JARROD TRAVIS LEA

DOB: **-**-**

PHONE: 202-***-****

EMAIL: ac27ze@r.postjobfree.com

KEY STRENGTHS

Confident and competent

Self- motivated and resourceful

Quick learning

Reliable and punctual

Hardworking and efficient

Ability to manage, supervise, work unsupervised and in a team environment.

OBJECTIVE

To work with animals, particularly with the preservation of species and their habitats. To be able to make a difference to the welfare and needs of animals housed in captive environments through environmental enrichment and proper husbandry. To train, help and educate other people in this area of expertise.

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

Bushwalking, camping, fishing, snorkeling, bodyboarding, mountain bike riding, kayaking, photography, wildlife watching, scuba diving, osteology and conservation.

EDUCATION

1989 Victorian Certificate of Education Vermont High School

-English, Geography, Biology, Environmental Science, Australian Studies

1991 Certificate of Animal Care Box Hill TAFE

1993- 1997 Associate Diploma of Animal Technology Box Hill TAFE

(Not completed due to moving interstate to work with camels)

2009 Certificate 4 in Tourism Guiding Charles Darwin University

EMPLOYMENT

2010- 2014 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SENIOR LARGE MAMMAL AND AQUATIC LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

I was employed at NUS as a senior laboratory technician specializing in large mammals and aquatic species. I was responsible for the husbandry, maintenance and enrichment of pigs, rabbits, Xenopus frogs, zebrafish and medaka. Other duties included feed and bedding stocktaking, assisting with preparation of pigs for surgery, health monitoring, operating cage washing equipment and autoclaves, supervising the quarantine section and fulfilling drug and equipment orders for researchers.

2005- 2010 ULURU CAMEL TOURS CAMELEER/ MANAGER

I was employed at this popular tourist destination in central Australia managing the operations of the Uluru Camel Depot.

Duties involve daily camel husbandry, including enclosure maintenance, cleaning, feeding, health observations and treatment, drenching, drug administration and nutritional supplementation, blood collections, injections, environmental enrichment and training of camels (both wild caught and captive bred) to use for guided walks and racing.

Other duties include tourist guiding and customer service, farm maintenance, machinery operation (tractor/backhoe and chainsaw), hiring and training new staff, bookwork, banking and stocktaking. I also took part and raced in the annual Alice Springs Camel Cup.

Camel operations include 1 hour rides through the sand dunes to short yard rides. Visitors are given an appreciation of the camel, its behavioural needs and history in Australia, natural history of the western desert and cultural insights into the lives of local Anangu.

2004- 2005 HOWARD FLOREY INSTITUTE and the

NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FACILITY ANIMAL TECHNICIAN

I was employed here as a technician performing husbandry and maintenance of transgenic rodent colonies for biomedical research. Duties included breeding, health observations, behavioral testing, drug administration, postoperative care and environmental enrichment and enhancement..

2004 MONASH UNIVERSITY ANATOMY MUSEUM SUPERVISOR

This was a temporary fill-in role. Duties included maintaining the museum’s wet and dry specimen collection, preparing and setting up equipment including cadavers for student use, cleaning and maintaining the human specimens and full cadavers, organizing daily course requirements for academic staff and any hands on help that needed to be fulfilled.

2001- 2003 DAVIDSONS ARNHEMLAND SAFARIS SENIOR GUIDE

Davidsons Arnhemland Safaris offer extended stays at a remote safari camp situated at Mt Borradaille in Western Arnhemland. As senior guide, my responsibilities included staff training in all aspects of culture, rock art, natural history and site protection, organizing daily tours into the 700 sq. km lease and conducting tours for small groups in a diverse range of ecosystems including floodplain, savannah woodland, monsoon rainforest, sandstone outcrops and sensitive archeological sites.

Duties included eco, fishing and pig hunting guide, boat operator, fill-in camp manager, cook (catering for groups from 1 to 40 people), staff training, ordering of supplies, camp maintenance, road maintenance, vehicle and boat maintenance, archeological site protection, feral species (plants and animals) monitoring and control, fire fighting and traditional patch burning.

2001- 2002 ALICE SPRINGS DESERT PARK ZOOKEEPER

This was a temporary fill-in role. Duties included the husbandry, maintenance and enrichment of a wide range of native animal species including mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, frogs and invertebrates, maintenance of the enclosures, veterinary treatments and maintenance of invertebrate colonies for animal food.

2001 DISCOVERY ECOTOURS WILDLIFE SHOW PRESENTER

Fill-in role. With this position I was presenting tourists with daily wildlife shows of Predators of the Red Centre.

My role included performing wildlife shows with animals for visitors, husbandry of reptiles (venomous and non-venomous species) and dingoes, as well as the environmental enrichment and maintenance of the animal enclosures.

