PRODUCTION MANAGER at PAGODA CITY BREWING (2022-11 – Present)
- Manage all inventory, from raw materials to packaged product.
- Inside sales, including client management, inputting orders, and scheduling deliveries.
- Analyze brand depletion rates and schedule brewing and packaging to replenish stock.
- Forecast annual production by brand.
- Fermentation control, including troubleshooting.
- Recipe development and improvement on products as diverse as cider, beer, and seltzer.
- Communicated raw material and scheduling needs to upper management and all stakeholders.
HEAD BREWER, QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER at WYNDRIDGE FARM (2019-01 – 2022-11)
- All production scheduling, including predicted fermentation times and batch sizes to meet release dates.
- Technical direction of contract brewing operations, from water profile duplication to recipe sizing.
- Detection of potential issues in green beer, directed response, and target of root cause.
- Implementation of detailed record keeping and periodic quality checks including wort production sampling and cellar DO sampling.
- Implementation of yield tracking, including packaging yield, and directed response.
- Direction of maintenance schedule to maximize yields and minimize downtime.
SHIFT LEAD at VICTORY BREWING COMPANY (2017-02 – 2019-01)
- Directed shifts of up to six operators, overseeing adherence to schedule and quality parameters.
- Trained and developed brewery operators, both normal operations training and technical presentations.
- KPI tracking.
- Utilization of ERP software to manage raw materials.
