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Re: Karma11 post# 57157

Monday, 10/16/2017 5:46:56 AM

Monday, October 16, 2017 5:46:56 AM

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Education P.H.D. University of Maryland. College Park Horticulture/Plant psychology.



This is inaccurate at best due to the lack of proper use of the English language, the lack of spelling, and it would seem the lack of use of spell check.

That is incorrect do some DD on PHD courses. Duration varies and that too he did in 1970s.



If DD was done correctly the degree would have been properly addressed as psychology and physiology are completely two different things along with P.H.D. and Ph. D.


University of California, Davis
Dates attended or expected graduation 2005 – 2007

University of Maryland
Degree Name Ph.D. Field Of Study of Horticulture/Plant Physiology
Dates attended or expected graduation 1976 – 1979
Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi Pi Alpha Xi

https://psla.umd.edu/

https://archive.org/stream/terrapin1978univ#page/300/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/terrapin1979univ#page/270/mode/2up

https://archive.org/stream/frieze1978offi#page/70/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/frieze1979offi#page/n79/mode/2up

University of Delaware
Degree NameM.S. Field Of StudyPlant Science / Horticulture
Dates attended or expected graduation 1973 – 1976

http://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/9818/1976_07_Graduates_Part_A.pdf?sequence=8&isAllowed=y

The New Era High School
Degree NameHigh School Diploma Field Of StudyGeneral Studies
Dates attended or expected graduation 1962 – 1968

How did he go from pants to business financing is the question?

Experience

Global Capital of Northern California, Inc.
President
Company NameGlobal Capital of Northern California, Inc.
Dates EmployedFeb 2007 – Present Employment Duration10 yrs 9 mos
Small businesses represent an important part of the economy, and as they grow, so does their need for financing. Regardless of size, every business eventually faces the reality that additional working capital is required. Quite often, this is because too much money is tied up in Accounts Receivable. So the quest for financing begins.
The FACTORING process is simple. As a business owner, you sell your receivables to Liquid Capital, and receive an immediate infusion of cash, based on those invoices. With a pre-arranged fee structure in place, you decide how many invoices to sell and to what extent funding is required.
As well as funding, Liquid Capital also provides your business with management assistance and administrative support. It is a comprehensive service package that allows you to focus on operating the business - not worrying about paperwork. At Liquid Capital, we have the expertise to determine which type of Factoring PACKAGE will work best for you.

Plantae International
Founder
Company NamePlantae International
Dates EmployedJul 2001 – Present Employment Duration16 yrs 4 mos
Working as a management consultant for helping small to medium size nurseries in solving their day-to-day operational needs. Recent success story includes a complex project involving sales and production scheduling of a mid-sized, modern nursery with half-year sales of more than $4.8 millions in Texas. This nursery was helped in complete building of sales and production planning template such that once the orders were entered via an excel spreadsheet, a complete growing back-offs for production scheduling was automatically calculated. It included weekly sales by customers, shipping quantities, spacing, weekly labor and hourly costs, job costs, plugs, liner and the raw material requirements. It also contained Executive Summary for the management.

Liquid Capital
Principal
Company NameLiquid Capital
Dates Employed2007 – 2007 Employment Durationless than a year
I help small & medium sized businesses with cash flow they need to grow and prosper! I turn commercial invoices into cash immediately!

HerbThyme Farms, Inc.
Vice President / General Manager
Company NameHerbThyme Farms, Inc.
Dates EmployedSep 2003 – Oct 2004 Employment Duration1 yr 2 mos
HerbThyme Farms is one of the largest culinary herbs producing companies in the country with over 350 acres of farm land and greenhouses. As recently appointed leader of the farm, I was in the process of creating and implementing a budget of more than $4 millions producing more than 1.8 million pounds of fresh herbs. Major tasks included re-organization, creating teams, business improvements, capital expenditure, producing high quality products using team based performances, extending shelf life of fresh packaging of herbs, providing input for creating complimentary products, etc

University of California at Davis
Lecturer
Company NameUniversity of California at Davis
Dates EmployedOct 2001 – Jun 2002 Employment Duration9 mos
Department of Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry
University of California at Davis is one of the premier educational and research institutions in the world. It is well known for its agricultural, veterinary, medical and law schools. Students and faculty members come from all over the world to interact with each other and enjoy this intellectual environment. Recently I finished co-teaching an advanced level course with Dr. Don Durzan, entitled, “Physiological Principles in Environmental Horticulture”. Previously, I co-taught another course with the Chairman, Dr. Heiner Lieth, entitled, “Introduction to Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry”.

