Experience
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The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, Intern
May 2015 - August 2015 (4 months) Virginia Beach, VA
Perform all tasks encompassing production in Arboriculture. Responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to: processing debris, chainsaw use, bucket operation, crane jobs, plant health care, tree climbing, and storm damage assistance. Became well rehearsed with tree removals, pruning and cabling/bracing. Attended and participated in aerial rescue training.
Virginia Tech Hahn Horticulture Garden, Garden Assistant
August 2015 - Present Blacksburg, VA
Maintain the public garden intended for student and community education. Work for 20 hours per week while being enrolled as a full time student. Tasks include but are not limited to: watering, installation of plant material, new landscape plan implementation, landscape maintenance, hardscape installation and much more. This venture double as both employment and as a learning experience.
The Brickman Group, Intern
May 2014 – August 2014 (4 months)Chesapeake, VA
Worked in several facets of the BRICKMAN Group, Chesapeake, VA Branch location.
Served as a crew member on the work order/enhancement crew, maintenance crew, and detail crew. Tasks included but are not limited to: client relations, repairing soil problems, installing plant material into landscapes, edging, trimming, mowing, flower bed maintenance, spraying herbicide, pruning shrubs and small to medium sized trees, fertilization, and much more. All while having in mind an eye for quality work.
Lancaster Farms, Production Assistant
March 2014 – March 2014 (1 month) Suffolk, VA
Served on the production team, covered and uncovered greenhouses, dumped old nursery stock, planted annuals, anchored shade cloths, spaced nursery stock, and much more.
Comissioner of the Revenue - City of Portsmouth, Clerk of the Deputy
December 2013 – January 2014 (2 months) Portsmouth, VA
Belmont Christmas Tree Farm, Farm Hand
June 2013 – August 2013 (3 months) Spotsylvania, VA
Assisted in weeding, scouting, and shearing blue spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, fraser fir, and Leyland cypress Christmas trees
Woodberry Forest School, Grounds Intern
May 2013 – August 2013 (4 months) Woodberry, VA
Served as a member of a grounds team of 14 and assisted in maintaining 1200 acres of beautiful landscape
Duties included but are not limited to: spraying pesticides, managing IPM, weedeating, edging, mowing athletic fields, mulching, flower bed design and maintenance, lawn establishment, tree cleanup, aeration of athletic fields, and trail maintenance
Bennett's Creek Wholesale Nursery, Production Assistant
March 2012 – March 2013 (1 year 1 month) Suffolk, VA
Assisted in production, tasks include: transplanting plants, consolidating liners, glazing and deglazing greenhouses, fixing irrigation problems, cleaning greenhouses and mats (IPM), fertilization, pulling orders, loading/unloading trucks, and watering
Landscape Maintenance, Self Employed
March 2007 – August 2012 (5 years 6 months) Portsmouth, VA
Maintained 8 lawns including one commercial property, tasks included, mowing, trimming, edging, yard cleanup, weeding, planting, and mulching
May 2015 - August 2015 (4 months) Virginia Beach, VA
Perform all tasks encompassing production in Arboriculture. Responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to: processing debris, chainsaw use, bucket operation, crane jobs, plant health care, tree climbing, and storm damage assistance. Became well rehearsed with tree removals, pruning and cabling/bracing. Attended and participated in aerial rescue training.
Virginia Tech Hahn Horticulture Garden, Garden Assistant
August 2015 - Present Blacksburg, VA
Maintain the public garden intended for student and community education. Work for 20 hours per week while being enrolled as a full time student. Tasks include but are not limited to: watering, installation of plant material, new landscape plan implementation, landscape maintenance, hardscape installation and much more. This venture double as both employment and as a learning experience.
The Brickman Group, Intern
May 2014 – August 2014 (4 months)Chesapeake, VA
Worked in several facets of the BRICKMAN Group, Chesapeake, VA Branch location.
Served as a crew member on the work order/enhancement crew, maintenance crew, and detail crew. Tasks included but are not limited to: client relations, repairing soil problems, installing plant material into landscapes, edging, trimming, mowing, flower bed maintenance, spraying herbicide, pruning shrubs and small to medium sized trees, fertilization, and much more. All while having in mind an eye for quality work.
Lancaster Farms, Production Assistant
March 2014 – March 2014 (1 month) Suffolk, VA
Served on the production team, covered and uncovered greenhouses, dumped old nursery stock, planted annuals, anchored shade cloths, spaced nursery stock, and much more.
Comissioner of the Revenue - City of Portsmouth, Clerk of the Deputy
December 2013 – January 2014 (2 months) Portsmouth, VA
Belmont Christmas Tree Farm, Farm Hand
June 2013 – August 2013 (3 months) Spotsylvania, VA
Assisted in weeding, scouting, and shearing blue spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, fraser fir, and Leyland cypress Christmas trees
Woodberry Forest School, Grounds Intern
May 2013 – August 2013 (4 months) Woodberry, VA
Served as a member of a grounds team of 14 and assisted in maintaining 1200 acres of beautiful landscape
Duties included but are not limited to: spraying pesticides, managing IPM, weedeating, edging, mowing athletic fields, mulching, flower bed design and maintenance, lawn establishment, tree cleanup, aeration of athletic fields, and trail maintenance
Bennett's Creek Wholesale Nursery, Production Assistant
March 2012 – March 2013 (1 year 1 month) Suffolk, VA
Assisted in production, tasks include: transplanting plants, consolidating liners, glazing and deglazing greenhouses, fixing irrigation problems, cleaning greenhouses and mats (IPM), fertilization, pulling orders, loading/unloading trucks, and watering
Landscape Maintenance, Self Employed
March 2007 – August 2012 (5 years 6 months) Portsmouth, VA
Maintained 8 lawns including one commercial property, tasks included, mowing, trimming, edging, yard cleanup, weeding, planting, and mulching