Michael Powers Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.

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..

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