2000 SEVEN SPIRIT BAY WILDERNESS LODGE GUIDE

Fill-in role. Conduct daily tours into a range of ecosystems including foreshore, monsoon vine forest, savannah woodland and paperbark wetland on the Cobourg Peninsula in northwest Arnhemland. Responsibilities included customer service, giving guests an insight into these ecosystems, local culture and natural history, keeping guests safe in very remote locations and general resort maintenance.

2000- 2001 DISCOVERY ECOTOURS GUIDE/ AREA SUPERVISOR

Organize and conduct 3- 5 day safaris through the Top-end including Litchfield, Kakadu, Arnhemland and Cobourg Peninsula. Duties included- guiding, cooking, four-wheel driving, camp setup and maintenance, ordering of supplies, tour reports and devising tour itineraries.

1999- 2000 ULURU EXPERIENCE TOUR GUIDE

Conduct daily tours within Uluru- Kata Tjuta National Park and Curtin Springs/ Mt Conner. Duties included organizing tour supplies, maintenance of vehicles, four-wheel driving and giving clients an insight into the culture and natural history of the western desert.

January 1998 and March 1999:

NORTHERN TERRITORY UNIVERSITY VOLUNTEER NATURALIST

I volunteered assisting students conducting field research in remote areas of Australia. I was performing tasks such as using GPS units and radio-tracking devices to find and capture reptile species in the extreme conditions of outback Australia that had been fitted with microchip implants for use as research subjects.

1997- 1999 FRONTIER CAMEL TOURS CAMELEER

In this position I conducted daily camel rides for groups from 2- 40 people in Alice Springs and Uluru, Central Australia.

Duties included tourist guiding, camel husbandry, enrichment and training (both wild caught and captive bred camels), health observations, staff training, bookwork, stocktaking, taking reservations, customer service, farm maintenance and camel racing.

February 1996 VOLUNTEER NATURALIST SCOTIA SANCTUARY

(BROKEN HILL, NSW)

Here I was responsible for helping with trapping and identification of reptile and other animal species found in the remote area of NSW. The data collected during this short time was used to form a species list for researchers, ecologists and visitors alike. The data was also used to make a visitor’s guide to establish the sanctuary as a tourist destination.

1992- 1997 MONASH UNI ANIMAL SERVICES ANIMAL TECHNICIAN

I was employed here to perform the husbandry, maintenance and enrichment for a variety of animal species including pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, monkeys, geese, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, wombats, toads and a range of dasyures (carnivorous marsupials)

Performance of procedures such as capture and restraint of animals and training fellow staff in this area of expertise, administration of drugs, various injection techniques, identification tattooing, blood and bodily fluid collection, ear tagging and notching, lamb castration/ tail docking, euthanasia of all species, manufacture of invertebrate breeding boxes and maintaining the invertebrate breeding colonies (crickets, cockroaches, mealworms, phasmids (stick insects) for use as food supplements and enrichment for the animals housed.

During this period I was also employed as supervisor, running the Monash University Physiology Animal House, performing all of the above tasks, taking care of animal orders, stocktaking and records, computer records, salary calculations, writing rosters, supervising and training staff, allocating fair workloads between staff members and any other procedures that needed to be fulfilled whenever they arose within the facility.

I was a panel member of the Animal Ethics Committee, completed the Fire Safety Course and was an OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) representative.

1987- 1992 RED ROOSTER KITCHENHAND

Duties included preparation of food, cleaning, stocktaking and stock control, customer service, staff training and banking.

OTHER SKILLS/ ACHIEVEMENTS

Australian NT drivers license with LR endorsement for driving light trucks and buses.

PADI certified open water diver.

Completed Advanced Aquatic Animal Care and Health and Husbandry of Aquatic Laboratory Animals courses at the Canadian Aquaculture Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.

Completed Fire Safety Education and Fire Warden courses.

Completed RCULA course. (Responsible Care and Use of Laboratory Animals)

Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate.

Accredited Savannah Guides Site Interpreter.

Completed UKTNP (Uluru- Kata Tjuta National Park) Tour Operators workshop.

Licensed private wildlife keeper for 25 years including husbandry, habitat construction and environmental enrichment (animals kept included possums, kowaris, various reptiles including venomous and non-venomous species, frogs, fish and invertebrates.)

Managed sustainable insect breeding colonies for use as food supplements.

Experience with animal tracking, trapping, catching, restraining, handling and relocation or euthanizing various species (from snakes to camels). Extensive experience with venomous snake and feral cat capture and relocation.

Racing camels.

Assisted with walking track construction at Wilsons Promontory and Gariwerd National Parks in Victoria.

Assisted with wildlife surveys and trapping for the Alice Springs Desert Park- experienced with Elliot trapping and construction of pit lines.

Experience driving a backhoe/ tractor and using a chainsaw.

Camera trapping and tree propagation and re-planting of cleared land along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo.

REFERENCES

Justin Patch- Laboratory Executive NUS Ph.84811138

Peter Comber- Senior Zookeeper Healesville Sanctuary Ph.+614********

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