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Colby College

Pomperaug High School

Entrepreneur, Builder, Designer, Storyteller: Media x Tech  -  Polymath & Culture Engineer  -  Seeking roles in Engineering, Product, Partnerships

@ home with the ‘rents for now still while navigating and ultimately transcending this phase  (<— for the friends)

Career Break

Career transition

• Passive equity co-owner as side investment, mostly separate from central career aspirations
• Company: brand incubator/developer in the cannabis industry; retail + delivery

Elephant Extraction LLC

Co-Owner (Passive)

• Primary representative for sourcing raw materials (THC trim) from licensed cannabis farms for cannabinoid extraction into crude oil in our market-leading crude oil manufacturing laboratory in the California legal cannabis industry
• Developed direct relationships with several farms and distributors and pitched them to join an intentionally designed supply chain ecosystem operating under our proprietary business model
• Ensured compliance with numerous regulations and governmental bodies such as the BCC and IRS, including regarding licensing, CAT-3 material standards, and Track & Trace cultivation tax compliance
• Developed strategic partnerships with key industry contacts and companies with a similarly aligned perspective on the most effective way to promote the growth of the legal cannabis industry
• Sought new clients to sell our own manufactured products to
• Introductions and due diligence to facilitate investment opportunities for our company: financing for additional lines of credit, real estate buys, and buyout opportunities

Green Rush Labs

Supply Chain Lead — Business Development & Operations

• Helped in product design, user experience, and creative direction for an early-stage startup building a gamified social platform
• Helped grow and organize team and early user base during platform development stage and progress community building
• Assisted in fundraising activities from aligned strategic partners
• Offered valuable strategic guidance and nurtured potential corporate partnerships

LVL UP, INC

Creative Consultant

• Employed inbound and outbound methods to seek clients and close deals for boutique marketing agency & media house
• Comprehensive sales pipeline management with HubSpot
• Clientele pool: startup companies in technology, cryptocurrency, travel, wellness, education, entertainment, and community building, as well as socially conscious major corporations

Empact Labs

Business Development and Sales Intern

• Scheduled prospective client meetings with the partners of a small wealth management firm through cold outreach to target clients
• Exposure to the knowledge pool, culture, and operational aspects of a financial advisory
• Post-hoc: several leads successfully converted into paying clients for the firm

Gideon Strategic Partners

Sales and Marketing Associate

• Technical foundations for future work in theoretical fields: linear algebra, differential equations & dynamical systems, probability/statistics, discrete mathematics, pure [abstract] mathematics, formal logic, philosophy of mind & science, quantum mechanics, classical & statistical mechanics, biotechnology, electrical engineering, computer organization/hardware, theory of computation, algorithms, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, machine learning & AI, quantum computing, blockchain
• Primarily MIT Opencourseware and textbooks used as resources, along with auditing courses on MIT’s campus 
• Accepted into Tufts University’s PhD program in Computer Science & Cognitive Science; declined in lieu of broader life & business experience more immediately

Student

Self-Taught Student

• Investigated ways to increase the efficiency and specificity of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing through improved guideRNAs and usage of nucleotide deaminases in human cells in vitro, as well as their applications on reducing expression of genomic repeated elements for reducing aging phenotypes

Harvard Medical School

George Church Lab Research Intern

• Participated in a ten-day program designed to teach college seniors all the skills they need to land a job in today’s business/tech world (e.g. Excel, design thinking), seed a professional network and open opportunities with hiring companies in Koru’s network, craft a professional resume and successfully navigate job interviews, and be an attractive job candidate ("predictive hiring for fit")

Koru | Predictive Hiring for Fit

Business Program Participant - Koru @ Essence Digital

• Created and organized a comprehensive entrepreneurship community and network for entrepreneurially-minded students on the Colby College campus with alumni support
• Ran market research to gather intelligence on how to facilitate the best version of the organization and communicated with key contacts in the alumni network
• Co-authored a formal proposal to the college administration seeking funding and support for the organization

Colby Entrepreneurship Network

Founder

• Agile product development and software development to contribute to the design and implementation of an early-stage software startup’s productivity product 
• Arranged data queries with graph/document databases (OrientDB)
• Natural Language Processing for item search using AlchemyAPI tool
• Some UI/UX design

Brian Westerman