Manager

Joel F Ramos

**-**** ***** **. *** Beach, Hawaii 96706

Cell: 808-***-****

E-mail: ***********@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications

• Have extensive experience in swine farm management having worked as a farm veterinarian,

farm manager, operations manager, and as a technical & management consultant for 26 years

• Have interpersonal skills needed to lead and develop relationships to achieve company goals

• Possess administrative and leadership qualities having served as president of local hog farmers

association and leadership positions in the swine industry.

• Trained and experienced in all aspects of production, management, health, biosecurity, animal

nutrition and other areas of pig production.

• Have the ability to multitask, honest, with optimistic attitude

• Have the ability to plan, organize, prioritize work,

• Have the ability to work well with a team, can handle conflicts, set and achieve goals

Professional Experience

President /COO: Prima Feeds Corporation, Bulacan, Philippines, Jan 2007-Jul 2009

Founded the company and lead to its growth and expansion in a short time, gaining the trust and

acceptance of the company’s product lines by commercial swine & poultry,producing quality

feeds that resulted in faster growth and peak pig performance, increased egg production in poultry

and providing innovative feed products.

President/CEO: King David Agro Ventures Corp, Bulacan, Philippines, Mar 2004- Jan 2007

Instrumental in the company’s expansion and growth from monthly sales output of 5o tons to

700 tons commercial feeds in one year through optimized nutrition, good customer service and

selling quality products despite stiff competition from multi- national feed companies.

Gen. Manager: St Joseph Farms, Bulacan, Philippines, Sept 1989- Feb 2004

Instrumental in the expansion of this 30 sow- level farm to 500 sow- level farm in five years

through optimized farm production programs, production of quality pork, strict adherence to

biosecurity and good animal health practices. This feat is considered extra- ordinary without

outside capital infusion. Developed a cross breed that was adaptable to Philippine condition and

eventually sold thousands of breeder boars to swine farms all over the country, before big

commercial farms were able to produce it on their own.

Farm Veterinarian/ Asst. Farm Manager: Console Farms Corp, Bulacan, Philippines, Sept 1986- Sept

1989

Implemented changes that lead the farm to expansion and growth from 1200 sow-level to 1500

sow-level in one year through revision of farm practices, breeding and farrowing procedures and

optimizing farm performance that resulted to 85% conception rate, piglet mortality reduced by

50% and market weights improved by 25%. Trained and develop farm unit veterinarians and farm

supervisors resulting in effective implementation of farm practices and procedures.

Joel Ramos Professional Experience (continued)

Resident Veterinarian: Federal Agricultural Corp., Bulacan, Philippines, Jan 1986- Sept 1986

Was a consistent leader in production performance of my assigned unit by reducing piglet

mortality by 20% and increasing weaning weights by 25% resulting to my promotion to handle

two production units of this 10,000 sow level farm, each unit with a 1500 sow-level capacity, in a

period of 6 months.

Technical consultant of various swine farms varying from 200 to 4000 sow level farms from 1989-2009.

Choice Farms, Inc. 1500 Sow-level, 1989-1993

NC Farms 500 Sow –level, 1990-1991

Springside Farms 4000 Sow –Level, 1991

Oriental Farms 1000 Sow-level, 1991-1992

D Marchhs Farms 200 sow- Level, 1993-2001

Le Pigre Farms 200 Sow –level, 1996-1998

Kawilihan Farms 1000 Sow-level, 2002-2006

Donarra Farms 200 Sow –Level, 2007-2009

Kaysaya Farms 350 Sow –Level, 2007-2009

GNC Farms 600 Sow- Level, 2007-2009

Seminars/Training

Slaughterhouse Management training; CFME/ACTIM, Paris France, 1997

Animal Nutrition Seminar-Workshop, Kasetsart Univ., Thailand, 2001

World Pork Congress, Iowa, on several occasions

Managerial Accounting, Ateneo Professional Schools, Philippines, 2001

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Gamma Chapter, 2012, Univ. of Hawaii-LCC

Director, College of Business, De La Salle –Parents of Univ. Students Organization, 2007-2009

President: Bulacan Swine & Poultry Multi-Purpose Cooperative, 2006-2007

President: Bulacan Livestock Producers, 1996-2006

Vice Chairman: National Federation of Hog Farmers of the Philippines (NFHFI) 2002-2004

Executive Committee Member: NFHFI 2000-2004

Chairman: Technical Committee, NFHFI, 2000-2002

Representative: Regional Meat Inspection Board, 2004

Division Commander-Finance,118th Squadron, Phil Coast Guard Auxiliary, 2002-2003

Worshipful Master - Free & Accepted Masons of the Philippines, Bulacan Chapter 2004

Member- Scottish Rite of the Philippines

Education

Associate in Applied Science in Management (Fall 2012)

Leeward Community College- University of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA

Veterinary Medicine 1977-1984

De La Salle- Araneta University, Philippines

References

Available upon request

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