Farm Credit Welcomes Project Manager in Harrisonburg
Farm Credit of the Virginias (FCV) recently announced Brendan Kelly has assumed the newly created role of Technical Project Manager at the Harrisonburg Processing Center in Virginia.
Kelly joins the Association after previously serving as the Director of Cancer.Net Operations and Outreach with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In his role at ASCO, he provided strategic leadership for the daily technical operations of their award-winning patient education website and mobile application, Cancer.Net and Cancer.Net Mobile. He also facilitated quality control and updates, including site redesign planning and implementation, content restructuring, new interactive features, and usability testing.
Originally from Eastern Ohio, Kelly spent more than 15 years in the Northern Virginia area before settling in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He is a graduate of Bentley University, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Communications, and maintains qualifications as a Disciplined Agile Scrum Master and Certified Digital Marketing Professional.
Additionally, Kelly is an active member of his community, serving on the Board of Directors and as Umpire-in-Chief for Mount Jackson-New Market Little League. He also serves as the Committee Chair for Cub Scout Pack 117 in Mount Jackson and Advancements Chair for Scouts BSA Troop 575 in Woodstock.
Regarding what he is looking forward to most in his new role, Kelly says, “I’m excited about the opportunity to grow and mold this position into what the Association needs. It’s not often where you get to come in to a new position at an organization as established as FCV and get to build something from the ground up.”
Pete Cypret, Chief Risk Officer says, “We are delighted to have Brendan join Farm Credit of the Virginias. Brendan’s strong career experience helping business adopt technology and business staff safely manage technology change will help our Association as we expand the technologies we offer to our customer-owners.”
About Farm Credit of the Virginias
Farm Credit of the Virginias provides over $1.8 billion dollars in financing to more than 11,000 farmers, agribusinesses and rural homeowners throughout Virginia, West Virginia and western Maryland. Farm Credit is a cooperative capitalized largely through investments made by farmers, ranchers and the rural homeowners and businesses that borrow from them. In fact, as part of a nationwide network they are the largest single provider of agricultural credit in the United States and have been for over 100 years. Farm Credit helps maintain and improve the quality of life in rural America and on the farm through its constant commitment to competitive lending, expert financial services and for facilitating and sharing knowledge and resources through the Farm Credit Knowledge Center. For more information, visit www.FarmCreditofVirginias.com.