James Barry

Global Field Development Technology, Manager @FMC Corporation

Newark, DE, US

Leads a global team overseeing data management, test quality, for discovery and development biology trials. Continuous improvement of best practices for data management allows more informed, accelerated decision making in support of the development and execution of our asset and portfolio strategies. Change Managemento Integrated two separate field trial practices with multiple applications each from FMC and DuPont (>400 users)o Experienced at taking data stored in Excel → database; working with users to adopt practices where data now goes directly to a database (e.g, biologists, toxicologists, molecular biologists, soil scientists) Finance / Business Acumeno Developed a process for tracking individual trial financials (>$30 million/yr; 10K trials/yr)o Provide visualization of finance data in Power BI for Field Biology, Project Management, and Finance Project Management / Strategic Planning / Continuous Improvemento Use DevOps to track backlog; release ~250 requirements/yr in sprintso Co-led a project with IT to launch ELN; redirected work in OneDrive and SharePoint (>400 users)o Used custom apps and Power Query to reduce errors and time involved in trial upload and preparationo Conduct monthly audits on metrics; monthly meetings to get feedback and to provide training

University of California, Riverside

Ph.D, Entomology

Cornell University

B.S, Biological Sciences: Ecology & Evolution