Hi, I’m
Michael Zarifis
Springfield,MO
Stewardship means first you listen, then you ask, then you act.
If what you are doing does not help at least one person beside yourself, is it worth doing?
Al Zarifis-my father
Summary
As a teacher in a behavioral hospital for children and the division of youth services, I was patient while helping others understand the tasks at hand. I worked with the state C-star program to get clients who needed services they required to move forward in their lives. As a house supervisor for ARC, I helped older clients to become as independent as possible, and worked as the younger clients representative for schools. I have experience with computing skills including, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
Overview
35
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
Arc of the Ozarks
House Coordinator
07.2009 - 07.2010
Job overview
- Maintain communication between supervisors and the needs of the house
- Communicating the residents needs to the guardians
- Making appointments as needed and seeing that the residents attend them
- Charting and administering medications
- Caring for the everyday needs of residents
- Organizing files and paperwork
- Handling funds for everyday living
- Coordinating maintenance and repair as needed
Heartland Behavioral Health Hospital
Teacher
03.2004 - 09.2005
Job overview
- Creating weekly lesson plans
- Instruct, correct, and guide students working on their lessons
- Speaking with students individually and in groups about personal issues
- Attend treatment team meetings with therapists, doctors, nurses, and staff to discuss issues
- Accurately document goals, achievements, behaviors, and actions
- Coordinate with principal and other teachers about upcoming activities
Division of Youth Services
Teacher
01.1999 - 03.2004
Job overview
- Creating weekly lesson plans
- Instruct, oversee, correct, and oversee students working on their lessons
- Talking with students individually and in groups about and personal issues which you may have come up
- Tend treatment team meetings with therapists and staff to discuss issues each of the students
- Accurately document goals, achievements, behaviors, and actions
- Coordinate with principal and other teachers about upcoming activities
Nevada Mental Health
Community Support Worker
10.1993 - 09.1994
Job overview
- Attended treatment team meetings to help clients determine recovery goals
- Assisted clients in securing housing, food, medical services, and other basic needs to maintain recovery
- Assisted clients in securing Social Security, Medicaid or Social Security Disability if needed
- Properly chart plans, outcomes, behaviors, and actions of clients
Heartland behavioral hospital
Teacher
09.1990 - 10.1993
Job overview
- Creating weekly lesson plans
- Instruct, correct, and oversee students working on their lessons
- Speaking with students individually and in groups about any personal issues which may have needed attention
- Attend treatment team meetings with therapists, doctors, nurses, and staff to discuss issues
- Accurately document goals, achievements, behaviors, and actions
- Coordinate with the principal and other teachers about upcoming activities
Diribald
Auction warehouse Associate
01.2025 - 09.2025
Job overview
- Sort through new inventory
- Post inventory on auction site
- Package and mail products
- Assembled orders and packed items for shipment, conveying orders to shipping personnel, called for pickup, and followed package through delivery.
Vital Farms
Production specialist/training specialist
08.2023 - 12.2024
Job overview
- Trained others to work on the production floor packing and stacking cartons of eggs. ensuring that materials are available
- Trained staff on the correct procedures of operating the various machines needed in the process, including those which were needed in production and transport/inventory.
- Explained and instructed the safe use of equipment and of safe work practices, including PPE and GMA.
- Assisted others, when time allowed to keep the work areas safe and clean.
- Properly count, stack cartons and wrap for storage and warehouse.
- Operate and train others on several pieces of equipment including forklifts, electric pallet jacks, stacking equipment including robots.
Red Racks Thrift Store
Miscellaneous Production/Warehouse Supervisor
04.2020 - 08.2023
Job overview
- Take donations, sort, process, and price items for sale.
- Inventory control and rotation
- Supervise staff in correct operations and policies
- Received and separated products at the donation facility; scheduled pick ups from customers; dispatched drivers to pick up orders.
Sherwin-Williams
Truck Driver
02.2019 - 08.2019
Job overview
- Picked up products, in preloaded trailers, from distribution center, secured load, and transported them to retail stores.
- Unloaded products at stores using electric pallet jacks and various forklifts.
- Filled out all DOT required load and trip documentation.
C1 truck driving school
Instructor
09.2017 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Trained students how to drive a manual and automatic trucks.
- Trained how to properly back a trailer in various scenarios.
- Trained complete inspection of both truck and trailer.
- Continually discuss the need for safety in all aspects of driving and parking.
IWX Motor Freight
Truck Driver
05.2015 - 09.2017
Job overview
- Completed proper inspection of equipment.
- Inspected, counted and secured all items being loaded.
- Safely transported and delivered both produce and non-produce items.
- Filled out all DOT required load and trip documentation.
- Unloaded trailers when required using various equipment such as pallet jacks, electric pallet jacks, and forklifts.
