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 development strategies. • 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.

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

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 multi-million-dollar annual revenue. Cultivated relationships with all staff to guide the company through significant and strategic change. • 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 facilities with zero staff layoffs and negotiating a technology deal that enabled the launch of a new product line, the Airo Pro Advanced Vapor System. • 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 continuous sales growth.• 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. • Sourced and led two lobbyists in successfully overturning a city ban on marijuana businesses by providing education to the city council, establishing relationships with individual representatives, and ensuring alignment of prior recreational voting legalization with the need for smart business growth.

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 system acquisitions. • 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 identified that company products did not contain the substance and could therefore be sold. • Assumed additional executive-level operational responsibilities following the sudden passing of a key founder and personal mentor; maintained a positive company culture and advanced key projects with zero negative impact on operational outputs.

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