Experience

GDM

• Argentina
• Farming
• 700 & Above Employee

• Breeding Innovation Project Manager

  • May 2022 - Present

  In this new role, I will be driving strategic initiatives and leading cross-functional teams in the field of Breeding Innovations for Soybean, Corn, Wheat, and Sunflower. Some of my key duties include Strategic Project Planning, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Project Oversight and Execution, Stakeholder Management, Innovation and Process Optimization, Budget, and Resource Management and Risk Management. In this new role, I will be driving strategic initiatives and leading cross-functional teams in the field of Breeding Innovations for Soybean, Corn, Wheat, and Sunflower. Some of my key duties include Strategic Project Planning, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Project Oversight and Execution, Stakeholder Management, Innovation and Process Optimization, Budget, and Resource Management and Risk Management.



Bayer

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Product Design Scientist

  • Jun 2021 - May 2022

  At this very innovative new team, I am a key influencer of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for leveraging genomic, phenomic, and environmental data to design improved germplasm. I am also expected to lead the delivery of enhanced seed products, data insights and prescriptions to the Product Development pipeline through accelerated breeding schemes and innovation in genomics, quantitative genetics, computational biology, and functional genomics.

• Pipeline Lead - Subtropical North

  • Nov 2019 - May 2021

  As Pipeline Lead, some of my roles were:* Leadership for the Macro 2 early pipeline;* Implement modern technologies into early pipeline breeding to increase genetic gain;* Fine mapping of some important NT for BRA regions;* Guide proof of concepts experiments to deliver new strategies to maximize genetic gain;* Led the review of the Brazilian pipelines budget;* Use of UAV data to create models that allowed us to implement high throughput phenotyping in winter nurseries;

• Soybean Breeder

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

  Some of my main roles in this position were:* Responsible to develop inbred lines of soybean adapted to the South of Brazil;* Responsible to leverage genomic ad phenomic data to guide the pipeline decision at advancement meetings;* Led the implementation of technologies for all pipelines in Brazil such as GWS and Artificial intelligence models to guide decisions;



North Carolina State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - Oct 2018

  Developing and implementing genomic selection in an ongoing recurrent selection breeding program for Fusarium ear rot and fumonisin resistance in maize. In this project, I am leading the optimization and implementation of the Fusarium ear rot and fumonisin phenotyping trials for the NC State and Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) lines, across several years and environments. Developing and implementing genomic selection in an ongoing recurrent selection breeding program for Fusarium ear rot and fumonisin resistance in maize. In this project, I am leading the optimization and implementation of the Fusarium ear rot and fumonisin phenotyping trials for the NC State and Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) lines, across several years and environments.



UEL - Universidade Estadual de Londrina

• Brazil
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Oct 2008 - Nov 2014



Dow AgroSciences

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 700 & Above Employee

• Line Development Intern

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2012



TMG - Tropical Melhoramento & Genética

• Brazil
• Biotechnology
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Data Management Intern

  • Nov 2006 - Dec 2010