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Dayton, Oregon, United States

Dayton, Oregon, United States

Oversee and direct wine production for multi-brand wine group. Includes fruit sourcing and viticultural planning, harvest logistics and scheduling, winemaking protocol management and oversight, packaging schedule management and purchasing of packing materials. Provide yearly operations budgeting, maintain CapEx budget and schedule of asset investment. Direct substantial investment into winery production expansion. Critical member of construction projects. Responsible for planning and… Show more Oversee and direct wine production for multi-brand wine group. Includes fruit sourcing and viticultural planning, harvest logistics and scheduling, winemaking protocol management and oversight, packaging schedule management and purchasing of packing materials. Provide yearly operations budgeting, maintain CapEx budget and schedule of asset investment. Direct substantial investment into winery production expansion. Critical member of construction projects. Responsible for planning and equipping a 3,000 ton wine production facility as well as 80 bpm bottling line that integrates force carbonation packaging as well as sparkling wine production capabilities. Increased quality of existing wine brands leading to some of the highest scoring wines in the history of various brand families, including one Wine Spectator Top 100. Developed wine style and production plans for new product launches of premium wine brands. Key player in launching a canned wine program with a current volume of ~40,000 9LE cases per year. Show less

Dayton, Oregon, United States

Dayton, Oregon, United States

Responsible for all winemaking for Stoller Family Estate's higher volume SKUs. Procurement of all winery packaging and scheduling of bottling operations. Work with viticulture team to determine vinicultural practices and activities to control crop for quality wine production. Hiring of critical roles to the winemaking team in order to keep up with substantial production increases.

Eugene, Or

At King Estate Winery, I currently oversee and coordinate different winery business units to create best benefits to the overall business. A large part of my oversight is focused on winemaking and production related matters and I utilize my experience there to ensure our optimum wine quality is translated to optimum impact in the market. The wine business is very unique, and family owned, estate wineries are rapidly becoming a small subset within the world of wine. I utilize my talents and… Show more At King Estate Winery, I currently oversee and coordinate different winery business units to create best benefits to the overall business. A large part of my oversight is focused on winemaking and production related matters and I utilize my experience there to ensure our optimum wine quality is translated to optimum impact in the market. The wine business is very unique, and family owned, estate wineries are rapidly becoming a small subset within the world of wine. I utilize my talents and skills to ensure all parts of the business operate efficiently and in-sync with one another to reach the common goal of increasing brand awareness and sales revenues which will result in profitability to ownership. Show less

Eugene, Oregon Area

Harvest coordination and production logisticsBlending of wines to target house style for flagship brandsCreation of vineyard designate blends and wine clubs exclusive wines where personal winemaking style can be expressedOversight of packaging operations, scheduling and logisticsDevelopment and refining of quality control programsFruit sourcing and grower relations activitiesRepresentation of winery at public and trade events

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

In charge of all wine making activities from fruit in the door until bottled wine.Implementation of quality protocols.Lab design, employee training designed to fit with quality program.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand

Modesto, California Area

Corvallis, Oregon

Research support for thermal inkjet product development.Research relating to ink/dye compatibility with silicon based thermal inkjet heads.

Eugene, Or

Manufacturing support of industrial CPU and logic systems.Component level troubleshooting and repair.Diagnosis and repair of client field unit components.Quality control of newly manufactured logic motherboards.

Olathe, Ks

Supported the manufacture of aircraft avionics systems.Performed component level troubleshooting, rework and repair of transponder and aircraft communication systems.

Bachelor Of Science, Fermentation Science

Associate Of Applied Science, Electronics Technology