Anne Marie Melenhorst
(Maria Gezina Henderika Melenhorst)
Coevorden, The Netherlands
003*-***-***-*** (home)
003*-***-***-*** (cell)
e-mail: z5p6hz@r.postjobfree.com
Career Objective
To serve an organization where my skills and capabilities would be explore in the best way for the organization benefit as well as my career.
Qualifications
• Team player
• Handling large animals
• Grooming , Bathing,Stripping
• Lunging and Bandaging
• Clipping & trimming
• First aid certificate – animal
• Drawing vaccines
• Assisting the veterinarian by holding dogs and cats as shots and tests are administered
• Helping customers determine which vaccines and products are best suited to the
• Teach beginners and advanced riders • Speak, read and write fluently in English, German and Dutch
• First aid – human
• CPR certificate
• Typing; 50 WPM
• Multi tasking
• Able to work with
Computer programs;
Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, Internet, E-mail
• Perform task/duties appropriate without supervision
• Handling stress situations
• Able to deal patiently with difficult people
• Highly motivated, reliable, confident and committed
• Excellent organizational talent
• Eager and quick learner
• Accurate in following
Instructions
Experience
• Diakonie Emlichheim (Hospice/Assisted Living) Germany); 2011-Present; Health care – health care aide/care giver
Administration, filing, receptionist, answering phones, scheduling rides/routes, sleep wakes, care wakes driving people to appointments, training new drivers, helping patients get dressed, child care, run errands for the hospice and household chores
Selectvracht- postal services; 2010-2011:
Sort and deliver mail and packages and valuable mail,
make packages ready for shipment, scanning packages
• Icare – The Netherlands); 2008 – 2010; Health care – home care aide; Cooking, cleaning, answering phone, Schedule appointment, driving clients/ patients to and from appointments, helping out with computer.
• Schoemaker’s Bakery; 2003-2009; assistant
Prepare bread/bread rolls/cake, answering phone, helping customers/clients at the counter and on the phone, taking orders, selling, make goods ready for shipment to clients/customers and stores, schedule routes/rides, instruct drivers
• Animal hospital Ommen (mixed practice); 2003; intern
Assist doctor with dental and surgical procedures, assist other staff members, prepare patients for surgery; weigh, wash and shave them, restrain patients, assist in taking x-rays and ultrasounds, prepare OR and treatment areas, clean, disinfect OR and instruments, administer medications, admit and discharge patients on doctor’s orders, work with electronic records, type, make phone calls, schedule appointments, counsel clients on aspects of animal medicine, update treatment sheet and medical files
• Veterinary Hospital Tubbergen (mixed practice); 2002; intern
Assist doctor with dental and surgical procedures, prepare patients for treatment or surgery, clean and disinfect OR and treatment areas, assist other staff members, restrain patients, make phone calls, keep hospital stocked
PTT; postal office worker; September 1998-2002 – part-time
Sort and deliver mail and small packages, helping clients at the counter, answering phone, take notes at meetings
• Ilderton Equine Clinic, Canada; 1996
During vacation – assist doctors during surgery, clean stables, monitoring patients after surgery
Equine experience
*2010-present; rider at Striper private stables
Ride, lunge, tack, feed, wash, clip, plait, bandaging horses. Also help out with cattle; feeding and milking.
*2002-2010 ; riding, training horses for different private stables
Ride, lunge, tack, feed, muck, wash, clip, plait, bandaging horses
*September 1994-2002; management assistant – rider; Striper private stables
Ride, lunge, feed, muck, wash, trim, clip and plait horses. Ride them at dressage competitions ( level3)
I did not have a groom so, did everything myself - also driving with trailer.
*June 1997; Organized the first annual Groene Welle Agricultural College Horse Competition with 3 other
Classmates. Show jumping and Dressage at Basic Level.
*Summer job 1996; Stud farm; Vrieling;
Taking care of two stallions(Samber and Usebio), mares and foals. Feeding, mucking
Stables, riding and assisting local veterinarian. They also had cattle, I helped out feeding and milking.
*1993-1994; intern - Mittendorff draught horse stables (HBC Stables).
Training, riding, feeding and mocking. Helping out at shows, prepare horses, put
Them before a cart.
*1988-September 1993; Dressage rider for private stable; Gerrit-Jan Vrieling
Riding, feeding, mocking stables. Compete in Dressage. Also helped out at his father’s Stud Farm, where
SAMBER, painted Dutch Warm-blood was held.
*1984-1988; started riding at academy.
*Since 1982; Pet sitter for our neighborhood pets. Mainly dogs and cats. Walking, feeding, grooming and sometimes take them to the vet
Education
• Studieplan (Leiderdorp, the Netherlands)
Veterinary knowledge and first aid
• Leids Educational Center (Leiderdorp, the Netherlands)
Veterinary technician (- paraveterinaire) 2010
2004
• Deltion College (Zwolle, the Netherlands)
Administration and Public Relation 1998
• Agricultural School – De Groene Welle (Zwolle, the Netherlands)
Instructor/Manager Equestrian Sports and Manager Cattle Breeding
*including a lunging diploma from ‘Friesian Horse Center’ Drachten (J. Hamminga)
* Milking cattle and feeding cattle during internships at mainly dairy farms
1997
COURSES
• Sorag Academy ( Helden, the Netherlands) 2002
Natural Healing
• Natural Healing Foundation (Utrecht, the Netherlands) 2000
Acupressure and Homeopathy for dogs and horses
Hobbies
Walking dogs, sometime s taking my brothers cats for a walk and horseback riding