Katrina Craig
Parker,CO
Summary
As a technician newer to the field I aim to constantly work on, improve, and adapt all skills as a veterinary technician.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Veterinary Technician and Expediter
Alaska Icefield Expeditions
04.2025 - Current
- Preform veterinary checks on all sled dogs
- Restrain patients
- Take care of inpatients (walk, feed, give medications)
- Transport injured/sick patients to the vet office
- If emergency contact the vet triage line and take to indicated clinic
- Fill/pick up prescriptions
- Laundry
- Set up and preform diagnostics on patients (bloodwork, x-ray)
- Clean vet office, kennels, runs, scoop poop
- Size and apply cones to patients
- Give subcutaneous fluids when indicated
- Set up for surgery, prepare patient, and monitor patient during surgery
- Prepare aftercare for patients that pass
- Communicate with doctor and owners
- Monitor patients in critical condition
- Pick up and drop off sled dogs in transport to different camps
- Check on puppies regularly after they are born (make sure healthy, and get gender)
- Vaccinate dogs as needed per their records
- Send camp supplies and food as needed
- Send crew up and down for days off
- Unload garbage and anything else sent down from camp on helicopters
- Load/unload dogs from kennels/dog boxes if they are going up or down
- Communicate with camp regularly to update about tours and get them their needs
- Drive crew between housing and the helicopter base for crew flights
- Communicate with crew when they need to be ready for crew flights
- When injuries occur, notify managers and get the person to care indicate by the work comp hotline, begin filling out indicated paperwork fitting the type of injury
- Provide customer service to guests when needed
- Make photo cards (usually up to 700 each time)
- Label Envelopes
In Home Delivery Driver
Walmart
02.2023 - 04.2025
- Inspect vehicle
- Load vehicle with customer orders (up to 25 deliveries per route)
- Drive to delivery location
- Bag groceries for the doorstep deliveries
- Carry totes with groceries inside home and deliver as instructed by customer
- Food and consumables associate
- Stock freight and picks
- Top stock and zone
- Assist customers in finding merchandise
- Take open merchandise to back to be processed in claims
- Open locked cases for customers
- Clean up spills
- Assist in other parts of the store when needed
Internship 3 (Surgery and Anesthesia)
Banfield Pet Hospital
08.2023 - 12.2023
- Learned how to clean/polish teeth
- Use of handheld x-ray machine and large x-ray machine with moving arm for dentals
- Set up anesthesia machine
Internship 2 (Patient Care and Laboratory Procedures)
Banfield Pet Hospital
08.2022 - 12.2022
- Evaluation of fecal samples (up to 7 samples at a time)
- Evaluation of urine samples
- Obtaining ear swabs
- Set up for fine needle aspiration
Internship 1 (Basic Animal Care and Handling)
Animal Care Center Castle Pines
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Restraint of cats/dogs
- Cleaning of kennels and bedding
- Obtain vitals on each patient
Veterinary Assistant
Animal Emergency and Specialty Center
06.2021 - 05.2022
- Restrain patients
- Obtain patient vitals
- Report any concerns to team leads
- Walk patients
- Give patients medications when necessary
- Set up/change patient fluids when necessary
- Apply muzzles/cones to patients when necessary
- Laundry
- Clean kennels/prepare for new and current patients, patient treatment area, and lab
- Stock treatment area
- Fill prescriptions
- Return prescriptions to stock when they have not left hospital
- Take hospitalized patients to visit with owners/ Bring patients out to owners upon discharge
- Provide body aftercare to euthanized patients
- Set up for procedures
- Monitor vitals during sedated procedures
- Run lab work
- Take patients to treatment area upon arrival
Volunteer
Taysia Blue Rescue
01.2016 - 12.2021
- Adoptions team counselor March 2021
- Adoptions team reference caller
- Foster for dogs in rescue 2016 to 2017
- Foster team vacation foster 2016
- Daily care of dogs while foster family is on vacation
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Veterinary Technology
Community College of Denver
Denver, Colorado12.2023
Diploma -
Sam Barlow High School
Gresham, Oregon06.2012
Skills
- Customer service
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Custodial experience
- Delivery driver experience
- Animal care, restraint, and handling
- Kennel Experience
- Pre-anesthetic preparation
- Pain management
Certification
- Certified Vet Tech, - July 2024
Timeline
Registered Veterinary Technician and Expediter
Alaska Icefield Expeditions
04.2025 - Current
Internship 3 (Surgery and Anesthesia)
Banfield Pet Hospital
08.2023 - 12.2023
In Home Delivery Driver
Walmart
02.2023 - 04.2025
Internship 2 (Patient Care and Laboratory Procedures)
Banfield Pet Hospital
08.2022 - 12.2022
Internship 1 (Basic Animal Care and Handling)
Animal Care Center Castle Pines
01.2022 - 06.2022
Veterinary Assistant
Animal Emergency and Specialty Center
06.2021 - 05.2022
Volunteer
Taysia Blue Rescue
01.2016 - 12.2021
Diploma -
Sam Barlow High School
Associate of Applied Science - Veterinary Technology
Community College of Denver
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