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Waynesville, Nc, Us

Waynesville, North Carolina, United States

- Cultivated two acres of row crop space for specialty cut flower production. - Installed infrastructure for operational efficiency, including field irrigation, an office building, row crop support, and a greenhouse.- Planned and documented inventory including plant materials, chemicals, irrigation supplies, and field work supplies. -Organized excel documents that monitor field and sales data, and calculate profitability.- Created and implemented custom, unique floral design installations for over 10 wedding couples in 2021.-Built and customized a company website and integrated an e-commerce sales platform for clients worldwide. - Managed finances and budgeted for large farm improvement projects.- Developed advertising and marketing tools to enhance presence and reach for potential customers. - Coordinated and implemented agricultural cultivation techniques for high quality flower production.

Mills River, North Carolina, United States

- Provided food and packaged and draft beer services to guests. -Worked through the Covid-19 pandemic in various departments throughout the brewery including, production, brewery support, taproom takeout food, and natural resources.- Conducted work in the production facility to provide packaged beer to consumers.

Maggie Valley, Nc

- Supervised ski and snowboard instructors and organized ski area guests into groups to assign an instructor for lessons. - Developed and administered progressional curriculum specific to children’s learning preferences and capabilities, to ensure achievement of goals throughout the lessons. - Lead newly hired employees through work requirement orientation, and thorough training for improving personal skiing and teaching skills.

Mills River, North Carolina

- Responsible for facilitating and assisting in agricultural production for faculty and researchers involved in the ornamental breeding, tomato breeding, pathology, and entomology departments.- Assisted with various farm responsibilities including irrigation installation, planting, and general maintenance for orchard trees, tomatoes, ornamental plants, and alternative crops.- Conducted produce harvests throughout the field season for various research trials, and assisted with a variety of data collection techniques specific to particular studies.

- Managed logistics for a team of four field technicians, including sample collection forms and envelopes, coordinating route planning, supplies resources, data input, time-keeping, and volunteer coordination.- Worked cooperatively with the lead supervisor technician and other field technicians to facilitate standard field research protocol for survey site construction, hair sample collection, and site deconstruction. - Utilized and managed geospatial data regarding private property owner parcel information, to identify and establish survey sites that follow sampling protocols set by the Research Associate. - Created positive relationships with private property owners, national and state parks, USFS, NCWRC, and networked with community members using educational tools throughout the field season.

Haywood County, Nc

- Assisted in assessment of landscapes to determine efficient strategies for tree services. - Lead grounds work by removing felled limbs, brush, and tree trunks to haul from project site.- Operated chainsaws, pole saws, pruners, chippers and stump grinders, to remove unwanted trees. - Dedicated to providing high quality service for all customers.- Collaborated with Mentor to ensure efficient and safe tree removal, view trimming, lot clearing, stump grinding, and tree plantings. - Developed effective strategies for multitasking, and coordinating with Climber to assure safety protocols.

Vashon-Maury Island, Washington

-Utilized GPS technology and transect plots to collect sand samples for health analysis of forage fish populations in the Puget Sound.- Documented task performance and progress of projects conducted over a three-month period on Microsoft Excel and Word. - Conducted watershed conservation and stream maintenance projects by applying ecological structures to repair environments, and to restore local fish populations.- Assisted in sampling for forage fish eggs and data collection on beaches to monitor populations and spawning patterns in the Puget Sound for the Nature Conservancy on the island.- Assisted in maintenance of native plant species across 600 acres of land, to promote growth of riparian buffer zones along streams. - Assisted in trail maintenance for many trails on the island using weed eaters, pruners, loppers, and other small machinery.