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United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

• Conduct feasibility studies including market analysis, financial advisory, on-site evaluations, farm metrics, and 3D modeling for new and existing growers and investors to offer insight into their proposed farm project.• Created and launched a product line of educational guides to help new and existing growers stay informed and increase productivity and efficiency within controlled environment agriculture (CEA).• Responsible for entrepreneurial activities such as budgeting, tax collection, and business management.• Designed and maintain the website to ensure our products, services, and releases are up to date and communicated to our site visitors.• Manage multiple brands and their licensing with third parties.• Created marketing materials using Adobe products such as inDesign, Premiere, Illustrator, and Photoshop for web design and customer communications.

Singapore

• Manage the operations of an indoor farm and greenhouse with four direct reports.• Developed an electronic farm management system capable of delivering real time information about crop performance, resource planning, and activity scheduling.• Identified quality control vulnerabilities in farm operations and introduced SOPs and training to prevent them.• Created marketing materials using Adobe products such as inDesign, Premiere, Illustrator, and Photoshop for web design and customer communications.• Planned crop rotations to ensure uninterrupted product availability, minimize resource downtime, and maintain customer satisfaction.• Conducted active management in the farm by supervision of farm staff activities, crop health inspections, reservoir management, and inventory tracking.• Identified and implemented process improvements in the farm operations that increased the team’s productivity and efficiency.

Greater Chicago Area

• Performed invoice audit management for Asia Pacific, North America, and European stations.• Developed forecast models for cargo volume and spend across all regions which influenced budgetary decisions with management.• Cooperated with procurement teams on pending contracts to exchange information and improve United’s negotiating position with service partners.• Developed comprehensive dashboards at the request of various teams and management to provide insights into training compliance and station spend.• Identified and implemented process improvements within United Cargo that increased the team’s productivity and effectiveness.• Managed SLA contracts and reported key metric performance to internal and external stakeholders.• Provided ad-hoc analysis for stakeholders across numerous projects which contributed to key decisions by management.

Algonquin, Il

- I utilized a combination of analytical and communication skills to help define product strategies and assist in identifying and developing new markets.- I worked among a cross-dimensional and highly interdisciplinary team consisting of quality and design engineers in the production facilities and sales and marketing personnel based in the respective markets.- I also analyzed warehouse and production operations for cost reduction opportunities available. I monitored and analyzed data from sales, market shares, growth rates, pricing, etc. to provide an appropriate level of market information to management.- I maintained and kept current all market data for fact-based decision making. I used this information when working with sales and marketing teams to organize and analyze the pipeline for new products and product enhancements, such as in the case of TRU by Microbrush.- I also assisted in making sequencing decisions for the product development of TRU by Microbrush and determining launch timelines.- I collected and analyzed customer feedback while working with a quality/engineering team to identify and execute product improvement opportunities among our various Microbrush products.

Jalna Area, Maharashtra, India

A team of myself, and three other directors, were responsible for the conceptualization, set up, and management of an ophthalmic hospital.- The bulk of my responsibilities and duties involved logistics and operations from concept to execution. I worked on determining the operating costs per patient, and budget forecasts for hospital capital and equipment.- I created standard operating procedures and training modules detailing the responsibilities, duties, and technical training for the critical staff positions.- I participated in meetings to discuss the current progress of the hospital's conceptualization and construction. I also provided critical expertise on the hospital’s operations by drilling down and analyzing where patients moved through the hospital, how much revenue was collected by department, and patient flow time.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Supply Chain & Operations Management / Business Management, 3.6 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: Enactus, September 2015 - March 2016 Operations Management Group, August 2015 - May 2017

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics