Hi, I'm Oliver Jones I would appreciate any help at all you can give me. I am trying very hard to find a job working with reptiles, in a zoo, or in a venom lab. Im not having much luck and this is the only thing Im happy doing more so what I love. I have years and years extensive experience Im just trying to find somewhere I can get in at. I feel like I'm practically begging at this point lol. Heres a copy of my resume I also put together if you'd like to take a look.
Professional Experience
ACS Xerox (sprint)
Sprint Android Agent April 2012 -present
· Trouble shoot customers phones on a first call resolution· Use various tools and computer programs to solve customers issue· Suggestive selling to improve customers experience · Taking payments· Assist customers with billing questions· Meeting goals and company metrics each month Michael’s Arts and Crafts, Raleigh , North Carolina
Stock team, Sep 2010-present
•Greet and assist customers
•Estimate quantity and cost of merchandise required.
•Describe merchandise and explain use, operation, and care of merchandise to customers.
•Watch for and recognize security risks and thefts, and know how to prevent or handle these situations.
•Clean shelves, counters, and tables.
•Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise.
•Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.
•Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires.
•Ticket, arrange, and display merchandise to promote sales.
•Price clearance merchandise and sign merchandise for the upcoming sale and promotion ad.
•Inventory new stock and requisition new stock.
•Make sure merchandise is always fully stocked on flow as needed by down stocking the items.
•Stock merchandise on floor and place overstock up properly.
•Unload merchandise from delivery trucks.
•Assist in new employee training.
PetSmart, Raleigh , North Carolina
Pet Care, Jan 2010-March 2011
•Perform Back-washes in the aquatics systems.
•Observe all animals for signs of illness or changes in behavior.
•Compute sale prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payments.
•Feed, Water, and medicate all animals before the store opens and make sure all habitats are presentable to the public.
•Ticket, arrange, and display merchandise to promote sales.
•Answer questions regarding the store, animals, and merchandise.
•Clean all animal habitats.
•Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
•Estimate quantity and cost or merchandise required.
•Retain knowledge of current sales and promotions, and store policies.
•Describe merchandise and explain use and operation to the customer.
•Exchange merchandise for customers and except returns.
•Place special orders or call other stores to find desired items.
•When selling animals ask the customer questions to make sure it is the right animal “pet” for them and that they are aware of all the necessary care and maintenance the animal requires to stay in good health.
•Maintain records related to sales.
•Prepare merchandise for purchase.
•Clean shelves and counters.
•Watch for and recognize security risks and thefts and how to handle the situations.
•Clean aquatic plant systems out weekly, algae scrub, prune, and remove and decaying plants.
•Inventory stock and requisition new stock.
•Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
•Recommend, select, and help locate merchandise based on the customer’s wants and needs.
Petco, Durham , North Carolina
Pet care/Register/Reptile Specialist, Jan 2008-Aug 2008
•Provide customers with information on animal/reptile adoption agencies in the area to consider before purchasing a new pet.
•Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits.
•Maintain all items in reptile department and habitat.
•Assist customers with any reptile related questions.
•Stock items to floor.
•Observe all animals for signs of illness or changes in behavior.
•Compute sale prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payments.
•Feed, Water, and medicate all animals before the store opens and make sure all habitats are presentable to the public.
•Ticket, arrange, and display merchandise to promote sales
•Answer questions regarding the store, animals, and merchandise.
•Clean all animal habitats.
•Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
•Estimate quantity and cost or merchandise required.
•Retain knowledge of current sales and promotions, and store policies.
•Describe merchandise and explain use and operation to the customer.
•Exchange merchandise for customers and except returns.
•Place special orders or call other stores to find desired items.
•When selling animals ask the customer questions to make sure it is the right animal “pet” for them and that they are aware of all the necessary care and maintenance the animal requires to stay in good health.
•Maintain records related to sales.
•Prepare merchandise for purchase.
•Clean shelves and counters.
•Watch for and recognize security risks and thefts and how to handle the situations.
