CV - Konrad Kulak

Address: Frederick, Maryland **703, USA; Tel.: 615-***-****; email: acrss5@r.postjobfree.com

EMPLOYMENT

BUSINESS 2015-present, Senior Data Analyst, Quality & Customer Satisfaction, Volvo Group Trucks Technology (as consultant through Aerotek Scientific) Hagerstown, MD.

Provided business intelligence and predictive analytics, comprehension, prioritization, and documentation on problems affecting customers; Coordinated with cross-functional teams the timely resolution of problems;

Extracted & analyzed information, using SAS EG (e.g., product data, quality information, warranty information, GeoFence, telematics data)

Analyzed customer problems, factors driving them, solution effectiveness, financial impacts, and supplier warranty recovery opportunities;

Supported the warranty department in claim analysis and departmental budgeting;

Manipulated and transformed large datasets into business information that helped departments fulfill strategic objectives (e.g., analyzed the warranty data with the results to decrease the costs by 50% for turbochargers);

Provided summary reports and executive level presentations to facilitate discussion of analysis and better direct business strategy;

Took Volvo technical training: turbochargers, compressors, turbines, bearing systems, performance, materials and configurations.

2013-2015, Senior Analytical Specialist, CVAS-Cumberland Valley Analytical Services, Hagerstown, MD; Major responsibilities: reviewing lab results to confirm accuracy and identifying anomalies for re-tests; interacting with the customers and assisting with marketing projects; providing daily review of data and analytical systems; working with IT to develop automated systems of data review and validation; working in the fore front of ruminant research by partnering with academic and commercial entities; interacting with the management team dedicated to innovation, being the best in the industry, and expanding the business globally.

2007 – 2012, Research Scientist, GENUS PLC – www.genusplc.com (PIC); 100 Bluegrass Blvd. Suite 2200 Hendersonville, TN 37075. Managed the following: Genetic parameter estimation; Daily genetic evaluation operations; Development of daily, weekly, monthly data quality control programs and processes; Technical Support for the company’s products to customers, sales and services professionals; Forecast Product Performance using modeling tools; Hold confidential all product and program proprietary knowledge; Dealing with customers from USA, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Russia, Poland, Japan, China, Philippines, Germany, Spain. SAS Training 1) SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques (SAS Course at SAS, Charlotte, NC 2011 March 29-31. 2) JMP Software: Statistical Quality Control, 2011 September 13, Denver, Colorado (as part of Discovery Summit: Exploring Data-Inspiring Innovation Conference, September 14-16).

2006 – 2007, Statistician, Huntingdon Life Sciences – www.huntingdon.com, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. Provided a data analysis and consultancy service to HLS employees and external clients (pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, crop protection, chemical, veterinary and food industries) in the following areas: 1) Acute/Repeated Tox: in-life parameters; 2) Carcinogenicity: life-table analysis of tumors and survival; 3) Reproductive Tox: fertility, abnormalities; 4) Genetic Tox: micronucleus test; 5) Immunotoxicology; 6) Toxicokinetics; 7) Pharmacology: efficacy and safety, neuro-behaviour; 8) Analytical: assay validation, calibration; 9) Veterinary field trials: study design;

Received a DQS (Delivering Quality Service) award for Customer Satisfaction from the

Reproductive Toxicology Department for providing a consistently excellent service by

producing work very quickly and always in a friendly and helpful manner.

Went through HLS internal induction program, which included among others: SAS Training

Program, Study Director Training Program, Home Office Animal Technology

Certificate. Member of PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry association).

2004 – 2005, Geneticist, JSR Genetics Ltd., Southburn, East Yorkshire UK

Managed the following 1) BLUP runs and genetic reporting to all UK farms; 2) compilation of

UK-JSR farm reports and monitoring details; 3) calculation of economic weightings; 4) effective communication with production recording and providing backup when needed; 5) ensuring farms have all paperwork to run genetic program and genetic department all data to monitor the program; 6) professional contact with customers and industry partners.

2001- 2003, Researcher, Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish

University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Managed the economic subproject of

“The joint breeding program in dairy cattle – the Nordic profile”.

