Tallie Wood-Miller
Rancho Cordova,CA
Summary
Professional hospitality worker, ready to excel in fast-paced environment. Proven track record in ensuring exceptional customer service and satisfaction. Strong focus on teamwork and adaptability, consistently meeting changing needs. Skilled in managing multiple tasks, handling customer inquiries, and maintaining clean and organized workspace. Reliable and results-driven, with positive attitude and excellent communication skills.
Overview
42
42
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
The Lotus Garden Mediation and Retreat Center (sub)
01.2016 - Current
- Filling in when other instructors are out teacher various styles of yoga.
Fitness Instructor/ Personal Trainer
Nutri-Sport Folsom
01.2014 - Current
- Helping to establish a new fitness facility
- Using past skills to bring build a small business from the ground up
- Working with individuals to meet their fitness needs
- Creating and teaching small group fitness classes
- Participating in public events to create new clients
- Creating new fitness formats that bring together Yoga and MMA sports
Beer Tender/Server
Fort Rock Brewing
05.2021 - 07.2025
- Used positive attitude to make Fort Rock a pleasurable experience for the guest
- Maintain a level of Craft Brewing knowledge
- Keep Brewery clean and well stocked
- Move and tap full kegs and small kegs
- Helped to keep stock of cans full and easy to grab for customers
- Worked special events on and off sight.
- Help the production team with canning beers
- Use creativity to make and maintain all Beers On Tap signage
- Work various shifts.
- Train new beer tenders and help team members with communications between departments.
Group exercise instructor
California Family Fitness
01.2007 - 09.2022
- Using a positive attitude to instruct Yoga, Pilates, Aqua and Tabata/Boot Camp and Strength Training classes of up to 30+ people
- Maintain knowledge in the fitness industry by obtaining continuing educational classes in a variety of group exercise instruction
- Regularly attending intensive trainings through various psychical training systems to better serve the ever-changing needs of the fitness industry and its cliental.
- Learning and developing new skills in order to teach more or different group classes
- Help maintain safety in classes by knowledge of anatomy and physiology
- Attending club safety meetings when necessary
- Informing club managers of concerns as they arise
- Help maintaining a safe environment for all guest by informing managers of safety concerns should they arise
Beer Tender/Server
Claimstake Brewing
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Used positive attitude to make Claimstake a pleasurable experience for the guest
- Maintain a level of Craft Brewing knowledge
- Keep Brewery clean and well stocked
- Move and tap full kegs and small kegs
- Helped to keep stock of cans full and easy to grab for customers
- Worked special events on and off sight.
Caterer
01.1995 - 01.2009
- Established and helped in establishing and setting up parties for up to 100 guests
- Helped staff larger events
- Communicated with all the facilities involved in even planning
Restaurant manager
Brookfields Restaurants; Rancho Cordova, CA.
01.1990 - 01.1992
- Used Positive team-building human resources techniques to hire, train, schedule, motivate, and supervise a staff of over one hundred employees
- Developed and drafted a detailed Training Manual and instituted a formal training program for all server and host staff members
- Controlled inventories and provided decision making on fiscal issues including the development of operating budgets
- Facilitated team and individual evaluations, with clear honest feedback, identifying team building and individual strengths and weaknesses
- Using hands-on management skills to lead by example and by direction
- Helped develop marketing techniques with fresh new ideas for an ever changing market
- Helped develop the menu database for the new P.O.S. system in 2007
- Attended seminars and workshops to maintain and improve skills
- Regularly attending food handling classes to ensure high standards of food quality and freshness
Server & lead server positions
Brookfields Restaurants
01.1989 - 01.1992
- Used positive attitude to make dining at Brookfields a pleasurable experience for the guest
- Over looked side-work and clean up detail for the server crew
- Trained new hires and gave honest clear feedback to the management crew about hiring decisions
- Trained servers to ensure that guest receive friendly outgoing and attentive service
- Helped to open new locations by training new servers and host
- Attended manager meetings often to help maintain the crew/manager relationship
- Helped to manage and put together a catering crew by training the catering crew members and running functions of up to one hundred and fifty guests
Host & lead host
Brookfields Restaurants
01.1988 - 01.1990
- Experience for guest entering the restaurant Used a friendly attitude to learn the skills of the restaurant to create an enjoyable
- Cashed customers out at the end of their meals maintaining a large cash drawer and balancing the cash at the end of the shift
- Maintained a clean lobby and restroom area
- Helped to train new host hired by leading by example
- Helped assist servers in every day duties such as dessert making and sorting guest checks
Receptionist & appointment setter
Reflections Hair, Nail, and Tanning Salon.
