Nathan Dorn

Developed and successfully implemented first of its kind steam soil sterilizer for bed fumigation of medium depth rooted plants. Eliminated weeding costs, disease pressures, and significantly impacted organic production of raspberrries and strawberries. Has future application for bulbs, cut flowers, lettuce, tomatoes and other vegatable crops as well. Likely especially valuable for nursery production of plants.… Show more

Developed and successfully implemented first of its kind steam soil sterilizer for bed fumigation of medium depth rooted plants. Eliminated weeding costs, disease pressures, and significantly impacted organic production of raspberrries and strawberries. Has future application for bulbs, cut flowers, lettuce, tomatoes and other vegatable crops as well. Likely especially valuable for nursery production of plants.

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Improve and develop foster mechanical harvest aid machine to reduce labor footprint in berry industry. Worked with machine builders, farmers… Show more

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Improve and develop foster mechanical harvest aid machine to reduce labor footprint in berry industry. Worked with machine builders, farmers, harvesters, finance teams, payroll, hr, safety, and corporate leadership to take innovative tool through multiple generations of design and propogate from 5 to 300+ units in US and Mexico. Tool is remote controlled material handler which reduces non productive time of harvesters, increasing their earnings while reducing cost to company resulting in average of 40% gain in productivity in Florida, California and Mexico berry farming companies.

Developed First of its kind night harvest system improving quality of product, quality of employment conditions and productivity. Revolutionary industry change. http://baybridgeinfo.org/lighting (We utilized the same technologies for our projects)

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Developed Unique Data management system to collect and analyze bottling room operations. This system made standard practice the process of employee reconciliation of problems, Supervisory diagnosis of issues limiting performance, remedial corrective actions and material supplier feedback for quality issues. Resulted in nearly $500,000 dollars weekly of added production in Modesto winery and reduction of operating costs by over 50% at the Healdsburg Premium winery.

Installation of multi million dollar capital equipment for production line improvements. Completed adjacent to operating line with single day production interruption and zero impact on supply. Completed on budget, on time.