Experience crew leader
Americorps / Nevada Conservation Corps; Nevada May 2010-September 2010
Skills Needed: camping, building trails, chainsaw use, wilderness first
aid certification, leadership skills, ability to teach new skills to
others, safety around tools, traveling long distances in vehicles, working
long hours in all types of weather, ability to adapt to new situations,
ability to work independently, physical labor, working and living with your
co-workers.
Reason Left: My contract ended on September 9, 2010.
Crew member
Americorps / Nevada Conservation Corps; Nevada August 2008-May 2010
Skills Needed: camping, building trails, chainsaw use, first aid, safety
around tools, traveling long distances in vehicles, working long hours in
all types of weather, ability to adapt to new situations, ability to work
independently, physical labor, working and living with your co-workers.
Reason Left: My contract ended on September 9, 2010.
office assistant
Peterson, Johnson, and Murray; Milwaukee, WI August 2007-July 2008
Skills Needed: data entry, billing, filing, closing cases, mailing out
checks, sending past due statements, destroying files, reception desk,
answering phones and transferring calls, helping clients, good customer
service, mail room, using Word and Omega programs, using Groupwise inter-
office email, using the copying machine, doing other various miscellaneous
projects that are assigned to me.
Reason Left: I had received and accepted a job working for the Nevada
Conservation Corps.
FOOD WORKER/CASHIER
Restaurant Operations; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Aug. 2004-Oct. 2006
Skills Needed: preparing food, unloading food orders, making sandwiches at
Burger King, cooking food, keeping the lobby clean, helping customers with
questions and problems, cashiering.
Reason Left: I had enough work to do at Chiropractic Company to keep me
busy.
insurance coordinator
Chiropractic Company; Shorewood and Glendale, WI Sept. 2001-May 2007
Skills Needed: entering patient visits, entering insurance and patient
payments, printing/sending out medical claims, fixing insurance problems,
sending out requested medical records, billing, collections, insurance
verification, using Word and Eclipse programs, using copying and fax
machines, having good customer service at the front desk, answering phones,
helping patients, scheduling patients, filing.
Reason Left: I went on a volunteer trip to Ecuador and was unable to take
a leave of absence.
Side-note: I started as an office assistant in Sept. 2001. I worked my
way up to being the insurance coordinator of the Shorewood Clinic over the
years that I worked for Chiropractic Company.
KENNEL WORKER/DOG BATHER
Trim Time Pet Center; Glendale, WI Nov. 1999-May 2001
Skills Needed: taking care of dogs and cats in the kennel, feeding animals
on time and with appropriate food requirements, cleaning cages, playing
with animals, bathing dogs for the groomers, drying dogs, laundry,
productive animal skills
Reason Left: I was getting ready to go to college.
Education nicolet high school
Glendale, WI - 1998-2001
University of Wisconsin-milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI - 2002-2008
Major: Women's Studies; Certificate: Cultures and Communities; Golden Key
Honor Society Member
Adelman travel academy
Milwaukee, WI - summer of 2006
Certification in the travel industry
languages Spanish; 7th grade-senior year in high school
American Sign Language; Fall Semester 2002-Fall Semester 2006
VOLUNTEER * I have worked at a women's center making food and interacting
with the women.
I have donated blood on a regular basis.
I spent two weeks in Costa Rica doing organic farming and feeding
endangered Macaws.
I spent two weeks in Ecuador doing conservation work in the rain forest.
I have participated in different walk/run events to raise money for
different foundations.
I was a Big Sister in the Big Sister, Big Brother Program from 2006-2008 (I
had the same Little for the whole 2 years and I still talk to her).
I helped teach English as a Second Language and teach adults to read at
Literacy Services of Wisconsin (I did this for one semester).
I was an Americorps volunteer for the Nevada Conservation Corps from August
2008-September 2010.