Experience

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  Cuyahoga county public library

  Aug 2003 - Aug 2004

  Page - fairview park branch

  • Duties involved shelving and sorting books and helping library guests find desired material.

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  Cleveland metroparks

  May 2005 - Aug 2005

  Guest services - cleveland metroparks zoo

  • Duties involved taking tickets, assisting with traffic control and greeting guests as they entered and exited the zoo. • Monitored numerous zoo attractions, including a butterfly greenhouse where I was responsible for ensuring that exotic butterflies did not escape, and to make sure guests did not attempt to harm the butterflies.

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  Kent state university

  Jun 2008 - May 2009

  • One of only three students chosen to provide office support for Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Robert G. Frank, who was the chief academic officer for Kent State University. This office is responsible for 20 academic units including eight colleges, undergraduate studies, seven regional campuses and other areas including curricula, planning and institutional effectiveness, student success programs, academic personnel, faculty and staff development, and institutional diversity. • Responsible for helping maintain smooth workflow operations in the office, by ensuring that communications, and inventory and support services, including the office’s recycling program, are performed promptly and accurately. Also responsible for a variety of office tasks such as sorting mail, answering phones, assisting office visitors, replenishing office supplies, and delivering important documents to other campus departments or to meetings attended by the Provost.• Actively participated in two major special departmental projects. 1. “The Road Map Project” -- worked with a team to develop a streamlined form to enable students in every major to more easily track what classes they need or do not need to successfully meet the various requirements in their desired major/concentration. 2. Solely responsible for development of an accurate, easy-to-read office inventory spreadsheet for the Provost’s office designed to provide better budgetary control through better tracking of major supplies and equipment (valued over $500). Show less

  • Office Assistant - Provost's Office

    Aug 2008 - May 2009

  • Server - Banquet Sales

    Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
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  Enviroscience, inc.

  May 2010 - Nov 2010

  • Monitored toxicity of discharge waters for municipal, industrial, and private sector clients by testing and evaluating water samples. • Following BP's Standard Operating Procedures, collected water and sediment samples for evaluation to determine oil content, potential environmental damage to ocean organisms and animals, and overall environmental impact. • Traveled to several lakes throughout the U.S. and assisted with data collection, culture maintenance, insect and plant collection, and surveying, as well as lab work at the company HQ.

  • Aquatic Toxicology Lab Technician

    Sept 2010 - Nov 2010

  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Team - Water and Sediment Sampler

    Jul 2010 - Sept 2010

  • Travel Team Member (seasonal position) - Lake Management Division

    May 2010 - Jul 2010
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  Enviroscience, inc.

  Apr 2011 - May 2012

  Scientist technician

  (Worked on several environmental projects to help obtain specific goals set forth by clients)• Planted hundreds of trees and plants in two project areas to help transform them into wetland and upland areas of a stream• Assisted wetland scientists by taking GPS waypoints in order to delineate wetlands• Worked on a fish shocking project to monitor fish populations in a stream

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  Weston solutions, inc.

  Jun 2012 - Jun 2012

  Groundwater sampler

  (Temporary position held for four weeks)• Performed baseline groundwater and surface water sampling for property owners within a 3,000 ft. radius from a proposed natural gas well location for Chesapeake Energy.• Compiled detailed and accurate field notes and filled out Chain of Custody forms

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  Cuyahoga county

  Aug 2012 - Jan 2013

  Voter registration department

  • Entered data into computer database system to ensure that voters are properly registered with place of residence, any name changes, and all proper documentation materials on file.• Received phone calls from people and assisted them with answers to various questions they had either concerning voting or polling issues.• Involved in several processes such as ballot remakes, sorting and shelving ballots, scanning ballots, opening and sorting mail such as registration cards and ballots.

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  N/a - currently unemployed

  Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

  Environmental science entrepreneur

  • Continued to work on a sustainable landscaping business plan.• Studied importance of stormwater retention, and best management practices to use for stormwater management.

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  Kurtz bros., inc.

  Apr 2013 - Sept 2017

  Customer service representative

  • Assisting customers with purchasing of sustainable landscaping supplies such as soils, mulches, rocks, (in order to make rain gardens), and permeable pavers to allow storm water to filter through, which helps decrease erosion and pollution of our natural waterways.• Answering phone calls and helping customers decide what they should do to improve their yard.• Scheduling deliveries of our landscaping products.• Operating of Front-End Loader to load customers with bulk soil, mulch, compost or aggregate material.• Operating of Tow Motor to unload products such as pallets of pavers and wall stone, and load customers with the material they purchase. Show less

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  Envi environmental

  Aug 2017 - Jun 2018

  Ehs specialist

  • Performed environmental and safety inspections for landscape and construction supply companies, and wrote reports stating areas of concern and ways to implement improvement.• Performed stormwater inspections and wrote stormwater reports to address BMP's that should be implemented.• Wrote occupational health and safety programs for companies to improve personnel safety and to comply with OSHA.

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  Cuyahoga soil & water conservation district

  Jun 2018 - now

  Urban technician

  • Conduct stormwater inspections for active construction sites and write Technical Advisory Reports recommending SWP3 measures in order to keep sites compliant with their NPDES Storm Water General Permit.