01.1987 - 01.1988
- Utilized organizational skills to run the front desk of a busy salon
- Answered phone calls and set appointments according to the schedules of the hair dressers and manicurist
- Helped assist guests with their tanning needs by extensive knowledge of the tanning equipment
- Helped maintain a clean sterile environment
Crew member & crew lead
McDonald’s Restaurant; Rancho Cordova CA.
01.1984 - 01.1988
- Used organizational skills to run a very busy drive thru
- Quickly became shift leader and assisted the managers in closing and opening the restaurant
- Helped train new employees
- Learned all kitchen duties and helped cook when necessary
- Assisted the manager with crew development and scheduling
Education
High School Graduate -
Kinney High
01.1985
Communications and Physical Education
Sacramento City College
01.1990
Communications and Physical Education
American River College
01.1987
High School - undefined
Cordova High
01.1985
Skills
- Gained strong communication skills through various job positions
- Achieved leadership skills through various leadership roles
- Highly focused and motivated
- Safety and result oriented
- Extremely organized and able to re-prioritize as issues or goals change
- Exceedingly efficient and goal driven
- Very detail oriented
- Strong customer service skills
- Strong team building skills
- Great understanding of how to motivate others
Certification
- Responsible Beverage Server Certification 8/18/2022
- Spin Power Instructor Certification 2019
- Yoga Progressions and Regressions 2018
- Stages Cycling 2018
- PMc Fitness Solutions Core Training specialist 2018
- Yoga: Adjust me AFAA 2017
- Women Weights and Results AFAA 2017
- Physical Fusion Sacramento APEX 2017
- The Hidden Messages in Food 2017
- Strength Training Program Design 2017
- Active Motion Bar 2016
- Barre Above Bender Pilates 2016
- AFAA Aqua Fitness 2015
- LeBert Training Systems LeBarre 2014
- Tabata Bootcamp Certification course 2014
- AFAA Indoor Cycling 2012
- AFAA Injury Prevention series 1-4 2012
- TRX Group Suspension Training 2012
- EFI Sports Medicine Gravity Personal Trainer 2010
- EFI Sports Medicine Gravity Group Trainer 2010
- AFAA Take Me to the Water basic aqua exercise skills 2010
- Sports Cat Leadership training Course X-bike 2009
- AFAA Yoga Practical Yoga Instructor Training workshop 2009
- AFAA Yoga Essentials Levels 1-3 2009
- AFAA Multi-training Yoga & Pilates on the ball and double ball training 2008
- Sole Synthesis Instructor Training 2008
- Arthritis Foundation Exercise Instructor Training 2008
- Certificate of Completion Mat 1 Pilate’s Coach 2008
- Certificate of Completion Bender reformer on the mat 2007
- Certificate of Completion Yoga Fit level 1 Sacramento CA. 2007
- CPR /AED certification Orangevale, CA (Mandatory re-certification every 2 years)
- Serve Safe Seminar Sacramento Holiday Inn CA. 2006
- Seminar for sexual harassment. Sacramento, CA. 2006
- Dynamics of Customer Focus workshop Sacramento
Timeline
Beer Tender/Server
Fort Rock Brewing
05.2021 - 07.2025
Beer Tender/Server
Claimstake Brewing
01.2020 - 01.2021
The Lotus Garden Mediation and Retreat Center (sub)
01.2016 - Current
Fitness Instructor/ Personal Trainer
Nutri-Sport Folsom
01.2014 - Current
Group exercise instructor
California Family Fitness
01.2007 - 09.2022
Caterer
01.1995 - 01.2009
Restaurant manager
Brookfields Restaurants; Rancho Cordova, CA.
01.1990 - 01.1992
Server & lead server positions
Brookfields Restaurants
01.1989 - 01.1992
Host & lead host
Brookfields Restaurants
01.1988 - 01.1990
Receptionist & appointment setter
Reflections Hair, Nail, and Tanning Salon.
01.1987 - 01.1988
Crew member & crew lead
McDonald’s Restaurant; Rancho Cordova CA.
01.1984 - 01.1988
Communications and Physical Education
Sacramento City College
Communications and Physical Education
American River College
High School - undefined
Cordova High
High School Graduate -
Kinney High
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