As the Marketing Manager of Tegridy Farms I led strategic marketing efforts for our dispensary and lounge. This involved market research, creative campaign development, and managing our online presence to engage customers and drive foot traffic. I also forged partnerships to expand our reach and continuously analyzed data to optimize our marketing strategies, aiming to enhance brand recognition and drive sales growth in a competitive market.

As the general manager for theWOODS I oversaw all aspects of daily operations to ensure a seamless and compliant experience for our customers. My responsibilities ranged from managing inventory and procurement to supervising staff and maintaining a safe and inviting environment. Each day, I coordinated with vendors, monitored sales trends, and implemented strategies to optimize efficiency and profitability. Additionally, I liaised with regulatory bodies to uphold legal standards and ensure adherence to industry regulations. My role demanded a blend of leadership, business acumen, and passion for the cannabis industry to deliver exceptional service and drive business growth.

Specializing in maintaining a welcoming and friendly environment centered around the customer experience. Focusing on maintaining an up-to-date knowledge on brands, product, growing techniques and cannabis culture we have cultivated one of the most experienced staff for the cannabis retail space. Hired on to help elevate the in-store culture and help cultivate and maintain the core values behind the brand. Creating a fun, fair, and productive environment for my staff members while creating incentive programs to drive up the efficacy of my employees. Observing and maintaining the property, customer experience, and store budget are a few of my day-to-day tasks here. I've helped to design SOP's for store safety, procedures for maintaining and ordering inventory, as well as customer service experience. I have also created training modules based around brands and products as they are released to ensure that all of my employee's can provide top tier service to our guests with correct and current information.

Hand picked by the CEO and Store manager, I was one of the first hires chosen to help launch their flag-ship location and first steps into the California cannabis culture. From the first day I started I worked closely with our operations department as well as our corporate partners to ensure a healthy start for their newest location.Helping in the selection of product, as well as creating and maintaining training modules for our staff centered around guest engagement as well as product information. This in part to the close relationships I maintained with vendors, allowing us to remain in step with the cannabis industry and culture as our store developed. During my time there I honed in on helping to train and promote several employee's into upper management while also welcoming newer members to our team helping them acclimate to our brands core values. Having a focus on community outreach I often helped and participated in charity and volunteer work as a representative of the store, as well as attending chamber of commerce events to maintain a strong partnership with our community members.

I was recruited originally by the District Manager of the then 3 stores to help them launch their DTLA location. Helping them to hire, train and build a knowledgeable staff and help to optimize production of both Hospitality and Operations. I was then transitioned to their Venice location to help in the transition of their management staff, before being moved to help aid in the rebuilding of their flag-ship location in West Hollywood.During my time at Medmen I helped to create, develop, and launch their original training program. I have helped during the transition into legalization, learning new state compliances and conducting Metrc training courses, as well as helped them open and establish two of their stores. Here I've also helped in the creation of SOP's, aiding and conducting security investigations, maintaining safe counts and ledger balances, employee hiring and firing, as well as the promotion of several associates to management positions. Under the leadership there I have acted as a representative for my company to Cannabis events, participated in enacting local legal changes surrounding cannabis retail in LA County, and help drive profitability for my store locations during my time.

I was the first employee hired on to this start up, here I was trained in the art of fine dining. Here I began with a Sommelier training course, as well as an over view of their menu. I helped to maintain our property, inventory levels, staff scheduling, and balancing store finances. During my time with this company I also helped to launch an open mic night which improved our patronage by 20%, I created menu items as well as customized drinks for holidays and special occassions.I also worked closely with the Claremont Chamber of Commerce to help organize city events, and partnered with them during their wine walks. I was responsible for dealing with the city workers when inspections came around, opening and closing the store, hiring and firing employees, and managed employee time cards. Maintaining the cleanliness of the store, and ensuring that we stayed up to date on federal and local food and health safety protocols.

I started originally at an entry level as a cashier, and worked my way up through management after 3 months with the company. After being promoted to shift lead I was trained on how to maintain and create shift schedules as well as count tills, maintain inventory levels, and check for cleanliness. I worked closely with management to continue to hone my skills until I was eventually elevated to a store manager position at the end of 2013.