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California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

We specialize in commercial cannabis grow equipment and services, including benches, vertical grow racks, grow lights, and design and installation services.

San Diego, California, United States

• Provide consultation to clients for the design and operation of indoor hydroponic cannabis cultivation systems optimized for quality, yield, efficiency, and reliability.• Implement complete CEA solutions including lighting, hydroponic system design, CO2 augmentation, odor control, HVAC, humidification/dehumidification, remote sensors, and security.• Develop complex but balanced nutrient solution recipes for every stage of plant growth.• Presented “A Search for Higher Ground: Space Farming and Lessons Learned from Indoor Cannabis Cultivation” at the National Space Society’s annual International Space Development Conference 2019, which covered hydroponic techniques and plant-based medicine suitable for production in space.

San Diego, California, United States

Impello® Biosciences was founded on a simple premise: biostimulants make horticulture better for everyone. Our integrated solutions, ranging from microorganisms to other biological fertilizers, help growers everywhere increase the quality and yield of every harvest. Impello addresses tough agricultural challenges with next-generation biotechnology to support a better, healthier, and more sustainable planet.

San Diego, California, United States

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San Diego, California, United States

• Managed business and sales relationships within Hanna Instrument’s agriculture segment in the US.• Utilized contacts within the cannabis industry to aid in the development, marketing, and sale of fertigation and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) systems.• Developed relationships within the cannabis industry to promote Hanna’s agricultural products through beta testing, development of white papers, and social media promotion.• Created business proposals for increasing retail sales through retail hydroponics establishments.• Produced sales forecasting models for Hanna Agricultural segment.• Evaluated companies to consider for partnerships and acquisition.

1920 South Rochester #102, Ontario, Ca 91761

• Managed all aspects of a retail hydroponic superstore, including staffing, sales, purchasing, returns, customer interactions and project designs, CEA showroom and vendor relationships.• Grew store sales by over 27% within the first 4 months from ~$250K to ~$365K per month.• Assisted customers with project design, nutrient requirements, and technical issues and site visits.• Regularly assessed emerging products and technologies, competitive threats, key accounts, and political events to determine challenges and opportunities for growth and prepared reports on these findings.

La Jolla, California

• Launched multi-million-dollar product line to facilitate the vertical integration Illumina’s products across the entire multi-billion-dollar genomic and epi-genomic analysis market.• Developed business cases to justify new product development programs and coordinated efforts of R&D, manufacturing, legal, business development, and sales for the launching and management of new product lines.• Trained technical service, account managers and technical sales specialists.• Presented in-booth seminars at national trade shows, company-sponsored roadshows, and key customer accounts.

Carlsbad, California

• Managed tactical and strategic marketing activities resulting in a 27% growth for RNAi product lines with annual revenues of $3 million.• Successfully launched new RNAi vectors based on artificial miRNA technology and surpassed revenue projections for the first 9 months by over 20%.• Developed business cases to justify new product development programs and created a comprehensive business plan for the RNAi business segment.• Developed marketing materials for new product launches.• Trained technical service, account managers and technical sales specialists on the new RNAi products.• Presented in-booth seminars at national trade shows and key accounts.• Implemented marketing strategy for commoditized siRNA products.

Carlsbad, California

• Promoted products and services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical accounts in the greater San Diego area.• Drove 20% growth in multi-million dollar territory that was previously experiencing drastic declines in sales.• Coordinated product shows and presented highly technical seminars to customers.• Negotiated contracts for supply centers and business consolidation.• Provided VOC feedback to R&D, marketing, and business.

Irvine, California

• Directed sales, marketing efforts and provided technical support to promote product sales and exponential growth of a multi-million dollar product line.• Generated marketing plans, worked with graphic designers to create advertisements for placement in trade journals, and directed the placement of ads.• Coordinated new product introductions with ad campaigns and sales promotions and negotiated co-marketing agreements with vendors and key accounts.• Attended scientific conferences and trade shows and promoted products in a booth.• Worked with intellectual property and litigation lawyers for patent and trademark submission and enforcement.• Developed solutions for high-throughput laboratory automation and drug discovery.• Identified a major technical obstacle to automation and invented, engineered, patented, and manufactured a device to overcome the problem. (See Patents section below)

San Diego, California

• Hired, trained, and supervised part of a research group in a start-up pharmaceutical company developing a nasal spray for treatment and prevention of the common cold. (See Publications section below)

La Jolla, California

• Prepared cDNA libraries in a custom molecular biology lab.• Assisted new product development and manufacturing scale-up. Trained and helped hire new lab personnel.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan S. Taylor

• Performed various molecular biology techniques in a leading cancer research lab.• Trained new lab personnel, supervised lab helpers, and helped hire new technicians.• Conducted Independent research project included creating, cloning, producing, purifying, labeling and analyzing modified proteins for studying a key pathway in cancer development. (See Publications section below)