1992-2000, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science, University

of Guelph, Canada. Conducted research projects leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Guelph. Major: Animal Breeding; Minor 1: Production Economics; Minor 2: Animal Health Economics. Thesis short title: 'Comparison of economic values for livestock trait improvement

without and with risk.' Advisory committee: J. Wilton, J. Dekkers, G. Fox, J. Gibson, Ch. Smith.2000.

M.Sc. University of Guelph. Thesis short title: 'Profitability of a Dairy Cow.' Advisors: J. Dekkers, E.

Burnside, A. Lee, W. Howard. 1994.

B.Sc. Major in Animal Science with selected minor in International Agriculture - University of Guelph. 1992.

TEACHING Teaching Assistant for 'Introduction to Higher Learning' course. Assisted in teaching first year

EXPERIENCE students to understand and adapt effectively to the university environment. Leader in

organizing group seminars. Marked research papers, exams and students’ presentations, 1999.

Lecturer. Presented a lecture to the 1st year students about 'Poultry Breeds and Breeding',

November 4, 1996, University of Guelph.

Teaching Assistant for 'Science of Animal Production' course. Assisted in teaching students

all factors contributing to an efficient swine, poultry, beef and dairy production. Leader in

organizing and grading laboratories. Fall 1996.

Teaching Assistant for 'Dairy Production' course. Assisted in teaching students all factors

contributing to an efficient dairy production system. Helped organizing the field travels in the

Ontario dairy industry. Personally responsible for the preparation of the computer laboratory –

SIMBULL. Winter 1996 and 1997.

Teaching Assistant for 'Quantitative Genetics' course. Assisted in teaching the nature of

Mendelian inheritance when extended to quantitative traits; prediction of selection response in

populations. Fall 1995.

OTHER Educator at the resource center for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s Envirofarm and

EXPERIENCE for Greenbelt Foundation at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (Toronto, Canada) - provided the visitors with information of all the different aspects farmers must deal with as they work to preserve and protect the environment, e.g., measures taken around the farmyard to protect the environment from fuels, pesticides and animal wastes, as well the buildings exhibited energy conservation features. November 2006.

Educator (with the Canada Canola Growers Association) at the Royal Agricultural Winter

Fair, Toronto. Interacted with the public, adults and children; provided key information on

canola production, history, statistics, canola oil comparison, canola meal, biodiesel, growing

the plant, biotechnology, canola nutrition. November 2006.

Educator at the “Beyond the farm gate” educational booth at the Royal Agricultural Winter

Fair (Toronto, Canada), an exhibit (with interactive learning experiences for school children

and general public) that highlights the non-food uses of agricultural products, everything

from the gas you put in your car, to the shingles on your roof, to the medicine in your

cabinet. Agricultural products are everywhere. November 2002, 2003, 2004.

Field Crops Educator (with Canadian Grain Commission, Canada Canola Growers

Association) at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto. Interacted with the public,

adults and children; explained how grains look in the raw form and how they are processed to

become the products we see in the supermarket; illustrated ‘Grain and Uses’ by means of

hands-on activities, visual displays. November, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003.

Representative of Cormdale Genetics at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto, 1997.

Representative of Semex Canada at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto, 1996.

Dairy Educator. Helped the Royal's Agricultural Winter Fair Education Program in providing

opportunities for hands-on, interactive learning experiences related to milk production for

school children and general public. November 1996, 1997, 1999, Toronto.

Beef Educator. Worked at the Royal's Agricultural Winter Fair explaining beef production

system, with emphasis on ruminant nutrition, for school children and general public. November

1996, 1999, Toronto.

PUBLICATIONS

Papers Economic values for production and non-production traits in Nordic dairy cattle

populations calculated by stochastic simulation. Kulak K., H-M. Nielsen and E.

Strandberg. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica 2004, 54:117-128.

Comparison of economic values with and without risk for livestock trait improvement.

2003. Kulak K., J. Wilton, G. Fox and J. Dekkers. Livestock Production Science 79:183-191. Relationships of early performance traits to lifetime profitability in Holstein cows. K.K.

Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers, A.J. McAllister, A.J. Lee. Canadian Journal of Animal Science

77:717-624.

Lifetime profitability measures for dairy cows and their relationships to lifetime

performance traits. K.K. Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers, A.J. McAllister, A.J. Lee. Canadian Journal

of Animal Science 77:609-616.

The use of subindexes to develop total merit indexes. K. Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers and A.F.

Groen. Departmental-internal report-paper.

