As a Co-Founder and the Chief Operations Officer of Shift Naturals Inc., the journey began with the vision to create a brand that resonates with modern wellness needs, focusing on natural, effective products in an emerging market. My role involves overseeing the company's operational strategies, ensuring seamless integration of processes, developing partnerships, and maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.Essentially, create cool & fun products with amazing people!

2023-Served in role as interim-COO in San Diego with an internationally recognized consumer electronics brand specializing in personal cameras for athletes within team and action sports. Managed manufacturing, quality control, and customer support.

Project Manager, US Army MSVL, Maneuver Support Vessel (Light)Design Integration Manager (DIM) for TAGOSX trade study for government client.Project managed a seven-member team to conduct a Deadweight Survey over four-weeks, and perform an Incline Test on the USS Emory S Land at Mare Island Drydock in March 2021.Aggregated global marine industry data and presented product-market SWOT analysis to international gas turbine manufacturer.

Oasis of the Seas, Fall 2019 DrydockManage the technical scope of modernizing and refurbishing 84 venues.Review structural, piping, structural fire protection drawings and contractor's detail designs to confirm standards meet DNV-GL class, IMO/SOLAS regulatory and RCCL's construction guidelines. Confer with independent architects, RCCL Designers, RCCL Area Project Managers and contractors to create technical work packages, establish project milestones, and coordinate demarcating contractor's responsibilities. Create testing criteria, evaluation and travel to manufacturing facilities to actively participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT). Utilize MS Excel, MS Project and PMP knowledge areas to develop and maintain project scope within time, budget and resources.Communicate and report Oasis technical progress on a weekly basis to project stakeholders and executive leadership.

Common tasks include ship surveys, providing naval architecture type technical support to determine interferences, operational impacts and advance design decisions, developing project schedules, providing scope of work packages for bidding, selecting vendors, developing contractor demarcation lines, managing contractor coordination meetings, performing factory acceptance tests, understanding regulatory UPSH and DNV-GL requirements, performing structural inspections, communicating issues quickly and providing status updates to directors/executives. Experience with extensive dry-dock attendance in Navantia and GBS shipyards for project build/execution phase.Navigator of the Seas, January-March 2019 Drydock- Managed $29m modernization project. - Executed installation of an AquaCoaster and MatRacer, a first for the company. - Planned and coordinated the addition of 100 tonnes of structure in way of new waterslides. - Managed 14 contractor organizations to execute the completion of aft decks 13, 12 and 11 to complete demolition, structure, piping, HVAC and outfitting. Mariner of the Seas, May-June 2018 Drydock- Managed $9m modernization project. - Keystone projects include managing SkyPad, Luckey Climber, FlowRider, two waterslides, and basketball court. - Planned and coordinated the addition for 70 tonnes of structure and structural reinforcements necessary on four decks. Adventure of the Seas, January 2018 Drydock- Managed $460,000 modernization project.- Planned and managed the construction/installation of new platform outfitted aft of the Bridge, deck 10, portside, in support of the University of Miami's OceanScope research program.- Coordinated and managed a team to remove and replace FRP waterslide sections in way of new acrylic sections.

Maritant is a business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce platform connecting professional engineering firms, shipyards and vessel operators with manufacturer equipment data.Maritant.com is a design and equipment sourcing tool for Marine Influencers; a marketing and sales tool for Marine Vendors.

Recommend changes to build specifications, resulting in cost savings for new ship construction.Monitor contractor's production, quality and manufacturing performance in the shipyard.Provide inputs to the client and contractors to correct construction deviations by implementing an action plan and managing corrective action adequacy.

Carried out detail design/drafting to form ship and outfitting for new shipbuilding. Performed naval architecture, i.e.; managed VFI process through detail design & construction, weight estimates & weight control, structure design/calculations, and utilized CAD software to generate system design drawings. Utilized knowledge of Lloyd's, ABS, ABS-NVR, CFR, and SOLAS to meet defined criteria requirements.

Carried out detail design/drafting to form ship and outfitting for new shipbuilding. Performed naval architecture, i.e.; to complete intact/damage reports, weight estimates, structure design/calculations, and collect resistance data for propulsion sizing. Utilized knowledge of ABS, DNV, CFR, and SOLAS to meet defined criteria requirements.

Organized and directed sales efforts from coaching towards clients.Sold services and products to clients and walk-in customers. “Zero to Hero” program was recognized by Outside Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Adventure Camps in the World”