Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Awards
Publications
Key Classes
Timeline
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Kaelee Ryner

Chubbuck,ID

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of the Floral Department

Hobby Lobby
09.2023 - Current
  • Going through every individual item in the department and ordering necessary freight every week.
  • Handling and organizing large amounts of freight for all store departments.
  • Clean up and simple maintenance of the department.
  • Setting and adjusting the layouts of various departments throughout the year.
  • Signing off on changes made and necessary tasks completed for the company's records.
  • Overseeing other employees in stocking and setting the layouts for the department.
  • Making decisions about the arrangement of and maintaining the arrangement of seasonal products specific to the department.
  • Providing information to customers, both assisting them in navigating the store as a whole and providing specific information about the floral area.
  • Handling monetary transactions of hundreds to thousands of dollars throughout the week.

Lab Technician

Cruz laboratory in the Biological Sciences department at Boise State University
06.2022 - 12.2022
  • Assisting in data collection or processing for multiple lab and graduate projects.
  • Experience entering data into a GPS unit, setting up spotlights, and filling out paper data sheets as a part of night spotlight surveys for jackrabbits.
  • Experience with data entry using the program RavenPro to manually locate Great Horned and Barn Owl calls within four months of nightly audio recordings. Recording and organizing information about those found calls in Excel.
  • Double checking the owl call data, and entering corrections about the data, that was collected through BirdNet’s AI.

Concessions worker

ICCU arena/CenturyLink area
09.2019 - 12.2022
  • The entirety of every shift was spent on my feet, walking the circumference of a sports arena and repeatedly walking up and down stairs while balancing food and drinks on a tray.
  • Handled the register occasionally, counted my own till at the end of those shifts.
  • Dealing with large rushes of people who are in a hurry.

Lab Technician as a recipient of the INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) fellowship

Hayden laboratory in the Biological Sciences department at Boise State University
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Research regarding self-cleaving RNA and RNA folding.
  • Experience working in a clean room environment, working with RNA, cDNA, enzymes, and other small molecules.
  • Pouring and running PAGE and PCR gel electrophoresis.
  • Working with pipettes, centrifuges, heating blocks with programmed processes, imaging equipment, and computer programs.
  • Use of cleaning kits for RNA and DNA.

Cashier

Aramark C-stores on Boise State University campus
10.2019 - 05.2022
  • Worked mainly independently with little to no oversight, as there were only one or two managers working at a time for up to six small convenience stores.
  • Managing the register, handling cash, and counting/dropping my own till at the beginning and end of every shift.
  • Restocking each of the small stores that I worked at independently while on shift.
  • Cleaning the store, including: wiping down all surfaces, sweeping, mopping, taking out trash, breaking down boxes, and throwing away expired products independently.
  • Opening and closing the store independently.

Cashier

Wendy’s
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • The entirety of every shift was spent on my feet.
  • Operated the POS system through placing customers orders and handling payment.
  • Assisted in the preparation of food stuffs that would be stored for later use.
  • Assisted with large window sign changes.
  • Stocking of products at the front and at the drive-thru windows.
  • Cleaning of the entire store, including: bathrooms, sweeping, mopping, scrubbing floor, cleaning large outside windows, wiping down counters, taking out trash, and breaking down boxes.
  • Dealt with large rushes of customers during periods where the store was understaffed.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Boise State University

Skills

  • Customer service
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Problem-solving
  • Dependable and responsible
  • Using programs such as Excel to organize and enter data
  • Giving presentations to explain research goals and outcomes
  • Handling and cleaning various pieces of laboratory equipment

Awards

Dean’s list with High Honors: Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Fall 2022

Publications

Poster presentations at both the ICUR (Idaho Conference for Undergraduate Research) and INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) conferences in July of 2021.

Key Classes

STEM-Ed 101

  • This class provided the opportunity to go into elementary school classrooms, where we were able to observe teaching styles.
  • Executed a STEM (specifically physics) based lesson plan in a fifth grade classroom.
  • Designed a lesson plan for a second STEM (specifically engineering) based lesson for the same classroom.

Vertically integrated projects

  • I was involved with two vertically integrated projects, where I received credit for participation in research. Both VIPs had a focus on becoming familiar with computer languages and programming. I had the opportunity to review code being used for multiple projects being worked on by Boise State University, including the Genomes Underlying Toxin Tolerance (GUTT) project.

Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

  • General knowledge of the anatomy and natural history of vertebrate species. Knowledge of the evolutionary history of vertebrates and of how the body systems differ between different classes.
  • Experience dissecting vertebrates across different classes, including a lamprey, shark, and cat. This comes with the identification of muscles, arteries, veins, and organs across different classes.

Ornithology

  • Identification of over 100 different species of birds and nearly 50 bird calls.
  • Early morning fieldwork with the identification of birds during class time, including during winter months.
  • Ability to dress appropriately for the weather.
  • Knowledge of basic bird anatomy and physiology, as well as different mating strategies, migratory mechanisms and patterns, and behavioral strategies for survival.

Mammalogy

  • Research experience in the field for a project assessing responses of ground squirrel populations to long-term habitat changes in the Sagebrush Steppe. Field work included participation in a long-term, mark-recapture of Piute ground squirrels at 6 sites using a trapping web design. Trapping days included opening traps early morning and checking them every 1 to 1.5 hrs until mid to late-afternoon.

Drone Flight Planning and Operations

  • Research experience involving seedling success surveys in a sage-brush steppe environment. Manual surveys of the area to look at the success of bitterbrush and sagebrush seedlings along walking and biking trails.
  • Assisted in set up of TopCon base and rover for GPS data collection, and flew pre planned flight path using MapPilot pro.
  • Created Dense Point Cloud, DEM, and Orthomosaic using Agisoft metashape, and then analyzed the data in R.

Timeline

Head of the Floral Department

Hobby Lobby
09.2023 - Current

Lab Technician

Cruz laboratory in the Biological Sciences department at Boise State University
06.2022 - 12.2022

Lab Technician as a recipient of the INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) fellowship

Hayden laboratory in the Biological Sciences department at Boise State University
05.2022 - 08.2022

Cashier

Aramark C-stores on Boise State University campus
10.2019 - 05.2022

Concessions worker

ICCU arena/CenturyLink area
09.2019 - 12.2022

Cashier

Wendy’s
06.2019 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Boise State University

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