To be actively engaged in production agriculture with people who are participating and influencing today’s dynamic business environment through understanding customers, visualizing the future, solving problems, educating clientele, wisely utilizing resources, and exceeding needs while returning a profit to the organization, stake holders, and stock holdersSuccesses: Problem Solving Influential member of an executive team that identified a challenge in production agriculture, regarding the communication of confidential information between interested parties, developed a creative solution, using technology and spatial data, and successfully released a first of a kind IT network, enabled by the internetTeam Building Took over a sales department riddled with turnover, inconsistency, and customer dissatisfaction and created a stable team with less team members that customers enjoyed doing and did more business with reduced costs, directed product line, increased market share, and improved company revenueStrategic Thinking Created a business plan for a fifty year old University icon, student managed farm, that did return it to financial sustainability/profitability, modernized its curriculum for today’s students, prepared it for the future, and expanded its educational role all within the existing bureaucracy of the UniversityResearch Took an advisory committee concern, collected information on it, analyzed it, identified a weakness in the knowledge base regarding it, then within the University, established, managed, staffed, creatively equipped, and funded an applied research project that was invited to be shared nationally and internationallyTeaching Proven ability to take the complex, break it down into understandable segments, and successfully transfer that knowledge to others for implementation into their position/lives (youth, high school, college, and adult // classroom, laboratory, publication, electronic, and distance education)Life Long Learning Recognized that the world is ever changing, have the personal willingness to accept this change, and have the commitment to seek the knowledge necessary to adapt to this change. I have diverse skills and am often used in utility player roles moving between projects, segmented groups, and venues maintaining vision and driving results.
Listed skills include Product Development, Analysis, Public Speaking, Teaching, and 38 others.
