Ashley E Smith Email & Phone Number

Middleton, Massachusetts, United States

Ashley uses her knowledge of plant pathology and weather patterns to answer customer questions over the phone. She also manages a team of Arborist Assistants worked together to keep the arborists and the crews organized. Many of her duties include processing payroll to ensure her team gets paid accurately, aiding in the route planning process, dealing with customer service issues, following up with people who are past due on their billls, and supporting my team in anyway they need it.

Middleton, Ma

Ashley cares for both trees, shrubs and lawns as the plant health care specialist. Her responsibilities include diagnosing and treating diseases on various plants, communicating with the client about treatments and diseases, problem solving, keeping inventory of pesticides, and maintaining a working knowledge of the most prevalent diseases on specific client properties. Ashley obtained her pesticide applicators license in one month of being at the job and is currently working towards becoming arborist certified.

Amherst, Ma

Ashley was a teachers assistant where she helped professors for the introductory biology courses. Her responsibilities included instructing two sections of lab courses, answer student emails promptly, communicate with the professor when students issues arose and keep students engaged with the material. Ashley's teaching philosophy was to engage with students to make sure that they have a solid understanding of the underlying concepts of their lab work and then apply these concepts and critical thinking skills to other scientific topics.

Amherst, Massachuseets

As a graduate employee, Ashley had the responsibility to investigate the topic of freezing tolerance methods used on various important grass species. With this information she wrote a comprehensive overview of the current literature. She was also responsible to perform experiments to test the freezing tolerance under various conditions. Once finished with the study she wrote a report on the preliminary results and preform basic statistics. Ashley also took classes to expand her knowledge of plant biology, including Plant Pathology, Diagnostic Plant Pathology, Plant Hormones and a few other courses.

Bridgewater, Massachuseets

Ashley did research under the supervision of Dr. Heather Marella. She worked on a plant called Arabidopsis and looked into how a Root-Knot Nematode affects the levels of the JAZ genes. Ashley preformed this by growing seedlings on petri dishes, infecting them with nematodes then extracting RNA to make cDNA to do genetic test such as PCR and qPCR. She wrote her thesis on the results of her tests.

Bridgewater State University

I assist students in learning materials in their biology classes and other related course work.

Mansfield, Massachusetts

Ashley performed a botanical census in the Great Woods property in Mansfield, Massachusetts. She created a pamphlet to display information on the property and the plant inhabiting the area for people to enjoy while walking around. Ashley also helped to keep the area clean and organized.

North Attleboro, Ma

Ashley started this job at the age of 14 as a Counselor in Training and worked her way up to become one of the lead counselors for the Kiddie Camp. Ashley responsibilities includes making schedules filled with fun and educational activities for campers between the ages of 3 and 5, taking care of any incidents that occur with children and with staff, communicate with parents about weekly events, keep Kiddie Camp Director and Camp Director in the loop of incidents and what is going on for the day, and make sure kids are having fun in a safe environment.

Worked with kids after school to help them on homework assignments and and entertain them with learning activities.

Mansfield, Massachusetts

Performed a botanical census and created a pamphlet for visitors to use to identify plant species in the area.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Botany/Plant Biology

Ashley received her Masters of Science in Plant Biology in the DaCosta Lab at the Unversity of Massachusetts - Amherst. She investigated.

Student, Biology, Overall: 3.71 Major: 3.84

Activities and Societies: Honors Student, Alpha Sigma Tau, Philanthropy Committee, Tri Beta Society, Order of Omega, Students.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Leaders Club through YMCA, National Honors Society, Relay for Life, Took higher level classes, such as honors.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Plant Biology