D'artagnan Brownlee
North Charleston,SC
Summary
Strong communicator with excellent organizational and time management skills. Efficiently manages multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to strict deadlines. Possesses excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think and act quickly to find creative solutions while maintaining a cohesive work environment with a positive attitude.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Apprentice Funeral Director & Embalmer
McAlister-Smith Funeral Home and Cremation
02.2023 - Current
- Fulfill the requirements per the LLR and assisting in preparing, transporting, setting up funerals for decedents and finalizing the disposition of human remains.
- Under the supervision of a licensed director, make funeral arrangements, complete the death certificate process, embalm, apply cosmetic restoration, dress, and casket decedents.
- Assist in the crematory while taking part in logistics involved with the upkeep and death call volume of six locations throughout the Lowcountry, lead the operations meeting, demonstrate adaptability, and facilitate group collaboration and communication on staff.
- Work with the team to identify areas of improvement and devise solutions based on findings.
- Schedule and coordinate truck, ship, and air transport to maximize productivity and maintain an organized calendar.
- Build strong relationships with families through positive attitude, sympathy, good listening skills, and attentive responses to their questions.
- Assist in development and implementation of logistics policies and procedures to provide roadmap for daily operations.
- Maintain and verify accuracy of records and generate miscellaneous reports.
Bar Manager
Toast of West Ashley
07.2022 - 02.2023
- Duties include being the full-time bartender, weekly infusing the Toast signature Bacon, Jalapeno, Cucumber, and Basil vodkas.
- Deep cleaning the bar and ordering glassware when replacements are needed
- Training bartenders
- Making most specialty mimosas, signature bloody marys, unique cocktails, and martinis for the restaurant patrons.
- Keeping up with the bar inventory and ordering liquors, champagne, garnish, or cleaning detergents when necessary.
- Strategize plans to increase bar revenue through innovative promotional concepts, specialty drinks, and customer-focused events
- Multitask multiple duties and working parts throughout the shift, hold team building exercises, utilize problem-solving and diffusion when obstacles are met, and prioritize teamwork and cohesion within the facility.
Forensic Anthropologist's Assistant
Charleston County Coroner's Office
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Follow forensic protocol, take X-rays, and visually analyze a set of remains
- Macerate the remains when necessary
- Conduct a complete osteological examination of the remains, estimate age and population affinity, determine sex, perform osteometric analysis, and function and finalize statistical reports
- Work with a variation of corpses in different stages and types of decomposition
- Conducted quality checks on data sources to check for inconsistencies and perform data cleaning activities.
- Skeletonized, mummified, burned, disarticulated, putrified, and fresh remains
Bartender and FOH Manager
Kaminsky's Downtown
10.2021 - 07.2022
- Duties include hiring and training restaurant staff, following company policies, speaking with diners to address concerns and mediate tension, keeping control of the restaurant during rushes or when understaffed, ensuring health and safety guidelines, tracking inventory, writing financial reports and doing customer demographic statistics based on the trends found in popular items for upper management
- Mixing classic cocktails and specialty drinks per customer request, mixing and decorating dessert martinis, pouring alcoholic milkshakes, cleaning and sanitizing all bar-based glassware, and operating an espresso machine for classic espresso drinks
- Managing my time and productivity to stay ahead during high volume periods and monitoring multiple stations and employees simultaneously.
Research Lead
School of Anthropology and Sociology at the College of Charleston
05.2021 - 05.2022
- Applying for and gaining funding for a research project by the school.
- Setting up experimental protocol and carrying out the experiment, dressing the cadavers, setting up decomposition scenarios, checking cadavers daily, and monitoring a variation of different changes and significant differences between each case.
- Analyze large volumes of data to identify patterns, trends, and correlations.
- Cross-comparing my data to other forms of decomposition research to find connecting threads.
- Developed an integrated spreadsheet and data protocol for accumulating, formatting and organizing data.
- Prepared detailed reports summarizing research findings and recommendations for further action.
College Of Charleston Resident Assistant
College Of Charleston
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Check guests in/out and doing building rounds while on call.
- Provide crisis intervention and support services to students to minimize the intensity of emotional, mental, and behavioral reactions to crises.
- Promote a culture of respect and understanding among students.
- Mentor and coach students to foster positive relationships and encourage successful academic achievement.
- Lead social and educational programs and assist the residents during their stay at the college, either with physical questions about the campus or being a familiar face to confide in within specific boundaries as a mandatory reporter for the college.
- Upkeep and maintain the residence hall, leading polls and creating surveys for residents to answer and generate trendline and median statistic graphs to better distribute FAQs and newsletter updates for the student staff.
- Monitored and inspected residence hall rooms to determine safety and manage maintenance issues.
- Mediated conflict resolution with roommates and other residence hall members to promote peace, order and positive relationships.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Anthropology
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC05.2022
M.D. - Forensic Science
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ2025
High School Diploma -
Ashley Ridge High School
Summerville, SC04.2018
Skills
- Computer Literacy and technical aptitude
- Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Zoom
- Participative leadership style
- Active Listening, Problem Solving, and Interpersonal Intelligence
- Event planning, marketing, networking, and outreach
- Project Management and Efficiency
- Data Management Familiarity
- Anthropological and statistical analysis of human behavioral, cultural, and genetic patterns and diffusion rates
- Population demographics and statistical analyses
- Bilingual
- Academic Research Experience
- Osteological examination and Rearticulation
Research Interests
- Low-income advocacy and resource sustainability.
- Alcohol and drug addiction advocacy and awareness in different socioeconomic communities
- Population statistics to identify cultural trends and diffusion of targeted cultural traits within a large sample size.
- Anthropology of drug use, addiction, and modern statistical analysis of drug patterns and distribution.
- Regional and protected decomposition focused in warm and wet climates.
- Alkaline hydrolysis advocacy and education.
- Organic recomposition and its uses for conservation.
- Osteometric analysis and the contemporary use of DNA analysis for the identification of skeletal remains.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
ASL
Limited Working
Spanish
Elementary
Polish
Elementary
Timeline
Apprentice Funeral Director & Embalmer
McAlister-Smith Funeral Home and Cremation
02.2023 - Current
Bar Manager
Toast of West Ashley
07.2022 - 02.2023
Bartender and FOH Manager
Kaminsky's Downtown
10.2021 - 07.2022
Research Lead
School of Anthropology and Sociology at the College of Charleston
05.2021 - 05.2022
Forensic Anthropologist's Assistant
Charleston County Coroner's Office
01.2021 - 01.2023
College Of Charleston Resident Assistant
College Of Charleston
08.2019 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Anthropology
College of Charleston
M.D. - Forensic Science
Arizona State University
High School Diploma -
Ashley Ridge High School
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