David Sholes Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Certified Chemtech Services field technician, specializing in wiped film installation and training (KD6, KD10, KD30, KD75).• Highly skilled and experienced consultant specializing in laboratory design, process design, SOP creation, installation and training in all THC & CBD processing including butane extraction, ethanol extraction, winterization, solvent recovery, distillation, crystallization and pesticide remediation.• Consulted with 40+ THC & CBD manufacturing facilities in United States and Canada in 2020.

Adelanto, California, United States

• Highly skilled and experienced multi-state laboratory director for CBD operations. Responsible for all production metrics, process documentation, facility and process safety and compliance guidelines and enforcement, training, education, site development, staffing, budget analysis, inventory control, customer relationship management and other responsibilities required. Leads the companies R&D efforts. Full understanding and implementation of local/ state/ federal manufacturing guidelines.• CBD Operation was staffed with 80 laboratory technicians, processing 20,000 lbs biomass per day to distillate and isolate. Process included ethanol extraction centrifuges, falling films and rising films for solvent recovery, two 2-stage wiped films for distillation, multiple crashing vessels for isolate production, and analytical HPLC equipment to test potency of products in-house.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Responsible for all process documentation, facility and process safety and compliance guidelines and enforcement, training, education, site development, staffing, inventory control. • THC Operation was staffed with 5 laboratory technicians, processing 100 lbs biomass per day. Process include hydrocarbon extraction, ethanol extraction, rotary evaporators for. solvent recovery, short path distillation. Products include live resin diamonds and sauce, cartridges and topicals.