Owner and managing director of a 40 acre composting site in Northern Nevada with 25 employees. Full Circle keeps over 50,000,000 lbs of organic materials out of the landfill annually and turns these materials into Nevada-made soils, composts, and mulches. This annual volume is equivalent to a football field stacked 30' ft high with material. Through composting, Full Circle removes the equivalent of 33,000 cars worth of CO2 from the road! We call this the compost party.

Led the complete rebranding of the company to increase organizational relevance in a competitive market that resulted in a 200% increase in revenue in a 5 year period. Established an adaptive business model including new product creation with a focus on wholesale distribution channels. Introduced new operational plans to increase communication and workflow efficiency. Initiated long term planning for future company growth and profitability based on quantitative decision-making and financial analysis. Implemented marketing/advertising campaigns generating firm growth by improving/increasing local and national distribution. Assisted in large-scale project management, strategic communications, and development of custom client solutions.Created and managed a $250k new division and diversification strategy based on waste-diversion recycling through composting that drives a section of the company’s operating business model entitled WEcycle™. Implemented, trained, and consulted new compost management systems to WEcycle™ program participants including: Costco, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Embassy Suites, Odwalla, Marriott, Peppermill Casino, Atlantis Casino, and many others. Decreased contamination rates from participants over 80%.Created advantageous business relationships with retail partners, governmental agencies, and waste management entities in Northern Nevada and California. Increased cash flows through tipping fees with statewide growth initiatives. Assisted company president in business and management-related activities and identified opportunities for future growth.

Managed 100+ Career Advancement courses across three unique programs: Leadership and Human Capital Development, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship. Created new educational products in collaboration with industry experts to fulfill market and employer needs. Redesigned four individualized educational program streams to increase market adoption of product offerings within the professional and talent development space. Fostered relationships with corporate and institutional stakeholders within NYC for increased collaboration and innovative growth.Managed the academic pathways of 400 NYU-SPS graduate students across five programs. Increased student satisfaction and motivated students to succeed through relational leadership tactics, efficient administrative processing, proactive follow-up, and problem solving. Established a reputation to take on special case students and projects. Other responsibilities included: industry insight guidance, academic to career goal correlation planning, curriculum guidance, new student on-boarding, prospective student recruitment, event presentations, account accuracy evaluations, data processing, database information management, course management, and survey analysis.Solved Management and Systems (MASY) student, curricular, and program challenges by implementing procedural changes including: MASY sequencing, automated registration tactics, curriculum marketing tools, defined curriculum value packaging, internship processing, academic to career skillset tangibility, course substitution evaluation, faculty relationship building, faculty/student problem solving, and special case graduation solutions. Increased conversion, retention, and graduation rates through program efficiency review, process analysis, product value evaluation, program event planning, and student service excellence management. Managed global initiatives with emphasis placed on the international student experience.

Specialized in new student—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior—academic advising.Average student cohort populations were typically in the range of 700-800 students.Performed new student advising, probation advising, appeal/dismissal requests, majordeclaration, course planning and study abroad preparation.Other responsibilities included co-instructing BUS 101 and BUS 104, performing data analysis/reporting, refining retention strategy and recruitment efforts, facilitating social media strategies,creating and refining advising materials, creating comprehensive advising assessments, assisting the registrar with advanced registration and specific course enrollment processes, organizing advising/recruiting events and moderating student orientations. Assisted Coordinator of Advising for a full quarter while the primary was on leave. Duties includedgraduation processing, committee representation, probation curriculum planning, assessmentplanning/implementation, student data management, student worker management, course andcurriculum waivers and substitutions.

Head bartender for weekend libations and cultural growth in small town Nevada.

Cultural Ambassador and English Teacher: Taught 800 plus students in three different public institutions the English language, conversation skills, and the cultural characteristics of the United States.

Oversaw and served a seven course Basque meal up to 250 customers per night. Managed customer satisfaction and customer needs via constant customer communication and interaction.