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Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Responsible for developing medium/long-term goals and strategic objectives for the organization by identifying, analyzing, and monitoring issues that affect profitability, growth, and sustainability.
• Conducted public and private market research across multiple industries for future investment opportunities.
• Actively monitored innovations specific to food technologies for future investment opportunities.
• Conducted extensive quantitative economic, industry, and company research and analysis.
• Conducted ongoing account analysis, portfolio construction, implementation, and daily management.
• Founder 4 companies with a net ROI +30% and Grew business holdings by 325%

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed, motivated, and led cross-functional teams to execute programs supporting the strategic and operational plans.
• Managed program priorities, business strategies, budget, and continuous planning cycle activities.
• Ensured execution of programs and projects are aligned and integrated with the foundation’s vision, plans, and goals.
• Applied expert-level knowledge of project/program management to ensure efforts meet defined objectives, followed a structured timeline, and are delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Lead, Coordinated, and developed private and public partnerships to innovate efficiencies in development initiatives and projects.
• Successfully implemented and completed over 60 projects and programs notable projects:o + 22 000 meals distributed to school-age children experiencing various levels of malnutrition.o + 1.2 million liters of purified.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Research Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP) to identify outcome gaps of Vancouver Civic Theatres Zero waste reduction targets.
• Understudy the day-to-day processes of waste management across all City of Vancouver Civic Theatres.
• Identified and developed key metrics in Civic Theatres supply chain to collect data and monitor waste flow and load.
• Collected, validated, and processed waste data for analysis and initiative recommendations.
• Lead the provision of planning analysis and presentation of key data and findings to support decision-making to all major stakeholders and management teams across all Civic theatres.
• Finalize for approval waste management initiatives to achieve an additional 30% reduction in waste output of 13 Tons over three years.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Worked closely with the program director to maintain the quality of teaching and training of 130+ TAs across the LFS department.
• Developed inclusive leadership and mentorship skills training workshops that are respectful of different disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and learning styles.
• Played a direct role in organizing logistics, catering, and venue details for events: Orientation meet and greet, Technology and Instructional skills seminars, Facilitation and Presentation workshops, and Mentorship.
• Oversaw funding application and requirements, managed cash accounts and monitored project commitments.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Define the strategic vision for the expansion of IAP into the existing aquaculture industry and new local and international markets.
• Cultivated relationships and held interviews with stakeholders to develop and test proof-of-concept, and market validation.
• Collaborated with faculty and founders to build out initiatives for customer discovery and validation.
• Facilitated and coordinated product group idea generation and solutions development across a broad platform of global capacities.
• Constructed financial models to assess growth strategies, capital structure decisions, and sales channel alternatives.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Secured and negotiated start-up capital for business.
• Collaborated with business partners in the development of market research, business plan, financial models, pitchbook and pitching skills.
• Executed website design, using HTML and CSS, while collaborating with outsourced design team.
• Lead and developed successful SEO strategies resulting in a top 3 organic landing using keywords with zero marketing ad dollars spent.
• Executed Google analytics tracking campaign to maximize ROI of marketing dollars spent.
• Maintained performance through site analysis, and new keyword research. Prepared analytics and ranking reports for business partners.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Successfully secured seed capital for start-up.
• Accountable for developing new business models as a response towards market conditions and opportunities which resulted in the development of 3 new departments, Direct to TV, Independent Productions services, and short.
• Chairman/ Producer to the Vancouver Short Film Festival from 2006-2009, achieving a 300% in festival attendance and films showcased.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed and tested new sushi and Japanese menu items for Earl’s chain of restaurants.
• Conducted site specific evaluation for sushi counter build out projects for Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill and Steamworks brewpub.
• Drafted detailed reports that outlined findings and business feasibility specific to location demographic and market sentiment.
• Produced and compiled training manuals for distribution to 60 restaurants for chef training.
• Sourced and secured resources specific to initiatives, including tracking and metrics modeling for accountability and progress reporting.
• Hosted executive-level training workshops specific to authentic sushi making.

Master'S Of Food And Resource Economics, Resource Economics

Master'S Degree, Sustainable Development (80% Of Course Work Completed Due To Relocation)

Bsc (Honours) Global Resource Systems, Agricultural Economics And Sustainable Development