Sales Assistant
Resume:
Christopher Wermuth
Lubbock, TX *****
******.*******@*****.***
To apply the knowledge gained from diverse experiences in horticulture, laboratory work, ethnobotany, art, and general sales and management to parts of the country that may benefit not only from innovative and sustainable systems of agriculture, but also from new perspectives of sustainability in general, which are especially prudent in today's COVID world.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Salesman/Farmer/Laboratory Assistant
Portland Ashwagandha Farm - Portland, OR
June 2020 to September 2020
• Farmed ashwagandha plant, Tulsi (holy basil), bacopa, and blue vervain plants
• Worked in the kitchen, alchemy laboratory converting raw plant material into tincture form as herbal supplements
• Brought product to farmer's markets once or twice a week during the season
• Learned the shopify app for logging sales
• Boosted communication, sales, and self-management skills Sales Associate and Cashier
Portland Best Buds - Portland, OR
December 2019 to June 2020
• Improved sales and communication skills
• Opened up the shop three days a week
• Attended paid tours of state-of-the-art lab testing to insure highest quality product
• Performed onsite, in-store retail sales
• Built repertoire in personal relationships with customers, patients and vendors
• Responsible for retail sales and pharmaceutical sales
• Handled all prospective customer correspondence, including calls
• Verified customer and patient personal information
• Presented products to customers, to vendors and to patients
• Resolved register transaction issues
• Handled and followed up on escalations
• Provided customer, patient, vendor and technical support
• Provided exceptional customer service
• Stocked shelves
Farm Manager
Forest Farm @ Vernonia Springs - Vernonia, OR
February 2019 to November 2019
• Hired to design, construct, and manage an organic micro "forest farm" on a half-acre plot of land at a private wilderness retreat center/venue called Vernonia Springs
• Designed a spiraling raised bed garden with walkway trellises and irrigated row crops
• Built a coop to care for six laying hens
• Installed a deer fence, four wooden gates of entry into the farm, and a 1000 sq ft. propagation greenhouse
• Supplied commercial food cart on the property for Air Bnb guests
• Worked other side gigs like bartending weddings when needed
• Gave educational tours to interested guests
• Planted trees, general maintenance and handywork Horticulture Intern
Agape Farm & Retreat - Paonia, CO
May 2017 to September 2017
• 27-acre farm-to-table Bed & Breakfast in North Fork Valley off the Western slope of the Rocky Mountains
• Tended to a three-acre Pinot Gris vineyard (pruning, mowing, training, flooding) and multiple apple, plum, peach, apricot trees, cannabis/hemp
• Cared for a three-acre meditative Austrian Pine forest for guests
• Built 11 raised beds for dozens of varieties of organic vegetables, herbs, grains with built-in irrigation attached to main pump house
• Learned irrigation for 15 acres of certified organic alfalfa and clover
• Herded and cared for three alpacas, two goats
• Garden beautification around main house; general maintenance
• Daily fresh flower bouquet arrangements for each room
• Helped serve breakfast, clean-up, various odd jobs around the property
• Chauffeuring, giving guests tours of the local wineries Undergraduate Research Assistant for Dr. Chris J. Currey Iowa State University
January 2017 to May 2017
• Grew 400 spring annual bedding plants (four species, 100 plants per) in state-of-the-art greenhouse on campus
• 3x3 factorial experiment on plant growth regulators- Ethephon and benzyladenine- to observe synergistic responses of branching habits of each species of plant (one control group of pinching, no PGRs)
• Detailed journaling and observation, watering, spacing, randomizing, pinching
• Put together a physical presentation to peers and superiors at the end of semester describing results and implications
Horticulture Intern
Bailey Nurseries Inc - Yamhill, OR
May 2016 to August 2016
• Eight weeks in propagation greenhouses, LED tissue culture lab
• Three weeks of containerized, and bare root nursery crop production
• One week at Sauvie Island location pruning/training fruit trees and perennials
• One day per week spent touring other nurseries, farms, greenhouses, gardens, tissue culture labs
• Led the design, construction of a experimental corner courtyard with a stone-pathway lined with new cultivars of ornamental bedding plants bred by Bailey Nurseries and Oregon State University Undergraduate Student Horticulturist
Horticulture Research Farm - Iowa State University January 2016 to May 2016
• Pruned/trained several cultivars of apple and dwarf apple trees, grapevines
• Worked on apple-sorting assembly machine
• Washed, hand selected 300-lb-harvest of sweet potatoes
• Successfully grafted two varieties of apple rootstock and scions for production Outdoor Gardener
Reiman Gardens - Iowa State University
August 2015 to December 2015
• Watering, planting, transplanting, plant ID, dead heading, pruning, mulching
• Operated Toro Workman, manual tillers, John Deere rider mower/aerator
• Irrigation repair
• Growing, harvesting produce for Plant-A-Row for the hungry Landscape Maintenance/Gardener
Earthworks Inc - Irving, TX
May 2015 to July 2015
• Installed annual and perennial bedding plants for clients (apartments, restaurants, hospitals, churches)
• Mowing, edging, landscape beautification.
• Spoke some Spanish (conversational), as my foreman/coworkers were exclusively Mexican-American and spoke little English
Education
Iowa State
2014 to 2018
Bachelor's of Science in Horticulture
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Skills
• Irrigation (2 years)
• Horticulture (4 years)
• Gardening (10+ years)
• Lawn Care (10+ years)
• Growing Experience (5 years)
• Landscape Maintenance (4 years)
• Mowing (10+ years)
• Tree Care (3 years)
• Groundskeeping (3 years)
• Tree Trimming (1 year)
• MICROSOFT OFFICE (2 years)
• Mowing
• Tree Care
• Laboratory Experience
• Growing Experience
Awards
Grapevine Garden Club Horticulture Scholarship
August 2017
$1,500/semester for two years
NICE Award for academic scholarship (Iowa State, 2014-2018) August 2014
$1,500/semester for four years
Award for competitive excellence (Iowa State, 2014-2018) August 2014
$1,500/semester Supplemental scholarship for four years
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