Marquita Odom
Lake City,US
Summary
- Skills
- Organizational Skills
- CPR
- Teaching
- Experience with children
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Bus Aide
Columbia County School Board
06.2024 - Current
- Helped students with physical and mental disabilities to board, disembark and ride bus.
- Supervised students and maintained discipline on bus to reduce driver distraction.
- Liaised with bus driver to conduct emergency evacuation drills.
- Communicated with bus driver to meet students' medical, physical and behavioral needs during transport.
- Maintained clean and orderly buses by conducting regular sweeps for lost items and debris removal.
- Completed daily attendance logs for all routes.
Food Service Worker
Armark
02.2024 - Current
- Utilized strong multitasking skills to manage multiple orders simultaneously without compromising quality or accuracy.
- Maintained clean, trash-free workspaces to maximize productivity and safety.
- Supported team members during peak hours, ensuring smooth operations and minimal wait times for customers.
- Restocked supplies and prepared additional ingredients during downtime for expected busy periods.
- Made food according to standard recipes with requested changes for customer satisfaction.
- Cleaned and sanitized dishes and utensils, consistently keeping adequate supplies on hand for expected customer loads.
- Prevented food spoilage by monitoring dates, rotating stock, and following proper storage procedures.
Food Service
Summers Elementary
08.2022 - 06.2024
- Wrap menu item such as sandwiches, hot entrees, and desserts for serving or for takeout
- Order items needed to replenish supplies
- Balance receipts and payments in cash registers
- Set up dining areas for meals and clear them following meals
- Perform cleaning duties such as sweeping, mopping, and washing dishes, to keep equipment and facilities sanitary
- Cook food or prepare food items, such as sandwiches, salads, and ice cream dishes, using standard formulas or following directions
- Scrub and polish counters, steam tables, and other equipment, and clean glasses, dishes, and fountain equipment
- Managed daily operations, including inmate processing, housing assignments, food service delivery, medical care provision, and recreational activities scheduling.
- Maximized guest satisfaction with timely and efficient food service delivery during events.
Prep cook
Popeye's Restaurants
11.2020 - 05.2022
- Clean food preparation areas, cooking surfaces, and utensils
- Cook and package batches of food, such as hamburgers and fried chicken, which are prepared to order or kept warm until sold
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Read food order slips or receive verbal instructions as to food required by patron, and prepare and cook food according to instructions
- Pre-cook items such as bacon, to prepare them for later use
- Take food and drink orders and receive payment from customers
- Clean, stock, and restock workstations and display cases
- Serve orders to customers at windows, counters, or tables
- Order and take delivery of supplies
- Measure ingredients required for specific food items being prepared
- Operate large-volume cooking equipment such as grills, deep-fat fryers, or griddles
- Prepare dough, following recipe
- Mix ingredients such as pancake or waffle batters
Childcare
Happy Hearts West
01.2019 - 11.2020
- Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children
- Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans
- Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits
- Place or hoist children into baths or pools
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books
- Dress children and change diapers
- Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments
- Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas
- Maintain a safe play environment
- Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues
- Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling
- Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children
- Help children with homework and school work
- Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped
- Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs
- Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips
Shipping/Receiving Clerk
Pilgrim's Pride
11.2019 - 06.2020
- Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators
- Shipping and receiving products
- Plan and develop new products and production processes
- Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services
- Enforce safety and sanitation regulations
- Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked
- Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals
Daycare
Dora's Paradise
03.2007 - 11.2017
- Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits
- Dress children and change diapers
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas
- Maintain a safe play environment
- Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children
- Help children with homework and school work
- Working with children ages born to five years of age
- Substitute for or assist other cooks during emergencies or rush periods
- Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes or personal judgment, using various kitchen utensils and equipment
- Turn or stir foods to ensure even cooking
- Plan and price menu items
- Keep records and accounts
Education
High school diploma -
Miami Central Senior High School
Miami Gardens, FL08.2004
High School Diploma -
Miami Job Crops
Miami Gardens, FL06.2004
Skills
- Organizational Skills
- CPR
- Teaching
- Experience with children
Certification
- Teaching Certificate
- CPR
- CPR/First Aid
Professionalsummary - Skills
- Organizational Skills
- CPR
- Teaching
- Experience with children
Timeline
Bus Aide
Columbia County School Board
06.2024 - Current
Food Service Worker
Armark
02.2024 - Current
Food Service
Summers Elementary
08.2022 - 06.2024
Prep cook
Popeye's Restaurants
11.2020 - 05.2022
Shipping/Receiving Clerk
Pilgrim's Pride
11.2019 - 06.2020
Childcare
Happy Hearts West
01.2019 - 11.2020
Daycare
Dora's Paradise
03.2007 - 11.2017
High school diploma -
Miami Central Senior High School
High School Diploma -
Miami Job Crops
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