Work experience

• North America Cannabis Lead

  ICL Growing Solutions

  2025.04-Current

  (a year)

  4 years 5 months (1 year 4 months)
• Territory Sales Manager -West Region

  ICL Growing Solutions

  2022.03-Current

  (4 years)

  (4 years 5 months) Serving professional nursery, greenhouse, landscape and CEA growers. Covering Northern California, Hawaii, Utah, Northern Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico
• Technical Services Manager

  The Hawthorne Gardening Company

  2018.10-2021.07

  (3 years)

  4 years 10 months (2 years 10 months) Provided expertise and guidance to licensed producers throughout North America in the fields of controlled environment horticulture, plant nutrition, irrigation, IPM and environmental and cultural best practices for the commercial cultivation of cannabis and hemp. Worked with licensed producers to improve crop metrics through tissue, soil and nutrient solution analysis and optimization of fertility programs and environmental setpoints. Trained commercial and retail North American HGC sales teams on new signature products and horticulture fundamentals. Created sales literature & marketing materials: feed-charts, product and growing guides, technical papers to support signature Hawthorne brands including: Gavita, General Hydroponics, Botanicare and Mother Earth.
• Research Specialist

  The Hawthorne Gardening Company

  2016.10-2018.10

  (2 years)

  (2 years 1 month) Manage and oversaw controlled environment research trials on horticultural lighting, plant fertilizers, growing media and pesticides. Managed and trained two research technicians in data collection, experimental protocols and general plant care and maintenance. Devised and implemented experimental protocols. Analyzed and interpreted research data using quantitative statistical methods. Generated internal research reports summarizing findings.
• Research Assistant

  General Hydroponics

  2015.06-2016.10

  (a year)

  (1 year 5 months) Setup and maintain hydroponic fertilizer research trials. Worked in research greenhouse facilities and indoor controlled growth facilities. Tasks included: propagating, transplanting and maintaining research plants. Applying novel fertilizer formulations for testing. Collecting and collating data from research trials.
• Field and Lab Research Assistant

  UC Davis - Russell Ranch

  2014.06-2014.12

  (7 months)

  • Worked in field and laboratory on a long term agricultural sustainability project. • Duties involved analyzing the impacts of cover crops, compost and amendments on soil quality, disease resistance and crop yield. • Proficient in soil nitrate extraction, soil hydraulic conductivity assays, disease sampling, disease identification, data entry, soil aggregate size distribution assays, soil bulk density and soil moisture measurements.
• Undergraduate Researcher

  UC Davis - Britt Lab

  2013.06-2014.12

  (2 years)

  (1 year 7 months) • Worked directly with a graduate student on a research project studying the function of the SOG1 gene: a putative master transcriptional regulator of the DNA damage response in plants. • Duties involved harvesting and genotyping plant samples, preparing buffers and various reagents, harvesting seeds and watering, staking, transplanting and pruning plants • Highly proficient in RNA/DNA extraction and purification, PCR, gel electrophoresis, restriction digestion, basic bioinformatics, transformation in Agrobacterium and E. coli, media preparation, sterile technique, and genome editing via CRISPR/ZFN.

Educational experience

• University of California, Davis

  Plant Biology

  2011.01-2014.01

  (3 years)
• Santa Rosa Junior College

  General Education

  2009.01-2011.01

  (2 years)

Certificates