Brett Mandel

About Brett Mandel

Horticulture professional focused on lean farming, cultivation planning, and crop…

Experience

1. Cultivation Lead Supervisor

   TerrAscend

   Feb 2022 — Present

   Managed end to end production for propagation and vegetative stage including inventory management, audit, quality control and team training on established SOP’sTranslated production plan into high level directives; made decisions on how much to plant, when to plant, and how to distribute resources to reduce lead timesForecasted capacity and production to minimize inventory costsLeveraged actionable data to drive operations; factored in clone attrition rates to reduce buffer overages by >5%Aligned crop growth patterns with commercial demands; implemented a stock replacement and clone-to-cull schedule with predetermined expiration datesPlanned for biomass allocation and finished goods delivery, accounted for shifts in demand even after plants were in the groundEvaluated different irrigation phases and created a master schedule using field capacity data from GroSens sensorsUsed Wadsworth Controls to monitor environmental conditions and automate irrigation events

Education

• Purdue University

  Bachelor of Science - BS

  2016 — 2021