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Inspect cheese from Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Croatia.Assess the quality of the product and its packaging and provide support and analysis to the Senior Quality Control Inspector.

Assist the sales department through data and inventory managementAssist the Head of Quality Control at the recieving warehouse through monitoring cheese arriving from Europe

Making and aging cheese: washed rind, bloomy rind, natural rindWholesale orders and invoicesManaging and training new apprentices

Assist and guide customers to select cheeses of approximately 300 foreign and domestic cheesesComplete cave tasks unsupervised: washing and flipping cheeses, creating brine solutions, brushing mites, cleaning cavesCleaned caves, shelves, racks, and other cave equipment- thoroughly and keeping very sanitaryPerform merchandising tasks; checking invoices and prices as well as building merchandise displaysInstructed the “How to Speak Cheese” class that covered the topics of different categories of cheese and their various flavors and encouraged students to describe those flavors as they tasted the cheese

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Geographic Information System specialist at the research and planning department at the Archdiocese of PhiladelphiaUse GIS to create vector maps for Parish and school planning, and perform comparative analyses with recent Census data.Create and manage the foundational databases of the Archdiocese GIS systemUse of SQL and Python

Washington, Dc, Us

Create suitability analysis models using ArcGISAssisting in the creation of the Watershed Resource Registry National Pilot ProjectResearch hydric soils in watersheds and composed a report for watershed restoration regarding the Alternate route 301 project in MDGathered data and compiled results for the Draft Interim Regional Supplement to the Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation manual for the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Region.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Managed, oversaw, and performed plant physiology experiments that provided data for On the Controls of Leaf-Water Oxygen Isotope Ratios in the Atmospheric Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Epiphyte Tillandsia Usneoides as published in the journal Plant Physiologywww.plantphisiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.111.172494Learned new software and use of various laboratory machinery: dataloggers, mass spectrometer & gas chromatographExtracted alpha-cellulose from Tillandsia usneoides through a chemical procedureCollected and analyzed data using Microsoft Word and ExcelOrdered lab materials, organized requisition forms, and called manufacturers

Bachelor'S, Biology; Environmental Science

Certification, Landscape Architecture

Masters, Environmental Policy