• Lead effort to synthesize current state of science surrounding tillage and cover crops impact on soil carbon sequestration in row cropped systems in the United States and Canada.• Produced white paper with the results of this synthesis for use in developing priority research and outreach agendas within EDF and stakeholders

Washington, Dc, Us

Evaluating Bank Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) portfolio of knowledge products and tools and developing white paper document for Bank senior staff CSA guidance.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Co

• Awarded research fellowship by USAID to conduct research at the Center for International Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia• Designed and implemented field experiment to evaluate cropping strategies to biologically reduce nutrient losses in tropical forage systems• Analyzed data in R using lme4 package to determine relationships between microbial communities and soil nitrification processes and created visual representation using ggplot2• Results were published in the journal Soil Biology and Biochemistry – winter 2016

Designed, executed and managed field experiments to evaluate sub-surface drip irrigation (SDI) in alfalfa as a greenhouse gas reduction toolTrained and mentored undergraduate staff in experimental design, sample collection and processingDesigned lab experiments to corroborate field experiments, use of stable isotopes to determine dominate nitrogen cycling pathwayResults support the use of drip irrigation as a viable tool in reducing soil greenhouse gas emissions and maintain alfalfa productivity, results presented at academic and industry meetings

Davis, California, Us

Lead author for the update of Assembly Bill 32 Scoping Plan for Agriculture and Working Lands sector.Chapter focused on the current state of science surrounding soil carbon sequestration and reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.Updated chapter is the product of round table discussions between academics, industry partners, non-profit and commodity stakeholder groups

Davis, California, Us

Organized municipal tree data inventories to create tree resilience scores based on qualitative and quantitative data to assess urban tree resiliency related to predicted climatic shifts in urban areas. Score cards will be used to select potentially resilient species for long-term research station and urban field experiments and to give stakeholders a tool for assessing the resiliency of their tree species.

Davis, California, Us

Collected and analyzed field soil samples in split-nitrogen application wheat experiments for calibration of field-based soil nitrogen analysesAssisted in global meta-analysis data extraction from literature surrounding split nitrogen fertilizer applications

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Provided technical training support in the areas of soil and water management, income generation from diversified farming systems and integrated pest managementSuccessfully solicited and obtained grant funding for the training of 20 community members on sustainable agriculture practices

Chula Vista, California, Us

Worked with municipal staff to collect fuel and energy use from facilities and develop emissions reports for City policy staffAssisted in soliciting and obtaining federal funds for solar panel installations on city buildings

Msc - International Agricultural Development, Soil Sciences; Soil Biology And Biochemistry

Bachelors Of Arts, International Security And Conflict Resolution - Environmental Studies

Rice Research To Production