One of four global leaders, tasked with creating the digitization strategy for the North America region (USA & Canada) for the Grains & Oilseeds and Cotton divisions and driving development, including:Uplift of grower facing platform MyLDC to streamline the experience, develop new functionality, and drive forward on a path towards increased origination from growers without mandating increased merchandiser headcount while delivering a superior experience for our grower partners. Implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform to enable a paradigm shift forward from a purely volume driven approach to origination towards one focused on product quality and relationship building to reduce uncertainty in supplies. Coordinating rollout of sustainability, traceability, and Regenerative Agriculture platforms with automated data capture, third party program involvement, and certifications to allow growers and the company to capture value and reduce environmental impacts while also focusing on reducing friction points on growers to increase adoption.

Developing the vision for the grower and enterprise experience for web and mobile platforms and leading teams to research, design, and develop the next generation technologies and platforms to digitize the agriculture supply chain and improve the experience for every step along the way.Managing 3 separate teams and leading a product with $10 million in ARR, over 65k users, and powering more than 40% of the US grain supply.

Founder and CEO working to build data-driven tools and platforms to help solve the most significant problems in the industry using models proven elsewhere but with architecture that reflects the specific needs of agriculture.Leading a team to build and develop a task-centric farm labor management platform designed to help improve operational efficiency. Designed and developed the architecture for a novel approach to solving the problem of labor shortages in agriculture, led a team through the AgLaunch, Plug and Play, and Gener8tor Illinois AgTech Accelerator programs and completed a successful pre-seed fundraising round. I have presented to audiences of hundreds, sharing my vision and our team's work and communicating a very complex problem in a simple and powerful way.

Digital Innovator building the connection between the Digital Agriculture team and the Digital Data and Analytics team and serving as the key link between the two teams to enable Digital Agriculture to develop and deliver while also allowing Digital Data and Analytics to capture and understand the data generated and deliver insights and wisdom from it.- Global Common Data Lake Initiative (SADIE) - Digital Farming Sensor Data- Climate / Weather- Drone Imaging with Sony- Large Scale Compute and Processing Infrastructure with NCSA - Creation of Innovation Lab at University of Illinois Campus

Systems Architect working in the Research and Development IS area for Genetic Excellence (GenEx) and Biology & Breeding domains to develop the next generation of agriculture software, platforms, and systems to help breeders be more accurate and growers be more productive.- Big Data Analytics- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)- Proof of Concept Development- Production Agronomics- Biology & Breeding

Scientific Analyst working in R&D IS to discover and analyze new and existing Information Systems processes and innovations that can be used to support and further research science. Using a strong understanding of science to link technology developments to business needs and scientific capabilities to encourage and support scientific development.

3 year leadership development program within the Information Systems department and Syngenta Business Services (SBS) to give members a complete overview of the company's processes, operations, and culture. Members complete three 1 year long rotations through Syngenta's different IS areas to learn and experience each of the three key information systems operational areas.

Global IS Architect leading and working on projects in many areas including digital farming, SAP, application development, web development, cloud services, mobility and mobile devices, transition and migration projects, etc.

Infrastructure Service Delivery Manager for Identity Management, Warehouse Computing, and Interactive Intelligence based Customer Care Telephony System.Application Service Delivery Manager for over a dozen local, internet facing, and virtualized applications.Site Service Manager for over fifty third party warehouse sites located throughout the United States.

Facilitating interaction between students, faculty and staff, and computing hardware and software, providing assistance when necessary, sales transactions, and hardware maintenance.

Served as an intern for the Archer Daniels Midland Company, in the commodities merchandising department where I created and tracked grain contracts, managed logistics, conducted research into regional hybrid production and gained an in-depth grasp of the agribusiness industry.

Assisting members with registration and enrollment in membership and programs, customer service, and database management.

Running day to day operations such as food services, housekeeping, restoration and maintenance of older structures and equipment, repairing fence, farming wheat, oats, and barley, and maintaining the well being of Black Angus livestock during middle and high school on our family farm and ranch.