Directing and facilitating research and development across cultivation, extraction and formulation for new products. Analysis and optimization of product pipelines across the value chain. Use of market analytics to identify opportunities for growth and strategy.

Managing 70-75 employees between cultivation and post-harvest. Developing and tracking cultivation and post-harvest processes for efficient effective practices to produce the best possible outcomes. This is not only developing the highest quality product, but systems, teams and people. Monitoring and refining automation solutions in environmental controls, fertigation, IPM, scheduling and analytics. Collaborating with all team members to learn and evolve together.

Managing cultivation agents, automated systems, facility analytics and production scheduling in a state of the art $35 million facility. Interfacing with executive team and directors, coordinating and collaborating with other managers and contractors to facilitate efficiency in labor, process flow, facility maintenance and design. Optimization of IPM, fertigation parameters, QA/QC, and SOPs.

Managing vegetative growth phases, propagation, genetic stock

Developed scouting, tracking and analytics for IPM program

Irrigating, pruning, trellising, pesticide application

Research Associate for the NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Biomedical Research Unit conducting research in food intake, appetite hormones and hepatokines

Research Associate in Human PhysiologyResearch in hydration for the European Hydration InstituteTechnical support for high performance liquid chromatography to the School of Sport, Exercise and Health SciencesInterim PhD supervisor

Research Assistant at the Environmental Ergonomics Research CentreResearch in the differences in regional sweat responses in men and women at rest and during light exercise in a warm environment