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Syracuse, Ny, United States

Hector, Ny

• Winery: Assisted the winemaker with nutrient additions, juice clarifying, inoculations, punchdowns, pressing and cleaning.• Vineyard: Responsible for harvesting fruit, fruit thinning, raising bird netting and obtaining cluster weight for each vineyard lot. • Tasting Room: Responsible for selling wine, greeting customers, informing our guests about the farm, the wine and how the wine is made.

Calistoga, California

• Responsible for harvest duties including fruit processing, pump overs, nutrient additions, wine transfers, draining, pressing, and cleaning with minimal supervision• Reported barrel and tank fermentation temperature and brix data daily to winemaking• Supervised and trained 4-5 workers on a variety of harvest duties (e.g., pump overs, brix, temperatures)• Performed viticulture tasks such as shoot and cluster counts and cluster weights

• Performed sterile plating of finished wines in addition to wine samples sent from outside wineries; counted and identified bacterial colonies grown on sterile plates from wine samples using light microscopy and biochemical techniques. • Used polymerase chain reactions (PCR) to identify DNA in wine samples; duties included preparing samples, extracting DNA, analyzing data.• Presentation of scientific data, results and conclusions to laboratory manager and to winemaking.

Sonoma, Ca

Responsible for general harvest duties at the winery, including or general harvest duties including operating forklift to load/unload macrobins from trucks and spin-dump bins into open-top tanks and pressesResponsible for juice inoculations, chemical additions, racks, transfers and barrel downs Other tasks requiring knowledge of winemaking theory and practices to complete tasks with only minimal supervision, such as, clearing pumpsOSHA certification for forklift, scissors lift

Romulus, Ny

I was responsible for serving customers different wines and other products at the wine bar, which required knowledge of the winery’s products. In addition, the position required me to share my knowledge of the products in a sociable and sales-oriented manner.

I was responsible for my own experiments, including devising protocols, set up, collecting samples, creating test reports, recording data and values for further analysis, evaluation of data, changes to experiments and protocols.I also had the responsible of stocking the lab's inventory that included growth mediums and agar for experiments. This experience provided me with knowledge of laboratory equipment, safety requirements and experiment design.

Responsible for own experiments, including devising protocols, set up, collecting samples, creating test reports, recording data and values for further analysis, evaluation of data, changes to experiments, protocols, lab inventoryKnowledge of laboratory equipment, safety requirements and experiment design