Overview
Work History
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Annika ZumBrunnen

Renton,WA

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Teacher

Eastgate Cooperative Preschool
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Led and supervised classroom assistants/parent volunteers in the classroom
  • Created and implemented a well-rounded and diverse play-based curriculum for 3-5 year olds
  • Organized and led play-based, age appropriate curriculum
  • Attended board and parent meetings, contributing to the needs and goals of the co-op
  • Worked with board and parent educator to create a warm, friendly, safe and inclusive learning environment for student and families
  • Led and supervised three field trips to Carpinito Bros., Storybook Theater and Seahurst Park
  • Adapted and provided a safe and nurturing learning environment
  • Ensured that learning goals were met with math, literacy, music/movement, fine and gross motor skills, social emotional learning
  • Able to adapt and perform under all learning conditions
  • Helped create parent jobs and assisted implementing parent jobs with clear program goals and objectives.

Teacher

Sunrise Toddlers
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Planned and created toddler class curriculum to include age appropriate learning activities
  • Helped maintain a clean, safe and nurturing learning environment
  • Worked with parents to help toddlers learn
  • Led circle time with music, songs, rhymes/fingerplays, shakers/scarves/instruments, storytime, parachute and more
  • Worked with parent educator to achieve learning goals and outcomes
  • Set up and cleaned classroom
  • Built relationships with parents and caregivers in the classroom, engaged in meaningful conversations with children and caregivers.

Assistant Teacher

North Bellevue Toddlers
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Assisted lead teacher with set up and clean up
  • Helped create a safe and nurturing learning environment
  • Built relationships with toddlers and families
  • Led circle time with songs, rhymes, fingerplays, music/movement and storytime
  • Collaborated with lead teacher to create different learning stations for the toddlers
  • Engaged in meaningful conversations with parents during class time.

Shift Supervisor and Barista

Starbucks Coffee Company
  • Supervised 3-5 employees, opened and closed store
  • Made coffee and tea drinks, served food
  • Maintained a clean, safe and sanitary work environment for customers and employees
  • Worked as Safety and Security Specialist, making sure the work environment was as safe as possible
  • Helped with marketing and global company initiatives
  • Managed tills, basic accounting, deposited funds to the bank
  • Helped customers with coffee beans and various retail products, created and maintained displays.

Liz Claiborne Clothing Specialist and Retail Sales

Bon-Macy’s: Petites Dept.
  • Marketed and sold clothing to clients
  • Maintained client base for Liz Claiborne
  • Assisted in maintenance of the Petites Department
  • Worked as a team to build a client base for all retail clothing lines in the department
  • Assisted with putting away new clothing and maintaining shelves and racks of clothing
  • Maintained dressing rooms
  • Operated retail computer system.

Reservations Specialist

Spirit of Washington Dinner Train
  • Received phone calls and helped people make reservations
  • Logged orders for special wines, flowers, any add-ons
  • Called customers to confirm reservations
  • Took souvenir photos of customers in front of train
  • Operated cashier in gift shop
  • Maintained lobby, stocked shelves, replenished coffee station
  • Assisted with special events, server/set up/clean up.

Gemstone Specialist

Fu Gemstone Imports
  • Maintained wholesale gemstone store
  • Fixed jewelry repairs
  • Selected gemstones for retail samples
  • Helped customers with gemstone needs
  • Maintained invoices and records
  • Assembled UPS slips and packages
  • Delivered and picked up daily mail.

Enrollment Coordinator, Personal Growth Seminars Volunteer Staff

Premier Seminars
  • Assisted seminar trainer with three-day seminars, focused on breaking self-barriers and self-limiting beliefs
  • Assisted managing a team of 10-20 volunteer staff with various jobs during the seminars
  • Lead small groups designed for sharing and feedback
  • Helped with set up and clean up, lighting, music, audio/visual equipment during the seminars
  • Helped keep a logbook of all seminar activities and training.

Relationship Consultant

Great Expectations
  • Interviewed potential clients for a video dating service
  • Kept record of clients, new and callbacks
  • Maintained privacy and confidentiality for clients using service.

Hostess

Shari’s Restaurant
  • Greeted and seated guests
  • Served water
  • Maintained cashier and helped people with customer service needs
  • Cleaned menus, wiped down tables, assisted servers with various restaurant operations.

Gift Shop

Group Health Cooperative
  • Operated gift shop
  • Helped customers find gifts for family and friends.

Program Specialist

Bellevue College
Bellevue, WA
2024.04 - Current

Assisted in marketing efforts, created and updated marketing materials for Parent Education program. Assisted students apply to college and enroll in desired classes. Implemented program policies and procedures. Attended and worked Discovery Day in April. Assisted in grant proposal for DEI rotating library. Created and updated Word and Excel documents. Helped plan various marketing events to promote program.

Timeline

Program Specialist

Bellevue College
2024.04 - Current

Lead Teacher

Eastgate Cooperative Preschool
01.2023 - 01.2024

Teacher

Sunrise Toddlers
01.2023 - 01.2024

Assistant Teacher

North Bellevue Toddlers
01.2022 - 01.2023

Shift Supervisor and Barista

Starbucks Coffee Company

Liz Claiborne Clothing Specialist and Retail Sales

Bon-Macy’s: Petites Dept.

Reservations Specialist

Spirit of Washington Dinner Train

Gemstone Specialist

Fu Gemstone Imports

Enrollment Coordinator, Personal Growth Seminars Volunteer Staff

Premier Seminars

Relationship Consultant

Great Expectations

Hostess

Shari’s Restaurant

Gift Shop

Group Health Cooperative
Annika ZumBrunnen