Jerry Ho

Extensive experience building successful leadership teams and founding a highly prestigious coffee & tea business in Santa Monica, CA established for two decades with an excellent reputation among international celebrities, food critics, Michelin chefs, connoisseurs, and successful entrepreneurs. Skilled in making risky decisions, solving problems, and providing fast, accurate on-site communication solutions essential to running successful day-to-day operations. Successfully overcame financial obstacles of the 2008 Great Recession.

Founder / Owner at Funnel Mill Inc. (2004-03 – Present)

• Extensive Knowledge of coffee roasts and tea formation mechanisms.
• Managed employee shifts and oversaw the daily operation of customer services.
• Maintain daily sales flow, inventory, and equipment breakdown, troubleshooting, and repair.
• Winner of 2008 Best of the Best Los Angeles Coffee and Tea House.
• Rated by Restaurants & Bars Magazine No. 22, The Top 50 Café in the Nation.
• Fortune Magazine rated Funnel Mill as one of the most successful small businesses with an outside-of-the-box operation and customer service.
• Funnel Mill has been featured in the Amazon best-selling book Steve Jobs: The Apple Experience by Carmine Gallo.

SFQCE (Senior Field Quality Control Engineer) at Enlight Corporation (1998-04 – 2003-09)

• Managed OEM/ODM projects with HP, Dell, Lite-On, Kholer of Germany, Bel Micro, Coastline Micros and Siemens Medical.
• Creating, maintaining, and enforcing production lines SOP, assembly line time management, and a safe environment for 18,000+ production line workers.
• Perform production line audits and policy updates.
• Supporting Bel Micro in building the John F. Kennedy Federal Building network information structure.
• Solely created TSOP and ITP and maintained all UL Certifications and CE Certification records.
• Rewriting and updating new production parts of UL Certifications and CE Certification add-on.

BS in Sociology – University of Missouri - Columbia