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Tiny House Coffee is a micro-roastery in Austin, TX specializing in direct trade and cold brew coffees.

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Communicated with foreign registration boards to investigate regulatory requirements for the import and delivery of agricultural and structural pesticides
• Managed new accounts to establish distribution networks in Central and South America
• Researched competitive products and market conditions to identify our advantages and make customer-based product recommendations
• Collaborated with supplier partners to organize educational seminars and digital marketing campaigns

El Jicaro, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua

• Implemented entrepreneurship course in local high schools by co-teaching over 250 youth, which included teaching the basics of starting a business and over-seeing the creation of over 40 student run businesses
• Served as a liaison on local and regional business plan competition involving fundraising and coordinating with government officials, the Ministry of Education and local small businesses
• Trained local farmers in accounting and best business practices for farm enterprises
• Designed and implemented survey to investigate production costs and profits for corn and beans
• Assisted local businesses and cooperatives with inventory management, strategic planning, accounting, and project design
• Worked with a micro-finance bank educating loan holders about managing personal finances

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Participant in research project with the United States Geological Survey which examined water demand in the Southeast United States and makes recommendations to improving the national water use database
• Conducted analysis on nationwide domestic water use and which factors contribute to the supply of household water, either from a self-supplied or publicly supplied source
• Employed a regional adjustment model to examine how the population employment dynamic approaching spatial equilibrium impacts the demand structure of county level water demand

Austin, Texas Area

• Actively manage approximately $5 million of roofing materials and accessories for the Austin branch, including over 2,500 SKU’s
• Constructed model to distribute and transfer excess inventory between branches to minimize disposal costs and over-ordering
• Created and implemented detailed inventory model to analyze inventory in order to project usage, minimize inventory levels and costs, and maximize days payable
• Improved average inventory days from approximately 60 to 30 after first month of implementation
• Execute standard inventory management operations, including placing orders, logging shipments and deliveries, and reconciling inventory with sales and purchasing

B.A., Economics

Master Of Science (Ms), Agricultural & Resource Economics