Stephen Hardison

Agricultural minded results-driven crop insurance professional with forward-thinking approach centered on company success, competitive growth and innovation in agriculture technology. Demonstrated record of success in growing sales and managing profitable operations. Skillfully recruit and train employees at all levels to meet customer and business demands. Highly effective and comfortable working with people at all levels of in the organization.

• Strategized and spearheaded the implementation of many IT initiatives to include the move away from managed IT provider saving over $82K per year.
• Developed key business processes for data mining across several business applications resulting in a single pane of glass business reporting dashboard for the organization using Microsoft Data Factory, Microsoft Data Warehouse and PowerBI.
• Developed proprietary indicator using CFTC Commitment of Traders Data to determine market turning points.
• Invented and developed corn stover insurance policy for corn growers to mitigate the risk of loss of corn stover biomass to be utilized in the conversion to cellulosic ethanol.
• Completed research, development, evaluation, and education of risk management products for the United States Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency resulting in $7.1 million in revenues.
• Played a key role in supervising a team of analyst for the development of an alternative energy presentation aimed at a large publicly traded company's board of directors. Presentation resulted in the award of an $80,000 fixed price research project.

• Texas-General Lines Property and Casualty Agent
• Oklahoma-General Lines Property and Casualty Agent