Teresa Challender
Port Angeles
Summary
I enjoy working in all areas of food prep, as I believe food to be the cornerstone of family. Creating food for a customer can take them from having a bad day to an outstanding day, and I love that.
I want all customers I work with to leave my department happy. And as an example, I won two Homer Awards for customer service while only a temporary/seasonal worker at Home Depot.
I am competitive with myself for quality and speed of delivery. I will be the first to ask to learn a new skill as I want to be the one my manager knows will pick up the slack and help when the need arises.
And if another department needs help, just point me toward the information I need to study to do the job correctly for them. I love learning new skills.
I hope you will consider me. I'd love to work for Costco.
Thank you for your time,
Teri Challender
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Comic Book Publisher and Creator
Pen & Ink Graphics
01.1989 - Current
- Skills: Billing, Selling, Customer Service, Shipping and Returns, PC: Word, Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint EX, Procreate and Affinity Designer. Plus website design: html and css
- Example of web page: http://www.teriwood.com My WIP website with responsive design that adapts from desktop to cellphone. Includes animation.
- Animation examples: https://www.youtube.com/@twoodakateresachallender3518/playlists
- $20hr
Certified Nursing Assistant
Discovery Memory Care
06.2010 - 01.2011
- Skills: taking skilled care of patients with cognitive decline, housekeeping, counseling family members, feeding, dressing, personal care and taking vitals.
- $10hr
Certified Nursing Assistant
Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation Center
11.2009 - 06.2010
- Skills: taking skilled care of patients, house-keeping, counseling family members, feeding, dressing, taking vitals.
- $9 hr
Store Opener and sandwich maker
Quiznos
05.2009 - 09.2009
- Duties: opening/closing restaurant, sandwich maker, food prep, cleaning/filling workstations, cleaning store at closing, customer service and cashier.
- Summer Job prior to CNA Schooling
- 681-4321 (closed)
- Manager: Tony Wu
- $8.50 hr
Opening Buffet Cook
The Secret Garden
10.2005 - 03.2006
- Skills: Preparing foods from recipe, filling and upkeep of Buffet, taking temperatures, prepping food for following day, filling/rotating/pulling foods in Freezer and Walk-In, cleaning kitchen area, and opening and closing restaurant.
- Restaurant Closed
- Old Manager Now Works At: Dungeness Courte
- Director of Food Services, Michael Sieg - 360-775-2480
- Employed as assistant cook, was made one of the main cooks later.
- Pay: $8.50, 38 hours a week
Deli/sandwich Clerk
Safeway
07.2005 - 10.2005
- Skills: Food Prep, Food Presentation, Filling/Rotating/Pulling Stock, stocking workstations, cleaning and upkeep of hot and cold machines, customer service and cashier.
- Pay $8 20 hours a week
Deli/sandwich Clerk
Sunny Farms Country Store
01.2005 - 07.2005
- Skills: Food Prep, specialty sandwiches, sandwiches to order, prepping salads from recipe, baking cookies/wafflecones/croutons, filling/rotating hot and cold cases, taking temperatures, cleaning/filling workstations, customer service and cashier.
- $7.50hr
Garden Department Associate
Home Depot
04.2011 - 07.2001
- Skills: Stocking, rotating/pulling, helping with inventory, customer service in multiple departments other than the Garden, looking up inventory on the computer, taking classes to better understand our merchandise to give customers better information.
- Temporary Seasonal
- $10.50 hr
- Note: I was told that as a temporary employee I should not expect to be able to achieve the Homer Award patch for customer service. It usually goes only to permanent employees on staff for a year or more.
- Instead, I got TWO of them. And one "Shout-Out" from another department for always helping out when things ran slow in my own department.
- Though Home Depot did not have the resources to hire another employee that season, several department heads asked for me in their department if HD could keep me on.
Assistant Manager
Little Caesar's Pizza
07.1998 - 10.2000
- Skills: Inventory, making pizzas/deserts/salads, Bank Deposits, Employee Training, Cashier, taking orders, preparing/cooking/boxing orders, Customer Service and Dough Prep.
- Hired as pizza delivery driver, advanced to Assistant Manager
- Supervisor: Charles Seagor
- Start Pay $5.50, End Pay $6.50
Deli/sandwich/pizza clerk
Vons Grocery
01.1990 - 07.1994
- Skills: Inventory, raw food handling, preparation and handling of hot and cold food and food cases, deli sandwiches to order, deli platters, family dinners, hot and cold pizzas, as well as the up-keep and cleaning of coffee, soda and ice cream machines.
- Supervisor: Tabitha Samson
- Start Pay: $5.35, End Pay $9.80
Book-keeper, Deli Clerk and Cashier
7-Eleven
07.1988 - 01.1990
- Skills: Book-Keeping and Bank Deposits, Milk Ordering and Pull Dates, Stocking/rotating/Fronting, creating specialty sandwiches for case, making sandwiches to order, Cleaning and upkeep of Hot and cold Food Machines, Cashier and Customer Service.
- Start pay $3.75, End Pay $5.00
Education
High School Diploma -
Central Union High School
El Centro, CA06-1993
Skills
- Book-Keeping and Bank Deposits
- Customer Service
- Stocking/rotating/Fronting
- Inventory
- Employee training
- Opening and closing store
- Preparing bank deposit
- Raw food handling
- Hot and cold pizzas, dough prep
- Specialty sandwiches, deli platters, family dinners
- Preparing foods from recipe
- Prepping foods for following day
- Taking temperatures of foods and hot/cold cases
- Up-keep and cleaning of coffee, soda and ice cream machines
- Billing
- Packaging, Shipping and Returns
- PC: Word, Photoshop and various art/animation programs
- Website design: html, css, responsive design
- Taking skilled care of patients
- Counseling family members
- Taking classes to better understand our merchandise to give customers better information
Websites
Timeline
Garden Department Associate
Home Depot
04.2011 - 07.2001
Certified Nursing Assistant
Discovery Memory Care
06.2010 - 01.2011
Certified Nursing Assistant
Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation Center
11.2009 - 06.2010
Store Opener and sandwich maker
Quiznos
05.2009 - 09.2009
Opening Buffet Cook
The Secret Garden
10.2005 - 03.2006
Deli/sandwich Clerk
Safeway
07.2005 - 10.2005
Deli/sandwich Clerk
Sunny Farms Country Store
01.2005 - 07.2005
Assistant Manager
Little Caesar's Pizza
07.1998 - 10.2000
Deli/sandwich/pizza clerk
Vons Grocery
01.1990 - 07.1994
Comic Book Publisher and Creator
Pen & Ink Graphics
01.1989 - Current
Book-keeper, Deli Clerk and Cashier
7-Eleven
07.1988 - 01.1990
High School Diploma -
Central Union High School