Arnold Santiago

• A competent, committed, hardworking and enthusiastic Agricultural Engineer with more than 24 years in managing pest control, pesticides, vegetable growers and seed producers.
• Expertise in scientific rules and methods to solve the problems and excellent of determining the kind of tools and equipment
needed for the task.
• Excellent understanding of the new implications of new information for both current and future decision making.
• Know how to implement the safekeeping of pest control training materials, training equipment’s and training aids.

WORK HISTORY
August 2021 - Present
Saniservice LLC – Dubai, UAE.
Operations Manager
Duties and responsibilities:
• Managing all pest control activities and develop training delivery, design, and amendments of pest control standards according to
DM Rules and regulations.
• Ensuring employees annual pest control license card and medical examination (Occupational Health and Safety Card) are conducted in line with Dubai Municipality requirements and renewed on time.
• Accountable to conduct control visits for effective monitoring and implementation of Integrated Pest control Standard Operating Procedures.
• Monitor / conduct service provision checks during and after completion of work, by ensuring it meets Saniservice standards and client expectations.
• Attending monthly meetings organized by the DM Pest Control Section.
• Responsible for ensuring that employees obey rules regarding pesticide use.
• Must resolve any problems that arise with regulatory officials or customers.
• Responsible for handling complaints.
• Test and evaluate new chemicals, methods and equipment and recommend those best suited to District requirements and mandated by law.
• Make presentations at meetings to in charge personnel (custodians, food service, administrators) to advise them on the purpose, hazards, and safety of pesticide treatments.

April 2019 – August 2021
Pestfree LLC – Dubai, UAE
Operations Supervisor
Duties and responsibilities:
• Responsible for ensuring that employees obey rules regarding pesticide use. Must resolve any
• problems that arise with regulatory officials or customers. Inspect all areas of building, facilities, and ats to determine the presence of pests (vertebrate and invertebrate and determine the sequence of treatment necessary.
• Train, and supervise assigned personnel in methods of pest eradication and destruction; evaluate the quantity and quality of the work performed.
• Responsible for handling complaints.
• Prepare specifications for pest control work to be performed by private contractors; evaluate the work and report discrepancies to superiors.
• Estimate time, materials and personnel needed for pest treatment at a site; confer with administrators and other personnel to schedule optimum time for pesticide treatment.
• Post notices and tag doors and entrances to buildings to prevent entry by residents, the public and employees.
• Maintain records of inspections and treatments.
• Test and evaluate new chemicals, methods and equipment and recommend those best suited to use for pest control activities.

June 2012 - March 2019
Regional Building Cleaning & Pest Control Services – Dubai, UAE
Marketing Executive and Pest Control Supervisor
Duties and responsibilities:
• Train and supervise assigned personnel in methods of pest eradication and destruction; evaluate the quantity and quality of the work performed.
• Responsible to conduct pre-inspection of site, establish treatment plan based on pest source identification, quotation with customers.
• Prepare and submit quotation to the clients.
• Estimate time, materials and personnel needed for pest treatment at a site; confer with administrators and other personnel to schedule optimum time for pesticide treatment.
• Post notices and tag doors and entrances to buildings to prevent entry by resident, the public and employees.
• Maintain records of inspections and treatments.
• Test and evaluate new chemicals, methods and equipment and recommend those best suited to District requirements and mandated by law.
• Make training with the technicians for new pesticides to be used and for safety precaution.

February 2011 – March 2012
CB Andrew Asia Incorporated – Taguig City, Philippines
Marketing Executive
Duties and responsibilities:
• Reports directly to Regional Sales Manager.
• Create and develop new market by product introduction, technology demonstration, and identifying potential areas in territory assigned.
• Develop and open potential account who will serve as distributors/ dealers to support demand created.
• Regular visit to the key accounts, financiers, and traders to monitor deliveries and product moves out.
• Conduct weekly and monthly meetings with my team (technicians and team leader) to update and follow up the current actual sales versus on the targets of each area and discuss their concerns.
• Gather market information to monitor competition, and as a basis of market expansion for rice and vegetable land areas.
• Assure monthly and quarterly target aligned to division goals.

March 2006 – January 2011
East West Seed Company Inc. – Bulacan, Philippines
Field Marketing Representative
Duties and responsibilities:
• Introduce new variety of hybrid vegetable seeds and seedlings to the vegetable farmers.
• We trained students from agricultural school to plants vegetables, apply fertilizer and transplant crop in the field.
• Invite key vegetable seedling growers to showcase our vegetable seedling produced by our company grown in the green house.
• Select key farmers for product trials of new varieties on seeds.
• Invite farmers, financier, and big landowners (BLO) for meeting presentation of new varieties of seeds.
• Create and develop new market by product introduction, technology demonstration, and identifying potential areas in territory assigned.
• Develop and open potential account who will serve as distributors/ dealers to support demand created.
• Regular visit to key accounts, financiers, and traders to monitor deliveries and product moves out.
• Gather market information to monitor competition, and as a basis of market expansion for sweet and glutinous corn.
• Assure quarterly target aligned to division goals.

October 2000 – January 2006
Novartis / Syngenta Philippine Inc. -Makati City, Philippines
Product Development and Sales Specialist
Duties and responsibilities:
• Develop new target market for product demonstration and identifying potential areas in territory assigned.
• Conduct quality farmers meeting and big meetings in all identified potential area.
• Find influential farmers to set product demonstration.
• Regular visit to the dealers, financiers, and key farmers.
• Gather market information to monitor competition, and as a basis of market expansion for new products.
• Conduct training with the newly hired technicians for the proper use of pesticides, proper handling and for safety precaution.

EDUCATION
College
BS in Agricultural Education
BNASC / Bulacan, Philippines
(June 1996 – April 2000)
 

High School
Bulacan National Agricultural Estate
College / Bulacan, Philippines
(June 1992 – March 1996)

Elementary
South Central Elementary School
San Ildefonso, Bulacan, Philippines
(June 1986 – March 1992)