Sustainable Cities & Communities, Responsible Consumption & Production, Climate Action
*RoBotanist. From a completely blank and unfunded state, bridged developmental topics between botany and automation to create deterministic outcomes of a biological manufacturing system.
*Inventor. Conducted white space search and personally filed for automatic growing system patents to secure Company’s competitiveness and invest-ability.
*Principal System Architect. Modeled and conveyed process and material flows to development team while interpreting, managing, and meeting expectations of Company’s adjacent teams.
*Research Director. Facilitated the cross-disciplinary discovery process on matters concerning a green’s optimal response to its physical environment and pitched new viable technology initiatives for current and future operations.
*Head Engineer. Approved proposals and oversaw procurement and commissioning of industrial systems, consisting of central refrigeration plant, generator/solar/battery microgrid system, megawatts of connected equipment, and a 60,000 sqft warehouse.
*Sustainability Officer. Formulated resource conservation KPIs, designed and executed cost reduction initiatives.
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Fifth Season Connection
High growth, VC-backed business:
• AI, Robotic, IoT, & Enterprise software tech for vertical farming
• CPG (Ready-to-eat packaged salads) sold through retailers and D2C
Architected, and managed the teams that built, the pioneering RoBotany technology:
• Fleet of 42 unique IoT robotics that controlled every aspect of the growing, harvesting, and shipping process.
• Customized IoT-robotic firmware layer with embedded system for all robots, merging modern robotic industrial manufacturing and indoor agriculture with an added focus on data collection for analysis.
• Enterprise management system and AI scheduler that automated the entire grow operation by coordinating the IoT-robotics: took an order, dictated how/when/where grown, when harvested, how packed, and to where/whom the package is going. Also designed UI/UX for this internal software product.
Grew the company to around 100 employees while shaping core cultural values, vision, and organizational structure.
• Managed three layers of 70 direct and indirect reports (40 corporate, 30 facility staff) spanning: Robotic and AI Development, Enterprise Application Software Development, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Product Management & Development, Operations, and more.
• Oversaw design and construction of greenfield $27MM, 60k sq. ft. production facility.
• Budgeted and deployed $85MM of raised equity. Interfaced with investors and supported fundraising efforts.
• Co-managed companywide P&L.
• Spearheaded companywide goals and tracking processes using agile, top-down/bottoms-up OKR alignment.
• Managed company execution through KPIs, S&OP, and Product Development Process creation & execution.
• Created product and process roadmap for operations, including food safety, using systems thinking and tightly integrating operations, horticulture, and hardware & software development.
• Managed CPG product success to $6.5MM in run-rate revenue shipping to around 2000 wholesale customer locations across most of the eastern U.S.
