Chinmayee Yepirala
Summary
As a highly-skilled, dedicated and versatile agricultural professional with over 10 years’ extensive experience in horticulture, I demonstrate key expertise in strategic leadership with significant management experience. With a future-focused vision, strategic planning and goal-setting, I have cultivated numerous high-level development initiatives and achieved strong and robust results. My key strengths include effective and influential communication skills driving results, managing and mitigating risks, engaging in highly-effective consultative techniques and being pragmatic within my approach to tasks and challenges. I'm therefore willing to advance to a position that offers professional challenges, utilising interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Manager
Montague Farms
02.2023 - Current
- Applied coaching techniques and tools to support managers and team members in improving performance.
- Identify pests, diseases and defects pre-harvest and inform operation managers for control.
- Report unsatisfactory poor quality
- Oversee inline and dispatch quality checks on a daily basis
- Work with marketers in relations to rejections to retail stores as well as corrective actions
- Control and oversee the Quality assurance programs (Global Gap-Harps) to ensure compliance is maintained.
- Focus on export readiness for registered blocks and pack house
- Record keeping of picking and quality control documentation for audits and company use
- Maximise efficiency and return on investment
- Maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and investors through proactive communication and anticipating needs in advance
- Conducted regular audits to ensure adherence to established protocols, maintaining consistency across the organization.
- Facilitated communication between departments regarding quality concerns, fostering collaboration towards shared goals.
- Enhanced product quality by implementing comprehensive QA ,QC processes and procedures.
Raspberry Horticulturist
Costa Well Grown
04.2022 - 01.2023
- Involvement in all areas of crop production such as: trial work, planning, canopy management, research and development projects and pest and Disease management
- Managed daily analysis, scouting reports, collected samples and conducted tests as required
- Monitored report and made decisions on daily nutrition requirements including EC and PH management
- Forecasted the crop in a timely manner, adapting early awareness in the event that a crop is not matching the forecasted budget
- Lead & provided support on all R&D activities, assisting with the experimental design, development and trial protocols, execution of field activities, data collection, data analysis and report preparation
- Trained some lead irrigators & harvest teams when required
Raspberry Forecaster/ Planner
Costa Well Grown
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Worked closely with Horticulturists to proactively improve and adjust forecasts on weekly basis
- Ensured accuracy of forecasts in planning system (weekly long term) vs. Daily plan
- Delivered weekly and Daily reports of harvest to senior management system
- HMS berries forecasting- updating four weeks volumes using crop production model
- Compared forecast against actual sales and complete trend analysis
- Provided leadership for harvest crews when working part time as a co-ordinator
Viticulturist
Specialized Vineyard Services
12.2018 - 10.2020
- Collected soil samples for analysis and doing bunch counts for harvest forecasting
- Monitored pest and diseases during the growing season
- Guarded the vines to give mechanical support to the plant
- Assisted in pruning, shoot & fruit thinning, wire lifting and other seasonal activities.
- Assisted in hand picking operations
CSA
United
11.2017 - 11.2018
- Increased sales through effective product recommendations and upselling techniques.
- Connected with customers by listening to concerns and answering questions.
- Handled cash transactions accurately while adhering to company security protocols for loss prevention measures.
- Demonstrated safe practices and procedures in store by adhering to company standards.
- Maintained clean and organized work environment to maintain customer safety.
- Delivered prompt service to prioritize customer needs.
- Promptly responded to inquiries and requests from prospective customers.
Production Manager
Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited
02.2013 - 03.2016
- Assisted in soil preparation, selecting proper seedlings for planting
- Helped with day-to-day operations
- Provided required assistance in pest and disease management for fruit crops
- Organised regular meetings with farmers for crop inspections
- Maintained crop production by providing required inputs throughout crop growth stage
- Oversaw all the production activities and assigning tasks to field supervisors and farmers
- Coordinate and assist in post-harvest management including produce storage, post-harvest pest and disease management.
6 Months Village Work in Bachelor's Course
Rural Agriculture Work Experience
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Identified the key problems faced by the farmers and providing alternate solutions
- Demonstrated new cultivation techniques.
- Worked in the village as a part of the rural agricultural work experience program that involved explaining and implementation various agricultural technologies to farmers.
- Identifying potential pests and diseases, developing new technologies to control and stop further spread.
- Collected data regarding the cultivation of crops and cropping practices.
- Provided recommendations according to situation and farmers resources.
- Created awareness and promoted organic way of cultivation.
- Conducted and evaluation of cultural, biological, and chemical trials
Education
Master's - Applied Science (Agricultural Science)
University Of Tasmania
01.2019
Bachelors - Agricultural Science
Annamalai University
01.2012
Skills
- Proven organisation and time management abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic
- Strong interest in continuously upgrading skills and knowledge
- Flexible with the ability to adapt readily to changing work environments
- Professional, respectful of confidentiality, mature and trustworthy
- Ability to execute plans effectively and rapidly
- Being able to handle difficult situations
- Internal and External audits
- Document control
- Employee training
- Data analysis
- Customer service
Timeline
Quality Assurance Manager
Montague Farms
02.2023 - Current
Raspberry Horticulturist
Costa Well Grown
04.2022 - 01.2023
Raspberry Forecaster/ Planner
Costa Well Grown
09.2020 - 03.2022
Viticulturist
Specialized Vineyard Services
12.2018 - 10.2020
CSA
United
11.2017 - 11.2018
Production Manager
Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited
02.2013 - 03.2016
6 Months Village Work in Bachelor's Course
Rural Agriculture Work Experience
01.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelors - Agricultural Science
Annamalai University
Master's - Applied Science (Agricultural Science)
University Of Tasmania
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