Shelley Skills List  

Dishwasher/meal attendant – nursing home

1. Put dishes, pots, pans, cooking implements, utensils into dishwasher, took out, inspected for leftover particles, dried, put away.
2. Set meals onto cart, handed out to residents
3. Took dirty dishes back to kitchen.
4. Helped cook with minor kitchen cooking prep

Concessionist – Wherenberg Theater

1. Put popcorn into popper, added salt after popping.
2. Took orders for popcorn, drinks, candy and filled drinks, popcorn tubs, added butter as requested.
3. Cleaned popper, counters, butter machines
4. Refilled candy, cups, and tubs as needed.

Ride Operator – Six Flags

2. Filled ride with people from queue and Disabled queue.
3. Checked belts and safety devices on people were correctly done and ready
4. Started ride with appropriate keys, hand signals to other operators
5. Watched ride for unsafe actions from people, and unsafe ride conditions
6. Helped people embark/disembark and look for left items.
7. Tested rides for appropriate ride safety and conditions 3x per day.
8. When ride became unsafe/warning light, shut down ride and immediately called for service and supervisor.
9. Direction of people and traffic and answering questions.

Cashier – Home Depot

3. Checking out customers using POS terminal and scanner
4. Handling cash, credit cards and leading customers through prompts
5. Giving change, receipts
6. Answering customer questions of location and item quantity in computer system

Cashier/CSR Paint Desk – Lowes

4. Taking order of paint color, type, quantity
5. Filling and mixing paint buckets and samples
6. Correcting color issues by machine and by eye
7. Answering customer questions of items needed, how to fix issues
8. Gave lessons/classes on faux finishes and styled stain finishes
9. Became the knowledge master in department, complete with paint company certification

Owner/Head Painter – Different Strokes Painting

5. Started own business in the construction field, house painting, wall repair, minor other home repair. 7 years.
6. Material estimation and bidding for projects
7. Decoration consulting, resolving issues with products and projects, residential and commercial.
8. Marketing to potential customers for my painting business, along with marketing for paint companies for specific products.

Teacher – South Korea

1. Created full semester lesson plans for each grade
2. Taught classes of 30-40 students 22x per week
3. Used tech to enhance lessons, creating own videos to use English in real-life scenarios
4. Graded speaking tests, including multi-school speaking contests
5. Taught teachers and office professionals in higher-level Conversation English

Teacher/Professor – Japan

7. Made lesson plans using paper, books, some tech (Tech was school dependent on what they will allow or had available).
8. Graded tests and assignments, creating averages and bell curves per class to match required grading systems
9. Ordered books and lesson series
10. Taught 1-1 classes for all age levels, from basic English to specific-needs English (such as scientific English)
11. Use printers, copies, phones, computers – with Japanese language settings. Including speaking to coworkers.
12. Developed partial curriculum for speaking classes for 3 years, including testing.
13. Developed curriculum for 6 classes in college environment. Elementary English, Reading 2, Business 2, Travel English, Customer Service English, and Intercultural Communication 2 including testing.
14. Professional voice recording for tests for a 3-prefecture-wide “Juku” (After school training) along with 2 schools (Junior+high school level).

Order Fulfillment/Electronics – Target

8. Picked orders using electronic handheld system
9. Located lost items to reduce item-not-found rate for department
10. Educated teammates on item locations, issue fixing, policies and procedures in-department
11. Packed item in appropriate packing, boxed, shipped, filled truck
12. Bagged and tagged items for in-store pickup
13. Gave ideas to bosses on ways to enhance order pickup system in-store, and create more places for items during pandemic
14. Taught all teammates store-wide mask wearing tips and tricks to adjust properly to increase safety during pandemic (Zero cases of Covid-19 in-store during my employment!)

Career Consultant – OrderMyCareer

9. Created 2 courses on skill-based resume making and dream finding
10. Chat with potential clients to determine fit
11. Help clients determine their skills and solve issues with their job hunt
12. Make posts for social media, advertisments
13. Design and write website copy, using WordPress, HTML, Kallyas, Elementor.

Ecommerce Specialist – GRS Auctions

9. List incoming inventory on Ebay, taking pictures, researching information and price
10. Fulfill and ship orders
11. Organize and fill shelves with incoming inventory
12. Take incoming calls and route to appropriate person
13. Took on additional responsibilities:
14. Finding new business and giving basic info about auctions
15. Finding buyers using out-of-the-box thinking methods
16. Increased productivity of shipping center with new organizational methods (~30% more efficient)
17. Invested in new shipping machinery to achieve ongoing as-needed supply of packing materials
18. Implemented space-saving procedures and growth potential of inventory room by 50%

Other: Sorted by Skill Category (Not sorted by time)

