Self-employed at Self-employed (2019-01 – Present)
- Floriculture – Two Polyhouses (4000 square meters each) cultivation and management, open field cultivation, drip irrigation/fertigation, disease management, production, and sales (115,000 pots).
- Black tea – trading (3 Tons).
Agriculture Consultant (2016-03 – 2018-12)
- Consultancy to a Greenfield Coffee project for a Start-up in Papua New Guinea. 2018
- Consultancy to a 9000 Ha sugarcane enterprise in Zambia. 2017
- Training and project report completed in sugarcane in an integrated 9500 tcd sugar factory, 53-Megawatt power generation plant and a distillery in India. 2017
Regional Manager at NCT&S, NGIP Agmark (2013-08 – 2016-02)
Niugini Coffee Tea & Spice co ltd is a USD 12 million division of NGIP Agmark Ltd specializing in procuring, producing and exporting of excellent coffee from Papua New Guinea.
- Full responsibility to PNL, budgeting and bottom-line factors.
- Coffee purchases, inventory, sales, trading, productions and export.
- Contract negotiations and price fixing.
- Physical deliveries.
- Budgeting.
- QC - Coffee
- Organic, RFA and Fair-Trade certifications.
- Increased the gross margins from 1.6% to 38.5%.
- Improved the liquidity for coffee operations by shortening the cash turnover from 4 weeks to 2 weeks through strategic alliance with overseas coffee trading company and by negotiating advance payments for certain coffee buyers leading to advantaged cash turnover of approximately USD 1.3 – 1.5 million.
- Secured high export price vis-a-vis other exporters for native coffees internationally.
- Generated annual profitability of 11%.
- Achieved Zero Rejection Rate for all exported coffees.
Estate Manager, Sigri Estate at WR Carpenters & Co (2008-08 – 2013-04)
WR Carpenters & Co Ltd is a subsidiary of MBF Holding of Malaysia which specializes in growing, producing and exporting of tea and excellent speciality coffee.
- Operations - Plantations, factory, production, inventory, purchase and out-grower management.
- QC - Coffee.
- Budgeting.
- Weekly and monthly reports.
- HACCP and RFA systems.
- Successfully managed production of record volumes of over 85,000 bags of green bean.
- Redesigned the quality control systems for entire coffee division to sustain business of specialty coffee annually.
- Achieved zero coffee rejection rate post redesigning of quality control systems.
- Set records of historically highest yields for two consecutive years.
- Pioneered the implementation of HACCP and RFA program in Sigri. RFA at Sigri was taken as template for RFA implementation in other estates.
- Built a large warehouse to handle increased volumes.
Senior Assistant Manager, Elk Hill Estates at BBTC Ltd (2001-05 – 2007-09)
Elk Hill Estates is a coffee plantation division of BBTC Ltd specializing in growing and producing speciality coffees.
- Operations - coffee plantations and wet mills.
- Organic and conventional pepper operations.
- Budgeting.
- QC – Coffee.
- Organic and Utz Kapeh certifications.
- Timber logging, measurements and dispatch operations in 1,000 Ha of land area
- Won 1st prize for speciality coffees in cupping competition 'Flavour of India' in Boston, USA.
- Effected an operational cost savings of 16% annually.
- Achieved record yields in Organic production in plantations.
- Pioneered Utz Kapeh certification program for 8 plantations of coffee.
- Planted up over 100 Ha with coffee and pepper.
- Introduced drip irrigations systems.
- Installed machines for coffee production.
Assistant Manager, Anai Mudi Estate at BBTC Ltd (1998-08 – 2001-05)
Anai Mudi Estate is one of the Tea plantations of BBTC Ltd specializing in growing and manufacturing tea in India.
- Operations - Tea plantation and factories.
- Budgeting.
- QC - Tea.
- HACCP.
- Produced highest and second highest yields of tea within the company.
