Manager (Farm Operations) - Vibez Coffee Estate Pvt Ltd - Sakaleshpura, Hassan, Karnataka, India
(2024-06)
- Managed and supervised 650+ acres of coffee plantations across multiple sites in the Sakaleshpura region, ensuring optimal crop health, productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Designed and executed structured coffee plantation tourism programs for schools, colleges, universities, and corporate groups, promoting experiential learning and generating additional revenue streams.
- Conducted professional coffee brewing and cupping sessions, demonstrating expertise in flavor profiling, quality assessment, and specialty coffee standards.
- Established and developed a nursery unit with a capacity of 5,000 coffee seedlings, successfully producing and supplying quality seedlings as a revenue-generating initiative.
Manager (Estate development and Innovation) - Mercara Gold Estate - Madikeri, Kodagu, Karnataka, India
(2024-03 - 2025-05)
- Monitor the performance of farm practices. recommend enhancements to productivity & output of the farm crops & farm health
- Work closely with the farm supervisor & farm assistants to set-up, develop & operate processing projects on to achieve value addition in the farm output
- Set-up bean - to - bar chocolate procedure with a full process implementation
- Set-up the process & procedure for specialty coffee range e.g. aged coffees, etc.
- Impart training on technical aspects of the farm crops & conditions both local and global trends to the staff that is interacting with the farm visitors
- Plantation tour
Senior Executive and In charge of R & D - Deejay Coconut Farm Pvt Ltd - Balli Farm, Goa, India
(2023-02 - 2024-01)
- To design benchmark and constantly improve the breeding by doing selective hybridization with superior germplasms to improve quality of Sampoorna and to carry out productivity enhancement experiments, more particularly the P33 programme.
- Management of complete field activities of Trial hybrids, overseeing present research activities of a) Breeding a Better Mother, breeding a better Hybrid, and breeding exceptionally high producing palms. Pest Disease Control
- Plant Management- Management of complete field activities of pedigree research and plant production to Plan - Ensure 100% implementation of SOP in the farms through constant monitoring - Meet the monthly and annual targets set for each of the research activities, and more particularly the Pedigree production in line with the P33 programme - To oversee & achieve management technical and agronomic breakthrough for the growing of hybrid coconut palms for the best success and maximum income of the c
- Develop new experimental protocols for current research activities of - Breeding a better father - Pest and disease control - Doing trials to get best out of per acre of land by intercropping with horticulture crops - To do trials in developing value added products as new areas of opportunity - System of planting
- Fortnight report to HOD On work done and priorities - Sending monthly report on achievements, new Eps done, priorities in management and new ideas gained from surfing to HOD.
- Handled Bio inoculant lab and to meet the targets that were fixed by the production department on time and to use the lab effectively for other bio trials.
- Fertigation – To ensure proper fertigation carried out in SR&D Balli and Bailur so that improved performance is properly measured, and serves as a great stimulant for the Production Dept., and Strategic Planning for Sr Management.
- Bud rot: Working on the research of the past, ensuring proper preventative and proactive measures are taken, identifying the solutions so that you achieve a 50 % reduction in mortality in the coming rainy season compared to that of the present year's mortality
- Circle of excellence: To train each and every one of his people in this talent of entering one's Circle of Excellence and make routine their use of their Personal chart, so that they are judged to be seriously on the road for excellence
R& D Research Assistant - Harley Plantation Research Institute - Sakleshpur, Hassan, Karnataka, India
(2022-05 - 2022-11)
- Coffee Cupping and Brewing methods
- Sensorial analysis of Specialty coffee
- Coffee plantation management
- Cocoa plantation (harvesting pods, fermentation and drying)
- Studied and experimented different specialty coffee e.g. -whisky barrel aged coffee, Rum barrel aged coffee, Carbonic maceration and many more
- Performed outstanding work on Cocoa beans in enhancement of organoleptic characteristics through process of fermentation
R & D Assistant - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research - Bangalore, Karnataka, India
(2018-02 - 2022-01)
Evolutionary Biology Lab (c/o Prof. Amitabh Joshi), EIBU Department of Science and Technology
- Studying larval competitive ability along the axes of pre-adult survivorship, pre-adult development time and body size at emergence in D. melanogaster populations adapted to various egg numbers/food volume cultures
- Plasticity in feeding rate in D. melanogaster populations selected for adaptation to various egg numbers/food volume cultures
Technical Assistant - Syngenta India Ltd. - Hyderabad, Telangana, India
(2016-09 - 2017-01)
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