ALEXANDER ARGUETA Thermal, CA (760) 625-6383 argueta.alex@icloud.com PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Proactive, forward-thinking individual and innovative leader with over eleven years of agriculture experience. Possesses a penchant for taking the initiative to build solutions that optimize operation efficiencies and improves workforce performance. Influential and credible individual with superior interpersonal skills practiced in championing cross-functional collaboration and strengthening team cohesion. WORK EXPERIENCE OMNI Rancho Las Palmas Resort, Rancho Mirage, CA APR 2022 - Current Pool Operations Manager The 444-room Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa is classic Rancho Mirage re-imagined for the 21st-century traveler. • Ensures that all pool operations are in accordance with OMNI Rancho Las Palmas policies. Including the safety, security of our guests and associates. • Responsible for the operations and upkeep of Splashtopia, Azure, and Conchilla Valley Pool. • Maintain staffing levels of all Pool Operations and oversees all hiring and training. • Responsible for the revenue of Cabanas and Recreation. • Meets regularly with the Supervisors to review incidents, current issues and always keeps Leadership informed on major incidents. • Enforces all Resort rules, regulations and the Resort’s standards of conduct. • Schedule monthly trainings to ensure that all pool supervisors, lifeguards, pool attendants and recreation attendants are ready and prepared for any type of emergency. • Ensure monthly deadlines are met regarding activity guides and training. Agser Contracting, Indio, CA JAN 2021 - APR 2022 Field Operations Manager Farms Labor Contractor that specializes in the growing/harvesting of Bell Peppers, Dates, Strawberries and Corn. ● Act as the liaison between the Ranch and the client (directors, producers, location managers, and other production crew members) ● Day-to-day coordination of harvesting and general labor crews ● Coordination of production scouting ● Oversee prep, shoot, and strike operations with production companies ● Ensure crews comply with ranch policies ● Coordinating various productions with crew and ranch operations ● Sub-contracting of production companies ● General office administrative duties ● Work off hours and weekends as required to manage production ● Pick-ups and deliveries as required ● Tracking paperwork ● Setting-up and maintaining production files ● Participate in daily briefings ● Invoices ● Creation of POs and WOs ● Time entries ● Expense reports ● Credit card reconciliation ● Event coordination and planning ● Weekly, Monthly and year to date reports ● Significant overtime required Operations: ● Assist in all facets of field operations including, farming, harvesting, irrigation, trenching, pipe work, spraying, planting, tractor operations and basic construction. ● Travel to Bakersfield, Fresno, Oxnard Prime Time International, Coachella, CA SEP 2018 - JAN 2021 Harvest Manager More than a quarter century ago, Prime Time began the journey of becoming the largest year-round grower, packer and shipper of premium quality colored peppers in the United States. ● Responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of the Harvest team. ● Provide timely, accurate and complete reporting on the harvest condition. ● Spearhead the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes. ● Collaborate with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel. ● Professionally represent the company with clients and business partners. ● Analyze, maintain, and improve organizational performance. ● Conduct and review daily and weekly training sessions, inspections, Monitor and ensure safety and food safety guideline compliance; ● Responsible for verification of weekly payroll from multiple farm labor contractors; ● Provide counseling and disciplinary procedures, direction and preparation of necessary documentation, in accordance to company policy. ● Supervise daily harvesting operation. ● Coordinate field harvesting operation with farm labor contractor foreman/supervisor. ● Inspect, plan, and forecast quality and quantity of product available for future harvesting. ● Follow, and motivate employees to understand company procedures and policies. ● Suggest changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency. ● Collaborate & communicate with Director ● Prepare and deliver harvest documentation to the appropriate personnel: GM, HR, Safety Specialist and Food Safety managers. ● Report employee infractions to HR in an equitable and consistent manner. ● Assists in recruitment efforts and ensures new employees are processed through HR in accordance with legal requirements. ● Travel to Coachella, Bakersfield, and Oxnard. VALLEY PRIDE, INC., Castroville, CA OCT 2016 – SEP 2018 Supervisor California corporation in the business of harvesting fresh produce with operations in California, and Arizona. ● Responsible for supervision of foreman day-to-day tasks, field crew management, planting schedules, and coordination of field orders; ● Conduct and review daily and weekly training sessions, inspections, ● Monitor and ensure safety and food safety guideline compliance; ● Responsible for verification of weekly payroll, ensuring legal compliance; ● Provide counseling and disciplinary procedures, direction and preparation of necessary documentation, in accordance to company policy. ● Supervise daily harvesting operation of assigned crop(s). ● Supervise harvest team: tractor drivers and machine operators. ● Coordinate field harvesting operation with contract labor foreman/supervisor. ● Collaborate