Art Dawson, Ph.D.
4195
Chino Hills Parkway #340, Chino Hills, CA 91709
909.957.0507 (phone) 
909.341.8294 (fax)
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Company Resume
THE DAWSON COMPANY is a sole proprietorship which is dedicated to consulting within specific sectors of the agricultural, agrichemical and waste management industries. The owner and operator of THE DAWSON COMPANY is Arthur J. Dawson, Ph.D.
Dr. Dawson has over thirty years experience encompassing Market/Product Development, U S domestic and international business Sales and senior level corporate business management.
Specific product development expertise includes Post Harvest fruit and vegetable processing, Biological pesticide development and Biological remediation techniques for agricultural waste streams.
Domestic sales and corporate management experience extends to pre and post harvest citrus production in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. This experience extends to post harvest apple, cherry, pear, stonefruit, melon, potato and vegetable production throughout California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
International sales and corporate management experience extends to numerous countries including Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Thailand; France, Spain, Isreal, Italy; Mexico, Chile.
THE DAWSON COMPANY is supported by a close network of independent specialists whose expertise includes Post Harvest fresh fruit and vegetable processing, fresh and pasturized juice processing, biological pesticide product development, pesticide registration, biological waste management systems, food safety programs and state certified environmental assessment.
THE DAWSON COMPANY client list includes:
November, 2001
Personal Resume
Over thirty years experience in the Agricultural Chemical and Fresh Fruit/Produce industries. Currently serving as Market and Product Development Manager to the innovative post harvest chemical company: XEDA Americas. XEDA Americas is the United States arm of the French based XEDA International.
Employment History:
2001 to present: THE DAWSON COMPANY, sole proprietorship consulting company and owner, President, AQT, Inc., waste water remediation technologies.
2001 to present: THE DAWSON COMPANY, consultant to XEDA Americas, LLC: MARKET and PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER reporting to the President, XEDA International, Avignon, France.
1999 to 2001: Ecogen, Inc.: VICE PRESIDENT for BIO FUNGICIDES reporting to the President, Ecogen, Inc.
1989 to 1999: Elf Atochem North America, Decco U. S.: GENERAL MANAGER WORLD WIDE reporting to the President, Agrichemicals Division.
1984 to 1989 Dole Fresh, Inc.: MANAGER QUALITY CONTROL SERVICES, reporting to the Vice President of Operations, Dole Citrus Company.
1983 to 1984: Blue Goose Growers, Inc.: TECHNICAL CONSULTANT reporting to the President and owner, Blue Goose Growers, Inc.
1968 to 1983: Sunkist Growers, Inc.: MANAGER, FRESH FRUIT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FRUIT SCIENCE GROUP reporting to the General Manager, Fresh Fruit R&D.
Education:
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University of California, Riverside, California
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California State Polytechnic
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Employment Detail:
Responsible for Market and Product development of European technology for the U S post harvest market; i.e. thermal fogging technology for application of decay control, scald control and sprout inhibition chemistry; development of Eugenol based fruit treatments, ozone based fruit treatments, specialized fruit cleaners, and specialized fruit floatation material.
Market development and Product development activities were conducted throughout California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington. These activities have resulted in several tangible opportunities for American chemical distribution companies and fruit industry interest groups to acquire and/or utilize the specific technologies under development. These technologies emphasize the utilization of "soft" and "organic certifiable " products.
Responsible for Marketing and Sales of the Biofungicide: Aspire, a formulation of living Candida oleophila for post harvest control of Botrytis and other disease organisms. Introduced Aspire into the apple, cherry and pear industries of California, Washington and Oregon. Aspire was used for the first time in thirty percent of the Washington State apple and pear packing industries.
Responsible for Marketing of AQ 10, a formulation of living Ampelomyces quisqualis for pre harvest control of powdery mildew within the U. S. Assisted in Market Development of AQ 10 in the grape industries of Italy and Southern Spain.
Responsible for pre- registration field research and testing of a formulation of living
Cryptococcus infirmo-miniatus, as a pre and post harvest fungicide. Coordinated the interests of the technical community, i.e. Oregon State University, Washington State Apple Commission in public sector development projects for this product. Assisted in presenting this product concept to U S EPA, USDA IR-4, and California*s Department of Pesticide Regulations.
General Manager with specific P&L responsibility for the $20 million U S operation and general oversight for four individual operations in Europe which comprised and additional $20 million in annual sales. During this tenure, the U S operation increased sales from ten million to twenty million dollars while experiencing a 25% reduction in headcount.
In addition to managerial responsibilities, the General Manager served as Elf Atochem*s technical representative on two major pesticide registration task forces with a combined budget in excess of $12 million.
Elf Atochem, Agrichemicals Division is now know as Cerexia Agri.
As Manager, Quality Control Services, responsible for the development of a uniform quality assurance and quality control system for a $150 million annual citrus production and sales organization.
This system encompassed the day to day quality control procedures in each production plant, the periodic chemical and physical quality assurance processes in each plant, a centralized data service with direct information feed back from domestic and foreign markets.
Major emphasis was placed upon pesticide interactions, trademarking issues and market/regulatory specifications for markets in China, Japan and Korea.
This activity dealt with technical issues required to facilitate the sale of the company to Dole Fresh. Issues involved were quality assurance, quality control, trademarking and packaging standards.
Manager of a group of up to ten scientist involved in problem solving projects related to production and marketing of fresh citrus world wide.
Pertinent issues were pre harvest practices with direct implication for post harvest quality; product shelf life issues impacted by packing process practices; pesticide programs impacted by foreign marketing/food safety issues. Market focus: Japan, Europe, S E Asia.
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