Lindsey Atkinson

• I am a fully self employed, full time pet sitter around the Portland, OR metro area.
• I have not had a day off since February of 2023 as I travel and work everyday.
• I am in charge of out bound calls, recruiting clients for myself, creating my schedule weekly and a lot of the time, urgent schedule changes that potentially affect or extend my work days.
• I must have complete and open communication with owners at all times.
• I have to be extremely flexible with my schedule and also be on top of my time management as I am responsible for the pets that are on a specific schedule.
• I work with dogs and cats of all ages, sizes, temperaments and health needs.
• I have built great relationships with my clients and their pets and my full time schedule is now a schedule of regulars.

I started as a Kennel Tech Supervisor and was then promoted to Assistant Manager after 3 months of full time work. I worked side by side with the Manager and owner. I assisted in hiring and management of the entire team. I briefly worked with inventory and managing open invoices. I was also responsible for handling conflict and unresolved issues brought forward from the clients. I was responsible for scheduling and attending management meetings.

• At Buster and Lilly's I pretty much do it all.
• From monitoring a room of up to 60 dogs at a time, to multiple baths and nails trims throughout the day, to helping manage a small staff, as well as almost constant customer interaction throughout the day, I am working in a very high pace environment.
• I have to maintain a healthy and safe environment for the dogs and for us, so cleaning is a very large duty that I do on a daily basis.
• I have to answer inbound calls as well as making outbound calls.
• I am responsible for scheduling daycare evaluations, boarding stays are well as keeping up with emails.
• I am also responsible for very open and honest communication with our customers regarding dogs behavior, keeping up with vaccines and creating and maintaining a healthy employee customer-relationship.
• We pride ourselves in showing the customers that we care about their dogs and pay very close attention to every detail, so keeping an open dialog on a daily basis is essential to making them feel comfortable as well making sure that the dogs are having the best quality of care possible.
• I love my dogs at work so much! I feel motivated everyday to make it the best day possible for the dogs, my coworkers and myself.

• I started as a yard tech and was since promoted to a team leader, manager position.
• I help oversee employees, scheduling and management of the facility.
• I make sure policies are understood by employees and followed on a daily basis.
• I'm head of training and decision making in my area of work.
• I have to solve conflicts and make sure everyone is always on the same page to help maximize the success of our company.

• I worked as receptionist at Webb Animal Clinic.
• My duties were to do paperwork, check in/out clients, make appointments, confirm appointments as well as cancelling, answering and making phone calls.
• I also had to fill prescriptions and I worked very closely with all of the vet staff which required constant communication.

• I took care of a terminally ill patient/family friend.
• I had to lift her often (about 110 pounds), keep up with and give her medications, upkeep her household while I was there, help schedule doctors appointments, keep in contact with her doctors and make sure she was always in good hygiene.
• I'm no longer in a job with her because she passed away.