| Office of the Area Director - Staff |
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Kimm Bridges - Executive Assistant
Alicia Finley - Executive Assistant
Teresa Okeeffe- Technology Transfer Assistant
Kristin Kimball - Program Analyst
Jan Lewis - ODEO Program Manager
Becky Deatherage - Executive Assistant
Dr. Bruce E. Mackey - Statistician
Dave Nicholson - Techology Transfer Coordinator
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Christopher Carter - Program Analyst
Kimm Bridges is the Executive Assistant to the Acting Associate Director, Dr. Bill Orts. She joined ARS in 2011, where she worked as a Secretary with the Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, California.
Contact Information:
Kimm.Bridges@usda.gov
(510) 559-6071
Alicia Finley is the Executive Assistant to the Pacific West Area Director and Team Lead for the Area Office Executive Assistants.
Contact Information:
Alicia.Finley@usda.gov
(510) 559-6060
Teresa Okeeffe is currently serving a detail in the Office of the Area Director as the Technology Transfer Assistant for Pacific West Area. She works with the Technology Transfer Coordinator to execute research agreements and facilitate public partnership for our scientists.
Contact Information:
Teresa.Okeeffe@usda.gov
(510) 559-6488
Kristin Kimball is one of two Program Analyst supporting PWA. She joined ARS in 2007 as Technology Transfer Assistant. Kristin supports PWA locations on the OSQR, annual reports, headquarters-funded post-doc proposals, 115s and ARIS.
Contact Information:
kristin.kimball@usda.gov
(510) 559-6158
Jan Lewis is the PWA Office of Outreach, Diversity and Equal Opportunity (ODEO) Program Manager. She returned to PWA in 2015 and has been with ARS since 1995. She serves in an advisory role to the Area on matters related to recruitment, outreach, diversity and equal employment for Area leadership, management and personnel. Jan has also served as a federal workplace mediator/facilitator for 19 years and received her advance mediation certification through the Justice Center of Atlanta.
Contact Information:
Jan.Lewis@usda.gov
(510) 559-6003
Becky Deatherage is the Executive Assistant to Associate Area Director, Dr. Tom Shanower. She came to ARS in 2019. Becky serves as the current point-of-contact for PWA RPES cases.
Contact Information:
Rebecca.Deatherage@usda.gov
(510) 559-6063
Dr. Bruce E. Mackey is the Consulting Statistician for the Office of the Area Director, PWA. He provides the Area scientists with help on experimental design, statistical methods and models, and statistical inference. He is also the contact point for the SAS and JMP software packages.
Contact Information:
Bruce.Mackey@usda.gov
(510) 559-6078
Dave Nicholson joined the ARS in 2002 as a Patent Advisor, and since 2005 has been the Technology Transfer Coordinator for the Pacific West Area. He is responsible for managing the PWA Technology Transfer program, which involves the use use of various agreements such as the Material Transfer Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements (MTRAs), Plant Testing Agreements, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), and sometimes Funded/Non-Funded Cooperative Agreements.
Contact Information:
david.nicholson@usda.gov
(510) 559-5641
Christopher Carter is one of two Program Analysts supporting PWA. He joined ARS in 2010 as Executive Assistant to the Center Director of the Western Regional Research Center. Chris supports PWA locations on the OSQR process, annual reports, headquarters-funded post-doc proposals, 115s and ARIS.
Contact Information:
Christopher.Carter3@usda.gov
(510) 559-6300
