Business Development & Operations Manager | Shaffer’s Irrigation

Founded Southern Edge in June of 2020 as full service landscaping and lawn care company. Hired a managed staff up to 12 employees. Handled daily operations such as scheduling projects, bidding projects, gaining new clients, and executing jobs. Duties included accounting work, answering business phone calls, operations, marketing, client relations, and business development. Tripled revenue in 2021. Sold business for a profit.

Helping drive growth, success, and flourishing for Member Drivers and Delivery Partners

Coordinated and attended public conferences and private meetings on global business issues; assisting in areas of logistics and hospitality management. Attended organization's world-wide meeting on current trade topics affecting U.S. and global economics, including tariff negotiations and issues within the automotive industry. Assisted the Director of the organization in event preparation and special requests maintain confidentiality with global clients.

Agricultural operations-- Performed labor duties such as laid over 2,500 acres of poly-pipe, planted and harvested five different crops, dug irrigation canals, worked ground on heavy John Deere equipment, and fixed damaged pivots. Financial coordinator-- Coordinated and assisted with oversight of infrastructure of operations for a large agricultural company farming more than 75,000 acres. Collaborated with owner of operations deciding how much the annual operating loan should be, whether to buy or lease tractors, when to buy and sell farm trucks, and how much government aid was sufficient.

Shadowed business development manager dealing with high net-worth individuals, large banks, and accounting firms. Assisted with hospitality management for business development operations which included planned duck hunting trips for clients. Conducted a study at Washington University about the applicability and use of the 170h tax code for easements on university/nonprofit campuses.

Implemented inventory control, stocked and pulled auto parts, assisted with new supply chain and logistics techniques. Gained greater control over inventory by innovating the use of scan guns to count and control auto parts, decreasing human error.

Took down 200 acres of old fence and replaced with new, fed and tended to five horses, supervised controlled burn fires, and planted grass in pastures. The farm totaled to 1,000 acres consisting of pastures and woods. Coordinated which pastures needed grass seed and which pastures to confine the horses while I was planting grass seed.