Scott Plato
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Experience
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Evergreen FS, Inc.
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United States
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Jan 2021 - Present
Oversee all facets of the digital experience as a product owner and Agile project manager identifying and ensuring grower needs for future platform deployments and meeting commercial business objectives. Supervise a business relationship specialist to interact with customers and university officials for summer internships and an agronomy technology associate to manage scouting and drone flight operations. Direct agricultural technologies for multiple sites utilizing sophisticated agronomy solutions (AgLogic, Solinftec), Agvance ERP, AWS, and Google Cloud to facilitate multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.Lead grid and zone soil sampling, field scouting, and yield mapping for gathering data. Train and follow up with internal and external agri-management teams on the use of new systems within Evergreen’s technology stack. Manage all stages of the digital product life cycle by generating KPI reports, sales engineering, registering trademarks, establishing intellectual property, and designing marketing content and materials to support successful deliveries. • Architected a next-generation agricultural scouting application platform (Agtrinsic) from conception to completion utilizing GCP. Entrusted with an annual development and services budget of approximately $1 million. This visionary digital site has elevated customer engagement while improving product and operations income. • Piloted a proof-of-concept project for chemical spray drones liaising with flight attorneys and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) on regulations and waivers. Directed the scouting of over 225,000 acres in 2022 utilizing field scouts, Sentera PHX fixed-wing drones, two DJI AGRAS T-20s, and a DJI AGRAS T-10.• Recently completed a complex broad-scale disease model (patent pending). This involved over seven years of extensive field research on nitrogen and disease management gathering high-level microclimate data to develop algorithms for this framework. Show less
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Jan 2005 - Jan 2021
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GROWMARK FS, LLC
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United States
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Business Analyst
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Jan 2000 - Feb 2005
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Education
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Blackburn College
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences