Dan Brian
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** *** ***** **.
City: Napa
State: CA
Zip: 94558
Country: USA
Phone: 707-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $4,000
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
DAN BRIAN
4593 Dry Creek Road
Napa, CA 94558
H - 707 - 265-7695 C - 707- 478-0584
*********@********.***
SUMMARY
Dependable, enthusiastic and flexible Master Winery Professional. Excellent team worker. More than 28 years performing Cellar and Barrel operations, supervision, and facility oversight. Demonstrated strengths include: Leading, communicating, computer skills, problem solving, and decision making.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Established objectives of production projects to meet management goals and within wine making guidelines.
Utilized wine making expertise to identify potential problems that would affect quality. Able to implemented corrective measures as necessary.
Served as key resource in advising production individuals on daily procedures and policies, and trained production workers to enhance efficiency and quality.
Managed an accident recovery effort that resulted in a saving of 1,000 gallons of premium reserve wine.
Assigned and directed workers to perform tasks that would reduce the amount of wine lost.
Established and oversaw implementation of racking wine into the sump and pumping into tanks located in the cellar contributes to accident recovery efforts.
Oversaw the 1998 white juice transfer from Carneros facility, managing: yeast inoculation, sulfur additions, and transfer of juice to tank trucks for barreling at Bedford facility. Received monetary reward from supervisor for efficiency in completing projects on schedule and with no loss.
Introduced new production ideas and equipment to increase production and insure quality.
Assisted in teaching Winery Cellar Operations (AGR-171) for the Napa Valley College 1/25/2000 to 3/14/2000.
ntroduced the Diffusion method of putting SO2 into barrels to save labor at Kendall Jackson Winery.
EXPERIENCE
KENDALL JACKSON WINE ESTATES, OAKVILLE, CA 2011-2012 Supervisor (Harvest Position)
KENDALL JACKSON WINE ESTATES, OAKVILLE, CA 2003-2011 Barrel Foreman for a 28,000 barrel warehouse.
Duties performed, See attachment
ROBERT MONDAVI WINERY, NAPA, CA 2002-2003 Master Winery Worker / Process Operator (Harvest Position)
GOLDEN STATE VINTNERS, ST HELENA, CA 2001-2002 Cellar Foreman overseeing cellar operations. Purchased all the supplies for the cellar.
THE HESS COLLECTION WINERY, NAPA, CA 2001-2002 Cellar Operations
Cellar/Barrel operations; racking, blending, fluid transfer, machine operation, and filtration.
ROBERT MONDAVI WINERY, NAPA,CA 1984-1999 BOTTLING LINE ATTENDANT 1984-1988 SKILLED WINERY WORKER 1989-1991
Master Winery Worker/Process Operator 1991-1999
Led daily project teams, assigned resources and oversaw work that resulted in projects completed with high quality and on time. Operation of centrifuge, decanter, pasteurized, beucer presses, filtration system, and fluid transfer pumps.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Napa Junior College, 1 year Computer Science, 1990
Napa Senior High School, Diploma
U.C. Davis, 2 day seminar Chemistry of Wine 1995
U.C.Davis Wine Filtration 2002
CPR Certification, 2001-2002, First Aid Certification, 2001-2002
Certified Fork Lift Driver
Respirator fit test certification 5/17/02 (Santa Rosa, CA)
Respirator fit test certification 2005 (Santa Rosa, CA)
Napa Junior College, 18 week class beginning EXCEL, 2005
PERSONAL REFERENCE
Lee Isola Production Manager, Franciscan Winery -707-***-**** or 707-***-****
Jean-Philippe Bolle--- Cellar Master, Kendall Jackson - 707-***-****
Brian Kosi Winemaker, Kendall Jackson - 707-***-****
Dan Bicknell Maintenance Supervisor, Kendall Jackson -