Experience

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  St. Charles Community College

  • Cottleville, Missouri

  • Grounds Manager

    • Nov 2018 - Present
    • Cottleville, Missouri

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  City of St. Charles Parks & Recreation

  • St. Charles Mo.

  • Horticulturist

    • 1991 - Nov 2018
    • St. Charles Mo.

    Manages and maintains all landscaping within about half of 23 plus parks, Formally did all parks. Currently the Park's have over 8 acres of Landcape beds, and over 5000 trees that are managed. This includes landscape design/planning, planting, and maintaining all landscape beds, maintenance of athletic fields, irrigation management, and management of urban forest. The Parks include Blanchette, Berthold, Kister, Frontier, Blanchette Landing, Frenchtown, Eco Park Trail Head, Regot, Bales, Foxhill, Boschert Greenway, Soccer Park, and Fountain Lakes. Blanchette Park is the oldest public Park in St. Charles County, where Ben Rau Memorial Garden and a Rose Garden is located. This Park also includes the greenhouse facility where we grow 8000 annuals every year, grow 50 bloomaster baskets and perennials. Other Parks that are heavily landscaped include the Park's by Historic Main St. (Kister, Frontier, Berthold, and Eco Park Trailhead.)Professional ExperienceLandscape Design in Parks and other City PropertyLandscape installation, renovation, and maintenance.Athletic Field installation, Grading, Renovation and Turf Managment.Irrigation Installation, trouble shooting, repairs and management. Manages Smartlink.Installation of hardscape retaining walls and walkways.Manages Urban Trees, installation, removals and new plantings.Manages Greenhouse facility to grow Annuals, Perennials, Roses, and Tropicals.Manages Prairie and Wetland areas.Develop's Management plans for EAB, Turf, and Mowing.Recommends and manages projects within budget.Operates Skid Loader, Tractors, Backhoes, Dump truck, chippers, snowplowsPurchases materials, gets bids for purchase orders.Supervises seasonal employees, Participates in Supervisor on call.Organization Committees, Beautication ( Tree City USA, Landscaping & Tree Preservation Ordinances, I70 Landscaping, First Capital Road Landscaping, SBA Grant for Riverfront and Wapelhorst Park) Safety, Wapelhorst Pool(1995). More

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  Monsanto Company

  • Creve Coeur, MO.

  • Horticulture Intern

    • May 1990 - Aug 1990
    • Creve Coeur, MO.

    Maintained Landscaping at Monsanto World Headquarters Campus

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  City of St. Louis Forestry Division

  • St. Louis Missouri

  • Reforestation Surveyor

    • May 1989 - Aug 1989
    • St. Louis Missouri

    Surveyed Trees in City Parks, and Drew up landscape plans.

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  Raintree Nursery Ltd

  • St. Peters Missouri

  • Nursery Sales

    • Mar 1988 - Aug 1988
    • St. Peters Missouri

    Sales and maintenance of plants.

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  St. Louis Community College at Meramec

  • Kirkwood MO.

  • Horticulture Lab Technician

    • May 1987 - Aug 1987
    • Kirkwood MO.

    Supervised and maintained, Greenhouses, Turf Plots, Nursery and Rose garden.