Kevin Montgomery
Owner at Montgomery Consulting
- Role
- Owner at Montgomery Consulting
- Location
- Clinton, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Montgomery
Goals Use experience in plant improvement Make a difference in a research related environment Professional Experience Research Station Management Product and Project Development Problem Solving and Improvisation; Critical Thinking Strategic Planning; System Design and Implementation Communication Skills and Collaboration Change Agent Specialties: Plant Breeding Systems and Design Quantitative Genetics Plant Pathology & Selection for Disease Resistance Entomology & Selection for Insect Resistance Native Herbicide Tolerance Specialty Grain and Nutritional Enhancement Selection for Improved Seed Quality
Experience
Owner
Jul 2006 — Present · Central, IL, US
Genetics and germplasm solutions for the specialty corn industry: Novel germplasm, native insect resistance, native herbicide resistance, seed quality, unusual chemical composition of grain.Team member of awarded USDA-OREI grant: Strengthening public corn breeding to ensure that organic farmers have access to elite cultivars. Guest Lecturer Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China, October 2011. Plant Breeding perspectives. Guest Lecturer Iowa State University, Ames IA, August 05-09, 2013; for China National Seed Association, Commercial Corn Breeding and Program Development.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B. S., Agriculture
1974 — 1978
Iowa State University
Ph. D., Plant Breeding
1980 — 1987
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M. S., Agronomy
1978 — 1980
Skills
- Biochemistry
- Strategic Planning
- Dna Sequencing
- Customer Service
- Molecular Biology
- Vegetables
- Sas
- Lifesciences
- Analysis
- Pcr
- Biofuels
- Grants
- Genetics
- Data Analysis
- Strategy
- Agribusiness
- Product Development
- Agriculture
- Genomics
- Microbiology
- Science
- Teaching
- Experimental Design
- Molecular Genetics
- Statistics
- Corn
- Biotechnology
- Irrigation
- Research
- Pathology
- Writing
- Dairy
- Public Speaking
- Plant Breeding
- Bioinformatics
- Budgets
- Farms
- Chemistry
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Laboratory
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