Corban Hamernick

After returning home from San Francisco, I was offered a host position at Paulie's. This entailed greeting and guiding guests, understanding and recommending menu items, maintaining flow during events and busy evenings, entrusted with directing team members to ensure efficiency, and keeping morale up.

While on hiatus from educational pursuits, I filled several roles at SRAL. Initial responsibilities of mine included taking calls, face to face patient scheduling, and communication with clinicians. I was shifted to acquisition where I would ship and receive high value items, maintain relationships with vendors, create, issue, and follow up on purchase orders, and keep regular communication with the department head to ensure efficiency. Finally moving on to become an executive assistant, I worked to fill and coordinate the schedules of physicians, verify insurance, fax and file patient paperwork, and the investigation of nuanced problems. I was also tasked with representing SRAL in the scheduling of executive patients coming in from Northwestern Medicine.

While looking for experience in the world of coffee, my basic responsibilities included:

Pleasant interactions with customers during hectic periods to promote a fun, positive environment. Providing quick, efficient service to lines of people; often times alone. Regularly cleaning counters, machines, utensils, and seating areas. Training new employees, sharing knowledge and expertise of coffees, teas, and merchandise. And finally, maintaining regular and professional communication with coworkers and superiors when needed.

Since moving back from San Francisco, I continued to build my skills in the arts; primarily, garment making. I would continue to sell my art at small events until a more stable source of income was necessary.

While in San Francisco for school, I worked as an associate under the general manager of the company. My responsibilities were to greet customers, answer questions about how the store works, ring up customers at the register, answer phone calls, restock, organize, markdown merchandise, periodically clean the store, and lock up at the end of shifts.

While working at PGLS I had many changing responsibilities as I not only performed my core function, but filled in where needed. This included:

Collecting dishes from tables, food stations, the bar; bussing and setting up tables, delivering food quickly, restocking and preparing ingredients, supporting coworkers during peak hours, periodic deep cleaning, and finally, timely production of various dishes including salads, a large variety of pizzas, and desserts.