Experience

MITCHELL'S ICE CREAM INC

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Kitchen Team Member

  • Apr 2014 - Present

  I make ice cream, train new employees, lead tours, and am a team leader.



Ohio Prairie Nursery

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Farm Manager

  • Feb 2009 - Nov 2013

  Combined extensive knowledge of native plants and ecosystems with hands on building and mechanical knowledge to help grow business through facility expansion and seed harvesting, processing, and planting. Installed rain gardens and native plantings in step pools.



Portage Park District

• Parks Steward

  • Sep 2000 - Aug 2007

  All-around park manager, overseeing trail design, construction, and maintenance, ecological management, mowing, building structures, nature interpretation, visitor outreach, volunteer management, equipment maintenance, property assessments.



Kent Roosevelt High School

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 1999 - Jul 2001

  Urban Forestry and Landscape Horticulture Vocational Program. Taught landscaping, hardscaping, tree and shrub pruning, tree climbing and felling, planting, maintained tools and equipment for a 6 district compact of high school juniors and seniors.



The Nature Conservancy - Florida Chapter

• Land Management Intern

  • Sep 1991 - Jun 1993

  Implemented a long term monitoring study on the effects of prescribed fire in the Longleaf Pine/Wire Grass Sandhill plant communities in Central Florida. Assisted with land management on seven TNC preserves, maintained all equipment and tools, including prescribed fire equipment. Was prescribed fire crew member on the TNC Lake Wales Fire Team (86 prescribed fires/3 wild fires). Collected data on ongoing rare plant monitoring sites.