Michael Mnatsakanian
Sacramento,CA
Summary
Expert Cultivation Manager bringing 6 years' experience in handling daily farm activities. Capable in managing multiple tasks, prioritizing, working with others and maintaining a positive attitude. Accomplished in repairing farm equipment, maintaining barns and other structures and managing land used for agriculture. Cultivation Manager skilled at coordinating supplies, personnel and yearly plans to keep farm operations running smoothly and within budgets. Forward-thinking and hardworking with disciplined and tenacious approach. Skilled agricultural manager with demonstrated operations, team and financial management abilities. Coordinate efficient activities at all levels to support business profits and maintain sustainable operations. Employee-focused and performance-oriented with good training and mentoring abilities. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cultivation Manager
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
- Worked closely with employees to improve practices, techniques and safety choices, optimizing performance, and minimizing waste.
- Hired, trained and supervised seasonal workers engaged in cultivation and harvest.
- Planned schedule for crop rotation, plantings, and harvest.
- Completed structural inspections to determine maintenance requirements and organize repairs.
- Developed operational budget and monitored farm expenses to enforce and achieve budget adherence.
- Developed advanced understanding of farm operations, purchasing needs, and labor requirements.
- Maximized operational profits by closely inspecting crops, assessing quality, and identifying problems such as disease or insects.
- Enforced strong safety and environmental protections to support habitats while preventing harm to employees or consumers.
- Led team of 50+ skilled and unskilled farm personnel.
- Analyzed soil to measure pH, minerals and organics to judge best fertilizer and amendments for maximum crop production.
- Performed repairs and preventive maintenance on equipment and property.
- Designed large facility layouts to maximize quality, yields, efficiency, and safety of a facility.
- Worked along side many companies to ensure all proper maintenances were completed.
- Worked with international companies to RND new technology and techniques used world wire for cannabis and other crops.
- Researched and kept data of a wide verity of nutrients, lighting technology, plant steering techniques, and work flow techniques to maximize all aspects of cultivation.
Head of Research and Development
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
- Conducted engineering and detailed experimental tests to collect design data and assist in research work.
- Worked with management to evaluate future projects and align with critical path schedule requirements.
- Helped to evaluate new techniques and procedures for purposes of product development.
- Solved complex problems in synthesis, formulation, processes, testing and root causes.
- Set timelines and coordinated deliverables for R&D projects.
- Generated engineering and technical documentation to facilitate product development collaboration.
- Collaborated with other large projects, teams, and developers of new technology and techniques to ensure tests are conducted properly with results that will accurately reflect the experiments.
- Integrated other good agricultural practices into cannabis to maximize many different aspects of cultivation.
- Worked with associated technology and software applications to manipulate and synthesize data for research projects.
- Analyzed and calibrated equipment, established conditions and prepared reports.
- Created lab bench mixes and scale-ups for pilot lab trials.
- Verified and documented results, and escalated anomalous or invalid results to managerial staff.
Head of IPM
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
- Worked extra shifts during busy periods and covered for call-in employees to maintain service levels.
- Trained, mentored, and developed new IPM personnel with positive and encouraging techniques to maximize performance and team contributions.
- Gained knowledge of company policies, protocols and processes.
- Created specialized programs to combat wide variety of pests at different stages of a grow cycle.
- Assumed responsibility for overseeing extensive cultivation operations featuring varying degrees of pest pressure. implemented tailored protocols and integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, successfully neutralizing pressure with a precision rate over 90%.
- Reported monthly IPM usage to state of 4 large facilities to the state.
- Trained experienced and non experienced employees IPM and IPM strategies.
- Kept records of IPM scouting and applications for 4 large cultivation sites.
- Worked with many beneficial insects to create the most optimal IPM program.
- Stayed up to date with regulations / regulation changes that may effect IPM techniques.
- Licensed Private applicator. (Able to apply pesticides and teach other pesticide application.)
Marketing and Sales Manager
21HM Boutique
05.2018 - 12.2020
- Implemented, executed and strategically expanded business channel partnerships and program initiatives.
- Produced strong revenue numbers and continued promotional success with continued coaching of sales and marketing teams.
- Outlined marketing strategies and developed collateral in close collaboration with product management personnel.
- Analyzed sales and marketing data for improved strategies.
- Managed sales promotions and marketing strategies on major social media sites.
- Forecasted sales and established processes to achieve sales objectives and related metrics.
- Worked with high fashion stylists to design models.
- Collaborated along side and followed up with many different stylists and independent influencers to work on projects and runway shows.
- Created and expanded sales presentations to new and existing customers increasing net sales revenue by over 25% in sales.
Education
High School Diploma -
Rosemont High School
Sacramento, CA06.2017
Skills
- Performance Management
- Farm Equipment Operation
- Supply Ordering
- Health Assessments
- Coordinating Maintenance
- Budget Development
- Insecticides Application
- Irrigation System
- Documentation Skills
- Records Management
- Equipment Operation
- Troubleshooting Skills
- Overseeing Employees
- Crop Inspection
- Inventory Management
- Crop Irrigation
- Resource Allocation
- Managing Operations
- Controlling Pests
- Harvesting Protocols
- Supply Purchasing
- Preventive Maintenance
Accomplishments
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Supervised team of 50+ staff members.
- Achieved a clean facility through effectively helping with IPM.
Certification
- Licensed Private Applicator License - 2022-2023
Languages
Armenian
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Cultivation Manager
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
Head of Research and Development
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
Head of IPM
Kolas
05.2021 - Current
Marketing and Sales Manager
21HM Boutique
05.2018 - 12.2020
High School Diploma -
Rosemont High School
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