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Stewardship Lead, responsible for ensuring Licensees adhere to 100% compliance of EPA-mandated insect refuge requirement when planting traited products. Product Lead for Distribution Brand, coordinating yearly processes between customers, sales team, and systems management.• Hosted online webinars to educate customers on stewardship obligations• Directed activities of contractors to help manage current licenses • Initiated an optimization work stream project for specialty businesses• Value stream mapping and ways of working exercises to establish best practices.• Customer contract alignment

Product Lead responsible for overseeing AgriPro brand cereal seed (winter wheat, spring wheat, and triticale) products from cradle to grave, including product planning, placement, pricing, and promotion, and retirement.• Product forecasting • Product advancement and planning• Grower/end-user feedback • Promotional material creation• Customer interaction and product support• Budget, demand, production, and long-term marketing plans creation• Plan presentation to approval bodies• Value stream mapping and process optimization • Stakeholder training• Product name registration

Collected wheat and barley trial data for submission into integrated database to facilitate collaboration among researchers, plant breeders, and educators across 21 states and 55 universities.

Research assistant exposed to research pipelines from project inception to variety release; trained in plant breeding principles, experimental design, quantitative genetics, statistical analysis, and communicating data. Designed, coordinated, conducted, and analyzed 3-years of replicated field experiments resulting in a manuscript acceptance to the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Genetics.• Successfully validated a genetic mapping technique and results by deriving relevant disease resistant/susceptible barley lines from breeding stock and comparing them in field trials.• Verified results of previous studies identifying possible disease resistance genes• Mined data to identify candidates for disease trial comparison• Set-up and managed validation experiment;• Coordinated and trained undergraduate workers in greenhouse and field trial operations.• Worked with barley team to plant, maintain, inoculate, and harvest disease nursery.• Collected, organized, and interpreted field/genotypic data for FHB, Deoxynivalenol tolerance traits • Led presentations and published scientific materials to communicate findings