CTI
Truck Driver
12.2014 - 05.2015
Job overview
- Completed proper inspection of equipment.
- Inspected, counted and secured all items being loaded.
- Safely transported and delivered both produce and non-produce items.
- Filled out all DOT required load and trip documentation.
- Unloaded trailers when required using various equipment such as pallet jacks, electric pallet jacks, and forklifts.
REDNECK TRAILER SUPPLIES
Truck/Warehouse
03.2014 - 12.2014
Job overview
- Picked parts for shipping
- Packed, stacked and wrapped parts on pallets
- Loaded pallets, axles, tires, and other parts into a van or on a flatbed trailer using various equipment such as pallet jacks, electric pallet jacks, and forklifts. and secured load. Safely delivered loads to receivers.
- Did daily section inventory.
Prime
OTR Driver
07.2010 - 03.2014
Job overview
- Operating a commercial tractor
- Organizing and preparing taxes for an LLC
- Good customer relations and service
- Punctual time management
- Navigation preparation and planning
- Calculation for effective fuel consumption
- Keeping a maintenance schedule and repairing issues as needed
- Loading and unloading trailers when necessary, using pallet jacks, electric pallet jacks, and forklifts.
Education
Southern Missouri State UniversitySpringfield, MO
No Degree from Graduate Studies Special Ed.
03.2001
Northwest Missouri State UniversityMaryville, MO
Bachelor of Science from Communication/speech
03-1990
Southwestern Community CollegeCreston, IA
Associate of Arts
08.1986
Creston High SchoolCreston, IA
01.1977
Skills
- In my years of teaching, I worked almost exclusively with students who had developmental disabilities, and/or emotional, mental, and social adjustment Issues
- In the mental health clinic and ARC of the Ozarks, I worked with adults with varying degrees of developmental and physical disabilities
- Being organized is important is important and I always look for simpler more practical ways to do get a job done Since a young age, I have been somewhat obsessed with counting things, which would explain my enjoyment of doing inventory
- Honesty and courtesy are values my parents believed in and I learned from them
- Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint are all programs which I am comfortable with
- Whether a small group or 200 people, I am comfortable speaking in either situation
- Working by myself and in groups Both present different challenges which I enjoy
- I am very self-motivated
Certification
Class E Drivers License
Languages
English
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Timeline
Auction warehouse Associate
Diribald
01.2025 - 09.2025
Production specialist/training specialist
Vital Farms
08.2023 - 12.2024
Miscellaneous Production/Warehouse Supervisor
Red Racks Thrift Store
04.2020 - 08.2023
Truck Driver
Sherwin-Williams
02.2019 - 08.2019
Instructor
C1 truck driving school
09.2017 - 02.2019
Truck Driver
IWX Motor Freight
05.2015 - 09.2017
Truck Driver
CTI
12.2014 - 05.2015
Truck/Warehouse
REDNECK TRAILER SUPPLIES
03.2014 - 12.2014
OTR Driver
Prime
07.2010 - 03.2014
House Coordinator
Arc of the Ozarks
07.2009 - 07.2010
Teacher
Heartland Behavioral Health Hospital
03.2004 - 09.2005
Teacher
Division of Youth Services
01.1999 - 03.2004
Community Support Worker
Nevada Mental Health
10.1993 - 09.1994
Teacher
Heartland behavioral hospital
09.1990 - 10.1993
Southwestern Community College
Associate of Arts
Creston High School
Southern Missouri State University
No Degree from Graduate Studies Special Ed.
Northwest Missouri State University
Bachelor of Science from Communication/speech
Additional Information
- My dad who was a small town insuranceman. Starting about 10 years old, my siblings and I would go to his office and answer the telephones on Saturday mornings and greeted customers who came through the door. We would also sit in the office and watch him interact with his customers. Probably the most important lesson I ever learned there was how to listen. I enjoy meeting the public face-to-face, listening to them to find out their needs, and then helping them make the right selection.
- My dad was the county chairman for Red Cross for 30 years and my mother ran the bloodmobile for 20 years. They taught us that stewardship was more important than any other endeavor, and only through serving others could we truly learn how to lead.
- I spent 17 years in the food and beverage industry. I worked and everything from busing tables, cooking, and 5 years as a bartender. I worked several years in factories loading and unloading trucks including Meredith Printing in Des Moines and Redneck trailer in Springfield. In hauling produce and non-produce items for 3 million miles, I loaded and unloaded hundreds of trailers.
- I can be impatient with others who do not wish to participate in a shared activity I do not care to work with people who accept mediocrity as acceptable performance. I tend to get exasperated and frustrated without a challenge. I do not care to sit and wait for something to do.
- Hard working
- Focused
- Honest
- Dedicated
- Motivated
- Open to suggestions of others
- Willing to help others with their issues without need for reward
- Joyful
- Responsible
- Stewardship