Irena Wise

Beverage production operations manager with experience in quality assurance. Extensive education in chemistry.

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.

CERTIFIED BREWMASTER COURSE – VLB BERLIN (2018-01 – 2018-06)

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE – ECORNELL (2020-02 – 2020-04)

BA in CHEMISTRY – LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE