Ivan Price Email & Phone Number

Builth Wells, Wales, Gb

• Assist in the maintenance of 17.5 acres of ornamental and productive gardens and grounds for an exclusive country house hotel in Mid Wales.• Undertake hard and soft landscaping and routine garden maintenance tasks like mulching, pruning, clearing leaves, weeding, hedge trimming, and lawn mowing.• Manage productive vegetable garden and orchard, providing produce for the hotel kitchen using organic principles. Have undertaken rejuvenation pruning of 70 apple, pear and plum trees.• Maintain formal garden areas including a walled garden, having responsibility for trimming yew hedging to a high standard around the hotel using my attention to detail.• Use a range of garden machinery to undertake soft and hard landscaping tasks to a high standard in compliance with health and safety regulations.• Ensure all plants are healthy and reach their full potential using my extensive plant knowledge.• Keep all garden paths and outbuildings in a high level of neatness, having undertaken new pathway replacements over Winter 2023. • Engage with visitors, addressing their queries about the gardens.

• Assisted in the management and development of new berry selections for the S&A global breeding programme.• Responsible for daily irrigation monitoring and scheduling, including maintaining the irrigation infrastructure.• Oversaw pest and disease monitoring, including application of biological controls.• Monitored plant health and quality, recognising and recording signs of stress from environment or disease and recording these for remedy.• Kept accurate records of plants, including field mapping.

• Led a team of three people to produce potted floral displays for the Hay Festival 2023 according to the design of the garden designer.• Purchased plants suitable for displays, ensuring high quality plants and keeping to agreed budgets.• Collected suitable plants from a store garden, working closely with the head gardener to dig up and pot up plants so that they could be transported with minimal disturbance.• Arranged and planted up display planters according to the colour schemes provided by the designer.• Transported planters to site and set out displays to provide attractive environment for festival visitors.• Undertook daily watering and maintenance schedule to ensure that displays were maintained to a high standard.• Transported plants back to store garden, re-planting them to allow them to be used the following year.

• Lead a team of three full-time and four part-time members of staff under the Garden Plants Manager in addition to my previous responsibilities. Built strong working relationships with my team in day to day management, allocating jobs to team members in order to assist customers and maintain high standards of plant care in a dynamic environment.• Organised plant orders for the garden plants area to merchandise alonside the Garden Plants Manager, deciding what plants are appropriate to the season and time of year and ensuring orders were completed on time to ensure stock levels.• Was first point of contact for plant queries, answering customer queries on plant health and choice for gardens using my extensive understanding of plants and horticultural techniques.• Acted as duty manager for the store one day a week, proactively resolving queries across the store from customers and colleagues using my strong communication and negotiation skills.• Worked as forklift driver for the store, unloading heavy items from lorries safely and quickly following appropriate health and safety guidance.

Hagley, England, United Kingdom

• Merchandised plant sales area, creating visually appealing plant displays from available stock. Prioritised my workload to move trolleys of stock around efficiently to tight schedules.• Used my attention to detail to ensure all stock plants were watered, fed, trimmed back and weeded as necessary to ensure plants were kept to the highest visual and health standards.• Accurately checked off plants on arrival, performing plant health checks to prevent spread of pests and diseases, liaising with suppliers to ensure deliveries were correct.• Maintained the plant area’s facilities working closely with three other team members, cleaning flooring in outdoor area to prevent slips and falls and glass in greenhouse to ensure good light levels for plants.• Physically assisted customers with heavy items such as compost and aggregates, carrying these to their cars.• Advised customers on plant choices for different garden situations and aspects, using my approachable and friendly demeanour to help ensure the correct plant was bought for the correct place in their gardens.• Advised customers on plant health within their gardens, diagnosing plant diseases using my knowledge of plants and advising customers on correct care for a wide variety of plants.• Maintained feature gardens within the centre and grounds of site, undertaking yearly pruning, leaf clearing and weeding cycles.• Merchandised landscaping area, stacking compost and aggregates so that they are easy to access.• Set up and ran annual Halloween pumpkin carving sessions for children, ensuring the event ran smoothly and safely whilst using my positive and friendly attitude to make sure customers had an enjoyable experience.

• Supervised the work of team of administrators responsible for the administration of Business Management students, assisting with allocating workload, improving processes and leading with my expert knowledge.• Accurately managed the registration of students onto courses using the university’s data management system, and maintained student record databases. • Communicated with academic colleagues to ensure that student virtual learning environment is up to date as a resource for students. • Supported the Exams and Assessment process – Receiving and processing assessments from students, and marked work and feedback from academic staff in a face-paced environment.• Organised prize giving ceremony for 70 Business School students, parents and academics, sourcing catering for the event, booking rooms and running the event on the day.

• Worked with Quality Assurance Team on curriculum development, updating module specifications to comply with University regulations.• Processed external examiner payments, including ensuring expense claims were filled out on time and accurately.• Oversaw the timetabling process for the Business School for the 2018-19 academic year: o Liaised with taught programmes teams to schedule 800 sessions across the school. Liaised with Programme Directors Negotiated with academic staff to confirm schedule, using persuasive language to achieve the best results for students.o Inputted timetabling data into system, paying attention to detail to ensure that events were recorded with no errors.• Managed ad-hoc booking of rooms for two buildings on university campus, having responsibility for approval and scheduling of bookings. Developed strong relationship with central Timetabling Team to ensure rooms are used to their full capacity in a fast moving and dynamic environment.

School Of English And School Of History And Cultures

• • Maintained student data via student records and BIRMS database.• Supported Departmental Meetings – prepared reports, agendas and recorded minutes of meetings for approval by the Head of Department.• Supported the Module Allocation and Timetabling process for the School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS): o Liaised with AAQA Manager, academic staff and Central Timetabling team to accurately arrange teaching slots and required rooms.o Proactively created module choice forms and allocated modules. Resolved timetable clashes.• Supported the Exams and Assessment process – I organised the departmental exams for EDACS, liaising with the Examination Office, Central Timetabling team, Welfare Officers and students to arrange examinations for students with additional learning requirements.• Adapted to changing role, transferring skills learned to the School of History and Cultures (SHaC) to support that department from Oct 2016.

- Media Publication- Project Management- Data AnalysisI worked for the senior management of Builth Wells High School managing a number of projects and tasks. I have managed a series of information screens within the school, producing content that is relevant to students and staff. I have worked with other members of staff to co-ordinate content with content produced for the school website and for newspaper publishing. This has resulted in my responsibility expanding to co-ordinating all media content production for the school, across digital, social and print media. This involves writing and editing content for newspaper articles and managing the school website and Twitter feed.I have managed projects and events independently. I have organised the school's work experience program, organising placements for 70 year 10 pupils in companies across the country. I have also organised the school's litterpicking contract with the Royal Welsh Show, Europe's largest agricultural show. This event raised £8000 for the school.I have worked closely with the senior management to implement a new performance management system within the school, using my excellent ICT skills to become proficient in the program, being a point of contact for staff to ask for assistance.

- Networked with potential students.- Led tours of the campus.During my studies at university, I worked for the history department, welcoming prospective students. I talked to them in detail about my course and led them on campus tours. I was also involved in a promotional video for the department. This position improved my verbal communication skills, as the campus tours involved public speaking. This also improved my confidence and leadership skills. Finally, I worked with my other ambassadors to market the university, developing my teamwork.

- Recruited a team of five stewards to work at show.- Worked as part of a team to prepare and deliver a three-day event for the Welsh Kennel Club (setting up rings, signposting, preparing cups).- Proactively undertook manual work to ensure event ran smoothly (litter picking, moving equipment as necessary).I have worked for the Welsh Kennel Club for five years, helping the committee to deliver their annual dog show. I have recruited and lead a team of five in the past three years, acting as the point of contact between them and the show management. Working as part of that team developed my teamworking skills, as we worked closely together to achieve complicated tasks, such as setting up rings, which required a high level of accuracy. Individually, I have used my attention to detail in menial tasks such as polishing cups for the show, taking pride in the high quality of my work and appreciating how my work impacted the overall success of the show. I have been particularly proud of how the show management have praised my work consistently year on year.

As a learning support assistant, I directly supported individual students in their academic lives. I worked with students with additional learning needs, and this role greatly developed my interpersonal skills. By listening to the students and their interests, I developed a flexible approach to each child. I remained calm under pressure, resolving problems and encouraging them to give their best by relating their learning to their interests. During this role I developed my verbal communication skills, as I communicated daily with the children as equals, for which I was clear in my explanations of often complex topics, and with the teaching staff in both formal and informal surroundings (requiring professionalism and confidence). Whilst working there, I also organised a week-long trip for the history department to Berlin. I used my initiative to judge the best places to visit, and took great care in organising the week so that the children would get the most from the activities. Thirty students and staff participated in the trip, and their experiences directly fed into their work on the history of Germany post ww2, which the head of the history department commended me for.

- Customer Services- Close Down ProcedureWhilst working as a sales assistant at Morrisons Supermarkets PLC, I engaged with a diverse customer group, helping them to find products and giving them preparation advice. I was also responsible for wrapping products to be placed on the shelves and cleaning the department which meant taking the initiative on prioritising tasks in a high pressure environment. I worked closely with the other members of my department to ensure that the shelves were enticing to the customer as well as being welcoming and present to serve customers. My desire to improve my customer service led to me completing a level 2 NVQ in Retail Skills.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Ancient And Medieval History, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Ninjutsu Club: Captain and Secretary, Archery Club, Burn FM Radio, Student Rep.For my degree, I used my.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Amnesty InternationalWelsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma A Levels: History (A) Environmental Science (B).