Business

• Collaborated and worked with 2 conventions in the USA, one being a 22,000 person anime (mostly teenagers) focused convention (Assistant manager in a small department), the other being communicative collaboration for two conferences that focuses on science, skepticism, and critical thinking.
• Given speeches to 2 colleges in St. Louis on the topic of a Visibility and Education network for a little-known populace.
• Typing 75wpm, general office experience using copiers (and fixing them), computers of all Windows OS and more, office phone systems (lightly), standard Office suite products.
• Set up LLCs for two companies.
• Experience with calling governmental agencies of both the USA and Japan, getting and submitting documentation for USDA procedures for import/export of animals.
• Started document review and correction for Tokyo University professor at Gakushuin University, expanding to PPT and presentation correction for professor and some of his students and colleagues.
• Managed multiple 200-20,000 person groups online. Daily duties included conflict resolution, customer service, planning future needs of the group, general control operations, writing for community awareness.
• Working with the Minatomirai train line based in Yokohama Japan. Design and English support, writing, communicating foreigner needs, testing.
• Started a Job-hunter support group to help young people with their resume, skills, job hunting, conflict resolution, life management, time management, imposter syndrome, college issues. It is now a website www.ordermycareer.com.

Marketing

• Marketed to potential customers for painting business, along with marketing for paint companies for specific products.
• Marketing in a previous business. Involved a lot of direct marketing (fliers on cars, advertisement booths).
• Marketed college to high school students and adults interested in taking classes.

Teaching

• Ran classes at Lowe’s Home Improvement on how to do specialty painting techniques, teaching to adults.
• Taught machine operation to new coworkers and even customers. Maintained the machines as needed (I was often the only one who could do general repair on them). Learned how to operate a forklift as well.
• Hosted a student from Germany with an exchange program, and was hosted by two families in return during my own exchange. Practical language exchange.
• Volunteered for three years with a children’s discovery house/center.
• Taught English to Korean high school students for 2-month contract via online Skype-like program. BT English was the company name.
• Hosted a conversation English server for students which increased the level of students by 1 grade level within 2 months.
• Taught adult classes to the Office of Education and other teachers.
• Taught 1-1 private lessons for English conversation (pronunciation, writing, and listening focus) outside work environment.
• Developed a partial but extensive English teaching curriculum for a game, with multiple “worlds” that aim to teach English to 9 different levels of English, from learning to read through jobs specific English. 
• Made Youtube videos for ESL students using slow, easy English, webcam, and subtitles included. Over 200 videos made.

Disability

• Worked with/taught Autistic children for a short time. Also, deaf children. Multiple small instances, 3-6 months each.
• Wrote a published paper about ESL techniques used for people with specific reading disorders. There is also an ongoing case study being written and videos to accompany it.
• Made a documentary with Japanese and English subtitles about the reading disorder above, submitted to Sundance Festive 08/17.
• Provided and serviced manual wheelchairs to 2 Lowe’s stores.
• Bought, sold, repaired wheelchairs (sporty and manual hospital-style) to keep serviceable secondary wheelchairs on the market.
• Sewed wheelchair cushion covers (replacements) to put air-based cushions back onto the market.

Technology

• Built computers for myself and family (some used for business) for 15 years, repaired, upgraded, some laptop repair/upgrade.
• Used technology (touch screen TV, connected computer, wifi audio system) to show videos, demonstrations, etc to students to increase understanding of useful English.
• Used tablet, connected to TV, and wifi audio system to demonstrate to students, allowing fun activities and games and even performed songs to communicate higher level concepts (such as similies, hyperbole, and Main Idea).
• Made specialty videos for students using their book’s English, to show the English in a more “natural” use, using game characters and background from a popular game.
• Voice recording along with “gaming” computer for video making – including special effects.
• Learned Cinema4d (a 3d graphics /animation program) 3d creation of characters, backgrounds, special effects. Editing using Sony Vegas, Premiere
• Game development in the area of character modeling, facial real-time animation, manual animation, asset creation, organization of files and data management.
• Worked with GITlab, GIThub, Slack/Discord, and social media management systems.
• Website development front-end using WordPress. Build and change web pages, writing, designing.

Extra Studies

• 120 hour TEFL certification plus over 4000 hours of class teaching time, 1-35 students per class.
• Obtained certification via Valspar as one of the product knowledge leaders for the area
• Started professorship study into brain science, specifically on reading disorders and using certain ESL techniques to work with disabled individuals, wrote published paper.
• Took a class on basic brain functionality via FutureLearn website.
• Learned Japanese, German, and American Sign Language to basic conversational ability: current study of Sign Language.
• Performed with student group and a teacher group choir, singing songs in Korean and Japanese – (one named Tsugaru Kaikyou Fuyugeshiki) learned in under 2 weeks
• Studied Japanese language and Kanji and speaking with a teacher in a language exchange format up to basic conversational fluency.