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• Serve as trusted advisor to the Founder and CEO from the company’s inception, shaping personnel, marketing, and investor relations strategies that drove the company to profitability Q3 2024.
• Spearheaded a headcount reduction in Q2 2024, optimizing staffing models while preserving critical functions, resulting in a substantial burn rate reduction.
• Introduced an internship program Summer 2023 which skyrocketed product development and increased company engagement. Ran an intern leadership development coaching program. 100% of interns pursued post-graduation jobs.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Initiated the company’s expansion into Massachusetts, capitalizing on recreational legalization and achieving 80% revenue growth in the first year of the first Massachusetts shop being opened.
• Oversaw the development and deployment of a CBD product line, increasing Diem’s market presence ~55%.
• Developed and implemented scalable budgeting and headcount policies, streamlining market expansion.
• Built a financial model to fairly compensate employees and investors, increasing employee retention and investor buy in.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw successful cross-disciplinary shared collective space, enabling collaboration and artist upskilling.
• Increased artist participation 117% in the first year of operation.
• Acted as the glue of the organization, improved communication, and streamlined leadership.

• Translated complex, high-level ideas into executable project plans in a fast-paced environment, launching three major initiatives within the first year, including a pilot project that reduced unit construction.
• Secured over $2M in investments and negotiated strategic partnerships with real estate developers, resulting in a pipeline of 93 units planned for 2024.
• Won a $3M grant to expand product deployment, emboldening partnership with top real estate developer.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams which validated development methodologies and eliminated communication bottlenecks.

• Created and delivered board presentations, driving alignment and increasing investor support.
• Bridged communication between technical and business teams, translating complex VR concepts from founder to stakeholders, leading to increased company-wide project buy in.
• Devised a sales and business development strategy that expanded opportunities with major VR partners, increasing market presence by 40+%.

• Built a scalable blockchain mining model, securing the lowest per watt priced power contracts in the continental U.S., cutting operational costs by 185%.
• Established partnerships with hardware suppliers resulting in a ~30% decrease in project timelines.

Hillsboro, OR

Drives personnel leadership and builds organizational health. Responsible for delivering Best in Class output and velocity across multiple product lines in Intel's development factories, D1D/D1X. Content expert on capacity, constraints, and manufacturing capability. Provides operational analysis to deliver improvements in output/velocity and critical queue.

Hillsboro, OR

Responsible for upholding safety, producing 98% product yield, and coordinating accelerated key material output. Acted as Emergency Response Team leader, Central Safety Committee chair, and second level personnel manager for 120+ employees on shift (2015). Led merged Ramp/PTD Operations Managers (OM) team and serve as mentor to many OMs, engineering.

Hillsboro, OR

Effectively managed as many as 23 technicians in extremely complex functional area. Led area through introduction and tightening of the most critical queue times in the company. Grew into the factory-wide SAV and CQT expert and was selected for an inter-organizational task force to develop an optimized run-plan engine (CORE). Began to build management and.

Represented COE student body at community events and college functions. Presented to over 2,500 high school students and incoming OSU freshman about the COE. Served as mentor and tutor to students in need, helping many to graduate. Approached on multiple occasions by past students and given praise for the positive impact on their lives.

• Designed and implemented a Kanban System which improved material flow through facility by 28%.
• Drove supply-chain efficiency project with planners, purchasers, and executive management that reduced costs by 10%
• Managed documentation and tool compilation/redesign for product line handoff.
• Initiated a packaging quality assurance project that cut rework rates by 17%, improving product quality, increasing customer retention, and reducing waste.
• Coordinated OSU Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP) company tours for 107 companies and over 350 interns.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Consciousness And Transformational Studies

Honors B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: University Honors College, Business and Entrepreneurship Minor, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Alpha Pi Mu.