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St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Managing a portfolio of data science projects from initiation to launch. Responsibilities are to champion projects, manage stage gating, identifying stakeholders and champions, and enabling data scientist to connect with software production teams. • Responsible for providing business knowledge while partnering with highly technical teams of data scientists, engineers, and genetic scientists.• Established a new product development need and product team by defining a gap and value of solution. Once funded, the product became the data entry source for 76% of the data needed for commercial advancement decisions in Breeding. • Defined initiatives on a wide range of products from customer facing handheld application, historic lab-platform applications, web-based scheduling & allocation of operational workloads and quality control data review.

Saint Louis, Mo

• Championed and launched a planning constraint operations research model used in demand scenario planning and managing our planting, sampling & harvesting demand workloads for our multi-season, multi-crop greenhouses & fields while staying within resource capacities.• Lead multiple network wide, multi-year change projects to enable the filling of North America corn and soy R&D breeding pipeline through an auto-packaging facility. Projects spanned process optimization, decision automation, data architecture design, and required heavy influencing and team forming skills throughout multiple levels of the organization.

Saint Louis Missouri

• Delivered new processes and procedures through standard project management practices of defining stakeholders, developing proof of concept through launch milestones, and reporting to multiple business partners pipeline and project health.• Responsibilities included defining pipeline health, modeling roadmaps for successful commercial testing of soy, cotton and regulatory trait pipelines, on-boarding new breeders, and co-leading matrixed breeding organization initiatives. • Registered products through multiple stages of regulation through deregulation for commercial launch.

Kihei Hi And Kunia Hi

• General responsibilities: Lead a team of employees, managed a multi-million dollar operating budget, drove process optimization projects within our site, hired employees locally and for the Brazil TI station.• Developed KPIs and trained employees to report upon the KPIs to leadership. • Forecasted multi-season, multi-year pipeline demand planning for regulated trait introgression hybrid crops, defining land, greenhouse space, lab, and labor needs.• Accepted increasing levels of responsibility in roles. Began as a Research Asst., promoted to various levels of Research Associate and ended as Nursery Manager throughout the time in Hawaii and Brazil.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Crop Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Agricultural And Horticultural Plant Breeding

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Agricultural Plant Breeding

Activities and Societies: Delta Gamma