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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Performing all brewing and cellar duties to support a 30 bbl brew house producing 18K+ bbls of finished beer a year. - Monitoring fermentation, pitching and performing yeast management and adjusting parameters.- Actively control and manage companies non sour beer program that creates several types of high-quality barreled beers.- Proficient in running GEA centrifuge filtration equipment

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

•Developing and producing recipes including Bourbon, Rye, Wheat, and Single Malt whiskeys as well as Gin, Vodka, and Brandy.•Building and maintaining a strong team of motivated and educated employees•Comfortable with maintaining and operating European style distillation equipment•Managing all aspects of operations in the mashing, fermenting, and distillation areas•Ensuring accurate, detailed TTB and quality controll documentation throughout the production process• Developing, updating, and implementing standard operating procedures for the department• Supporting hiring, training, scheduling of operators, identifying cross training opportunities across all areas.• Maintaining clean and sanitary equipment and working environment• Managing raw materials inventories and materials• Proactively managing yeast health and mash fermentations• Reporting and troubleshooting safety issues, process deviations or losses, unplanned outage or unexpected discharges along with corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence

Denver

- Strong understanding of Brewing, Cellaring processes along with an understanding of CIP, sanitation and sterilization techniques.- Capable of managing multiple brews on a 30 bbl, 3 vessel system that produced 50,000 bbl + annually.- Strong knowledge and understanding of the science of fermentation and theories of the processes and equipment employed daily to accomplish production goals-Performed all aspects from distillation to barreling of a double pot distillation for production of new make spirit in a process that produces 100,000+ gal of spirit annually.- Operated both manual and computer automated equipment while maintaining quality standards.- Raw ingredient management skills as well as basic microscopy and microbiology skills.- Comfortable with maintaining and operating Vendome distillation equipment

Greater Denver Area

- Drove business by meeting freight demands of over $38 million dollars annually while maintaining stringent budget and payroll controls.- Responsible for interviewing, recruiting, and hiring team members.- Developed and managed a team of over 40 individuals with orientation, training, coaching, counseling, and on-the-job support.- Analyzed sales and freight flow reports while translating into accurate ordering and payroll efficiency.- Volunteer Captain responsible for organizing monthly charitable events.- Practiced strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis.

Greeley Co

Brewing:- Oversaw all operations related to the brewing process, including sanitation, quality control and inventory control.- Developed and monitored beer movement and production plans.- Managed critical control points to ensure product quality.- Supervised and coached brewers through troubleshooting and monitoring of brewing processes and equipment. - Controlled all vital elements related to the fermentation and production and packaging process.Packaging:- Monitored production line and fixed problems due to pile-ups and jams.- Excellent knowledge of restoring and fixing filling and labeling units in case of malfunctions.- Observed all machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled and packaged products to standards.- Organized and palletized and stored boxed product in order to prepare it for shipping.Marketing:- Organized and participated in events aimed at brand exposure (beer festivals and tastings).- Took part in the design process of point of sale items. - Created and ran several marketing campaigns aimed at boosting tasting room sales.- Assisted in marketing research for current on-premise accounts.