Experience

EMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Wildlife Technician

  • May 2021 - Present

  Providing general husbandry and medicinal diagnosis to orphaned, injured, and ill native Florida species. Work together with volunteers and interns of varying background capabilities to harness the best approach and propel patients through the rehabilitation process, ending with the ultimate goal of releasing patients back into the wild. Understanding and balancing the delicate boundary between the urban human world and the individual wildlife species it affects. Providing general husbandry and medicinal diagnosis to orphaned, injured, and ill native Florida species. Work together with volunteers and interns of varying background capabilities to harness the best approach and propel patients through the rehabilitation process, ending with the ultimate goal of releasing patients back into the wild. Understanding and balancing the delicate boundary between the urban human world and the individual wildlife species it affects.



Defense Commissary Agency

• United States
• Retail Groceries
• 700 & Above Employee

• Store Associate

  • Jun 2020 - Mar 2021

  Provided a necessary community service by stocking product and cashing out customer transactions at registers. Provided customized customer service to active United States military community, retirees, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) personnel, and others. Effectively conducted procedures for both opening and closing financial aspects of the store by acting as change fund custodian operating in the cash cage. Trusted daily to count and organize $10,000 USD in notes and coinage inside safe.



Air Force Inns

• United States
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance Specialist and Guest Service Representative

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2019

  Exceeded minimum inspection quotas of over 9 guest rooms per week. Examined areas for immaculate cleanliness, working electronics, and intact furniture. Alerted management, housekeeping, or maintenance of any defects. Oversaw all employee training for United States’ Non-Appropriated Funding (NAF), British Military office of Defense (MOD) and Local British Nationals Direct Hire (LNDH). Versioning included electronic courses, paper material, and attending in-person classes. Provided polished and customized customer service to DoD, Department of State (DoS), Department of Homeland Security, Foreign National, and civilian personnel. Helped customers and collaborated with coworkers of varying cultural, ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds.

• Head Wildlife Rehabiliation Intern

  • Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

  Worked over 700 hours total and provided and clinical rehabilitation services to over 53 endemic Florida fauna that ranged from non-threatened to endangered species. Sanitized, cleaned, and cleared cages of daily debris and fecal material. Provided customized bedding, new meals, and fresh water daily to meet the unique needs of individual species. Apprenticed under licensed practitioners on how to syringe feed neonatal mammals and make formula at appropriate concentrations and dosages. Acquired skills to safely handle wildlife species such as raptors, small mammals, songbirds, shorebirds, and turtles.• Administered both injectable and oral medications. Understood ideal selections for syringes, needle gauges, and anatomical location for administering intramuscular shots on raptors and subcutaneous fluids to mammals, birds, and reptiles. Acted as scribe for three infant Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) necropsies and one Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) necropsy as required by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Participated with supervisory technician in a successful re-nesting operation for two Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) nestlings. Collected, recorded, and sampled 14 deceased pelagic bird carcasses from the local coastline areas at the request of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and assisted rehabilitation technician in labeling and bagging same specimens. Answered calls of concerned Florida citizens and tourists with injured animals. Regularly participated and headed rescue missions with other interns. Lauded by supervision and promoted to head intern. Ensured smooth operations while staff was out of office. Taught new volunteers and other interns basic daily routines, work responsibilities, medicinal applications, and animal handling techniques.



University of Wyoming

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2015 - May 2017

  Conducted research, formatted presentations, and attended regular lab meetings in the Wildlife Cooperation Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and worked jointly with both graduate students and Ph.D. candidates. Executed a two-year long experiment concentrating on parental care behaviors of adult Sage Thrashers (Oreoscoptes montanus), a sagebrush obligate songbird which exhibits biparental care. Documented if frequency of trips made by parents to the nest attracted predators and affected probability of nest predation from both mammalian and avian predators. Analyzed 170 hours of trap-camera video caught in summers of 2015 and 2016. Documented time stamps of arrival, departure, and visitation of adult birds to their nests in detailed Excel document. Actions of parent birds were categorized as on or off bounds, or visits and were transcribed into % attentiveness. Established trends in data using Program R, a statistical analysis engine. Produced graphical representations of linear regression and conducted Akaike information criterion (AIC) modeling, to establish most efficient mode. Research is currently in prep for scientific journal publication.



Boise State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • May 2016 - Jul 2016

  At Boise State University in Boise, Idaho I was paired with my mentor Dr. Todd Katzner on this National Science Foundation sponsored program. The Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program in Raptor Research allowed for eight undergraduates from all over the country to participate in hands-on research opportunities. The acceptance rates was 2.5%, and I was chosen to be apart of this amaizng program. We researched spatial and temporal characteristics of an Eastern United States Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) population. I individually visually sorted 370,307 photos collected from cameras active for three years and visually aged Golden Eagles in 63,258 photos, leading to a total estimate of 356 individuals. With Dr. Katzner's guidance, we used Program R to conduct a chi square and Wilcoxon test for statistical analysis. I masterfully used Microsoft Excel to graphically represent age abundances per site and depict linear regression models. My project's weight was more than what the original 3 month REU program at Boise State University was designed to handle, so I independently chose to continue collecting data at the University of Wyoming and learned how to properly network with colleagues and mentors over email and calls. We began drafting a paper for publication, which was now at the time I had move to England, and thanks to the dedicated hard work of my mentors, we officially published the paper in the Journal of Field Ornithology in March 2020.



Northwest College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2013 - May 2015

  Worked within the WY IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research (INBRE) program and worked under mentor Mr. Eric Atkinson. Established research goals and learned introductory processes of scientific literature research and conducting experiments. Implemented and conducted two independent research projects over two years. Independently assessed songbird species richness and evenness on Northwest Community campus and surrounding areas. Collected data using several point count locations, each for a duration of 10 minutes, in the early morning daily for three months. Collected fecal samples from wild bat populations in the field. Learned accurate preparation techniques for slides. Conducted appropriate procedures to harvest needed intestinal parasites from vials. Presented each project as a poster presentation at a state-wide educational science conference.