We at Hammond & Brandt strive to manifest the dreams of homeowners through cooperation with professional teams and our own expertise.

Generating income, practicing and learning new hard skills, and communicating with clients while manifesting their dreams of maintaining and improving their properties.

Routine and emergency maintenance on 4 diesel engines, hydraulic systems, and general vessel upkeep. Operation ofpower skiff, main vessel hydraulics, main vessel generators, and main vessel refrigeration systems. Record keeping of allfluid levels and systems' statuses.

Teacher and promoter of the scientific method, small scale experimentation in agriculture, optimization of agriculturalsystems, soil physical and microbial science, healthy dieting, and the English language. Full time cultural ambassador,United States and Peace Corps representative, and local community member. Self starting and driven project creator andmanager. Learned indigenous language (Guarani) and achieved Advanced proficiency in 6 months. Perfected and achievedadvanced proficiency in Spanish. Lived and worked in the most remote volunteer site in the country with over 3hr traveltime to next closest volunteer by foot, boat, and car/bus.

Summer internship during which I analyzed and characterized the soil profile of over 50 previously determined natural communities varying from forests to wetlands to prairies. The data collected electronically using a field survey I developed through ArcGIS and is to be developed into a web application.

• Starting a project, orienting necessities, and establishing goals• Managing, organizing, and completing self-driven tasks to• Keeping ongoing, detailed records of tasks and project’s status• Troubleshooting a variety of technical problems (taking down router firewalls, soldering wires, replacing PVC and rubber hosing)• Coordinating with administrative and facilities staff to address and project’s needs and the most feasible ways we can solve them• Growing leafy greens hydroponically• Monitoring and regulating internal environment through desktop controls

• Executive Committee member – directing a 20-person Board of Representatives of a multi-million-dollar, student-housing 501(c)(3) organization• Assisting in the writing development of the organization’s 5-year Strategic Plan• Leading a 5-member committee and delegating tasks to complete self-driven projects that align with the organization’s strategic plan of improving house operations• Inspecting houses and monitoring utilities that the organization prorates• Writing regular managerial reports on progress• Presenting educational, training content for 1hr+ at events such as New Member Orientation, New House Officer Training, and Cooperative Leadership Training• Working and collaborating with the organizations 7 full-time staff members, especially the Director of Maintenance and Maintenance Staff to improve the organization’s institutional memory and maintenance education in the ICC houses• Writing and upholding policy & overseeing cases of damages to houses and assessing fines• Completed Projects: Centralized & environmentally conscious grease waste management with aggregation & disbursement company. Emergency evacuation and preparedness plan development. Shift towards OSHA compliance & more.

Dr. Gregory Dick's Geomicrobiology Lab.Experience in: DNA/RNA extraction with Qiagen DNeasy PowerSoil Kit, DNA/RNA quantitation using Picogreen & Ribogreen Fluorescence and spectroscopy, algae/cyanobacteria/heterotrophic bacteria culturing, cell counting, primary literature review, PCR and Gel Electrophoresis Preparation, Running, Imaging and Analysis, Quantitative and graphical problem solving skills (in Excel and ChemEQL), Collecting, processing and analyzing water samples, measuring the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in samples using acridinium ester-based chemiluminescence flow injection analysis.