OBJECTIVE
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To work for a resort where my extensive horticultural experience, creative gifts, knowledge,
skills and strong work ethic can be utilized to create an environment that meets the objectives
of the company and enhances the visual senses of its clientele, ultimately providing a better guest experience.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Designed and built waterfall, pool, and gardens for 1975 Chicago Flower and Garden Show.
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Commissioned by Chicago Horticultural Society to do two gardens for the bicentennial show. One a tropical waterfall garden, the other a replication of the bicentennial symbol in floral bedding plants and foliage.
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Conducted numerous house plant seminars on culture and propagation
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Conducted demonstrations and seminars on floral designs and produced and indigenous live and dried material, house plant culture and propagation.
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Intimate landscaping projects including pools, waterfalls, streams and fountains.
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Experience in working with pool and mortar, or pool liner, or preform pools
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Ability to utilize plant materials relative to weather conditions in the winter that provided more variety and color than normally used.
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Resort became a leader in annual flower beds/arrangements, which were followed by others within the industry.
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34 years of experience in all facets of the horticultural arena including but not limited to interior design, exterior landscaping, educational seminars, floral design.
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EXPERIENCE
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Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
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February 1998 to Present
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Phoenix, AZ
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Color Tech
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Design all annual flower beds/or color arrangements and potted internal arrangements/scapes.
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Meet with growers and select color/product varieties to be grown for needed specifications to fulfill bed color/product needs on quarterly basis.
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Budget preparation to meet bed designs, calculation of quantity and types of product needed to meet color requirement and design needs. Purchase ordering of all internal & external planting.
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Feathers, Flowers and Silk
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May 1988 to December 1997
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Buffalo Grove, IL
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Manager
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Managed shop operations
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Buying of product, employee management, scheduling, and customer service
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Floral design in fresh and permanent, wedding and party work
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Chicago Florist Supply
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September 1986 to May 1988
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Wheeling, IL
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Floral Designer
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Customer service in wholesale floral supply
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Design of permanent floral items and display
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Richmond Floral and Gifts
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December 1980 to May 1986
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Richmond, IL
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Owner/Operator
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Handled all facets of sole proprietary business
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Full service florist and small greenhouse handling seasonal bedding plants and tropical foliage plants.
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Floral design, wedding and party work
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Genoa Gardens and Green House
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November 1978 to December 1980
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Genoa City, WI
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Owner/Operator
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Owned and operated, rented with option to buy greenhouses.
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Full service florist, bedding plant production, blooming pot plant production, tropical foliage production, and some nursery stock.
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Royal Flowers
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June 1976 to November 1978
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Chicago, IL
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Floral Designer
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Floral designer in fresh and permanent.
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Wedding and party work
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Jamaican Gardens
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June 1974 to June 1976
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Morton Grove, IL
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Grower/Designer
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Grower of problem tropicals in greenhouse environment.
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Procurement of plant production for propagation and new varieties of plants for home use.
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Plantscaping of on/sight gardens within greenhouse display area, including designing and building of waterfalls and gardens.
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EDUCATION
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1963-1966
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Iowa State University, College of Horticulture
Ames, Iowa
Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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