Wendy Erickson
Littleton,CO
Summary
Customer-focused professional with a background in education and service-oriented roles. Skilled in communication, problem-solving, and relationship building, with a proven ability to create positive experiences for diverse groups of people. Recognized for reliability, adaptability, and providing high-quality support in fast-paced environments.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Hairstylist
Strandz
Littleton, CO
08.2022 - Current
- Assisted in maintaining cleanliness and organization of workstations to ensure efficient service delivery.
- Engaged with clients to understand their hair care needs and preferences for tailored styling, cutting, and coloring solutions.
- Supported clients during various hair treatments, enhancing knowledge of techniques and products.
- Create personalized hair color for clients.
- Shampoo, cut, and style client's hair.
Sales Associate
State Beauty Supply
Littleton, CO
10.2022 - 07.2024
- Assisted customers in identifying products, enhancing overall shopping experience.
- Developed product knowledge to provide informed recommendations and support sales initiatives.
- Managed inventory restocking and organization, ensuring product availability for customers.
- Collaborated with team members to create engaging store displays that attracted customer attention.
- Operate the point-of-sale system, handle cash and card payments, manage returns or exchanges.
- Create positive and welcoming experience for customers.
Educator
Littleton Public Schools
Littleton, CO
08.1993 - 05.2022
- Developed engaging lesson plans aligned with curriculum standards.
- Implemented innovative teaching strategies to enhance student learning outcomes.
- Fostered a positive classroom environment promoting respect and collaboration.
- Assessed student performance through regular evaluations and feedback sessions.
- Introduced the Classcraft education gamification platform into the classroom to combine technology, learning goals, and student interests with social studies curriculum.
- Served on the LPS Social Studies Personal Financial Literacy Committee. Co-curated the district-wide curriculum for the sixth-grade personal financial literacy unit.
- Facilitated and re-wrote curriculum for the LPS highly gifted student Pintsteins Program. Fifth grade students are gathered from all LPS elementary schools for 10-20 class sessions focusing on a variety of G/T topics using Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
- Implemented a differentiated, hands-on, and student-centered social studies curriculum to create a supportive classroom culture and improve complex problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Facilitated the Gifted and Talented programming needs for 40 identified elementary students and 150 identified middle-school students using a variety of educational techniques including differentiation, acceleration, curriculum compacting, mentorships, and independent studies.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - History And Education
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, COMaster of Arts - Special Education And Gifted Education
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, COSkills
- Customer service and engagement
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Transaction processing
- Friendly and outgoing
- Verbal and written communication
- Positive and professional
- Time management
- Reliability and punctuality
- Flexible schedule
Timeline
Sales Associate
State Beauty Supply
10.2022 - 07.2024
Hairstylist
Strandz
08.2022 - Current
Educator
Littleton Public Schools
08.1993 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Arts - History And Education
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Master of Arts - Special Education And Gifted Education
University of Northern Colorado