Nikhayla G Sterling
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Hostess, Server, Line Cook, Assistant 2nd Supervisor
Waffle House
Dallas, Georgia
07.2017 - 11.2017
- Delivered food, run the register, bust tables, recorded guest orders to ensure kitchen accuracy and efficient service.
- Cleaned back of house to restaurant specifications, replenished inventory for the oncoming shift.
- Recorded and replenished inventory of supplies up to food safety codes, prepared food for customers, deep cleaned for oncoming line cook, trained and accounted for personnel on my shift.
- Impact: upon being hired I improved sales of $40 to $3000 on second shift within 4 months.
Boatswain's Mate
United States Navy
Charleston
11.2017 - 04.2026
- Train, direct, supervise, and manage personnel in the performance of duties relating to marlinespike and deck seamanship.
- Direct and coordinate small boat, amphibious and well deck, replenishment at sea, towing, anchoring, and mooring, flight deck, search and rescue and cargo handling.
- Conduct and coordinate naval honors and ceremonies.
- Perform, manage, and supervise preventive and corrective maintenance on a variety of shipboard equipment.
- Boat operator, paint preservation: trained 100 sailors on 12 small boats (small boat fundamentals, etiquette, operations, safety).
- Lead preservation teams of over 96 spaces across 3 ships and 2 naval installations, providing living spaces for 300 marines.
- Fire fighter/fire safety, hazmat handler/3m worker and supervisor: Facilitated over 80 hours trainings resulting in over 74 newly qualified sailors increasing flexibility and team production by 85%.
- Lead the load and proper maintenance on 2 anchor, 25 shots of anchor chain, 19 pier/building firefighting hoses, 167 fire extinguishers, 96 shipboard spaces, 1,124 life preservers, 1 davit, 41 life rafts, 34 fan coil units, 60-ton and 20-ton cranes, 12 boats, over 300 hull fittings resulting in passing 4 inspections with a 88% or above, and 100% pass for search and rescue certification.
- In charge of the inventory, cleanliness, upkeep of 6 hazmat containers, 5 flammable lockers saving the navy 250,000 in fines, and maintain casualty readiness for 3 submarines, 1000 staff and students.
- Qualified to wear/operate m9 pistol, m500 shotgun, m16 rifle, oc spray tasked with maintaining law and order mustered and breathalyzed on navy installations/aboard ships/small boats to over 900 personnel in Guam, Japan, South Korea, San Diego, California.
- QA trained, JFMM experience. 154 HOURS of rigging lifeline and wire rope manufacturing on 4 submarines.
- Basic first aid/Rescue, CPR/AED, Specimen collection (urine) over 500 hrs. Venipuncture (butterfly, straight stick, capillary.) 150 sticks ranging geriatric-neonatal.
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Timeline
Boatswain's Mate
United States Navy
11.2017 - 04.2026
Hostess, Server, Line Cook, Assistant 2nd Supervisor
Waffle House
07.2017 - 11.2017