Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Awards
Community Service
LEADERSHIP ROLES
Timeline
Barista

JANE C. FERRY

Fairfax,VA

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Server

IHOP
05.2024 - Current
  • Served food and beverages promptly with focused attention to customer needs.
  • Demonstrated strong multitasking skills by managing multiple tables simultaneously without compromising service quality.
  • Worked with POS system to place orders, manage bills, and handle complimentary items.
  • Collaborated with team members during busy shifts for efficient workflow and excellent guest experiences.
  • Performed opening and closing duties, ensuring the dining area was prepared for seamless service transitions.
  • Maintained a clean and orderly dining area for an enjoyable guest experience.
  • Provided attentive service during high-volume periods without sacrificing attention to detail or guest rapport.
  • Bussed and reset tables to keep dining room and work areas clean.

Barista

Black Rifle Coffee Company
02.2024 - Current
  • Maintained a clean and organized workspace for optimal productivity and safety.
  • Promoted a welcoming atmosphere by greeting customers with a friendly demeanor and promptly addressing their needs.
  • Brewed and served coffee, tea and other non-alcoholic drinks according to company standards.
  • Prepared and stocked baked goods, sandwiches, wraps and light snacks to compliment beverage choices.
  • Adhered to strict food safety guidelines when preparing food items such as sandwiches, pastries, or salads for customers'' enjoyment.
  • Operated espresso machines and commercial coffee brewers to create beverages.
  • Work during the school year

Sports Reporter

The Associated Press
01.2023 - 01.2025
  • Delivered authoritative sports coverage with careful attention to game facts, stats and predictions.
  • Reported on game highlights that were broadcasted on national radio and AP podcast.
  • Covered important news regarding present and past sports events.

Camp Counselor

Metro Movement
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Worked with children of varying age, interest, skill, and developmental levels.
  • Ensured camper safety by enforcing camp rules, supervising group activities, and responding promptly to incidents or concerns.
  • Led groups of children safely through variety of different dance and gymnastics activities.
  • Acted as a positive role model, demonstrating strong leadership skills and exemplifying the camp''s core values.
  • 40 hours a week

Sales Associate

Orange Theory Fitness
03.2023 - 05.2024
  • Greet and assist customers in friendly and professional manner. Provide information regarding Orange Theory Fitness programs, classes and actively promote and sell membership options. Address customer inquiries and concerns, ensuring a positive experience. Collaborate with team members, coaches and front desk staff.
  • Summer, 2023: 40+ hrs per week

Assistant Camp Counselor

Vienna Parks & Recreation
06.2022 - 08.2022
  • Assist camp counselors supervising over fifty elementary school-aged children in summer camps. Duties include: morning check-in and monitoring afternoon care hours, planning a weekly theme calendar and daily games for children, leading group activities, games and snack time, administer multiple minor first aid treatments, and pleasantly taking ownership and dealing with issues as they arise on a daily basis. 40 hours + per week.

Hostess

The Auld Shebeen Restaurant
05.2020 - 12.2021
  • Greet and seat guests in hygienic manner due to COVID-19 pandemic. Answer phones, manage reservation book and nightly wait list to include hunting for waiting guests when table is ready. Constantly monitor dining activity and inspect menus for cleanliness. Bus and set tables as needed, serve and run food. Assist owners and servers as needed. 20-24 hours per week; weekends and Sunday brunch.

Babysitting Services

Child Care
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Includes meal prep, light housekeeping, educational activities and every aspect of childcare for two fun children. 20-28 hours per week.

Sales Associate

Flynn & O'Hara
03.2019 - 06.2020
  • Responsibilities include greeting guests, assisting guests with proper uniform fitting to include personal shopper and shoe fitting. Also includes dressing room monitor during Covid-19 pandemic—includes spraying and wiping down after each guest. Working the cash register and using credit card machine, iron-on school logos, restocking merchandise on ladders as needed, sweeping floors and wiping down all areas at the end of the day, according to store Covid protocols. 8 to 15 hours per week, as needed, weekends and day shift.

Education

Biomedical Sciences

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia
05-2027

Bishop O'Connell High School
Arlington, Virginia
06.2023

Skills

  • Strong work ethic
  • Exceptional customer service
  • Cash handling
  • Guest engagement
  • Customer service
  • Team collaboration

Certification

  • CPR Lifesaver Training
  • Certified ‘Stop the Bleed' Training
  • Certified Babysitter Training

Awards

$5000 — University of Mary Washington Talon Award — Academic Scholarship, 2023–2027 ($20,000), $3000 — 2023 Apple Federal Credit Union “Apple Scholar”— Commendable HS Senior Scholarship, $400 — Alzheimer's AFA's Teen Awareness Scholarship, Ninth Place Winner — essay contest, HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS, $1500 — John F. Kennedy Council Grand Knight Scholarship Award, 2022-2023, $1500 — Knights of Columbus Grand Ambassador Scholarship Award, 2018 and 2022, $2000 — Fr. Diamond Council KOC Community Service Scholarship Award, 2018–2022, $1000 — O'Donnell Family Making a Difference Award — Community Service Scholarship, 2018-2019, East Coast USA Pageant: Competed and earned title “East Coast Young Miss Virginia” — and served as Miss Virginia, 2022–2023. Qualified for The National ECUSA Pageant Competition and earned: “National Grand Ambassador East Coast 2022–23” title, held in New Jersey.

