Elizabeth Lively
Monticello,IL
Summary
Motivated and academically driven student with strong leadership, responsibility, and consistency. Committed to academic excellence while balancing work, dual enrollment, and extracurricular involvement.
Professional kitchen team member with solid experience in food preparation, sanitation, and kitchen safety. Known for reliability, adaptability, and strong teamwork skills. Excellent at maintaining clean and organized workspace, assisting with inventory management, and supporting culinary staff to achieve high-quality results. Focused on contributing to smooth and efficient kitchen operation.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Kitchen Assistant
Monticello Golf Club
Monticello, IL
01.2026 - Current
- Maintain cleanliness of kitchen tools, equipment, and workstations to ensure hygiene standards.
- Support chefs by restocking supplies and managing inventory levels in the kitchen.
- Operate kitchen appliances safely and efficiently during food preparation activities.
- Collaborate with team members to ensure timely service during peak hours.
- Follow recipes and portion guidelines to prepare menu items consistently.
- Assist in food preparation tasks, including washing, chopping, and organizing ingredients.
General Landscaper
City of Monticello
05.2024 - Current
- Maintains public grounds including trimming, weeding, planting, watering, mulching, and seasonal cleanup.
Educational Volunteering
Urbana School District
Urbana, IL
03.2026 - 04.2026
- Building meaningful connections with students to support their academic and personal growth
- Learning to create and maintain a safe, supportive, and engaging classroom environment
- Encouraging and fostering a love of reading and writing in young learners
- Gaining hands-on classroom experience to develop effective teaching strategies and skills
Cashier Team Lead
Sage City Market
Monticello, IL
10.2025 - 01.2026
- Identify common checkout issues and propose solutions to improve efficiency overall.
- Promote store promotions effectively, contributing to increased sales during peak seasons.
- Performed store opening, closing, and shift-change actions and kept accurate shift-change logs.
- Assisted customers by answering questions and fulfilling requests.
- Communicated with customers and team members to solve problems.
- Processed both cash and card purchases and returns.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Parkland College
Champaign, ILundefined
Parkland Pathway Program through the University of Illinois
Diploma - undefined
Monticello High School
Monticello, IL05-2025
Skills
- Leadership, teamwork, time management, communication, organization, responsibility, reliability
- Kitchen equipment operation
- Food safety
- Ingredient management
- Food storage protocol
- Meal presentation
- Cooking techniques
- Cleaning and sanitizing
- Ingredient preparation
- Food preparation mastery
- Food storage
- Allergen awareness
- Health code compliance
- Inventory monitoring
- Ingredient knowledge
- Order accuracy
Accomplishments
National High Honors Award Graduate
Summa Cum Laude High School Graduate
Parkland College High Honor Roll
Languages
Spanish
Limited Working
Interests
- Enjoy hobbies that combine physical activity with outdoor exploration
- Running
- Camping
- Gardening
- Volunteering
- Outdoor Recreation
- Youth mentor, providing guidance and support to empower the next generation of leaders
- Youth Development Programs
- Backpacking and Hiking
- Road Trips
Extracurricular Activities
Marching Band (2021–2024), Concert Band (2022–2025), Jazz Band (2022–2024), Girls Soccer (2021–2023), Spanish Club (2022–2025), Writing Club (2023–2025) Marching Band (2021–2024), Concert Band (2022–2025), Jazz Band (2022–2024), Girls Soccer (2021–2023), Spanish Club (2022–2025), Writing Club (2023–2025)
Timeline
Educational Volunteering
Urbana School District
03.2026 - 04.2026
Kitchen Assistant
Monticello Golf Club
01.2026 - Current
Cashier Team Lead
Sage City Market
10.2025 - 01.2026
General Landscaper
City of Monticello
05.2024 - Current
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Parkland Pathway Program through the University of Illinois
Diploma - undefined
Monticello High School
Bachelor of Science -
Parkland College