-Professional Experience-
Professional Dog Groomer, July 2024 – Present
Bailey's Neighborhood Pet - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Bathing, grooming and caring for dogs, and positively engaging with and educating customers. Light creative grooming and styling. Handstripping & carding. Mentoring & training both staff and community members.
At-Home Dog Care Provider, September 2021 - December 2024
Rover.com & Privately - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: providing boarding services, doggy day care services, walking services, and home grooming services for dogs. Providing drop-in visits for dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals.
Social Media Manager, February 2024-June 2024
City Dogs Grooming - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: posting stories, posts, and reels featuring the clients and employees of City Dogs for Instagram and Facebook. Writing educational content for customers about at-home dog care. Connecting digitally with customers and local businesses to improve engagement with our platforms.
Professional Dog Groomer, February 2021 – June 2024
City Dogs Grooming - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Bathing, grooming and caring for dogs, and positively engaging with and educating customers. Light creative grooming and styling.
Professional Dog Groomer & Staff Photographer, September 2017 – February 2021
Shake & Shine - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Bathing, grooming and caring for dogs, cleaning kennels and the salon, answering phones, scheduling appointments, and positively engaging with and educating customers. Light creative grooming and styling. Pet portraiture services including setting up photo booths, taking digital and analog photos, and printing and distributing photos to customers.
Professional Dog Groomer, July 2014 – July 2017
PetSmart - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Bathing, grooming and caring for dogs, cleaning kennels and the salon, answering phones, scheduling appointments, and positively engaging with customers.
Professional Dog Walker, July 2014 - July 2015
Care.com - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Walking dogs, hiking with dogs, and taking dogs to the dog park. Occasionally providing doggy day care services.
Professional Dog Bather, July 2012 - July 2014
PetSmart - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: Bathing and caring for dogs, cleaning kennels and the salon, answering phones, scheduling appointments, and positively engaging with customers.
Farm Hand, May 2010 - September 2011
Marshall Farms - Centralia, WA
Responsibilities: maintaining a clean and compassionate living environment for 100+ animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, cows, llamas, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, and peacocks.
-Volunteer Experience-
Whatcom Humane Society (WHS), September 2019 – August 2020
WHS - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: bathing, grooming, and trimming dog nails to help socialize them to the grooming process for their new owners.
Washington State Animal Response Team (WASART) Technical Rescuer, April 2016 – April 2019
WASART - Enumclaw, WA
Responsibilities: Deploying to help animals out of dangerous or life-threatening situations, assisting in emergency sheltering environments.
Service Dog Bather & Trainer, June 2012 – June 2013
Brigadoon Service Dogs - Bellingham, WA
Responsibilities: bathing and socializing service dogs with a variety of equipment and situations to help them learn how to better perform their duties.
