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Seattle, Washington, United States

Managing product database integrity for coordination of upcoming product releases across multiple product lines.Cross-collaboration with other departments to collect, verify, and promulgate needed data.Improving processes and streamlining product data lifespan across departments.

Promotion of goals of the non-profit:Promotion of native plants as a food source and industrial uses for plants.Education about how the native plants exist in the environment, including the ecologies that they exist in.Education about food access, and empowerment of individuals to take control of their food sources. Management of long-term non-profit projects, including botanical surveys, organization of neighborhood green spaces, educational and informational projects promoting self-reliance of individuals in regards to their food procurement. Cultivation of future partnerships for the benefit of the non-profit.Investigations of future income sources for the non-profit. Speaking with potential clients and donors about the benefits of their support of the Native Plant Research Institute.

Austin, Texas Area

- Work with culinary partners to optimize their product.- Quality Assurance for menu data- Guiding project work based on adjustments to partner menus and profiles to increase their visibility and usability.- Collaborating with partners to make needed adjustments to profiles.- Expanding partners product offerings to add new and exciting menu items, menus, and special menus to meet the needs of ZeroCater clients.- Reacting quickly and with purpose to partner requests, as well as internal ZeroCater requests to reach out to partners.- Using up to date data to guide decisions to improve internal and external operations related to partner-success, utilizing tools such as Excel, Sheets, and Chartio.

Austin, Texas Area

- Collaborating with Vendor Success and Vendor Acquisition teams to expand Vendor product options.- Coordinating with Client Success and Sales teams to meet the needs of ZeroCater clients through menu offerings and options.

Austin, Texas Area

- Working in conjunction with Vendor Success Specialists to support updates and expansions of vendor offerings.

Austin, Texas

Answering questions from the public, both about the gardens on site, and advice on gardening at home. Teaching guests about the ecologies of plants when possible, to further their understanding.Garden and horticulture duties including construction, preparation, and upkeep of beds. Repair of damage to hardscapes, including irrigation, borders, trails, mulch.Monitoring and leading groups of volunteers in said upkeep.Daily upkeep and maintenance of gardens.

Performed scientific field testing and laboratory analysis according to established industry and government standards. Duties included field sampling system set-up and take down in accordance with OSHA and EPA standards, sample collection in accordance with EPA and TCEQ standards, and sample analysis in accordance with EPA, TCEQ, and NELAP standards.Created and maintained testing apparatuses and equipment to governmental and 3rd party standards. Improved in-house standard operating procedures for better efficiency. Reviewed operating procedures to maintain agreement with current government and 3rd party standards.Produced and organized technical reports describing the results of the field and laboratory testing for both clients and governmental agencies. These reports included description of the testing performed, methods used, and quality assurance performed for said methods. Reports also included data collected and analysed from sampling.

San Marcos, Texas

Teaching Assistant Monitoring several horticulture lab classes, including Woody Plants, Herbaceous Plants, Greenhouse and Nursery Management, Landscape Design, and Organic Gardening.Assistance to professors on a number of research projects, including researching the effect of gardens on youth science skill acquisition and the market viability of novelty pepper cultivars.

Assignments of duties to a wide variety of volunteers, including students, local community volunteers, community service workers, etc.Performed an ever changing list of activities involved in the upkeep of the greenhouse and the gardens around the greenhouse. List would change throughout the year. Focus of activities included maintaining the health of plants, physical improvements to the gardens (including creation of paths, terraces, fencing, art installation), and maintenance of the appearance of the gardens.Occasional information tours given to visitors.

Supervising and coaching sales associates, inspiring a positive working environment, and one in which sales goals were happily met.Management of plans for meeting sales goals, including being able to change how our goals were met based on day to day (and on big holidays, hour-to-hour) changes. Oversight of implementation of changing floor-space based on seasonal changes and instructions from corporate office. Allowed associates aesthetic freedom in how store image was presented, in an effort to ensure employee satisfaction.

Helping customers find the right clothes for them, overcoming difficulties based on language, style preferences, and availability. Even if we didn't have the right size, other stores might, so we would get the other store to ship the customer the clothes they were looking for, to make sure we had satisfied customers at the end of the day.Flexibility in assisting with customers from all over the world. Pantomiming skills were acquired here, for situations where none of the associates knew languages like, say, Tagalog. How you approached customers could change on a moment to moment basis, so flexibility was key in service.Adapting to changing work environment with seasonal changes in store traffic. Work duties would change drastically on a week to week basis, and all work went towards the benefit of the best possible experience for the customer.

Secretarial Duties. Assisting the primary Administrator in the office in whatever tasks needed an extra set of hands. Greeting visitors to the office. Answering phones.Management of scheduling appointments for advisers. Four advisers worked in the office, taking student appointments throughout the week. Completion of graduation paperwork for Liberal Arts students. Work term ended with the graduation of students at the end of the summer semester, so many frantic students would use our office in an attempt to graduate on time. Being able to serve students whose livelihoods depended on scheduling was a day-in and day-out occurrence. Organization of past student files and purging of redundant and out-of-date files, so as to make future organization an easier and more streamlined task.

Cleaned the theater as a whole, and specific theaters after each movie showing. Worked at the concession counter, at a register, and as a helper to others when they were overwhelmed. Also took the tickets of guests and directed them to their appropriate theater

Helped trace patterns and pin materials together for the flags and banners used by football and basketball teams. Also sent out mailings to schools across the country with information about the company

Master’S Degree, Agriculture Education

Focus on Ethnobotany and contemporary food culture of central Texas Thesis: The Willingness to Pay for Texas Persimmon Publications.

B.A., Anthropology

Graduated Cum Laude, with a minor in Pop Culture. Studied under Dr. F. Kent Reilly III, Dr. Richard Warms, and Dr. Christina Conlee.