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Santa Cruz, Ca

Maximized personal production efficiency by becoming intimately familiar with products and recipes thus providing a faster and more accurate experience for customers.Maintained the responsibilities of a retail associate whilst also being primary barista. Offered to remake or change drinks without prompting to ensure that each was completely up to the customer’s standard, and that information had accurately passed from the register to the bar.

Oakland, Ca

Learned all product offerings by price and defining qualities so that I could most accurately make appropriate recommendations to customers.Operated a POS system and handled up to $6000/day whilst never having a till more than $0.90 off. Maintained cleanliness, merchandise, and stocked the store all to company standards. Interacted positively with 100s of customers per day and used those interactions to consistently upsell additional or larger items. Maximized personal production efficiency by becoming intimately familiar with products and recipes thus providing a faster and more accurate experience for customers.

Oakland, Ca

Wrote and recorded a short radio story. Thoroughly researched my topic using scholarly databases such as Jstor and ProQuest. Recorded a series of vox pops as well as interviews with relevant professionals to provide differing opinions, as well as accurate information. Became more familiar with audio manipulation when recording and mixing the story.

Oakland, Ca

Collaborated with other externs to produce a weekly, online radio podcast by utilizing multiple forms of media. Wrote various topical opinion and discussion pieces (remember Cecile the lion?) to be broadcasted as part of the podcast. Learned Photoshop up to an intermediate level.Learned Reason 5 up to an intermediate level. Took and edited photographs to provide visual context for the podcast as well as cover art for its virtual “album cover”. Produced, recorded, edited, and mixed beats to be used for background and transition. Took control of the station’s media presence on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to promote the podcast.

Berkeley

Managed all technical aspects of an annual musical theatre performance including:acquisition and manipulation of audio to create custom soundscapesmaintaining audio equipment for use by actors, as well as maintaining and rigging house speakersprogramming light and sound cues during production executing on planned lighting and sound during shows