Abstracts Comparison of economic values for dairy cattle traits in Nordic countries. Kulak, K.,

H.M. Nielsen, and E. Strandberg. Abstract C2.3, page 89 in Proceedings of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists 22nd Congress “Nordic Agriculture in Global Perspective”, July 1-4, 2003, Turku, Finland..

Deriving risk rated economic values using the certainty equivalent profit model. Kulak, K., G. Fox, J. Dekkers, J. Wilton and J. Gibson. in Proceedings of the 49th EAAP Meeting, Warsaw, 1998.

Relationships of early performance traits to lifetime profitability in Holstein cows. K.K.

Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers, A.J. McAllister, A.J. Lee. in Proceedings of the 47th EAAP Meeting,

Lillehammer, 1996.

The use of subindexes to develop total merit indexes. K. Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers and A.F.

Groen. Abstract #1241, in Journal of Animal Science, Vol. 79, Supplement 1. 1996.

Lifetime Performance Traits and Their Relationship to Lifetime Profitability of a Dairy

Cow. Abstract G2.7, in Proceedings of the 46th EAAP Meeting, Prague, 1995.

Evaluation of Dairy Cow Profitability Measures. K.K. Kulak, J.C.M. Dekkers, A.J.

McAllister, A.J. Lee, W.H. Howard and E. Burnside. Journal of Dairy Science, Volume 77,

Supplement 1. 1994, Abstract # 1419. p.369.

Popular Articles "A flytja inn n tt k akyn." Translated from Icelandic as - "Importing a new breed". K.

Kulak, in Icelandic farmers' magazine "B ndabla i " (ISSN 1025-5621), Oct 29, 1996, p.5.

PRESENTATIONS

ORAL Organic dairy production in Sweden; presented to the Okunakayama Agricultural

Association in Iwate Prefecture and to Miyagi Animal Association in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

26, 27 May, 2003.

Comparison of economic values for dairy cattle traits among the Nordic countries;

presented to the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku

University, Sendai, Japan; May 27, 2003.

Comparison of economic values for production and non-production traits in dairy cattle

between Denmark and Sweden; presented to the Agrifood Research Finland, Animal

Breeding Unit Jokioinen, Finland, January 21, 2003.

Economic values for production and non-production traits in dairy cattle in the Nordic

countries; presented to the department of Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Swedish

University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, October 30, 2002.

Economic values derivation – “Subproject D” of a joint breeding program in dairy cattle based on the Nordic profile., presented to the Animal Breeding Research Group at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Foulum, Denmark, October 23, 2001.

Estimating the Value of Better Animals Incorporating Risk, presented to the Department of

Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph, January 24, 2000.

Deriving risk rated economic values for livestock trait improvement using the certainty

equivalent profit model presented to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science,

University of Guelph, July 28, 1998.

Relationship of early performance traits to lifetime profitability in Holstein cows

and Importing a new breed - an opportunity for the genetic improvement of dairy cattle

in Iceland at the Agricultural Research Institute, RALA Keldnaholti, Reykjavik, Iceland.

August 12, 1996.

The use of subindexes to develop total merit indexes. ASAS meeting in Rapid City, U.S.A.

July 26, 1996.

Subindexes for Total Merit Indexes. Guelph-Cornell-Michigan Colloquium in Animal

Breeding, Guelph. March 19, 1996.

Lifetime Performance Traits and Their Relationship to Lifetime Profitability of a Dairy

Cow. EAAP meeting, Prague, Czech Republic. 1995.

The use of subindexes when breeding for total merit. Presented to the Department of

Animal Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. July

10, 1995.

Invited to talk about Profitability of a Dairy Cow by the Institute of Animal Sciences, Animal

Breeding, Zürich, Switzerland. May 26, 1995.

Lifetime Traits and Their Relationship to the Lifetime Profitability of a Dairy Cow.

ADSA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA. July 15, 1994.

POSTERS Comparison of economic values for dairy cattle traits in Nordic countries. Poster C2.3, p.89 in Proceedings of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists 22nd Congress,

July 1-4, 2003, Turku, Finland

Relationships of early performance traits to lifetime profitability in Holstein cows. Poster

CG5.12 in the Book of Abstracts of the 47th Annual Meeting of the EAAP, Lillehammer,

Norway. August 25-29, 1996.

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