Experience

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  National Milk Records (NMR)

  • United Kingdom
  • Dairy Product Manufacturing
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Customer Service Manager

    • Apr 2024 - Present

  • Area Field Manager

    • Jul 2019 - Apr 2024

  • Area Coordinator

    • Jan 2019 - Jul 2019

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  AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  • Stoneleigh Park, West Midlands, United Kingdom

  • CRM Data Entry Administrator

    • Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
    • Stoneleigh Park, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Merging and correcting Customer Relationship Management database of the levy boards in preparation for full compliance with GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation. Coordinated collection of reported dead wild birds for laboratory testing for Avian Influenza.

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  Farm Science Limited

  • 5 Ivor Drive, Kingston 6

  • Managing Director

    • Sep 2009 - Dec 2017
    • 5 Ivor Drive, Kingston 6

    After offering a range of livestock products and services for 8 years the company decided to close operations at the end of November 2017. Select Sires Inc. bovine genetics that Dairy Herd Services and then Farm Science Ltd. offered in Jamaica since 1996 are now available from Newport Mills Ltd.

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  Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

  • Jamaica

  • Independent Consultant

    • Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
    • Jamaica

    Rhymesfield Dairy Cluster Farm/Enterprise Plan Development - devised a financially viable business plan the cooperative envisaged as being within their capabilities. Conducted a survey of the cooperative membership and the extent of their current agricultural activities, including beef, small ruminants, papaya, sugarcane, broilers and several cash crops. Calculated the profitability of sample operations. Calculated the fodder potential of their Kinggrass fodder project with proper fertilizer, irrigation and harvesting routines. Investigated the market, suppliers and feasibility of a Farm Store.

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  IICA Inter-American Institite for Cooperation on Agriculture

  • Jamaica

  • Independent Consultant

    • Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
    • Jamaica

    Conducted primary and secondary research for an enterprise development plan for the Serge Island dairy cluster of small farmers. Devised a plan that suits the skills of the group. Prepared the cash flow to demonstrate the plan's profitability as well as provided a sensitivity analysis and cost benefit analysis.

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  IDC Consultants, Canada and Jamaica

  • Canada

  • Agricultural Consultant

    • Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Canada

    Collaborated for Belize Cacao Value Chain Analysis and Industry Strategy

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  Select Sires

  • Distrubutor

    • 1996 - 2014

    Promotion, sales and support for animal breeding

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  Royal Jamaica Yacht Club

  • Summer Camp Director

    • 2003 - 2011

    Designed the programme and recruited camp leaders

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  Eurostep

  • Consultant

    • 2003 - 2004

    Researcher, writer on the Jamaican dairy and sugar sectors and the effect of agricultural trade subsidies