Aubrey Forbes
Kankakee,IL
Summary
Professional with strong background in skill development and training. Known for fostering collaboration and driving results, adapting seamlessly to changing needs. Reliable team player and hands on training. I strive for community and connection.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Photographer
Self Employed
05.2025 - Current
- Developed and maintained strong client relationships, resulting in repeat business and referrals.
- Edited and retouched photographs using Adobe Creative Suite to enhance visual storytelling.
- Delivered high-quality images under tight deadlines, demonstrating strong time management skills.
- Developed strong relationships with clients through clear communication and professionalism.
- Photographed high-quality images for various print and digital projects.
- Collaborated with clients to understand their vision, ensuring the final product met or exceeded expectations.
- Optimized workflow efficiency by implementing photo editing software tools like Lightroom and Photoshop.
- Offered image proofs to help clients choose best photos from shoot.
Kennel Assistant
Midwest Animal Hospital
Tinley Park, IL
03.2025 - 10.2025
- Provided daily care for animals, ensuring health and comfort through proper feeding and exercise routines.
- Monitored animal behavior and health, reporting any concerns to veterinary staff promptly for intervention.
- Implemented improved cleaning procedures that reduced infection risks within kennel areas, promoting a safe environment.
- Assisted veterinarians during examinations and procedures, maintaining cleanliness and organization of medical equipment.
Dog Bather (pet services)
The Styled Canine
Peotone, IL
02.2025 - 03.2025
- Bathed and groomed dogs to enhance cleanliness and appearance.
- Assisted in maintaining a sanitary work environment for pets.
- Collaborated with team members to streamline bathing processes.
- Monitored dog behavior during grooming sessions to ensure safety.
- Greeted pet owners and went over available services, outlined costs, and determined special needs of animals under care.
- Safely handled various breeds of dogs, ensuring their comfort throughout the bathing process.
- Successfully calmed anxious pets during the bathing process using proven soothing techniques.
- Assisted groomers with prepping dogs for haircuts, resulting in streamlined appointments.
- Provided exceptional care for senior or special needs dogs, accommodating their specific requirements during bathing sessions.
- Ensured all dogs were thoroughly dried using appropriate techniques, reducing the risk of skin irritations or infections.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by providing gentle and thorough dog bathing services.
- Observed animal behavior during bathing sessions, reporting any concerns or issues to management promptly.
- Delivered continuous focus and attention to lodged animals, promoting high level of care and oversight.
Car Wash Attendee
Gas N Wash
Bourbonnais, IL
10.2024 - 12.2024
- Sales Attendant/Shift Lead
- Customer Service including coupons, account management, phone calls and in depth education to customers on our services
- Directing vehicles into the wash
- Deep cleaning off walls, equipment, and taking out trash
- Cleaning out our parking lots and equipment
- Communicating with employees about scheduling and expectations of the workplace
- Creating daily tasks day to day for employees including cleaning, expectations, goals and priorities
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness, and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions, and make decisions.
- Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
Warehouse Associate
Aldi Warehouse
Dwight, IL
11.2023 - 08.2024
- Morning Shift
- Driving heavy machinery
- Driving through isles and picking orders through our headset equipment
- Wrapping and dropping off 6-7 pallets to designated areas
- Collaborated with team members to optimize workflow and minimize downtime.
- Maintained cleanliness and organization of work areas to ensure safety compliance.
- Monitored equipment performance, reporting maintenance needs to supervisors promptly.
- Worked safely around moving machinery.
- Consistently lifted materials weighing as much as [Number] pounds.
Deli/Bakery
Walmart
Bourbonnais, IL
04.2023 - 10.2023
- Cutting and slicing meats and cheeses
- Preparing pizzas and sandwiches
- Operating an oven and fryer
- Operating meat slicers and cutting equipment
- Greeting and helping customers
- Preparing our hot cases with chicken, sides and veggies
- Closing duties insisted of wiping down all equipment, disposing oil and grease, mopping, prepping and garbage disposal
- Cleaning our ovens, slicers, and handling dishes
- Sweeping and mopping our floors
- Spraying and deep cleaning slicers and cases
- Stocking our freezer rooms and lifting heavy boxes
- Preparing Grocery pick up orders for other employees
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Childcare Teacher Assistant
Kankakee Area YMCA
Kankakee and Bradley, IL
05.2022 - 02.2023
- My tasks were arriving at elementary schools (Bradley East Elementary School, Liberty, Bonfield Grade School, Kennedy) at 6:30AM and meeting parents at the drop-off doors, helping them sign the students into our program on our portal, discussing the students with their parents and their needs/wants for their child and for the child
- Responsible for supervising and providing children with story books, crafts, drawing, coloring and stimulation toys
- Until their schools starting point at 8:20AM
- Excusing students to the cafeteria for breakfast or to their classrooms and signing them out on our tablet portal
- Returning to the schools at 2:15PM-6:00PMand providing after school lunches (carrying heavy boxes full of the lunch boxes) through our food program and logging in each lunch into a paper or portal
- Supervising and engaging with kids, homework, play time, and crafts, as well as playground equipment
- Making sure every child is safe, happy and involved. Example: group games and activates
- Making sure there is no bullying policy enforced with our students
- Responsible for answering a phone for pick up when the parent arrives and discussing how their Childs day was with us and expressing any concerns or acknowledging good behavior's as well as if there was any concerns to how the Childs day went and is or feeling
- Lining up kids and making sure they safely get to point A to B inside the schools
- Being CPR certified, mandated reporter and up to date on trainings and protocols (examples: weather warnings, school safety and stranger danger)
- Food Bank training and protocols
- Assisted lead teacher in daily classroom activities, fostering a supportive learning environment.
