Dairy Farm General Manager at Danish Jordan Dairy Company (2006-01 – Present)
Operations & Development Manager for large dairy farming corporation
- Day to day operations management responsibilities for dairy operations totaling 4000milking cows, 2850+ young stock, 85 + staff and an annual operating budget of USD 37.000.000.
- Performance forecasting, budgeting, cash flow projections, capital investment analysis, performance monitoring, personnel evaluations, performance problem trouble shooting, etc...
- Participation in feasibility studies of new farm proposals and planning and development of Danish Jordan Dairy.
- Development and Management of Technical Services Division including veterinarians,Nutritionist, Parlor Maintenance Staff, Analytical ChemistryLaboratory, Animal Health Laboratory, Purchasing & Materials Acquisition, Data Processing, Staff Training Programs.
Project Manager (Dairy) at Oasis Trading & Contracting Co. (Daliah Farms) (1996-01 – 2006-12)
- Participated in feasibility studies of an new farm proposal.
- Planning of farm for 4000 cows
- Responsible for budgeting, cash flow projection, capital investment analysis and personnel recruitment.
- Development and management of the veterinary section, feeding and farm maintenance department.
- Monitoring the quality and quantity of milk and feed ingredients for the farm.
- Selecting 3000 incalf heifers from Netherlands and Exporting them to lebanon from DEKKER (GENES DIFFUSION) in Ommen.
Dairy Farm Manager at Ash-Shargiah Agriculture dairy Dev. Company (1994-01 – 1996-12)
- Starting new dairy for 1500 heads.
- Selection of 850 heifers from Germany and shipping them to Saudi Arabia.
- Selection of 178 heads from USA lowa & Pennsylvania through Holstein association.
- Training unskilled staff from India and Nepal for milking, feeding general farm work.
- Managing the farm with average milk production of 30-32 liters/head/day. (3X Milking).
- Organizing the policies and plans with the staff to increase breeding efficiency, mastitis control and treatment.
- Monitoring, feeding and production to control the cost.
- Enforcing the feeding system for all kind or groups (High, Fresh, medium and Youngstalk).
- Monitoring the high gain weight for 1.5-2 kg. Fattening of the bulls. Ordering of the drugs and veterinary equipment.
- Semen handling and distribution.
- Attending the emergencies of all kinds.
- Working on the computerized system for "dairy management Dc 305".
Regional Veterinarian at Al-Maria Group (1988-01 – 1994-12)
- In charge of monitoring the overall heard health, reproductive management and other veterinary functions of the dairy farm.
- Pregnancy diagnosis of 33 days and above and in a fast and accurate method.
- Monitoring herd and solving fertility problems.
- Testing the functionality of parlor machines and identifying technical problems.
- Herd screening for mycoplasma and brucellosis every 6 months.
- Worked with several consultants on the issues of pre-training for better dairy development management techniques and procedures.
- Training in communication skills 1989 at Philip Erricson.
- Training session in USA for 15 days to observe dairy management at the Arizona dairy company (Oct. 1992).
