David Tuttle Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Santa Clara

• Manages all facets of organic farm operations from seed to harvest including row cropping production and orchard management• Manage farm operations for Santa Clara Unified School District Farm to School program, including best practices organic farm production feeding over 13000 students• Implemented USDA (GAP) food safety certification• Introduced comprehensive farm tours in organic farming, connecting students to where their food comes from • Best practices in soil management with crop rotation, cover cropping, soil analysis and composting. • Manage all repairs and maintenance on farm equipment, irrigation, electrical and out buildings• Lead our Workability program hosting students to work on the farm building vocational skills• Implanted a composting program with the district grounds department, utilizing leaves and lawn cuttings from 27 school sites• Host and manage volunteers on the farm including corporate, community and students• Manage Organic Integrated Pest Management and farm safety

• Developed and co-managed the Farmer Veteran program, educating and teaching returning Veterans organic sustainable business practices and providing them a new career in Agriculture• Hire and Manage farm staff and docents for field production, sales, educational programs and events• Community Liaison, public speaking at conventions and workshops connecting the public to the benefits to local organic produce• Created and Managed U-Pick programs, connecting the community with food• Developed hands on education programs including elementary, high school, and local University students. • Managed JFDC largest retail account representing $38 million dollars of annual revenue• Manage programs through multiple phases and gates for successful projects • Budgeted, managed, promoted, and scheduled public and community events• Managed product and product allocation in SAP, fulfilling customer orders and customer demand• Tracked and managed customer concerns and reporting data to QA, management, production, and logistic teams resulting in a 12% increase in customer retention • Implemented a Customer Care program, which successfully mitigated customer attrition rates• Collaborated with Marketing Department balancing budgets and marketing campaigns • Managed sales, production, and logistic teams to ensure efficiency across all departments

Analyzed and planned material requirements for productionCoordinated manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meet specificationsScheduled and lead cross-functional build readiness meetings to ensure new assembly production is in-line with master scheduleCommunicated timely updates of late material or production issues that prolong the ability to meet the master scheduleLead daily production meetings to review master schedule and timeliness of materialScheduled and monitored production activities to meet customer demand/Master ScheduleCreated and published production schedules governing the execution of planned manufacturing activities

Managed all Specials Media Products for Domestic Retail and Canadian Retail Outlets Product lead for all current shipping products and derivativesLead Quality inspection and testing for pre-launch productsProvided Sales and Technical Support in a detailed NPI product presentationSuccessfully implemented a End Of Life product program Created and implemented a Donation program of Optoma products that benefits Santa Clara Schools

Proven successful sales track record of 15% sales growth for North West regionDeveloped sales strategies and business plans to identify targets of opportunitySuccessfully selling $100k HDTV custom unitsDirect interaction with media, customers and dealers promoting the Optoma brand and DLP technologyPromoted sales of Optoma products and services to achieve maximum market penetration and attain both long and short term sales goalsRespond to sales leads and new business opportunities to increase sales growth of territory

Network Storage Report on product quality data utilizing Sun defined measurements, identifying product quality trends, and lead or support product quality improvement teamsGenerated new processes, tactics and strategies to better resolve critical account escalationsAnalyze MTBF, MTBI and other data points, determine which products that are operating out of specification and lead teams to address potential product, process or customer impactRepresentative for Network Storage Quality to address customer or product quality issues to cross functional organizationsDevelop Field Change Orders, Field Information Notices, Product Bulletins and Product Alert notices to inform field of potential or actual product quality issues

Network Storage Supported over 60 customer escalations during FY02 with a total financial savings to the Sun Microsystems of over $201 MillionEstablished Customer Care as a credible quality information resource for Network Storage executives by providing weekly briefings and status reports on customer quality issues and incidentsDrove critical customer issues to engineering that uncovered severe product deficiencies or problems which resulted in hardware and software fixesResponsible for driving customer escalations and present status to executives, directors and senior managementParticipated in internal quality teams (Sun Sigma training and Tiger teams) to resolve customer and product related issues

Responsible for driving customer escalations and present status to management, directors and executives.Participated in Six Sigma training and Product teams to resolve customer and product related issues.Established Customer Care as a credible quality information resource for Network Storage executives by providing weekly briefings and status reports on customer quality issues and incidents.Enhanced a rapid product shipment program to provide product to customers experiencing critical product issues.Drove critical customer issues into engineering that uncovered severe product deficiencies or problems which resulted in hardware and software fixes.Identify and develop a communication process within Sun internal business organizations to ensure open, timely and consistent information sharing.Supported over 60 customer escalations during FY02 with a total impact to the company of over $201M. actively searching new opportunities

Managed Order Entry, Billing and product delivery of one of Sun's largest global accounts with quarterly revenues of $40M.Developed and implemented the Get Well Program for next generation customer specific product.Implemented escalation pathway for communication product.Developed an internal order program to streamline major cellular customers' procurement needs.Trained new hires and incumbent customer support representatives on Order Entry (Oracle 11i) and Billing procedures.