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Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Establish and execute plans to achieve assigned sales targets and gross margin objectives.Execute all aspects of the sales process, including cost and price reviews, customer negotiation, and related account management activities.Manage current business for assigned accounts. Ensure adherence to customer delivery and quality expectations.Develop / maintain strong working relationships with NTN customers and internal stakeholders.Communicate customer issues in a timely manner.Enforce NTN sales terms and conditions and assist with collection of past due accounts.Maintain timely and accurate records on customer calls and meetings.

Newport News, Virginia, United States

Manages all nutritional needs for the entire museum’s animal care departments (bird & mammal, herpetology, and aquariums).Worked in cooperation with Bird and Mammal staff as well as other departments to achieve established facility/operational and AZA standards.Enhanced guest experience by interacting with museum visitors, providing engaging tours, and responding to inquiries. Managed and trained all new and existing volunteers in the bird and mammal department while integrating a new system with initiatives to retain volunteers in the future.Collaborated with suppliers to ensure all food deliveries and supplies for our department were delivered on time and to USDA requirements.Maintain adequate amounts of grain, produce, frozen prey items, meat, and fish for the department.Establishes and upholds workplace safety requirements such that volunteers will work in proximity to all taxa, which includes being near mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates are safe and do not touch, feed, engage, or enter enclosures unless instructed to do so.Ensures Bird and Mammal food preparation areas are clean, safe, and run efficiently. Worked alongside horticulture department to incorporate native plant species into animal diets.

Natural Bridge, Virginia, United States

Providing primary care for multiple different species such as Bison, Elk, Pere David, Scimitar Horned, Oryx, Scotch Highland Cattle, Emu, Ostrich, Grant's Zebra, Fallow Deer, Sika Deer, Axis Deer, Blackbuck.

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Gained valuable knowledge and skills relevant to animal husbandry and welfare in an AZA-accredited zoological institution. A hands-on position that is involved in all facets of our small zoo including animal nutrition, veterinary care, exhibit maintenance, facility maintenance, and landscaping.

Tavernier, Fl

• Maintaining avian species health through administration of various medications and fluid therapies.• Efficiently working with staff to help injured avian species with proper wound care, blood work, fecals, and x-rays.• Executing signs of illness and other abnormalities of patients and knowing how to immediately fix the problem to treat species successfully.• Properly diagnosing and then measuring/administering medications to the cats accordingly in their proper food diets.• Answering bird emergency calls at night and partaking in after-hour bird emergencies.• Keeping detailed and updated reports on sick and injured patients.• Feeding and cleaning of rehabilitation patients in medical cages and flight cages; including occasional weighing of patients, assessing condition, and noting diet changes.• Daily cleaning, husbandry, feeding, and enrichment of hospital/sanctuary residents throughout every shift.• Helping with any educational events such as occasional sanctuary tours and regular interactions with visitors.

Wylie, Tx

Responsible for diet preparation, feeding, cleaning enclosures, prepping and distributing enrichment, medical care administration at on-site clinic, record keeping, public education/tours, building new enclosures/general maintenance, and behavioral training.

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Feeding baby and adult songbirds of many different species.• Teaching fledgling birds to self-feed on natural food items, force feeding/gavaging non self-feeding birds. • Maintaining injured bird enclosures (cleaning, feeding and enclosure covers) and creating new enclosures that mimic the bird’s natural habitat depending on species. • Accepting and answering phone calls about new injured bird from the public while also obtaining the legally required information by following the proper intake protocol.• Efficiently updating the rescue, injury, and deceased information of all birds in the center into the national wildlife rehabilitation database.• Executing signs of illness and starvation of bird’s• Properly diagnosing and then measuring/administering proper medications/treatments to birds accordingly (wraps, splints, isolation).• Understanding how to properly handle and weigh wild birds.

Royal Oak Michigan

• Establishes strong personal and working relationships with designated client contacts to ensure that their dog is in safe care.• Responds and ensures to all messages from managers/clients to assure that dogs are being properly walked and returned home safely.• Executes great attention to detail in order to fulfill additional client requests for their homes and dogs such as locking all doors before and after appointment, feeding/treats, watering, harness, cleaning up dog waste in yard, and locking animal cages. • Executes a consistent walking pace of dogs in order to stay within scheduled time of walks so that customers are left pleased. • Ability to handle all breeds of dogs having various temperaments and sizes.• Efficiently work independently while being on feet for long periods of time outside in all Michigan weather conditions.

Auburn Hills, Mi

Support all FCA vehicle brands for major automotive shows and new vehicle reveals for RAM Trucks brands.

Walled Lake Northern High School

Novi, Michigan

McDonald's Account

Troy, Michigan

Albion, Michigan

Chicago, Illinois

Davison, Michigan

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mass Communication/Marketing & Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity, NCAA Athlete- Lacrosse, Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Business and Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Fisheries And Wildlife Sciences

Specialization in Terrestrial Wildlife (Avian Biology) and Animal Care Management (Zoos/Aquariums/Rehabilitators)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Urban Academic Practicum Fall 2013.

High School

Activities and Societies: DECA, Honor Roll, Varsity Lacrosse

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mass Communication/Media Studies