Employment History

Devon Flynn
UNBC Bag 8100, #732
Prince George, BC
V2N 5H1
(250) 842-8235

Objective: To obtain a position where I can apply and challenge myself, as well as further my experience in the work force.

Education:
- 1st year Environmental Planning Student at UNBC
- Attained Food Safe Level 1
- Attained First Aid Level 1
- Attained Serving It Right certification
- Taken Bear Awareness course

Employment History:

March 2009 – September 2009: Child Care Service Worker
Duties include:
− Food preparation and cooking
− Entertaining children
− Cleaning duties

March 2009 – September 2009: Fitness Center Operator
Duties include:
− Cleaning exercise machines
− Opening and closing of building
− Book keeping
− Daily notes
− Community board and fitness information posting
− Daily vacuuming
− Operating entertainment systems

2008 May – 2008 September: Solo Cross-country bike fundraiser
Duties include:
− Training
− Media

• - Contacting local radio and television stations

• - Writing articles to newspapers

• - Maintaining and updating website blog

• - Planning presentations

• - Documentation

− Biking

• - Bike and equipment maintenance

• - Physically biking and travelling
  

• - Setting up camp or preparing hospitality

• - Shopping and cooking meals

• − Fundraising

• - Public bank account book keeping

• - Funds collection while travelling

• - Liaison between fund receptors

2007 September – 2008 March: Canada World Youth Participant
Duties include:
− Living in Canadian community (Kelowna, BC) and foreign community (Beijing, China)
- Lived with host family in each community

• Integration with family, including chores, participation and learning

• Lived with Chinese counterpart

• Teaching of English, learning of mandarin

• Helping integrate counterpart into Canadian culture

− Planning and organizing of group activities
- Planning community educational activity volunteering events
- Planning educational activity days situated around different topics (environment, local history, economics, community development, etc)
− Learning weekly mandarin classes
− Weekly goal evaluations
− Volunteered at local food bank

• Sorted, organized and stacked boxes of food

• Receive and unload incoming shipments of food

• Package diet oriented food boxes

• Dealing with customers and their specific food needs

2007 May – August: Check Your Latitude Group Participant
Duties include:
− Running community garden

• Preparation of land and area

• Advertising and running workshops

• Growing and maintaining garden

• Execution and sorting of local good food box

− Creating and running kids kitchen

• Organizing meals

• Shopping for ingredients

• Healthy activities and games

− Creating, planning and running kids camps

• Creation and acting in veggie-heroes short skit

• Planning venues and dates

• Caring for young kids

− Participating and running group activities
− Weekly evaluations


2007 March – April: Ski hill lift operator
Duties include:
− Daily starting and shutting down of machinery
− Maintenance of work and public area
− Knowing and understanding radio calls
− Watching for public safety

2006 October - 2007 February: Pacific Inland Resources Mill Worker
Duties include:
- Cutting, stacking and moving dunnage
- Stacker machine operator
- Wrapping station
- General area upkeep

2006 September – October: Upper Skeena Service Learning Agriculture Project Participant
Duties include:
− Researching recipes online
− Cooking/baking
− Public gardening
− Planning and carrying out service learning projects
− Cutting and clearing trails
− Weekly evaluations

2005-2006 November 16 - August 16: Katimavik Participant
Duties include:
− Living in 3 different communities for 3 months
− House managing

• Cooking for 11 other people

• Shopping

• Taking messages

• General cleaning

− Various volunteering jobs
− Committee work
- Public relations, Leadership, Environment, French, Healthy Lifestyles, Cultural Discovery
- Phoning, advertising, planning protocols
- Execution of planned activities
− Volunteering full time at 3 different jobs
- Canadian Bushplane Heritage Museum in Sault Ste. Marie, ON

• Cashier

• Display maintenance

• Marketing

• Disassembling/reassembling airplanes

- Technical Services at Mauricie National Park, QB

• Painting

• General cleaning

• Washing vehicles

• Odd jobs

- Corner Brook Stream Trails, NF

• Landscaping

• Painting

• Physical labor

- Junior Achievement Corner Brook, NF

• Clerical work

• Data entry

• Odd jobs

Skills and Abilities:
¨ Learn new skills quickly and applying productively
¨ Highly motivated and focused
¨ Can work independently or in group
¨ Willing to try anything once

Volunteer Experience:

2009
- Volunteered with Hazelton Good Food Box
- Kispiox Valley Music Festival pre-setup
- UNBC affiliations: Drama Club, Film Club, Residence Council, Residence Floor Representative, Board of Directors of Prince George Public Interest Research Group, Volunteered with Prince George Good Food Box
2007-2008
− Canada World Youth participant (see above)
- Green Leaders Conference attendee
2005-2006
− Katimavik participant (see above)

Interests/Hobbies:
• Enjoy learning and using new skills
• Photography, theatre, movies
• Using computers and technology-based equipment
• Being active and outdoors

References:

Melanie Sondergaard
The Learning Shop
(250) 842-6500

Maxime Lechance
Previous Canada World Youth Supervisor, Kelowna/Beijing program
(514 688 8553)