Overview
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Lauren Timms

Durham,North Carolina

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Sales Associate

Pure Barre
Durham, NC
11.2021 - Current
  • Checks clients in for classes
  • Manages multiple studio phone calls and emails per day, fielding inquiries about Pure Barre and responding to questions and concerns
  • Provides exceptional customer service
  • Educates clients on memberships, class packs, and sales
  • Utilizes Point of Sale cash system, processes payments, refunds and exchanges and issues gift cards
  • Prepares merchandise for sales floor by pricing or tagging

Educator

Lululemon
Durham, NC
11.2020 - Current
  • Provides guests with world-class ‘education’ and guest experience in the areas of product, culture, and community by speaking authentically about product use through my own experiences
  • Receives/processes stock received from warehouse, involving: unpacking, counting, tagging as required, folding, sizing and placing on the floor, with overflow stock in back room and stored areas.
  • Assists in preparing the store for the day including: replenishing garment styles and other merchandise by color, size, and quantity requirements; folding, sizing, and merchandising as required.
  • Utilizes the Point of Sale cash system, processes payments, refunds and exchanges and issues gift cards.

Service Member

FoodCorps AmeriCorps
Willimantic, CT
08.2017 - 07.2018
  • Connected over 500 children to healthy food at two Title I elementary schools in Windham, CT by teaching hands-on gardening and nutrition lessons, promoting healthy school meals, and developing a school wide culture of health with staying power
  • Modeled healthy eating behaviors in classrooms and cafeterias to consistently empower students to love healthy food and eat it every day
  • Collaborated with Windham Public Schools Food Service Director to implement school-wide monthly taste tests of new fruit and vegetable recipes for students to try, incorporating as much local produce as possible from the greater New England area; these recipes were then added to the school lunch menu
  • Developed partnerships with local farms to source produce for the federal lunch program in Windham Public Schools
  • Directed two after-school programs that combined hands-on activities with nutrition/garden education
  • Collaborated with community partners to provide SNAP outreach and parent engagement events
  • Managed and maintained one school garden from seed to harvest

Credentialing and Volunteer Resources Intern

Operation Smile
Virginia Beach, VA
02.2017 - 05.2017
  • Processed credentialing documentation in the initial application, evaluation, confirmation, and verification of medical volunteers
  • Communicated with medical volunteers and OS Global Staff as needed
  • Worked in the Medical Volunteer Database to implement or update Volunteer Database information and usage
  • Participated in team meetings, events, and other projects as requested

Education

Master of Public Health - Nutrition

The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
05.2023

Prerequisites - Public Health/Nutrition

Tidewater Community College
Virginia Beach, VA
05.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
12.2016

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer, EatMoveThink, Virginia Beach, VA Jan 2017-Jul 2017

  • Taught elementary school-aged kids the importance of diet, exercise, and mental wellbeing through: healthy smoothie demonstrations, activities with fitness instructors, and discussions with mental health therapists

Volunteer Tutor, The Reading Road Show, Harrisonburg, VA 2016

  • Tutored students, grades 1-5, in reading skills with bi-weekly reading help and activities
  • Assisted instructors with weekly lesson plans and activities

Committee Member, Relay For Life, Harrisonburg, VA 2015-1016

  • Helped plan and organize the Luminaria Ceremony, which honors both cancer survivors and those who have fallen to the disease
  • Promoted, sold and decorated 400 luminaria bags and organized them the night of the Relay
  • Ensured the Luminaria Ceremony ran smoothly, fielding all questions and issues that arose during the evening

Clubs and Organizations

Spoon University, 2015-2016

Nutrition Coalition, Present

UNC Campus Recreation Intramural Sports, Present


Awards

TCC President's List, 2019-2020

JMU President's List, 2015-2016

JMU Dean's List, 2014-2015

ServSafe Manager Certification

Timeline

Sales Associate

Pure Barre
11.2021 - Current

Educator

Lululemon
11.2020 - Current

Service Member

FoodCorps AmeriCorps
08.2017 - 07.2018

Credentialing and Volunteer Resources Intern

Operation Smile
02.2017 - 05.2017

Master of Public Health - Nutrition

The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

Prerequisites - Public Health/Nutrition

Tidewater Community College

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

James Madison University

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