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Skills

  • Facilitating animal rehabilitations
  • Project organization
  • Problem resolution
  • Process equipment
  • Compliance with animal care standards
  • Animal abuse investigation
  • Collaborating with veterinary teams
  • Team leadership and supervision
  • Animal welfare legislation compliance
  • Animal health monitoring

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with method customers to determine their needs and deliver framework service.
  • Assisted displaced owners during the evacuation.
  • Solved framework issues, improved operations, and provided excellent customer service.
  • Achieved a 20% improvement in animal habitat conditions.
  • Contributed to a 77% reduction in stray animal incidents.
  • Coordinated the transfer of 3 hard-to-place animals to specialized rescues, increasing lifetime adoptions by 60%.
  • Contributed significantly to daily operations support.
  • Accelerated rehoming efforts.
  • Was in charge of capturing stray animals, providing shelter and care for homeless animals, and organizing adoptions.
  • Answered 5 daily calls about enforcing animal control laws.

Summaries

  • Animal Welfare Specialist skilled in animal health monitoring, ensuring optimal care for up to 6 animals at Boston while maintaining a 71% compliance rate with regulations.
  • Consulted with local municipalities to improve animal control policies, lowering instances of neglect by 27% and increasing responsible pet ownership.
  • Clear understanding of strategic planning and budget management as well as cross-functional collaboration training.
  • Conducted behavioral assessments.
  • Costs were consistently reduced while profits were increased.
  • Capable of investigating incidents involving domestic and wild animals.
  • Collaborative professional in public education.
  • Working with a variety of animal species and responding to service calls is a skill.
  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the initiative business.
  • Collaborative leader in emergency response coordination.

Accomplishments

  • Led multi-disciplinary teams of staff and veterinarians in conducting welfare assessments across 17 shelter locations, improving audit scores by 82%.
  • Conducted educational workshops for staff on proper animal handling techniques, improving safety and reducing incidents by 29% in 2015.
  • Developed and implemented enrichment programs for shelter animals, leading to a 41% decrease in stress indicators as verified by veterinarians in 2019.
  • Mediated communication between adopters and shelter staff, improving post-adoption follow-up processes and reducing return rates by 74%.
  • Maximized available resources for nonprofit shelters by securing 4 new partnerships and donations, increasing the budget by program in 2024.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Reduced euthanasia rates by 31% through implementation of innovative foster and rehabilitation programs in 2020.
  • Collaborated with team of 7 in the development of system.
  • Worked with government agencies to ensure all shelter practices met and exceeded standard standards in 2018.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.

Affiliations

  • Lions Club
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Contributor to the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), conducting research on cruelty prevention
  • Presenter at the 2024 International Conference on Animal Welfare, sharing results of enrichment program improvements
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Membership in the Companion Animal Welfare Council (CAWC), contributing to research on companion animal welfare
  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
  • Member of Shelter Animal Behavior and Wellness Advisory Board, implementing behavioral assessments for better adoption outcomes
  • Volunteer Educator with method, designing workshops on animal welfare for K-12 students

Certifications

  • Salesforce
  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Animal Law Enforcement Training
  • Wildlife Rehabilitation Certificate
  • Disaster Animal Response Team (DART) Certification
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Zoonotic Disease Training Certification
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • Low-Stress Animal Handling Certification
  • SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)

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