Community Service

  • Inova Fairfax Hospital , High School Volunteer, Competitive unpaid program serving and supporting Inova Fairfax Hospital in patient care and retail operations; I trained online and on-site for over 30 hours in Inova disciplines. Assist guests with selections and purchases in three on-site gift shops. Discharge patients via wheelchair transport, delivered flowers, patient mail and laboratory items. Assisted re-stocking, guiding patients and visitors around the hospital. I am also a volunteer for Inova's Holiday Canned Food Drive — collected, sorted, checked use-by dates, bagged and helped carry and deliver over 20,000 canned goods to distribution centers. Summer and holiday canned food drives
  • Fourpaws.org , Animal Rescue Volunteer, Foster rescued cats and kittens in our home; cleaning litter boxes, feeding and providing love and care, meet and greets, until adopted. Some rescues stay in cages in our home, some not. We have fostered as many as 12 at once, depending on need, in addition to the once-monthly Saturday Adoption Fairs. I also cleaned cages and fed the rescue animals at the Fairfax Pet Expo, every Monday night for 10 years. 2008-2023
  • CCNV / Community for Creative Non-Violence , 2021-2023, Assist with chopping, cooking, preparing meals and then spooning into containers, bagging and handing to guests — over 300 meals for residents of CCNV with my family. Easter and Christmas Holidays Volunteer
  • The Charleston Senior Living Home , Volunteer, 2020-2022, My mom and I create very large monthly birthday banners for residents, highlighting each residents birthday adding seasonal designs and happiness to each banner. Delivered banners in person and visited residents when allowed during Pandemic.
  • St. Leo the Great Youth Ministry , 2015-, 2023, Attend weekly meetings and complete ministry work, including restocking St. Vincent DePaul pantry donations, parish holiday decorating, palm sorting, packing meals for Christ House, Fairfax Nursing Home caroling and visiting. Our Ministry includes many fundraising events such as making flowers for Mother's Day, Thanksgiving pumpkin pies, Chili Cook Off, making small blankets for mothers in need, making and packing hundreds of lunches for those in need. We did all outside Parish gardening during COVID-19.
  • St. Vincent De Paul Society Pantry , OTHER VOLUNTEER, Fairfax, Virginia, 2016- 2021, My Mom and I shop for and donate very specific items requested each month for the food pantry. Items include school supplies, adult diapers, specific canned goods, pancake mix, peanut butter, toothpaste, bar soap and various toiletries.
  • City of Fairfax Volunteer Days , Fairfax, 2022-2023, I collected trash and cigarette butts in the City of Fairfax, collecting four+ large garbage bags full of pure trash/litter, in my city. I have developed a new awareness regarding litter. Spring and Fall
  • COVID-19 , 2020, I raised over $260 for Inova Health System Front Line Workers, via my own peer-to-peer fundraising site.

LEADERSHIP ROLES

  • Student Council Advisory Representative, Bishop O'Connell High School 2019–2023 (4 years, peer- voted position)
  • Peer Mentor, 2021–2022; dedicated one-on-one class time supporting a peer receiving expanded services, training required. Bishop O'Connell High School Mueller Program Peer Mentor
  • Setting Scoliosis Straight; Ambassador; online story and yearly fund raising for SSS
  • O'Neill-James School of Irish Dance: Voted Dancer of the Year Award — 7 Years, Peer-Voted Award
  • O'Neill-James School of Irish Dance; Peer Teaching Assistant, 8 years, owner-director appointed

Timeline

Camp Counselor

Metro Movement
06.2024 - 08.2024

Server

IHOP
05.2024 - Current

Barista

Black Rifle Coffee Company
02.2024 - Current

Sales Associate

Orange Theory Fitness
03.2023 - 05.2024

Sports Reporter

The Associated Press
01.2023 - 01.2025

Assistant Camp Counselor

Vienna Parks & Recreation
06.2022 - 08.2022

Babysitting Services

Child Care
06.2021 - 08.2021

Hostess

The Auld Shebeen Restaurant
05.2020 - 12.2021

Sales Associate

Flynn & O'Hara
03.2019 - 06.2020

Biomedical Sciences

University of Mary Washington

Bishop O'Connell High School

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