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Central New Jersey

Boulder, CO

• Lead consultant to a vertically integrated startup in a newly-legalized market. Define business strategies, maintain a pulse on national trends to support cultivation, and create comprehensive wholesale and business.
• Designed a comprehensive business plan and all related cultivation, extraction, products manufacturing, and retail operations strategies for Missouri based client.
• Project managed a New Jersey license application in a highly competitive environment with 136+ applications for six state licenses.
• Created a highly-detailed and unique plan to showcase industry expertise and managed a team of four staff in authoring and delivering the New Jersey application in just 30 days.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Head of all operations for vertically-integrated Colorado business and production-side project management assistance for NJ.

Boulder, CO

• Spearheaded the daily operations and business priorities of a multi-award-winning vertically integrated cannabis operation. Managed 100+ total staff in delivering high-quality service that yielded a.
• Conceptualized operational strategies that enabled alignment with regulatory compliance across the company and shepherded all related regulatory compliance initiatives, including thoroughly vetting external vendors.
• Directed a company turnaround amidst a founder, shareholder dispute and an over-production problem in a declining wholesale market; implemented effective downsizing strategies, including closing two production.
• Identified market trends towards hash oil for vaping and leveraged company hash oil outputs to develop and successfully launch Airo Pro in state-wide exclusive deal; efficiently managed product rollout to yield.
• Grew Airo Pro sales exponentially to over $11M in just two years, thereby securing status as a leading seller in the vaping space distributing in 200+ stores.
• Oversaw an operations restructuring initiative that enabled 22% revenue growth from 2016 to 2017.

Boulder, CO

• Directed production management initiatives, including designing facilities, layouts, mechanical systems, lighting systems, and work flow processes. Hired and directed contractors and engineers. Oversaw facility and.
• Managed the build out of six different cultivation facilities and led 50 total employees across all business functions, including all cultivation and post-cultivation processes.
• Created and implemented multi-facility organizational structure to ensure efficient operations.
• Developed employee engagement and retention strategies to keep top talent in a high-turnover industry.
• Researched potential growing problems and audit triggers; implemented operational compliance strategies to ensure ongoing adherence to all industry and state regulations.
• Salvaged $1.2M in product following the use of a banned and purposely hidden pesticide by an external vendor; collaborated with the Department of Agriculture during the audit, researched the banned substance, and.

Northern California

Designed, built-out, and operated multiple patient cooperative warehouse cultivation facilities delivering high-quality medical marijuana to patients and dispensaries across the state.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Traditional Eastern Arts- Tai Chi & Meditation

Master Of Arts - Ma, Counseling

Master'S Degree