Artisanal Beverage Manufacture in Northern Ontario.

Captain of the ship for a Canadian Retail Cannabis chain in Northern Ontario. Navigating the challenges of the Canadian Cannabis market in a highly scrutinized and regulated industry. Literally living the dream.

Circus Ringleader - thejesterswonderemporium.com is an online retailer of novelty items of all randomness - core mission is sale of ancillary items associated with the Cannabis industry. Specialized in navigating global platforms and multi-jurisdictional cannabis restriction/censorship/operation.

Crypto Mining: Specializing in functional support of decentralized cryptographic hashing hardware, localization of ASIC high density usage sites for emerging markets in the crypto COLO space. Multi-Algo experience gaming power and hash rates for profitability. Multifaceted role encompassing customer sales, support operations, facility acquisition, management, technology support services, ongoing skills development, training and technology support. Responsible for day to day operations of three ASIC mine sites encompassing 11000 sqft / 600+ machines / 3MW power consumption. Operational management of four employees and contractors providing operational and technical support for customers in WA and CA. Led search and acquisition projects to find and assess, acquire, permit, and configure new mining sites across Washington State. Took on business advocate (Evangelist) role for the promotion and education of local government agencies and public utility electricity providers to facilitate multiple legislative and regulatory changes to allow for “high density usage” business operations in multiple jurisdictions. This required ongoing engagement, articulation, interaction, education and advocation of public policy supportive of the blockchain paradigm to elected officials, civil servants, public and private business leaders. Led innovative Public Partnership project to install small scale crypto mines in Firehouses and Emergency Services buildings in rural Fire Districts to provide (crypto) heat, thereby significantly reducing facility upkeep and maintenance cost to keep emergency equipment at a legally required readiness temperature, reducing emergency response times and providing profit share to reduce overall operational costs.

Owner of Cascade Crops, a WSLCB LICENSED Washington I-502 Tier 2 producer. Responsible for all aspects of business development including working within an emerging, rapidly growing, industry with constantly and dramatically shifting legal and regulatory goals. This required working within intense legal semantics between County, State and Federal laws to acquire a matrix of licenses, permits and operational approvals. Cascade Crops navigated within these extreme constraints while bootstrapping $2 million in startup capital and managing cash flow of $600k/year outside of the FDIC system. I managed a team of 18-25 employees across four production sites and 3 processing operations. I was the driving force for new product development creating over 40+ new medical and adult use products across three brands released to the market. I created and implemented the sales and marketing operation, branding, and promotional materials for products sold in 30+ retail outlets. I designed, built and operated production, processing systems and procedures for multiple 10,000 sqft operations – constantly reworking the operations to reflect changes in rules and regulations as well as evolving industry operational standards.

Real estate development company focusing on bulk acquisition and rehabilitation of bank seized assets. Director of Acquisition and Foreman of Construction Team for property rehabilitation, development and resale. License Bonded Insured Tradesman, Real Estate Broker, Certified Home Inspector.Responsible for managing a wide range of duties, involving property discovery, foreclosure analysis, financing, auction acquisition, property rehabilitation, construction management in accordance with all regulations and state specific laws. Managed four full time employees and multiple contractors keeping an active cycle of several projects and teams operating at different stages working simultaneously.

Program Manager responsible for global internal employee technical training and certification. Extending awareness to the global employee community to maintain expert level knowledge of salesforce.com products through training.This role's responsibilities included:Financial Management and Budget tracking.-Track class delivery and payment for internal financial partners-Vendor accruals reporting and management-Vendor financial issue management (fixer)-Invoice accuracy verification and AP system trackingEducation Vendor Financial System Setup-Partner with Procurement and AP to sign MSA's -System setup of new vendors -Onboard authorized instructorsEmployee Training Program Manager- Plan and execute employee training offerings that serves the needs ofemployees within budgetary constraints (Online, Virtual, ILT)- Schedule and arrange delivery internal training to AMER Region (100+ classes/yr)- Managing delivery using internal resources and contractors- Budget allocation and management- Delivery of metrics on training KPI's- Broadcasting Training & Certification products and services available to employees on a regular cadence.Premier Training Program Manager and Educational Consultant - Post sales Premier training customer engagement program owner- Delivery of assessment and recommendations for organizational wide customer training - role based education assessment and best practice training

Responsible for New Hire Onboarding, Recursive, and Soft Skills training for approx 400 analysts in 10 global call centers.

At salesforce.com I run an Knowledge and Training Operations Team that is responsible for:- internal knowledge creation, organization and management- All global Support employee on boarding, product training, release training, recursive training, and soft skills development_ All global team integration, communication, incentives, and related morale projects- business owner for the Customer Support Portal- Own the engagement between R&D and the Services organization- Built and maintain the Subject Matter Expert organization for the Support organization.

Subject Matter Expert creating self service technical support portals using proprietary NLP engine. interacted with clients for promotion, development and maintenance of noHold expert system. Created technical content & documentation. Sales support / product development & testing / technical implementation / generating metrics & reports / training / technical support. Hand html coding, graphic design/product branding.