•Clean aquatic plant systems out weekly, algae scrub, prune, and remove and decaying plants.
•Inventory stock and requisition new stock.
•Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
•Recommend, select, and help locate merchandise based on the customer’s wants and needs.
Sears, South Hill , Virginia
Stocker/Sales/Electronics Department manager, Sept 2004-Feb 2008
•Stocking items to the sales floor.
•Compute sales prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payments.
•Greet customers, determine their wants and needs, and help find the product that fits their lifestyle.
•Estimate cost of repair or alteration of merchandise.
•Delivery items/large merchandise to customers home.
•Place special orders or call other stores to find a certain item.
•Describe merchandise and explain operation, care, and the benefits of the product.
•Maintain all items in electronics department up to company standards and beyond.
•Ticket and display merchandise to promote sales.
•Establish customers for life.
•Put together large merchandise for customers or for the sales floor.
•Sell or arrange for delivery, insurance, financing, or service contracts for merchandise.
•Inventory stock
•Maintain records related to sales.
•Estimate quantity and cost of merchandise required.
•Open and close cash registers performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits.
•Assist customers with loading merchandise.
•Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, and policies regarding payments and exchanges.
•Unloading merchandise trucks.
•Estimate and quote trade-in allowance.
•Watch for and recognize security risk.
•Prepare sales slips and contracts.
Education
Park View Senior High School , South Hill , Virginia
•Head of the Ecology Club (herpetology)
•Enrolled in College prep classed with honors.
•Involved in the BETA Club.
Southside Virginia Community College , Alberta , Virginia
•Biology, September 2009
•Completed pre-requisite classes for Veterinary Medicine
Central Carolina Community College , Sanford , North Carolina
•Veterinary Technician Candidate, Sept 2014
North Carolina State University
•Veterinary Medicine (Exotic Animal) Candidate, Sept 2017
Additional Skills
•Microsoft word and excel
•Typing skills.
•Owned and operated Southside Virginia Central North Carolina Reptile Rescue and Sanctuary for almost ten years.
•Have experience working with over 200 species of reptiles including native and exotic venomous snakes, crocodilians, large constrictors, lizards, turtles, and tortoises.
•I have worked, assisted, aided and been involved with over 30 endangered and threatened reptiles in breeding programs with rescue work, partnership rescues, Missouri Reptile Zoo. Have worked with Veterinarian Robert Dennis, Veterinarian Dan Johnson and Dr. Leonitti, Missouri Reptile Zoo, Chris Follestead, Jeffery Sellers, Marini Reptile Rescue, Peaceable Kingdom exotic and native wildlife center, TIAMET Wildlife Rehabilitation Center , and several state parks.
•Other than my reptile experience I have also had the chance to work with several different raptors, lions, wolves, coyotes, fox, several parrots, black bear, raccoons, Virginia and Brazilian opossum, sugar gliders, llamas, camel, zebra, bison, peafowl/pheasant, waterfowl, emus, ostrich, rhea, East African crowned cranes, zebu, as well as different livestock.
•Have Carried out several reptile education programs to educate the public on best/worst reptile pets, venomous snakes, reptile care, reptile husbandry, endangered/threatened reptile species, how we work as a rescue, reptile safety, and the roles reptiles play in the worlds ecosystem. These events have been done at several museums, reptile expos, state parks, schools, fairs, daycare centers, nursing homes, state childcare homes, pet stores, and festivals.
•Have carried out several reptile adoption events at local petco stores to find permanent homes for the available animals in our custody by using a application/contract and information system by Melissa Kaplan.
•Doing reptile rescue I have seen/dealt with a number of injuries, diseases, parasites, and different forms of malnutrition in reptiles and I’ve now learned to recognize these illnesses I have dealt with the most as well as some others and their easiest forms of treatment in the best being of the animal.
