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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