- Maintained classroom safety standards, ensuring a clean and organized learning space for children.
- Trained new staff in childcare protocols, promoting best practices for child engagement and safety.
- Led small group instruction, tailoring lessons to meet diverse learning styles and abilities.
- Evaluated program effectiveness, recommending improvements to enhance overall educational outcomes.
- Provided after-school care support for working parents, overseeing homework completion, snack time routines, and recreational activities until pick-up time arrived.
- Collaborated with parents during conferences to discuss their child''s progress and address any concerns or questions.
- Strengthened language development through storytelling sessions, reading aloud, and engaging children in conversation about various topics.
- Enhanced student growth by providing one-on-one support during individualized instruction periods tailored to each child''s unique learning style and capabilities.
Cashier
Farm and Fleet
Bourbonnais, IL
08.2021 - 04.2022
- Opening and Closing registers
- Stocking registers, made returns and exchanges
- Sweeping and wiping down registers
- Taking out trash and hanging organizers
- Tagging boots and shoes
- Tasked with training new hires
- Maintained accurate cash drawer balances through diligent record-keeping.
- Processed customer transactions efficiently using point-of-sale systems.
- Trained new staff on checkout procedures and customer service standards.
- Implemented strategies to minimize checkout wait times, improving overall customer satisfaction.
Baker
Donut Foundry
Kankakee, IL
02.2021 - 06.2021
- Prepare, mix and cut large amounts of dough, cut shapes and apply to rack
- Operating at dough proofer and supplying carts to our fryer
- Made and prepared icings and fillings
- Prepared over 50 tubs toppings and refilled each week
- Prepared, iced, topped over 100 donuts in one night
- Closed working our afternoon-night shifts, duties included in charge of dishes, sweeping, mopped and drying and returning utensils for openers at the end of every night
- Oversaw daily production operations to ensure quality standards were consistently met.
- Developed new donut recipes to enhance product variety and customer satisfaction.
- Implemented inventory management processes to reduce waste and optimize ingredient usage.
- Collaborated with team members to improve workflow efficiency during peak production hours.
- Analyzed customer feedback to refine products and introduce seasonal offerings based on trends.
Cashier/Customer Service
Menards
Bradley, IL
02.2020 - 11.2020
- Handling registers, cash/cards and coupons- as well as opening and closing registers
- Customer Service experience, car and truck rentals, Returns and Exchanges
- Stocking registers, Restocking Returns and taking care of broken/defected product to the back
- Opening and Closing our Garden Center
- Cleaning my registers and taking out trash, sweeping and during Covid-cleaning with antibacterial as well as educate our rules and regulations to customers
- Maintained accurate cash drawer and balanced registers at shift end.
- Trained new staff on register operations and customer service protocols.
- Assisted customers with product inquiries and provided exceptional service.
- Implemented strategies to reduce wait times during peak hours.
- Monitored inventory levels and restocked shelves as needed.
- Resolved customer complaints promptly, enhancing overall satisfaction.
- Collaborated with team members to improve store layout and merchandising displays.
- Greeted customers entering store and responded promptly to customer needs.
- Welcomed customers and helped determine their needs.
- Operated cash register for cash, check, and credit card transactions with excellent accuracy levels.
- Built relationships with customers to encourage repeat business.
- Helped customers complete purchases, locate items, and join reward programs.
Dog Bather (pet Services)
Posh Paws Pet Parlor
Kankakee, IL
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Bathe, dry pets of all sizes- brush teeth of pets (dogs, cats)
- Keep shop clean, sweeping, dusting, mopping, kennel cleanings, laundry and restroom areas
- Approaching customers and their pets, greeting and reassuring customers
- Operated grooming tools and equipment safely and efficiently.
- Implemented improvements in workflow, reducing overall bathing time.
- Followed effective process for bathing and grooming dogs to remove dirt, loose hair, parasites, and hair mats.
- Implemented proper sanitization procedures to maintain a clean and healthy environment for both pets and staff members.
- Demonstrated efficiency in managing multiple appointments simultaneously while maintaining high-quality results.
- Maintained a clean and organized workspace for efficient grooming operations.
Education
Graduate Diploma -
Herscher High School
Herscher, IL06.2019
Skills
- Self-awareness
- Creativity enhancement
- Motivational skills
- Feedback delivery
- Critical thinking
- Decision-making
- Clear communication
- Job skill building
I prioritize safety, rules/directions following, open communication, excellent services, and effective efficiency I am kind and soft spoken and prefer individual work, I work great in a group setting regardless I enjoy teamwork and team support I am very passionate about my roles Thank you for reading!
LANGUAGES
English
Timeline
Photographer
Self Employed
05.2025 - Current
Kennel Assistant
Midwest Animal Hospital
03.2025 - 10.2025
Dog Bather (pet services)
The Styled Canine
02.2025 - 03.2025
Car Wash Attendee
Gas N Wash
10.2024 - 12.2024
Warehouse Associate
Aldi Warehouse
11.2023 - 08.2024
Deli/Bakery
Walmart
04.2023 - 10.2023
Childcare Teacher Assistant
Kankakee Area YMCA
05.2022 - 02.2023
Cashier
Farm and Fleet
08.2021 - 04.2022
Baker
Donut Foundry
02.2021 - 06.2021
Cashier/Customer Service
Menards
02.2020 - 11.2020
Dog Bather (pet Services)
Posh Paws Pet Parlor
01.2019 - 11.2019
Graduate Diploma -
Herscher High School