Italo Soccolich

• Professor of Surgery and Large Animal Clinics.
• Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
• Used variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate learning process and accentuate presentations.
• Provided students with constructive, encouraging and corrective feedback.
• Shifted between informal and formal methods of teaching to create multi-layered web of learning incorporating experiments, practical activities, discussions and projects into lessons.

• Worked on raising high value pure breeding cows for production and reproduction operations.
• Adjusted production strategies to account for changing factors such as market and weather conditions.
• Maximized operational profits by closely inspecting breeding, assessing quality and identifying problems such as disease or bad practices.
• Worked closely with employees to improve practices, techniques and safety choices, optimizing performance and minimizing waste.

General advisor in good dairy management for different farms.

Inspecting hygiene and good milking practices.

Preparing milkers in good milking practices.

Managing reproductive parameters for making more profits in dairy farms.

Applying reproductive methods to improve milking production in mid and long term in dairy farms (A.I. and Embryo Transfer.)

• Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision and long-range planning.
• General Control of mastitis en the dairy herd.
• General control of the reproductive management of the farm.
• Maximized operational excellence mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices and company procedures.
• Implemented operational strategies and effectively built customer and employee loyalty.
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.

• Worked on cultivation plans for forrage production operations.
• Manage all the sanitary aspects of the farm.
• Planed the breeding of the pure breeding cows and bulls (Brahman breed).
• Manage the personel required for every aspect of the farm, mechanics, hand workers, cowboys, milkers.
• Maximized operational profits by closely inspecting crops, assessing quality and identifying problems such as disease or insects.
• Worked closely with employees to improve practices, techniques and safety choices, optimizing performance and minimizing waste.