David Ziemer

• Increased customer satisfaction by improving product quality through robust process controls and proactive defect prevention measures.
• Identified root causes of recurring issues through rigorous problem-solving techniques, developing long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Owned a flower room and maintained plant health through daily check-ins, evaluation of plant health and happiness, spot watering of plants, canopy management, and making adjustments to room environment or grow process as needed.
• Monitor and maintain the irrigation system, including nutrient mixing, nutrient EC, pH, and temperature monitoring, and adjust the auto irrigation cycle as needed.
• Complete regular plant maintenance as needed, including but not limited to popping, topping, defoliating, and weaving.
• Communicate with support teams and management continuously regarding plant happiness, pest outbreaks, and equipment issues (irrigation, tables, lights, etc.).
• Monitor temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels daily according to company standards and adjust as needed.
• Support other grow team members throughout the grow as needed, including spraying for pest management, supporting colleagues in other grow rooms, or supporting outside of grow rooms.
• Timely completion of work per the schedule and striving to increase productivity through coordinated workflow and process improvement recommendations.
• Ensure accurate plant inventory, including strain names per tray and count of plants.
• Keep documented logs and notes of room metrics and plant care actions for company records.
• Analyze current and past harvest cycle data to continuously improve our growth processes and standards.
• Maintain clean grow rooms and workspaces by regularly sanitizing tools, equipment, and grow rooms to ensure sanitary practices and to keep pests away.
• Use PPE as required: gloves, lab coat, and tinted eye protection.
• Perform all other duties and any additional duties assigned by your supervisor/manager.
• Trained staff on Lean methodologies, empowering employees to identify and address inefficiencies proactively.
• Fostered culture of open communication and collaboration, which was crucial for successful implementation of lean principles.
• Coordinated with department heads to align lean initiatives with business goals, ensuring cohesive strategy across organization.
• Led design and implementation of lean training curriculum for new hires, ensuring strong foundation in lean principles from start.
• Developed and executed strategic plans for process improvement, driving operational excellence across the organization.
• Analyzed existing processes to identify opportunities for optimization, recommending changes that led to significant cost savings and improved performance.

• Took charge of integrated pest management in 2 departments. Veg and Flower
• On top of performing pesticide and fungicide sprays I applied foliar feeds and beneficial insects
• Applications of root drenches
• Maintained a strict schedule on all applications that were recorded for state records.
• All proper signs indicating restricted entry interval were posted on entry points and the environmental controls were adjusted
• Responsible for Scouting and reporting anything detrimental to the success and health of the crop
• Applications of Bio Foam and Sanidate sprays on tables and trays before, during, and after veg and flower cycles
• I followed proper protocol and procedure when cleaning all equipment after use
• Some of my other responsibilities including managing the mother room
• I was in charge of the basic day-to-day requirements for maintaining a healthy growing environment
• This included mixing nutrients, feeding plants, run off tests, and all the cleaning involved
• Any transplanting or up potting was also on my list of responsibilities
• I did regular audits of plant inventory and communicated with the Metrc Specialists in order to maintain proper plant counts.

• Participated on a 3-person team that was in charge of the daily watering and general maintenance of the clones and mother plants
• This included pheno types of new strains as well as staple strains
• Tracked every aspect of this process in documentation on Metrc track and trace software, Dutchie software, and on Excel software.
• Stayed in constant communication in order to establish what strains were currently in demand
• Communication was maintained with managers via Slack and end of day reports
• Used Excel software to map room plant layouts with Metrc tag numbers and strain counts
• Metrc software and Dutchie software to create plant tags for clone batches and to receive clones into sub-room locations
• Printed tags for new clone batches as well converted clone batches into plants
• Used Excel to track cleaning activities and plant destruction logs
• Used batch test results and Metrc software to determine what associated mother plant would create best new strain for production.

• Plant Specialist Manager for Silver State Wellness
• Responsible for the health of the plants and everything required in keeping them alive on a day-to-day basis
• Hired to help with the transfer of plants from a temporary facility into a new building
• Worked on the plants at one facility while simultaneously assembling cultivation equipment at the new facility
• Worked side by side for 9 months with the Director of Cultivation learning nutrient profiles, environmental controls, watering schedules, and emergency Protocols, etc
• After construction finished and building passed all final inspections. Plants were moved into the new building
• Flowering and Vegetative cycles began immediately
• Responsible for all flower cycles and harvest schedules
• Wrote standard operating procedures and standards for the facility moving forward
• Set parameters for environmental controls during flower cycles and drying.

• Mother Plant Technician for State Flower Cannabis
• Managed 15 strains that were being grown commercially
• Worked alongside directors closely and decided what strains works best in the market
• Based on these discussions decided how many plants of each strain are necessary for this
• Scheduled the amounts of each strain for cloning
• Made cuttings every two weeks for the pre-veg cycle
• Stuck to a strict schedule and followed the necessary S.O.P.’S for the two-week cycle.

• Vegetative Department Manager for Desert Grown Farms
• Maintained the daily operations in the Veg department
• Responsibilities included cutting 1200 clones every 2 weeks for flower room schedules
• Transplants, feedings, equipment maintenance, integrated pest management, sanitation, compliance and all daily operations.
• Inventory of all plants was done regularly to maintain proper plant counts
• Phenotype hunting and genetic sifting
• Clones were taken of every new seeds and kept as mothers

• Cultivator for a large warehouse medical and recreational cannabis cultivation and production facility
• Maintained the Veg/Mother room
• Cloning and propagation as well as making nutrient solutions and watering
• Daily tasks also consisted of notations of the temperature, C02 levels, pests, mold, and tracking growth.

Shipping and receiving distribution warehouse for an E-Commerce based company

• I previously worked in the inbound department primarily and I was an order picker as needed
• Responsibilities consisted of unloading product orders from trucks as they arrive daily
• Every box was counted and accounted for before the bill of lading is signed for
• Broke down pallets and sort every item and verify that’s it’s the correct SKU
• Every item is then counted and bar coded for R.F
• The put away process consists of scanning R.F
• Barcodes, entering weight, dimensions, and quantity of each SKU
• The SKU is then verified for a second time that it is the correct item before being received into its final location
• Often A stand-up forklift is used during the put away process
• At this time the SKU is now ready to be picked, packed, and shipped directly to the customer.