Linda Leskovska Sackman

• Designed custom artwork for clients, meeting their creative vision and ensuring satisfaction with the final product.
• Utilized social media platforms proactively to promote personal brand awareness. Samples of my work can be found here: https://www.inthedoghouseartstudio.com/about-us/artists/linda-sackman
• Working primarily in paper carving, stained glass and other mixed media, computer software

• Created visually compelling social media content for a nursery and garden center
• Enhanced online engagement by creating educational content for various platforms with emphasis on credible sources and experts in the field
• Strengthened brand identity with consistent messaging, tone, and visual elements across all posts.
• Designed and implemented several marketing campaigns ( Earth Day, Native Plant month) built on active participation of our customers - photo contests, native landscaping competition etc. driving community involvement and physical store foot traffic

To bee ( imaginary verb)

1) to engage in acts of radical reciprocity with planet Earth

2) to joyfully and industriously obsess about native flowers

3) to provide invaluable services to human kind

I founded this LLC as a legal entity to be able to officially provide goods and services in line with the above mission. I freelance in any capacity there is a need for, as long as it beneficial to our planet and her Earthlings. Be it a native plant PR campaign, new mother's helper services, disaster recovery cleanup, farm hand help, regenerative agriculture / permaculture consulting, heirloom seed preservation or original art creation for environmental and social justice causes.

I have many gifts and I share them with artists, farmers, caregivers of all kinds, gardeners, neighbors, NGOs and more. This LLC is an ongoing experiment in radically different type of economy in which everyone can participate, not just those rich in money.

In that spirit, I trade my services for cash if available, but also a lot of produce, access to tools/vehicles or random acts of kindness. I succeeded in building a hyper-local network of interconnectedness that moves surplus, meets needs and creates an environment of inclusion and care.

I fiercely believe in this concept. If I counted money I didn't need to spend as money I *made* it would be a successful venture by any standard metric. Future belongs to a thriving community and I am doing my part.

Full scope organic/regenerative farm hand duties with seasonal emphasis on harvest, produce processing and packaging for CSA, wholesale and farmer's market.

Field work, manual weeding, soil amending, seeding, transplanting, watering, cover cropping.

Hands-on raining and supervision of new staff, interns and volunteers, educational programming for homeschoolers.

2 Seasons as a full time employee, ongoing work-trade arrangement bartering for the best produce ever grown in Florida.

• Emergency room patient care to the full scope of EMT practice
• Triaged patients in emergency situations based on life-threatening needs and delegated tasks to better provide treatment to maximum patients at once.
• Evaluated patient histories to assess and prioritize levels of care.
• Provided basic life support, CPR, oxygen therapy, wound care, venipuncture, IV catheter placement, hygiene, therapeutic conversation-debriefing, EKG, labs, splinting, coordinated specialty care.

• Oversaw daily operations of the animal shelter, ensuring seamless collaboration between departments and increasing efficiency.
• Managed operational budget for both campuses and utilized resources within its limits.
• Supervised and participated in day-to-day activities from recruitment/animal intake, veterinary care, behavioral evaluations and training plan, foster care agenda, inter-shelter collaborations on hard to place cases, adoption process and post adoption follow up.
• Conducted regular performance reviews to assess team progress, providing constructive feedback and guidance for continuous improvement.
• Designed and implemented novel and successful strategies and policies reaching historically high adoption rates while decreasing length of stay, including difficult to place demographics, such as kittens with ringworm, large "bully breed' dogs and geriatric animals.
• Implemented a large dog playgroup program to address mental/physical stimulation needs of our long resident dogs experiencing kennel stress
• Pioneered active transport of infirm animals into our care to leverage outstanding veterinary care available to us in-house, thus reducing euthanasia of animals with treatable conditions at our municipal shelter partners.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop and execute long-term corporate goals and objectives.
• Identified opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement, implementing changes that resulted in significant savings.

Overseeing Health Staff dept. in an open admission animals shelter in Pasadena, CA with three functional units:

1)Shelter Veterinary Hospital - seeing all stray animals.

2)Wildlife rehabilitation station- dedicated to orphaned and injured CA native wildlife.

3)High volume Spay/Neuter clinic-serving owned animals to address the pet overpopulation and reducing shelter intakes.

I supervised a staff of 1FT and 2PT veterinarians, 17 permanent vet techs, 4 seasonal wildlife personnel and 50+ regular volunteers. I worked hands on in all aspects of daily operations, including, but not limited to triage, critical care, rehabilitation or euthanasia.

I was responsible for recruitment, training and development of new staff, scheduling, animal transport logistics, inventory, vendor contracts, budgeting, strategic partnerships, program development, foster program coordination and more. I pioneered wildlife medicine program for 3rd year veterinary students at local university and significantly improved general husbandry of exotic and farm animals.