Garrett Heckman
Tempe,AZ
Summary
Responsible cultivator knowledgeable about agricultural operations and proper equipment use. Physically fit with a passionate work ethic and strong attention to detail. Ready to apply 3 years of experience to challenging new position.
Restaurant experience of 7+ years trained on line, prep, boh positions and foh positions. Strong work ethic providing customers best experience possible.
Multiple years of filming and video editing for Youtube.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Marijuana Cultivator
Project Packs/ 48 Farms
Phoenix, AZ
10.2022 - 05.2024
- Opened up facility and build out before first harvest
- Responsibilities: Environment checks, loading rooms, irrigation, skirting, defoliation, harvest, reset, cloning, transplants, filling pots, bucking buds, cleaning, mixing tanks, ph-ing tanks, IPM spray.
- Trained on Forklift, Responsible for ordering Co2/Propane/Inventory
- Natural leader of the cultivation team
- Pheno Hunted strains
- Improved harvest quality by consistently monitoring environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels.
- Increased overall crop yield with the implementation of effective pruning techniques.
Medical Marijuana Cultivator
Shango Premium Cannabis
Phoenix, AZ
06.2021 - 08.2022
- Cannabis Cultivation Experience in plant health and PH corrections, defoliation, skirting, IPM
- Managing water schedule and environmentals
- Maintaining cleanliness of grow area
- Irrigation Experience with Aroya and McDiarmid systems, knowledge of generative and vegetative watering techniques during specific plant stages
- Responsible for maintaining more than two 120 light rooms/2000 plants
- Weekend warrior and night crew worker
YouTube Content Creator
BigDaws TV
Mesa, AZ
09.2019 - 04.2021
- Primary creator of content ideas, promoting/advertising on media platforms to assist in reaching goals for subscribers/views
- Boosted subscriber count through effective promotion of channel on various social media platforms and collaborations with other creators.
- Developed a recognizable personal brand by establishing a consistent theme, style, and tone across all videos.
- Established efficient workflows for video production process including scripting, filming, editing, thumbnail design, uploading, optimizing metadata.
- Demonstrated creativity and innovation by experimenting with new video formats, styles, or topics that attracted new viewers and increased overall channel engagement.
- Enhanced video production quality with investment in professional equipment and editing software.
- Strengthened public speaking skills through regular video presentations and live stream interactions with viewers.
Lead Line Cook/Server Assistant/Server
Postino Wine Cafe
Scottsdale, AZ
04.2016 - 08.2019
- Instructed new staff in proper food preparation, storage, use of kitchen equipment and sanitation.
- Followed restaurant stock management schedule to monitor product freshness and rotate out old products.
- Cultivated a positive working atmosphere among kitchen staff, fostering camaraderie and a strong sense of teamwork.
- Produced high volume covers per day and maintained near-perfect customer satisfaction scores.
- Ability to follow recipes, cook from scratch, multitask prep and line cooking, and getting food into the window within proper time.
- Good at communicating with team, overall positive attitude, good people skills
- Hard worker, knowledge of FOH and BOH positions
Education
High School Diploma -
Air Academy High School
Usaf Academy, CO05.2013
Skills
- 7 years of restaurant experience
- Horticultural Knowledge
- Plant Disease Identification
- Pest Management
- Plant genetics expertise
- Pruning and training
- Climate Control Understanding
- Harvesting and curing
- Indoor growing expertise
- Breeding and propagation
- Video editing/filming
- Irrigation experience, crop steering
Accomplishments
2021 Shango employee of the month
2017, 2018, 2019 Monthly MVP Upward Projects-Postino
2011 Marching Band State Champions
Trained on forklift unloading truck shipments
Hobbies/activities
Family history in agriculture and farming, knowledge of outdoor vegetable/fruit gardening.
Drummer since age six, played and recorded with multiple bands, toured the states and Canada.
Hiking, camping, fishing, biking, mountain biking, enjoying a good reset with outdoor activities.
From playing on stage to going to shows, live music has always been a great outlet. Nothing like playing original music you wrote on stage, best feeling in the world!
references
Project Packs HR Manager
Jeremy Klein: (630) 721-0156
Project Packs Cultivation Manager Dan Toma:
(602) 578-6672
Shango coworker/manager
Albert Cadena: (623) 238-2069
Postino executive chef
Ryan Evans: (425) 449-6922
Youtube business partner/owner
of BigDawsTV Dawson Gurley: (913) 461-9105
Timeline
Medical Marijuana Cultivator
Project Packs/ 48 Farms
10.2022 - 05.2024
Medical Marijuana Cultivator
Shango Premium Cannabis
06.2021 - 08.2022
YouTube Content Creator
BigDaws TV
09.2019 - 04.2021
Lead Line Cook/Server Assistant/Server
Postino Wine Cafe
04.2016 - 08.2019
High School Diploma -
Air Academy High School