Work experience

• Business Development Advisor

  Cargill

  2022.12-Current

  (3 years)

  8 years 6 months (2 years 7 months) - Lead strategy and gameboard development and implementation for the business. - Partner with business and function leaders across Cargill Protein North America, participate and execute gameboards, and support cultivation and due diligence activities involved with scouting, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
• Senior Technology Lead - Sustainability

  Cargill

  2021.05-2022.12

  (2 years)

  (1 year 8 months) • Led cross-functional teams, including 5+ senior and higher-level professionals, to develop a global business with high potential startup • Directed construction, analysis, and summary of customer interviews to gain insight of customers jobs to be done and attract engagement to disruptive technologies • Led a cross-business unit global sustainability portfolio of dairy and beef business and building a platform (95% engagement) to provide market insights, competitive landscape assessments, communication, and technical consulting & training • Co-developed a global sustainability strategy digestibility and biohydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids in batch culture Screening of protease and cellulose producing Bacillus subtillis natto strain and its growth • Conducted marketing insight and startup analysis for a $10+ million potential ventures investment • Built internal and external thought leadership and communication plans in sustainability of dairy and beef industries • Managed relationships and collaborations with internal and external
• Senior Research Scientist

  stakeholders in sustainability

  2017.01-2021.05

  (4 years)

  (4 years 5 months) • Managed a 10 members cross-functional project team to develop a fundamental and business performance improving technology (patent pending) resulting in a 90% increase in speed of customer service, 50% decrease in cost, and created $4.3 M 3-year EBITDA • Co-authored a report to provide recommendations on methane measurement and mitigation as a member of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Technical Advisory Group • Wrote 2 position papers in life cycle assessment (LCA) and methane reduction for training internal teams and key customers, and building external thought leadership • Collaborated with world-leading researchers from 12 organizations or NGOs to write a perspective review as a guideline for stakeholders’ research and development on seaweed application • Conducted 10 dairy nutrition and additive research studies; analyzed data and showcased findings at industry conferences
• Research Assistant

  Michigan State University

  2013.01-2016.12

  (4 years)
• Lecturer

  East Lansing

  2016.03-2016.03
• Coordinator of Animal Science Graduate Student Research Forum

  Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

  2014.05-2014.10

  (6 months)

  3 years 4 months
• Research Assistant

  Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

  2009.03-2012.06

  (3 years)

  (3 years 4 months)
• Deputy Division Chief Assistant

  Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

  2011.06-2011.06
• Ministry of Agricultural of People's Republic of China, Department of

  2009.09-2010.01

  (5 months)

Educational experience

• University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management

  MBA, Strategy and Management

  2021.08-2024.05

  (3 years)
• Harvard Business School Online

  Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy

  2021.02-2021.03

  (2 months)
• Michigan State University

  Animal Sciences, Rumen Lipid Metabolism and milk fat depression

  2013.01-2016.01

  (3 years)
• Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

  Animal Science, Lipid Metabolism in Dairy cattle

  2009.01-2012.01

  (3 years)
• Shenyang Agricultural University

  Animal Science

  2004.01-2008.01

  (4 years)

Certificates