Extensive experience in Agricultural Research associated with Breeding & Trait Development including field trials and seed production for multiple crops. Expertise includes business development and management. Comprehensive Experience with Stewardship, Regulatory Compliance, Biosafety, Quality Management Systems, Biological Movement Coordinators & Environmental Health & Safety requirements, directives and procedures.
Manage Trait Development & Regulatory Science Seeds & Traits Regulated/Stewarded Field Production. Manage Seed Planner Seed Request for Global Regulatory Studies.
Manage Trait Development Seed stock for US, PR & ARG Field Trials & Seed Increase. Manage processing, packaging & shipping all TD Field Trials & Seed Production including Regulated & Stewarded material for main and counter season. Ensure Compliance with all Stewardship, Regulatory Compliance, Biosafety & BMMC Guidelines and Directives. Ensure Compliance with all Safety Programs. Manage TD Seed Logistics & Seed Production Budgets.
Manage Trait Development Seed stock for US, PR & ARG Field Trials & Seed Increase. Manage processing, packaging & shipping all TD Field Trials & Seed Production including Regulated & Stewarded material for main and counter season. Ensure Compliance with all Stewardship, Regulatory Compliance, Biosafety & BMMC Guidelines and Directives. Ensure Compliance with all Safety Programs. Manage TD Seed Logistics Budget.
Coordinate & Manage seed processing of Cotton breeding nurseries and yield trial plots. Manage seed inventory of breeding nurseries. Manage Idalou breeding nurseries and yield trial plots. Participate & Comply with Regulatory, QMS & Stewardship objectives. Safety Site Lead, training FTE & Seasonal employees.
Responsible for supervising and scheduling work duties for 5 FTE's and 25 seasonal employees. Responsible for maintaining research data on database. Managed and Executed all aspects of planning, packaging, planting, spraying, pollinating, harvesting & threshing Sorghum breeding nurseries main & counter season. Coordinated with breeders and staff in US, ARG, Brazil, Mexico & PR. Managed seasonal labor budget.
Responsible for implementing daily operations. Leading crews of seasonal labor, maintaining Sorghum field trial plots & breeding nurseries, planting, pollinating, harvesting & threshing. Collecting data & maintaining data base.
Seed treating, seed packaging, planting, pollinating & harvesting Sorghum breeding nurseries & yield trials. Plot maintenance of breeding nurseries and yield trials. Managed greenhouse, screen male and female lines for Biotype E & I greenbug resistance. Screened plants for hydrocyanic acid.
Treat & package seed for research Peanut field trial plots. Plant, maintain & harvest research Peanut plots. Maintained weather stations at research plots on the Texas South Plains. Performed test using gas chromatograph determining fatty acid ratios. Managed greenhouse winter crop.