Allied Genetic Resources

Consultant to owner-members and customers of Allied Genetic Resources for precision mating program implementation and optimizing their genetic selection program to meet their unique interests and production environment and/or customer's needs.
- Precision mating programs
- Large effect gene management
- Selection decision support

Consulting Geneticist and Customer Services Specialist

Optimum Genomics LLC

Guiding cattle producers to genetic improvement activities with state of the art technologies and awareness of the trade-offs they need to implement for their local production environment and customer base.
- Animal breeding and genetics
- Selection strategies
- Selection Index insights
- Genomics
Open to work with other industries and insights which can utilize my skills and experience for their application and needs.

Owner

Neogen Corporation, GeneSeek Operations

Lead research and development of new products in the agrigenomics field:
 - Coordinating resource population development
 - Develop genotype and phenotype resources
 - Integration of bioinformatic tools

Work with agricultural researchers and livestock organizations to develop new genomics tools and services that will be leveraged by commercial producers to improve food production in the U.S. and globally.

Director of Genetics Product Development

USDA-ARS

Center-wide research support for experimental design and statistical analyses.
Supporting beef cattle, swine, and sheep research projects.

Statistician (Agricultural)

I worked with beef cattle populations which have been selected using marker assisted selection (MAS) to increase minor allele frequencies.  These increased allele frequencies will allow for better estimation of allele effects and modes of inheritance.

Research Geneticist, Post-Doctoral Associate

Iowa State University

Coordinated research sample and data collection for traditional and novel traits in the ISU Angus Selection project for increased marbling.
Made selection and mating decisions for bulls and cows utilized in this project.

Associate Scientist

Graduate Research Assistant working on beef cattle genetics and management research.

Research Assistant

My career objectives are to develop and transfer tools which allow agricultural producers to make better selection decisions of future parents earlier in the production cycle.

I have utilized tools such as:
  - Genetic evaluation and estimation of heritability for novel traits
  - Real-time ultrasound to evaluate potential selection candidates in livestock
  - Genetic markers to evaluate novel, expensive to measure, or expressed late in life traits

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