Color Spot Nurseries, Inc.
Corporate Sales & Production Analyst
Company NameColor Spot Nurseries, Inc.
Dates EmployedMar 1999 – Jun 2001 Employment Duration2 yrs 4 mos
Color Spot Nurseries is one of the largest nurseries in the States with sales revenue of more than $217 million. I had recently been promoted to the position of ?Corporate Sales & Production Planning?. My new challenge was to plan our sales of more than $175MM of bedding plants continuously for the following year. In this capacity, I was acting as a business analyst for our regional VP of sales, Key Account managers and the planning department. As a ?power user?, I was responsible for developing and implementing ?front-end? production, sales reports, queries and data verifications. Prior to this promotion, I was working as a General Manager of one of the largest plug, liner and ornamental producing nurseries in the States. I was in charge of more than 650,000 ft2 of greenhouse and 70 acres of containerized field operation.

Monsanto
Program Director, Plant Propagation Center
Company NameMonsanto
Dates EmployedNov 1996 – Feb 1999 Employment Duration2 yrs 4 mos
One of fortune 500 companies, Monsanto is the leading company in developing biotech pipeline products such as Roundup Ready corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, rice and others.
As a newly appointed Program Director, my team and I had been responsible for starting a brand new Center of Excellence under Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) in Ag Sector. We had completed reorganization of Plant Propagation Center (PPC) including hiring and training of key employees. My team and I were in charge of all four Saint Louis' biotechnological greenhouses (~370,000 ft2) and growth chambers (a total of 125) for transgenic plants. We had been extremely successful in controlling the loss of transgenic plant materials through developing quality-based support where we had measured our process control from months to months. My team has achieved from almost non-existent success rate to more than 95% in preventing loss of plants.

Conard-Pyle Company
Vice President / Operations
Company NameConard-Pyle Company
Dates EmployedFeb 1995 – Jun 1996 Employment Duration1 yr 5 mos
Conard-Pyle nursery is an East Coast highly profitable nursery with annual sales of more than 18 million from two production locations. They are famous for their Star* brand products in roses and a few select nursery products.
As one of the senior leaders, I was in charge of the daily P & L management of these two locations through two general managers with more than 185 employees. We were responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of all divisions and locations of the Production Department (1,000,000 ft2 of greenhouse space including about 500 acres of field operation).

Mahoney's Wholesale Growing Division, Woburn, MA
General Manager
Company NameMahoney's Wholesale Growing Division, Woburn, MA
Dates EmployedOct 1991 – Dec 1995 Employment Duration4 yrs 3 mos
Mahoney's Garden Center is one of the largest retail garden centers in the Boston area. It is a high class, quality conscious nursery. My team and I assumed management and gross profit margin responsibility for a money losing botanical products operation and turned it around into a professionally managed, highly profitable organization. The division was disorganized, not focused on sales, treated employees poorly and lacked a quality approach to customers with each sub organization working on its own set priorities. The operation was turned around through:
Controlling and coordinating sales - increasing them by greater than 50% to over $1.2 million annually by focusing on customer demands and production expenses.

Weyerhaeuser Tissue Culture Starter Plants Business Unit, Apopka, FL
Production Manager
Company NameWeyerhaeuser Tissue Culture Starter Plants Business Unit, Apopka, FL
Dates EmployedSep 1989 – Sep 1991 Employment Duration2 yrs 1 mo
A world famous nursery and producing supplier of premier quality liners and tissue culture liners to the wholesale nurseries in Florida, California, Texas and the rest of the States. Managed, supervised and trained more than 110 laboratory technicians at one of the world?s largest commercial tissue culture laboratories. My team and I were responsible for planning, budgeting and meeting the sales target of more than $4 million annually. I was promoted within three months to a position in charge of the production of 13 million units. Together with totally team based concepts and rewards, we developed protocols of new plants for production and marketing.
Implemented a Quality Based Management (QBM) where shrinkage was reduced from 12% to less than 3%. We were successful in implementing Zero Defect Bonus (ZDB) program where quality and success rate was daily monitored, measured and rewarded by set criteria.

BayBank
Temporary Data Entry Analyst
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