Eddy Mejia

Earnest Agriculture is an ag biotech startup helping end food scarcity through food production. We develop organic microbial products that help farmers provide plants nutrients and protection against disease. Reducing input costs and increasing production.

• Responsible for the development and implementation of global strategies, supplier selection, supplier management, contract negotiation, and business partner influencing and demand shaping related to IT products and services. • Drive key internal and external relationships that help advance knowledge in the software applications category. • Push cost reduction, manage risk, maintain a competitive supply chain environment, align business partners on architecture and future technology, and road maps. • Conduct external market analysis, and supplier management activities to achieve sourcing results.

• Launched and created a revenue-generating product business through the utilization of research, design, production, marketing, and sales within a 2-year timeframe. • Raised over $30,000 in equity-free seed capital and competitions to complete and patent 1st generation of products, leading to the pre-sale of over 30 units in under 2 weeks. • Analyzed over 60 fabricators by examining price, quality, and factory standards resulting in negotiations and contracts with 2 and the successful delivery of the first 100-unit shipment; receiving 99% customer satisfaction. At DisplayInfinity, we help showcase and protect history and culture by creating the world best display solutions. With innovative designs, superior materials, and technology we provide customizable display solutions that protect, present, and preserve valuable items while allowing personalization. Our first product, ShoeBoxOne, is our patented clear acrylic shoe display case with a mirror backing, beveled door, customizable tile, and the ability to add LED lighting.

• Developed comprehensive business strategies across marketing, finance, sales, leadership, operations, and technology, boosting company revenue from $4 million to $10 million within two years. • Facilitated a smooth leadership transition by guiding and mentoring the change from president to the new CEO within a three-month timeframe. • Engineered a unified technology infrastructure, transitioning all systems from on-premise to cloud-based solutions, integrating teams across marketing, finance, sales, leadership, and operations through the adoption of CRM, Finance, and Operations SaaS, thereby streamlining processes, reducing user errors, and optimizing resource use. • Spearheaded the creation, design, and development of website, aligning with SEM marketing strategic plan, which escalated monthly user engagement from 10 to over 5,000 visitors.

• Created a process to standardize, add increased controls, metrics, and speed the creation of higher quality scopes of work aligning with program strategies and stakeholder needs. • Helped bring savings of 83.4% in time from previous process, 2340 hours of work a year, $487,422 annual savings and mitigated risk on over 70 million dollars of contracts annually. • Develop sourcing strategies to optimize total cost and risk with the best suppliers within their respective markets. • Negotiate and contract suppliers to procure products and services that meet requirements at a planned cost. • Manage relationships with suppliers to meet and exceed contracted requirements and continuously improve performance.

• Collaborated with business, engineering, and design students, conducting market research to develop a minimum viable product in the wearable tech space receiving positive feedback from Caterpillar executives. • Engineered an air quality sensor device, alerting users via LED lights and mobile push notifications of high pollution and dangerous gases to help save lives and promote health.

• Created 3D game environment from real world example using 3D modeling software, which resulted in an on schedule environment completion for military police virtual simulation training • Researched and documented virtual and physical system integration and communications, aggregating to overall knowledge of system and process improvements for the team

• Led front end development of a team tracking mobile application utilizing AngularJS and the Ionic framework reaching completion within a 1-month timeline. • Designed wireframes and user flows, contributing to UI/UX development to produce a seamless end-user interaction for all employees

• Managed over 1,000 equipment line items, 200 pieces of COMSEC keying material, with over 5,000 users • Reconciled paperwork, records, equipment to support accuracy for security inspections; passing 100% of regional and division inspections • Planned and led training sessions for new and existing cryptographic holders as part of the "Patriot Team" initiative by facilitating at least 3 sessions per month to decrease overall incidents by 95% • Achieved 100% accountability and security of United States Army classified paperwork and equipment, which led to commendation on account security and overall organization • Conducted random inspections on over 18 companies, 100 custodians for errors and inaccuracies to maintain security and accuracy throughout the military

• Oversaw enterprise-wide hardware/software installations and major OS upgrade/expansion projects that improved network access protection (NAP), terminal services, and network performance • Implemented solutions that reduced single points of failure and improved system uptime to 99.9% availability (up from previous high of 97.5%) • Developed and implemented a disk cloning procedure to streamline operating system installation and security properties configuration to reduce workstation setup time from 3 hours to 15 minutes • Ensured that assigned systems were engineered, configured and optimized for maximum functionality and availability • Administered LAN-WAN configurations and management of organization network stacks with 150+ networked devices in tactical/office environments

• Managed a high-volume workload within a deadline-driven environment. Resolved an average of 550 inquiries in any given week and consistently met performance benchmarks in all areas (speed, accuracy, volume) • Became the lead "go-to" person for new reps and particularly challenging calls as one of the company’s primary mentors/trainers of both new and established employees • Outperformed peers by maintaining outstanding record of technical support service, resolving 95% of all trouble tickets without escalation to senior support specialists • Provided telephone, email and in-person support to over 500 end users, installing, troubleshooting, diagnosing, repairing, resolving, technical issues for IT systems, including laptops, desktops, printers, monitors, and network devices