Jamie Jansen Van Vuuren

Jamie Jansen Van Vuuren

Chief Research Technician

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Quality Manager

  • Education

    • Pretoria Technikon

      1982 - 1985
      Agricultural Reseach Botany/Plant Biology
    • Potchefstroom Gimnasium

      1972 - 1977
      Standard 12

      Activities and Societies: Athletics, tennis

  • Experience

    • Agricultural Research Council

      Jan 1985 - Aug 1998
      Chief Research Technician

      • Responsible for 11potato cultivar trials per year: planting, harvesting, sorting, weighing and evaluation - Ebenhaeser, Citrusdal, Ceres, Elsenburg and George.• Elsenburg: Application of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, irrigation of trials.• Responsible and supervision of labourers (administrative and disciplinary).• Involved at potato working groups - Sandveld, Ceres and Southern Cape.• Composition and submission of annual reports.

    • Potato Certification Service

      Apr 2010 - Oct 2023

      Co-ordination and performance of:- Training of Leaner Certification Officers.- Acceptance of registrations on laptop, measure of units with GPS.- Physical field- and tuber inspections, entering data on laptop.- Tuber sampling for bacterial wilt and virus testing.- Issue certification labels.- Administrative and report back, stock management.- Visits to clients, technical advice and support.- Investigation and monitoring of tuber related complaints on regional level.- Liaise with laboratories, Agriculture Research Council and Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (provincial level). Show less • Co-ordination and performance of:- Training of Leaner Certification Officers.- Acceptance of registrations on laptop, measure of units with GPS.- Physical field- and tuber inspections, entering data on laptop.- Tuber sampling for bacterial wilt and virus testing.- Issue certification labels.- Administrative and report back, stock management.- Visits to clients, technical advice and support.- Investigation and monitoring of tuber related complaints on regional level.- Liaise with laboratories, Agriculture Research Council and Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (provincial level). Show less

      • Regional Manager

        Jan 2019 - Oct 2023
      • Regional Manager

        Sept 1998 - Oct 2023
      • Regional Manager: Potato Certification Service, Christiana, South Africa

        Apr 2010 - Jan 2019
    • GWK

      Dec 2023 - now
      Quality Manager at GWK Douglas
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • National Diploma in Agriculture (Agricultural research: Botany)

      Technikon Pretoria, South Africa
      Dec 1985