References
available upon request
List of species I have kept successfully and worked with in the last ten years:
Pythons
1.Burmese
2.Reticulated
3.African rocks
4.Ball
5.Ring
6.White lipped
7.Calabar burrowing
8.Carpet
9.Green tree various localities
10.woma
11.blood
Boas
1.hybrid anaconda green x yellow
2.yellow anaconda
3.green anaconda
4.various locality red tail boas
5.viper
6.Solomon island ground and tree
7.Emerald tree
8.hog island
9.dumerils
10.Brazilian rainbow
kenyan and saharan sand boas
Colubrids
1.Various Milk snakes
2.Various Kingsnakes
3.Brown, Banded, Red belly water snakes
4.black, buttermilk, yellow belly, red racers
5.western coachwhip
6.Eastern, western, tricolor, speckled, golden, giant hognose snakes
7.Red mountain racers
8.Taiwan Beauty rats
9.Various other rat snakes
10.greens, garters, etc
11. Red tail green rat
12.Rhino rat
Hots
1.desert horn viper
2.hairy bush viper
3.red tail green tree viper
4.eyelash viper
5.sawscale viper
6.puff adder
7.gaboon viper
8.rhinoceros viper
9.sedge viper
10.wagler temple viper
11.coral snake
12.timber rattler
13.eastern diamondback rattler
14.dusky pygmy rattler
15.western diamondback rattler
16.Arizona black tail rattler
17.neo-tropical rattler
18.copperheads
19.cottonmouth ( Florida and eastern)
20.red spitting cobra
21.black and white spitting cobra
22.black neck spitting cobra
23.various monocle cobras (normal, albino, formosa )
24.banded Egyptian cobras
25.black Pakistan cobra
26.Sri Lanka spectacled cobras (breeders)
27.black forest cobra
28.east African green mamba
Crocodilians
1.Nile
2.saltwater x Siamese
3.smooth front dwarf caiman
Turtles
1.snappers
2.red ear
3.yellow belly sliders
4.snake necked
5.mud
6.stinkpots
7.softshells
8.map
Tortoises
1.spur thigh (sulcattas)
2.forest hinge backed
3.box turtles
4.red footed
5.yellow footed
6.greek
7.Russian
8.leopard
Inverts
1.black fat tail scorpion
2.yellow fat tail scorpion
3.death stalker scorpion
4.emperor scorpion
5.tricolor scorpion
6.flat rock scorpion
7.giant millipedes
8.Haitian giant centipede
9.Vietnamese giant centipede
10.hissing roaches
Tarantulas
1.goliath birdeater
2.king baboon
3.usumbara orange baboon
4.cobalt blue
5.rose hair
6.pink toe
7.zebra
8.skeleton
9.Mexican red knee
10.Mexican blood leg
11.ornamental Indian
Amphibians
1.whites tree frog
2.tomatoes frog
3.giant rococo toad
4.darts
5.Brazilian milk frog
6.waxy monkey tree frog
7.pac man frogs
8.pixie frogs
9.albino bull frogs
10.tiger salamander
11.fire salamander
12.marbled salamander
13.red salamander
14.siren
15.mudpuppy
Various Lizards:
1.panther chameleons
2.quad chameleon
3.Jackson chameleon
4.veild chameleon
5.Senegal chameleon
6.fischers chameleon
7.rudis chameleon
8.flap neck chameleon
9.green basilisk
10.brown basilisk
11.green iguanas by the tons
12.red iguana
13.desert iguana
14.spiny tail iguana
15.Rhino iguana
16.blue tongue skink
17.fire skink
18.berber skink
19.oscillated skink
20.green tree skink
21.monkey tail skink
22.sandfish skink
23.jeweled lacerta
24.jungle runner
25.water dragons (Australian and Chinese)
26.webers sailfin dragon
27.bearded dragons
28.helmet iguana
29.horned toads
30.monitors (nile, savannah, sumatra water, yellow, dumerils)
31.geckos (leopard, fat tail, tokay, marble, crocodile, fan foot, flying, various days, crested, gargoyle, white linned skunk, green eye,)
32.frilled dragons
33.various uromastyx
34.beaver tail agamas
35.red head, blue head agamas