with DOT administrator/dispatcher to ensure efficient transportation of product. ● Inspects, plans, and forecasts quality and quantity of product available for future harvesting. ● Responsible for harvesting equipment (trains, delegates and ensures that employees comply with proper operation of assigned equipment, daily inspections, equipment safety procedures, sanitation of equipment, and reporting repair & maintenance issues to maintenance supervisor). ● Follows, and motivates employees to understand, company procedures and policies. ● Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency. ● Collaborates & communicates with general manager, food safety & sanitation, plant receiving & Q.A., human resources, dispatcher, and maintenance supervisor. ● Prepares and delivers harvest documentation to the appropriate personnel: GM, HR, Safety Specialist and Food Safety managers. ● Reports employee infractions to HR in an equitable and consistent manner. ● Assists in recruitment efforts and ensures new employees are processed through HR in accordance with legal requirements. ● Attends supervisors meetings to share information regarding crops, employees and issues needed attention. ● Travel to Coachella, Westmorland, Huron, Oxnard and Yuma, AZ PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, Santa Maria, CA ​SEP 2015 – OCT 2016 Field Quality Control Inspector Pacific International Marketing (Pacific) a leading grower, processor, and shipper. ● Provide QC technical expertise in the day to day harvest operations, process and packing of fresh vegetables, including organic; ● Conducted field inspections (GAP’s) and in-plant process monitoring, assuring QC compliance; ● Responsible for reporting and documenting quality and packaging products; ● Field safety inspections; ● Estimates and inventory. ● Review aging reports, communicate with cooler inventory personnel as necessary and adjust aging reports as necessary. Communicate with sales concerning products on hold and for donation. ● Review rotation procedures and integrity of inventory regularly. ● Take physical inventory as needed to reconcile inventory numbers ● Report any discrepancies on field tickets to QC Manager accordingly. If the Foreperson or Supervisor has not done so already, also relate any lot id discrepancies ● Fill out quality control sheets with descriptions of products daily, QC Manager will review as necessary. ● Monitor cut to cool time. Field to cooler, also after arrival at cooler at cooler until cooled and placed in cold storage. ● Monitor temperatures upon arrival at the cooler and after the cooling process. ● Monitor temperatures on physical inventory as needed. ● Assist the QC Manager with any special projects that may occur periodically. OCEAN MIST FARMS, Castroville, CA ​NOV 2010 – SEP 2015 Quality Assurance Technician Cooler/Field A family owned business that strives to provide their customers with only the very best quality Artichokes, other fresh vegetables, and uncompromising service…every day. ● Provide QA technical expertise in the day to day harvest, process and packing of fresh vegetables, including organic; ● Conducted incoming inspections of raw produce for compliance against internal and governmental standards; ● Completed shelf life evaluations in a timely manner; ● Conducted field inspections (GAP’s) and in-plant process monitoring, assuring QA compliance. ● ATP testing and verification of sanitation ● Product line checks to be QC specifications at specified intervals. ● Inspect raw packaging, raw ingredients, to meet QC specs. ● Perform visual inspection on finished goods ● Daily production verification checks ● Perform QC Pre-op inspection and release line after verification of meeting specs ● Ability to place a line or product on hold in the case of a food safety violation or product that is not meeting QC specification and take corrective action quickly. ● May perform light filing ● Manage retention samples area or aid in getting required samples from line ● May perform certain lab activities such as plating, pH readings, . . . as trained. ● Involvement in HACCP team; assist in monthly HACCP meeting; and verify CCPs are maintained ● Ensure that SOPs and SSOPs (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures) are being followed and to alert QA if there are discrepancies between what is practiced and what is written. ● Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed ● Completes assigned projects and other duties as assigned SKILLS & ABILITIES ● Hard working, self-motivated, independent individual with strong desire to succeed ● Skilled at adapting to new situations/cultures and well versed in dealing with a large work-load; ● Obtained produce quality assurance through on the job training by handling product and attending workshops; ● Excellent verbal and written communication skills ● Exceptional people skills ● Team Player ● Proficient in Work Office (excel, word, power point) Other Famous database ● Able to multitask and dependable ● Strong organization skills ● Bilingual (English/Spanish), Bi-literate ___________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Desert Mirage High School Thermal, CA ___________________________________________________________________________________ CERTIFICATES ● Completed USDA 2 day quality inspection training across all Ocean Mist Commodities ● Bloodborne Pathogens ● Ag Safe Tractor Train the Trainer ● Pesticide Train the Trainer ● CPR ● First Aid ● Lifeguard Certification REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Alexander Argueta ​ (760) 625-6383 argueta.alex@icloud.com