Cana One

The world’s first molecular beverage printer.

The beverage and bottling industrial complex emits 543 million tons of CO2 per year. Cana’s mission is to eliminate beverage packaging waste and reduce carbon footprint by using Cana One instead of traditional bottled drinks.

The Cana One is a beverage machine that creates beverages from cold brew coffee to soda to cocktails.

Cana eliminates the need for conventional bottling factories, grocery store runs, and spare fridges at home by using tap water and essential molecules to make beverages, significantly reducing the environmental impact compared to traditional beverage production.

My Role / Responsibilities: Lead Program Manager - Software / Firmware and Science

Project Management Methodologies: Waterfall (Hardware) and Agile (Software)

Cross-Functional Teams: Hardware, Software, Firmware, Controls, Compliance, QA, Manufacturing, Product, Sales, Marketing

Accomplishments:

  • Created and led formal Sprint Demos and Reviews for Software, Firmware, and Hardware teams to showcase their progress bi-weekly

  • Led cross-functional resourcing efforts by working with Engineering and Science leads to scope out milestones and features against resources required to achieve them by due date, including descoping, milestone scope changes or adding new resources.

Supply Chain:

  • In House: Incoming inspections, quality control, and final device assembly

  • Component Fabrication: Complex supply network, CMs mainly overseas in China and India

Compliance and Certification:

  • NSF 61, Intertek and UL

Project Management Software: Wrike, Jira, Confluence, Arena, Benchling, Monday, Figma, Smartsheet, Lucidchart, Google Workspace