Darbi Jo Kipfer
Cedar Park, Texas 78613
*********@*****.***
Summary
Seeking full time or part time employment with a respectable company for a long-term position and career.
Highlights
Happy and High Spirited
Conflict resolution techniques
First Aid and CPR Certified
Child Care Management Software, MS Office, Word, Excel, and QuickBooks
Strong communicator and motivator
Talented and creative
Responsible and dependable
Hard working and people oriental professional with diverse experience
Preschool Teacher for 20 years+
Experience
Travel Agent
August 2015 to Recent 2017
Academy Travel and Mickey Vacations
Duties include sales, marketing, and advertising on destination and vacation packages; international and domestic. I book hotels, flights, car rentals, limos, dining reservations, and more. I organize, plan, and book vacations according to my client’s desire and needs. I offer typed up documents and spreadsheets along with other important information to help the client on their trip for personal travel and for business purposes.
After School Teacher/Lower and Upper School Substitute
August 2014 to Recent 2017
Hill Country Christian School- Austin, Texas
Duties include watching children providing them supervision and a safe environment. Provide games and engage in play, homework help and reading centers, follow lesson plans and maintain classroom management for substituting PreK-12 grade, After-School Teacher, Early Release Monday Teacher
Teacher
August 2009 to Recent 2017
Hill Country Bible Church - Austin, Texas
Duties include talking care of children ages infants, preschool, and pre-k children.
Teach Bible lesson, supervise in crafts and art, supervise outside play, provide love and care to all
children, prepare snack and feed each child a light snack. Main objective being to provide a safe and
loving environment for the children in a Christ center/Christ focus place.
Nanny
August 2012 to May 2013
Kathy Curfman - Austin, Texas
Duties include taking care of children age 8 and age 3.
Driving to events, pick up/drop offs from school and to school, Cooking, cleaning.
Laundry, tidy and pick up after children.
Safety and protection of children, crafts, education, homework.
Lead Teacher/ Assistant Office Manager/Curriculum Coordinator
March 2011 to February 2012
Hatch House School - Cedar Park, Texas
I was a teacher for the 3 and 4 year old class and then got the opportunity to work with the private kinder class as the assistant teacher then moving up to lead teacher.
I taught children phonics, HWWOT curriculum, Abeka and Marie Montessori with works from the classroom and teacher training.
I helped in the office working close with the director as her assistant and was the curriculum coordinator for each age group infants to school aged.
Nanny
February 2008 to April 2009
Ryan and Kaisha Bartholomew – Austin, Texas
Nanny, Ryan and Kaisha Bartholomew.
Duties included: entertaining twin children, reading, teaching educational tools, preparing meals and
bottles, changing diapers, singing and dancing, field trips.
Assistant Director/Office Manager
January 2006 to February 2008
TLC Child Development Center, Angela Basset - Dallas, Texas
filing, copies, children and staff folders, giving out medicine, keeping up with up to date state ratios and
numbers, and revisions, making daily schedules for teacher's breaks and lunches, making the lessons plans
for each age group on a monthly basis, field trip coordinator and summer schedules. Taking new prospect
families on tours of the school and showing them around.
Lead Teacher
January 2001 to January 2004
Parker Chase Child Development Center - Plano, Teacher
taught children lessons that was appropriate for their development age, sang and danced, made lessons
plans, creative play, did creative crafts and holiday decor, read books and did story time and circle time
everyday.
Education
Royal Caribbean International- Cruise Sales Specialist Certification, 2017
Hotel Excellence By Marriott- Hotel Sales and Marketing Certification, 2017
Academy Travel- College of Disney Knowledge and Cruises Certification-2015
Austin Community College- Cedar Park, Family and Early Childhood Council, Recent- 2015-2017
Tick Tock Training- Texas Director Licensing of Child Care Centers, Child Development Associate Degree 2017
Collin County Junior College - Plano, Texas, Montessori Education and Early Childhood Education, 2005
South Plains Junior College – Levelland, Texas
Howard College - San Angelo, Texas
High School Diploma, Santa Anna ISD 1997
(References upon request)