Teresa McCarrel
Vancouver,USA
Summary
Detail-oriented professional with a solid background in health care and hospitality cleaning services and surgical instrument sterile processing. Demonstrated expertise in maintaining cleanliness and organization across various settings, enhancing guest experiences and patient outcomes while adhering to safety protocols. Committed to high standards of service and collaboration with team members to ensure operational efficiency.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Seasonal support, stockroom receiving
Macys
Vancouver, WA
10.2025 - Current
- Receive freight on dock and sort it according to department.
- Follow store guidelines to sensor items that need anti-theft devices.
- Transport sorted, censored stock to correct department.
- Occasionally, placing items on shelves and monitoring department for orderliness.
- RFID auditing for inventory purposes.
- Picking orders for Fulfillment.
- Scanning orders being sent out by Fulfillment.
Housekeeper
Double Arrow Resort
Seeley Lake, MT
05.2019 - 01.2020
- Maintained cleanliness, tidiness, and comfortable arrangement of vacation rentals, ensuring that guests felt at home and comfortable.
- Performed deeper cleans in areas that needed it whenever time permitted.
- Stocked and replenished room supplies, including toiletries, towels, etc...in the bathroom and cooking and cleaning supplies in kitchens.
- Coordinated with front desk staff throughout the day to accommodate guests coming in sooner or leaving later or any special requests.
- Educated myself in and put into practice the safe use of our cleaning chemicals as well as which chemicals are appropriate for which surfaces.
- Assisted in training new team members on our particular cleaning processes.
- Monitored levels of supplies and alerted management about low levels when needed.
- Helped wash, fold, and restock laundry daily.
- Assisted guests when they had questions about the resort or the area in general. If I wasn't able to help them, I would find someone who could.
- Coordinated with maintenance team to alert them to any necessary repairs, unsafe walkways, etc.
Housekeeper
Tamaracks Resort
Seeley Lake, MT
05.2017 - 08.2018
- Worked in groups of two or three to quickly restore cleanliness and tidiness of vacation rentals between guests.
- Performed deeper cleaning as time allowed.
- Stocked and replenished bathroom supplies, including toiletries, towels, etc. and cooking and cleaning supplies in kitchens.
- Coordinated with front desk personnel to do cleans as quickly and efficiently as possible as well as to accommodate any special requests from guests.
- Educated myself on the safe use of our cleaning chemicals and which chemicals are suited to which surfaces.
- Assisted in training new employees on our particular cleaning techniques and procedures.
- Maintained flexibility with frequent changes in staff.
- Assisted with laundry daily and did some full day laundry shifts.
- Assisted guests when they had questions. If I didn't know the answer, I would find someone who did.
- Coordinated with person who did maintenance to alert him to necessary repairs in units.
Certified Sterile Processing Technician
Kalispell Regional Medical Center
Kalispell, MT
12.2005 - 09.2014
- Received used surgical instruments from operating room.
- Decontaminated and washed them per manufacturer's recommendations.
- Inspected and did maintenance on them and repackaged them in sets as specified for each set.
- Sterilized the instruments per manufacturer's requirements.
- Restocked them in O.R. in proper location.
- Maintained accurate records.
- Did inventory and restocked crash carts for each unit in the hospital.
- Monitored upcoming schedule in the O.R. and coordinated with them to ensure that all sets they needed were available and in the proper location when they needed them.
- Previous to sterile processing, I was an aide in the operating room. My primary job was to clean operating rooms between surgeries, ensuring that all surfaces were sanitary before the next surgery. Occasionally, I would transport the patient from their unit to the O.R.
Education
High school diploma - some college
Missoula County High Schools, Flathead Valley College
Missoula, MTSkills
- Attention to detail
- Custodial experience
- Laundry
- Janitorial experience
- Safety standards in production
- Isolation room
- Computer literacy
- Office cleaning
- Hotel experience (resort)
- Hotel experience
- Time management
- Sanitation
- Hospitality
- Commercial cleaning
- Cleaning
- Customer service
- Healthcare infection prevention and control expertise
- Basic math
- Respiratory protection
- Climbing
Certification
- Driver's License
- Food Handler Certification
Languages
English
Timeline
Seasonal support, stockroom receiving
Macys
10.2025 - Current
Housekeeper
Double Arrow Resort
05.2019 - 01.2020
Housekeeper
Tamaracks Resort
05.2017 - 08.2018
Certified Sterile Processing Technician
Kalispell Regional Medical Center
12.2005 - 09.2014
High school diploma - some college
Missoula County High Schools, Flathead Valley College