• Integral member of the management team, responsible for the development of financial management strategy and organization’s strategic goals.• Managed all aspects of the seeding, planting, growing, harvesting as well as engineering and improvement of the indoor growing environment• Involved in building market position by locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing business relationships• Created and implemented sophisticated policies and procedures in indoor farm production (successfully completed GFSI certification) and financial realms

• Compose fertilizer and soil amendment recommendations based upon accumulation andanalysis of soil fertility data for approximately 40,000 acres of conventional vegetableproduction throughout California, Colorado and Washington. Shared responsibility for hittingquarterly targets.• Manage pesticide program for conventional acreage; maintaining tolerance, procedure, andfood safety standards• Initiate and carry out research and development of new soil treatments, evaluation ofagrochemical efficacies and land management protocols. Provide strategic, data driven,business results to executive team• Supervisor of irrigation water quality; requiring the organization, aggregation and evaluationof water suitability reports from hundreds of irrigation sources

• Engaged in all aspects of my family’s farm since ten years old. Managing and planning croprotations, harvest schedules and the sale of nearly 10,000 acres of vegetables and grains• Involved in the fieldwork of planting and harvesting of crops, working up to operating peaharvesters, grain combines and other large farm equipment• Working independently, I was responsible for the operation and repair of equipment andcommunicating with Spanish speaking and other farm employees