Food Service Worker - BoSa Donuts - Tempe, AZ
(2023-07 - 2024-03)
- Managed and completed in-store, drive-thru, and online orders during peak hours.
- Cleaned and sanitized work and dining areas regularly throughout shifts.
- Provided excellent customer service and quickly resolved any customer complaints.
Golf Associate - Popstroke - Glendale, AZ
(2024-09 - 2025-08)
- Ensured guests had an enjoyable experience by welcoming guests, explaining services and rules, and assisting guests with golf equipment.
- Served beverages and ice cream at the golf counter while also completing course and restaurant orders.
- Managed and maintained golf equipment, courses, and the restaurant, ensuring cleanliness at all times for guests.
Bartender
(2025-08)
- Provided food and beverage service to guests in a high-volume venue.
- Deliver food and beverages to golf courses and event spaces in a timely manner.
- Coordinate with kitchen staff through food expediting to ensure order accuracy and efficient service.
Research Assistant - Arizona State University - Tempe, Arizona
(2024-10 - 2025-01)
Cindy Vargas, PhD candidate, ASU School of Life Sciences, Senko Lab for Sea Turtle Conservation & Bycatch Innovation
- Assisted graduate student thesis project by sourcing and cross-referencing existing literature on bycatch reduction technologies and/or modifications and inserting them into a database.
- Reviewed, analyzed, and annotated articles on bycatch reduction methods, ensuring all relevant and available articles were included in the database.
- Supported ongoing research on bycatch mitigation strategies for air-breathing marine megafauna.
Sea Turtle Intern - The Science Exchange - Oaxaca, Mexico
(2025-06 - 2025-07)
- Monitored hatchery operations and conducted nightly beach patrols to locate sea turtle nests, relocate nests to protected hatchery sites, and support hatchling releases.
- Collected nest data by excavating hatched nests and recording egg, shell, and hatchling counts for conservation monitoring.
- Assisted with environmental education and ecotourism programs by guiding visitors, explaining sea turtle conservation efforts, and providing instructions for safe hatchling releases.
- Collected and analyzed sand temperature data from hatchery and nesting beach sites in Palmarito, Oaxaca, to investigate spatial variation in thermal conditions affecting sea turtle development.
- Presented research findings through a poster presentation at the 44th Annual International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i.
