WailynVeteran Cultivation Manager with extensive cannabis knowledge

Relevant Skills

In-depth knowledge and practice of all aspects of cultivation, develop fully-scalable management plans, run profitable operations

Expertise Summary

Wailyn is a veteran in the cannabis industry, starting in the prop 215 days and steadily working his way up to become a high-level Cultivation Manager.
- He has experience working in all aspects of cannabis cultivation, including designing, building, staffing, and running large-scale indoor, mixed-light, light dep, and outdoor cultivation operations, including nurseries.
- He also has extensive experience growing in every common medium, including rockwool, soil (including living soil), coco, and DWC (aquaponics).
Over the past 5 years, Wailyn built and ran multiple commercial grows all around California, including a 220,000 sq. ft. outdoor and mixed-light operation, a 40,000 sq. ft. cutting-edge indoor facility, and multiple fully-engineered automated greenhouse grows of over 100,000 sq. ft.
- He has developed individually-tailored, fully-scalable management plans, including SOPs, irrigation/fertigation plans, nutrient regimens, IPM programs, and workflow management systems.
- He designed systems to increase productivity, yield, quality, and overall work standards on operations of any size.
Since 2018, he has successfully hired, trained, and managed teams of up to 65 employees.
- He is fluent in Spanish and French, and has run teams in 3 languages.
- On top of that, he’s also worked as a consultant for various companies (new and established), advising on all aspects of cannabis businesses, including hiring standards & practices, writing SOPs, designing entire cultivation plans, and writing new employee manuals.
- He has also overseen the construction and management of multiple commercial clone nurseries in the US and abroad.
Wailyn is an avid learner and passionate about cannabis and the industry.
- He is always researching new technologies, nutrient delivery systems, plant science discoveries, and automation within agriculture and cannabis.
- He is constantly striving to better himself and streamline his methodologies; however, some of his metrics speak for themselves–plant success rates of over 99% and high average yields:
  - Indoor/mixed light 60-80 grams per sq. ft.
  - Greenhouse: 40-50g per sq. ft.
  - Outdoor: 3,500lbs per acre with personal best of 5,000lbs per acre when starting plants inside in March.
Wailyn has always been able to run profitable operations that produce high-quality product that can compete in the largest and most competitive legal market in the world.
- He has a track record of boosting yields and overall quality while optimizing workflow, increasing profits and decreasing overhead simultaneously.
- By running cloning, breeding, and R&D projects year-round, he always has new, exciting genetics available to run at the start of every cycle.
- Any cultivation operation he runs doesn’t have to rely on untested genetics or pay for clones and seedlings, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars or more per year.
- He also understands the dynamics of the various local markets and built an impressive network of connections in the industry.

LOOKING FOR:

Permanent

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

6

EXPERTISE:

Large scale cultivation

WailynVeteran Cultivation Manager with extensive cannabis knowledge

Relevant Skills

Expertise Summary

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