Dana Hayden
Littleton,CO
Summary
.Professional foster and rescue specializing in neonate kittens, critical care and hospice cases. Over a decade of experience in foster care, rescue and shelter volunteer work. Founded and operated a foster and rescue program for 5 years in Kentucky. Extensive expertise with cats and kittens, but also years of experience working with dogs, rabbits and wildlife. Solid understanding of animal care practices from cleaning cages, assisting in spay and neuter clinics, administering medication, nursing neonate kittens, post operation care, TNR, preparing animals for adoption, vetting potential adopters and placing animals for adoption.
Shelter volunteer work consisted of assisting in organizing and setting up the monthly spay and neuter clinics for both dogs and cats, assisting the veterinarians during surgeries, general cleaning and weekly radio shows to adopt out the animal of the week and promote adoption for the shelter.
Dedicated, reliable, responsible and passionate about animal welfare.
Excellent organizational, management and customer service skills as the current practice manager/medical aesthetician for a medical spa in Lone Tree.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Practice Manager and Medical Aesthetician
Hilton Aesthetics
10.2022 - Current
- Practice manager
- Responsible for all ordering including medical supplies, products and general business supplies
- Developed and maintained relationships with medical representatives
- Appointment scheduling
- Answering phone calls
- Developed relationships with patients
- Answered medical and treatment questions
- Product specialist
- Mopped floors, took out rash and allover cleaning
- Inventory
- Managed quick books and sales tax responsibilities
- Medical Aesthetician
- Preformed all laser procedures
- Post procedure care
- Recommended and created custom skincare regimens for patients
Founder
Mink House Foster And Rescue
10.2017 - 05.2022
- Founder and operator
- Specialized in neonate kittens, critical care, special needs and hospice cases
- Nursed neonate kittens by syringe or bottle
- General care of neonate kittens
- Gave flea baths
- General feeding
- Daily cleaning, disinfecting and maintaining cat rooms
- Ordered food and supplies
- Administered medication and SQ fluids
- Maintained separate medication and nutrition for special needs cases
- Cared for cats and kittens with medical conditions
- Cleaned litter boxes
- Transported all rescues to and from their veterinarian appointments and surgeries
- Prepared cats and kittens for adoption
- Vetted potential adopters
- Assessed animal conditions. Both physical and mental
- Worked with local professional wild life rescues when presented with wild life cases
- Provided comfort and care for terminal cases during the remainder of their lives
- Built a "Rabbit Ranch" for rescue rabbits. Cleaned daily, replaced all straw bedding weekly, trimmed nails, general feeding and care.
- Worked closely with local veterinarians, shelter and professional wildlife rescue to place all other rescue cases (dogs and wildlife) with the proper rescue group
Animal Shelter Volunteer
Owensboro Humane Society
11.2018 - 08.2021
- Co-hosted weekly radio shows with three local stations to feature an animal each week and to promote the shelter. Transported selected animals to the station and featured that animal on the show while educating about adoption.
- Assisted in organizing monthly spay and neuter clinics/nail trimming days
- Assisted veterinarians during spay and neuter surgeries
- Organized donations (food, litter and supplies)
- General cleaning and laundry when needed
Education
Medical Aesthetician - Medical Aesthetics
Antoine Du Chez
Centennial06.2014
High School Diploma -
Arapahoe High School
Littleton06.2002
Skills
- Business management skills
- Organizational skills
- Nursing neonate kittens and all over care for neonate kittens
- Post operation care
- Administering medication
- Wound care
- Assisting in spay and neuter clinics
- Flea baths
- Nail trimming
- TNR for feral cat colonies
- General cleaning from cages, litter boxes to full cat rooms
- Preparing cats and kittens for adoption
- Vetting potential adopters
- Assisting in organizing and executing adoption events, spay and neuter clinics and nail trimming days for a local shelter
- Reliable, responsible and trustworthy
Timeline
Practice Manager and Medical Aesthetician
Hilton Aesthetics
10.2022 - Current
Animal Shelter Volunteer
Owensboro Humane Society
11.2018 - 08.2021
Founder
Mink House Foster And Rescue
10.2017 - 05.2022
Medical Aesthetician - Medical Aesthetics
Antoine Du Chez
High School Diploma -
Arapahoe High School