NICOLE Talbo
*** ******** ******* ****, *************, GA 30043 C: 678-***-**** **********@*****.***
Summary
Compassionate animal care professional specializing in caring for less commonly owned pets such as rodents, reptiles, and arachnids. Experience in pet-sitting, pet-sales, rat and chinchilla breeding, and wild animal rehabilitation. Excited about taking the next step in furthering my knowledge and expertise in animal related work or exercising my organizational and customer service skills.
Highlights
• Animal lover
• Companion animal behavior specialist
• Experience in breeding rodents
• Experience with large variety of animal species
• Certified in pet first-aid
• Dedicated to learning all I can about working with animals
• Efficient multi-tasker
• Ability to exercise discretion and keep clients personal information confidential.
• Strong work ethic
• Experience with extremely diverse clientele
• Responsible and reliable
• Computer-literate
• Sales expertise
• Clear-headed under pressure
• Adaptable
• Dependable
• Respectful
• Well organized
• Excellent time management skills
• Experience with multiline telephone exchange systems
• Able to deescalate tense situations of conflict
• Strong Customer Service skills with over 10 years experience dealing with the public
Experience
02/2012 to 06/2016
11/2017 to 08/2020
Associate Petsmart – Atlanta, GA
Primary duties include providing caring for, feeding, and monitoring animals in the store, habitat cleaning and maintenance, administering medications and care for sick or injured animals, sales, customer service, cashiering, and stocking.
11/2016 to 9/2017
Veterinary Assistant
VIP Petcare
Work as a veterinary clinic technician for a mobile pet vaccine clinic. Duties include proper and safe restraint of animals, administering vaccines, sales, and customer service.
05/2011 to 09/2013
Volunteer and Ambassador Animal Handler
Atlanta Wild Animal Rescue Effort (AWARE) - Lithonia, GA
Rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals native to Georgia. Other duties included feeding, socializing, and training animals, assisting in medical procedures, cleaning, ground maintenance, and working with the animals to educate the public.
Education
Veterinary Technology
Gwinnett Technical College - Lawrenceville, GA, United States
Attended Fall 2013
History
Kennesaw State University - Kennesaw, GA, United States
Attended in Spring 2013.
Linguistics
Gainesville State College - Oakwood, GA, United States
Attended from Fall 2009 to Spring 2012.
References
• Jackie David
Petsmart Petcare Department Manager
Former Supervisor
• Lauren Erickson
Surgical Nurse
Pet-sitting Client
• Marjan Ghadrdan
Wild Animal Rehabilitator
Former Boss at AWARE
• Juleanne Weed
Petsmart Associate/Groomer/Dog Trainer
Former Petsmart Coworker