Sarah Carvalho
Beacon,NY
Summary
Creative artist offering expertise in customer service, retail, and styling. Friendly and caring towards customers, clients, and fellow employees. Enthusiastic and easily inspired, seeking to add beauty and joy to environment.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Floral Assistant, Harvester
Hidden Acre Farms
09.2024 - Current
- Harvesting and processing flowers on an organic farm
- Bouquet designing and arranging for selling at farmers markets
Retail Sales Associate
Vintage: Beacon
Beacon, NY
08.2023 - Current
- Currently works at an upscale vintage and designer consignment clothing boutique, making sales and solo manning the shop.
- Monitors sales floor and merchandise displays for presentable condition, taking corrective action such as reorganizing and tidying products.
- Styles mannequins in eye catching and of the season ensembles and helps with the design of window displays to draw in interest.
- Greets customers and helps with product questions, selections, styling, and purchases.
- Maintains clean sales floor and straightens merchandise.
- Films reels for social media and posts items to Poshmark.
- Opens and closes shop.
Photographer
Self
06.2013 - Current
- Photographs weddings, portraits, nature, and products.
- Experienced in editing photos using Lightroom and Photoshop.
- Made own website using Squarespace.
Flower Harvester
Treadlight Farms
08.2023 - 11.2023
- Harvested flowers on organic flower farm.
- Transported and loaded harvested items into truck.
- Performed quality control and placed flowers in brown paper for buyers.
Photographer
Wild Planet Foods
05.2014 - 05.2023
- Worked as both a food stylist and photographer, making and styling food and photographing it, as well as photographing product packaging.
- Edited photos using the applications Lightroom and Photoshop.
Marketing Assistant
Wild Planet Foods
01.2014 - 04.2021
- Contributed to weekly team meetings.
- Helped with various marketing projects, such as creating lists of potential leads.
- Designed and created an internal employee newsletter.
- Assisted in coordinating company's participation at trade shows.
- Assisted in marketing communication with customers.
- Worked at the front of company's booth at a large trade show.
Customer Service Representative
Wild Planet Foods
05.2013 - 05.2014
- Answered customer phone calls and emails.
- Responded to customer requests for products, services, and company information.
- Handled customer inquiries and suggestions courteously and professionally.
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of product and service changes.
- General office duties such as opening mail and scanning documents.
Shipping Associate
Wild Planet Foods
09.2011 - 05.2013
- Packed and labeled boxes to be shipped.
- Labeled cans.
Education
High School Diploma -
Mckinleyville High School
Mckinleyville, CA06.2012
Skills
- Customer service
- Digital editing of photographs
- Cut flower harvesting
- Bouquet design
- Retail sales
- Food photography
- Portrait and wedding photography
- Product photography
- Macro nature photography
- Creative artistic vision
- Eye for fashion and art
Websites
Languages
- Native language of English
- Beginner - intermediate use of conversational Mandarin Chinese
Hobbies
Strong love for vintage and antique clothing, modern fashion and styling, and interior design. A gardener, experienced in starting and growing flowers from seed. Enjoys playing multiple instruments as well as singing and makes art in various forms, such as through photography and sketching.
Timeline
Floral Assistant, Harvester
Hidden Acre Farms
09.2024 - Current
Retail Sales Associate
Vintage: Beacon
08.2023 - Current
Flower Harvester
Treadlight Farms
08.2023 - 11.2023
Photographer
Wild Planet Foods
05.2014 - 05.2023
Marketing Assistant
Wild Planet Foods
01.2014 - 04.2021
Photographer
Self
06.2013 - Current
Customer Service Representative
Wild Planet Foods
05.2013 - 05.2014
Shipping Associate
Wild Planet Foods
09.2011 - 05.2013
High School Diploma -
Mckinleyville High School