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JOHN BISHOP DANIELS, JR. <br />308 East Nishna Road <br />Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 <br />712/246-3778 <br />JOB OBJECTIVE: To apply work experience, management skills and educational <br />background to a general management position. <br />EDUCATION: M.S. FOREST RESOURCES, University of Minnesota, 1981 <br />tpe iializution: Urban orestry <br />Related Fields: Soils, Horticulture <br />B.S., FOREST RESOURCES, University of Minnesota, 1979 <br />Honors: Graduation with Distinction <br />Xi Sigma PI Forestry Honor Society <br />Gamma Sigma Delta National Honor Society <br />194- Presr-T untoasrfi wF f t�nrt. DePpeTmeaT oh NoRTI({lL'rugE <br />Rsr,srnor S4rarirr <br />WORK EXPERIENCE: ieAu+w�, A&U4,my -4xrrxls;eo rerpon�, b l,'fies i'n Ylw <br />.fir,uvy i`fonagQ.veni /�rog�nn, <br />1981 -Present 1 K Mount Arbor Nurseries, Inc., Shenandoah, Iowa <br />The Company: Quality minded wholesale grower of perennials and . <br />woody ornamental plant materials, 1984 sales of $12 million. 300 <br />employees. <br />Position: Farm Manager, reporting to Operations Manager. <br />Responsibilities: After being initially hired to manage a 70 acre <br />seedling production area, my responsibilities have been Increased to <br />include the following: <br />- Over 500 acres of field grown nursery stock production. <br />- Propagation Department, producing over 2 million liners <br />annually. <br />- Product Processing and Shipping Departments, shipping over I <br />million units annually. <br />- 150,000 unit container growing facility. <br />Have successfully carried out management duties including budget <br />preparation, quality control, personnel management, safety <br />management, as well as all cultural aspects of nursery plant <br />production involving a budget in excess of $1 million and a work <br />force of from 25 to 130 people depending on the season. <br />Special Assignments: <br />- Successfully revised seedling production techniques which <br />reduced labor costs by approximately 70% in two years. <br />- Successfully developed and Implemented a plan which put an <br />unused farm into efficient production of nursery stock. The plan <br />included development of roadways, surface drainage patterns, an <br />irrigation system, and a soil management program. <br />