Mitchell Gramazio

Experience

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  Walt Disney World

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2023

  - Coordinate with Production Executives on how to safely achieve desired animal aspects in all forms of media, ranging from Social Media posts to blockbuster theater releases.- Maintain accurate records of conversations, animal use requests, and agreements between Productions and Disney's Animals in Film & TV Team.- Thoroughly research USDA-regulated animal vendors that align with the Company's standards of animal care.- Travel as needed to the sets of productions involving intense animal action to ensure compliance with the Company's Use of Live Animals in Entertainment policy.- Research and provide feedback on various tours, expeditions, and cruise excursions involving animals to be offered under one of the Company's various tour-offering companies. Show less - Work closely with Research team on studies that involved animals under direct care, ranging from Marine Mammals to Cephalopods, while ensuring consistent quality animal welfare.- Daily maintenance and operation of closed marine exhibits and holding systems ranging from 90 to 1000 gallons. Daily care includes cleaning, diet preparation, feeding, health monitoring, water quality monitoring, and life support system monitoring and maintenance. - Troubleshoot problems with water quality and life support components. Maintain working knowledge of biology and husbandry of all aquatic specimens including a variety of elasmobranchs, teleosts and invertebrates. - Develop and implement behavioral training plans for both enrichment and efficient feeding tactics in a variety of species. - Assist with clinical treatments and veterinary procedures. - Continuous practice of husbandry standards set by AZA Accreditation Guidelines and work to maintain facility at this gold standard of care.- Manage a team of 8 personnel ranging from entry-level to highly experienced.- Plan, design and implement a universal application used to convert written records of animal health and system maintenance into SharePoint and Excel databases.- Use cloud-based database management software to write, update, and delete records. - Code and design a mobile iPad application for updating census data of animals in collection.- Communicate with internal teams and plan future updates to technological application for regular use by the team. - Direct and manage the regular development and operation of the aforementioned software. Show less

  • Animal Technology Coordinator

    Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Aquarist

    Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

  • Dive Technician

    Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

  • Marine Mammal Intern

    Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
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  The Animal Protection Agency

  Nov 2022 - now

  IT Manager
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  City of Albuquerque

  Jan 2023 - now

  Supervise 10+ staff members in entry-level roles for the aquarium. Manage daily records of aquatic system maintenance, chemistry testing results, and animal food consumption. Interpret numerical and objective data in ways that can be understood and used by all levels of animal care staff. Improved upon previous cnidarian care guides and exhibit expectations, to include coral propagation techniques, moon jellyfish culturing, and pacific sea nettle care. SCUBA Dive to directly feed animals underwater and clean bait at to maintain high standards of exhibition. Use data trends in aquatic animal care to create efficient maintenance schedules, allowing for the preservation of resources such as water, salt mix, and relevant dosing chemicals. Breed and raise colonies of various marine animals according to Species Survival Plan protocols. Create Animal Welfare plans for both individual animals and groups of animals. Adhere to AZA standards of animal care. Quarantine all incoming animals according to generally accepted quarantine protocols specific to incoming animal taxa. Show less

  • Aquarist IV

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Aquarist III

    Jan 2023 - Aug 2023