Carla Taylor
Ankeny
Summary
- Ambitious Strategic Planning Manager with 21 years driving improvements in support of overall business strategy and goal achievement.
- Knowledgeable industry veteran with background in research methodology, driving decisions based on data, and enabling operational processes via software development and deployment.
- Strong communicator and influencer who turns strategy into action globally across business functions.
- Innovative with proven history crafting new strategies for optimizing data utilization and analysis.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Strategic Planning Manager
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer)
2021.01 - Current
- Driving $16+ Million in continuous improvement projects through bottoms up planning and continue to help high impact initiatives with prioritization and clarity
- Develop comprehensive business strategies for long-term growth, leading to increased performance and lower cost of goods. Give progress updates to drive effective prioritization of work. Maintained strategic guidance through 2 large team restructures.
- Provide strong and insightful project management, recognition, and publicity for key initiatives in our strategic pillars.
- Facilitate Cross-Functional coordination of activity focused on innovation in seed production, data science solutions for seed operations, and business product ownership for key business reporting needs across disparate data sources.
- Created framework and continue to drive standardization of key processes globally
Sr. Business Process Manager
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer)
2013.01 - 2021.01
- Managed 1 employee in developing automated metric systems for breeding programs in all crops and geographies
- Have deployed a standard format breeding program review globally to allow leadership to have meaningful discussions regardless of crop or region
- Lead the gathering of resource allocations and designed software to manage the storage and communication of those allocations
- Partnered with platform group to prepare data for investment planning purposes
- Developed visuals and reports to inform leadership of how actuals are aligned with the plans and allocations
- Reports also made available to assist Station Operation Leads to manage the data and prepare for the workload intended for their stations
- Founding member of Business Rules team that writes, vets, and communicates business rules to the breeding organization and beyond
- This has facilitated standardization and clarity for key processes that impact not only plant breeding but other functions in the business such as trait characterization, genetic technology, and seed production and supply.
Research Scientist
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Research Information Management
2006.01 - 2013.01
- Led many teams of developers, analysts, and business contacts in order to develop and improve tools for managing breeding programs, experiments, and stations
- Served as a Business Analyst and system designer
- Working through others, coordinated the release and support of tools that provide high quality global functionality
- Developed deep understanding of various relational databases such as PRISM and honed skills in querying and mining data.
Sr. User Services Consultant
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Research Information Management
2004.01 - 2006.01
- Supported eight stations on all aspects of software and hardware support
- Led environmental classification software development project
- Worked closely with developers and research clients and also supported software for Pioneer Research
- Designed training curriculum and trained Pioneer employees on software and hardware formal training sessions, large group conferee sessions, and while conducting research station visits
- Key Support contact for the two stage analysis software during the software launch season in 2006.
Management Assistant Program
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Agronomy Services
2003.01 - 2004.01
- Conducted studies on seed corn production issues such as pollen distribution, row spacing, seed treatments, and irrigation to assist supply locations with best practices
- Managed staff locally and in Chile on environmental classification, genetic profiling, and pollen studies
- Edited and contributed to team's formal and broadly distributed research progress report internal publication.
Education
Master of Science, Crop Production and Physiology - Agronomy
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa12.2002
Double major, Bachelor of Science Agronomy and Seed Science - Agronomy
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa05.2000
Skills
- Data Analytics
- Problem Solving
- Business Acumen
- Industry Knowledge
- Team Leadership
- Resource Allocation
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Performance Measurement
- Strategic Visioning
- Process Improvement
- Change Management
- Project Management
- Research Methods
- Employee Development
- Idea Development and Brainstorming
International Studies
- Agricultural Travel Course to Ukraine (2001)
- Agricultural Travel Course to Costa Rica (2000)
- College of Agriculture Study Abroad in China (1998)
Awards
- Employee Recognition for driving progress toward Digital Strategy (2022)
- Employee Recognition - People Leadership Award for How We Work - Family Support during COVID (2020)
- MIT Sloan Executive Education Leading Operation Excellence graduate (2018)
- Agile Software Development Training; completed Project Management Basics Course (2011)
- Henry Wallace Achievements in Research Award (2010)
- Attended Edward Tufte Data Visualization Course (2009)
- Iowa State University A grades in Plant Breeding, Marker Technologies, and Quantitative Genetics (2008-09)
- Gamma Sigma Delta induction (2002)
- American FFA Degree (1999)
References
- Dr. Geoff Graham, Corteva Agriscience, 8305 NW 62nd Ave., Johnston, IA, 50131, (515)535-5682, Geoff.Graham@corteva.com
- Dr. Tom Sauber, Corteva Agriscience, 8305 NW 62nd Ave., Johnston, IA, 50131, (515)321-4469, Tom.Sauber@corteva.com
- Dr. Russel Fox, Corteva Agriscience, 205 Fairview Dr., Dallas Center, IA, 50131, (515)229-0924, Russel.Fox@corteva.com
- Dr. Lance R. Gibson, Corteva Agriscience, 7100 NW 62nd Ave., Johnston, IA, 50131, (515)322-2547, Lance.Gibson@corteva.com
Timeline
Strategic Planning Manager
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer)
2021.01 - Current
Sr. Business Process Manager
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer)
2013.01 - 2021.01
Research Scientist
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Research Information Management
2006.01 - 2013.01
Sr. User Services Consultant
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Research Information Management
2004.01 - 2006.01
Management Assistant Program
Corteva Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) Agronomy Services
2003.01 - 2004.01
Master of Science, Crop Production and Physiology - Agronomy
Iowa State University
Double major, Bachelor of Science Agronomy and Seed Science - Agronomy
Iowa State University
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