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Work with employee partnership students to utilize tuition benefits to return to college. Help find what is inspiring them to go back to school, beyond financial boundaries being removed, and use this intrinsic motivation to help prepare them for a confident, successful start in classes. Help with program selection and light career counseling, to ensure future success both in school and later in the workforce.

Collaboratively planned weekly nonprofit clean-ups of local areas with as many as 80 volunteers, often in conjunction with other volunteer groups and/or corporate sponsors. Responsible for weekly social media management, shared calendar upkeep, and outreach to local businesses and donors to fund necessary supplies.

Used psychologically valid positive reinforcement to care for and train animals. Educated owners on R+ training methods using nutritional and social enrichment to increase satisfaction in their relationships with their dogs.

• Cared for customers throughout initial contact through the life of their products. • Performed daily opening and closing activities including cash handling, balancing registers, and using software to insure accurate inventory numbers.• Assisted in hiring & training new staff and performance reviewing current employees. Took care of scheduling, employee payroll, and expense reports.• Named Employee of the Month on five occasions.

• Worked as a teaching assistant for Behavior Analysis and Statistics classes.• Held study sessions for students 3 times a week.• Developed weekly study aid worksheets which were delivered to all students by email and went over answers during sessions.• Communicated daily via email with students.

Did psychological research in the areas of animal behavior, music & visual rhythm, and industrial organizational psychology. In addition to participating in several labs, was responsible for running an undergraduate lab including recruitment and training of new students. Gained experience using SPSS and R, as well as presenting research.

• Assisted zookeepers with daily tasks including cleaning animal exhibits, preparing food, animal husbandry and training.• Developed independent ethograms to measure animal's behavioral time budgets pre and post enrichment. This is important as it allowed comparison of how captive animals spent their time vs. their wild counterparts. Specifically, wild animals spend most of their time budget securing food, so environmental enrichment for captive animals that increases the time spent eating or trying to get food can be particularly crucial to welfare.• Developed enrichment based on scientific metanalysis available on effectiveness of previously tested zoo enrichment.• Spent most time dedicated to local animals. Was particularly interested in measuring the sound wave complexity of their exhibits against their wild habitats and trying to find audio reproductions most similar to those noises to see if it increased their overall captive welfare.• Educated guests of all ages on topics related to animals including general facts, welfare, conservation, and enrichment. Also assisted in teaching the Zoo Crew summer camp program about enrichment and animal behavior.