the largest vertical farming company in the United States that uses IoT, Data Science, AI, Robotics and Cloud to bring economic viability to smart agriculture.

As Research & Innovation Product manager, I:
- Defined new technology solutions to achieve company innovation goals
- Was key liaison between technology and science divisions
- Facilitated design workshops for users and stakeholders
- Defied & tracked success metrics for new projects
During my time at Bowery, I developed my skills in and learned about:
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
- Importance of edge case training in ML
- The value of modifiable, off-the-shelf hardware solutions
- Streamlined research operations and delivering efficiency gains.
- Enhanced data-driven decision making through integrated monitoring systems.
- Optimized crop recipes and maximizing yields through data-driven insights
- Automated manual tasks to refocus scientists on higher-value work.
- Developed hardware, software, and data solutions for accelerating product development.

Featured Projects

R&D relied on manual updates of fragmented google sheets to create and manage experiments. It resulted in:
- Lost time spent on rote tasks
- Computer & human errors
- Unactionable data
- Overlooked insights
Since our internal system could not handle the custom requirements from the scientists, I turned to AirTable to create the necessary features.
The new system catered to the diverse needs of the science team, including:
- Fully configurable experiments
- Linked harvest data
- Dynamic scheduling
- Farmer task management
The project soothed a long-standing pain point in the company, resulting in:
- ~40% increase in experiment completion
- ~10 hours saved per week per scientist on manual input
- ~$15k reduced monthly expenses
- ~200% increase in experiment velocity

General platform user flow

MuSCoW method user flow

Visual plot varible configuration interface

Task management dashboard and scheduler

Multi-cultivar experiment scheduling sheet

As our first vine crop, strawberries presented unique logistical challenges for the company due to these attributes:
- High-maintenance: pruning, pest control
- Task variability: Daily, weekly, whenever
- Highly sensitive: Lack of environmental compliance can halt production
- Incompatible: Did not fit into our Farm OS
Building upon the success of the Airtable Farm OS integration, we further developed the platform to accommodate strawberry needs and extend the features for supply chain and fulfillment.
Based on the many requirements for this project, we created a custom Strawberry OS that included:
- Planner for supply chain & scientists to make plans & projections
- Scheduler for supervisors to manage schedules and compliance
- Task system for farmers to track requirements & SOPs
- Harvest hub for supply chain & marketing to generate SKUs and match cultivars
Thanks to the flexibility of this low-code approach that allowed us to integrate into our custom OS, we succeeded in our pilot objectives in:
- Accurately predicting & managing our supply in production with multiple cultivars
- Determined greatest areas of opportunity for increasing shelf life & reducing costs
- Validated premium product position for Bowery strawberries, consistently achieving sell-out status

Representation of interface design & capabilities

Vine vs. leafy crop lifecycle comparison

Custom strawberry plant plot assignment interface

Daily saleable mass dashboard

Automatic SKU sticker generator and Zebra compatibility

- Supported research on sustainable grow media alternatives
Identified $6m annual cost savings across farms by simply switching light schedule to off-peak energy hours
Introduced new image recognition capabilities for crop distress identification.

Managing the creation of custom smart grow chambers for efficient use of space and labor
Introduced a component-based UI kit for greater developer velocity and design consistency
Rolled out no-code interface for custom crop recipe creation with ML recommendations for light, airflow, temperature and nutrient scheduling
Represented the technology department in Bowery's sustainability steering committee and was responsible for creating sustainability reports from our farm data.