Abbegayle Meloche
Thunder Bay,Canada
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills and committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Child Life Specialist
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
05.2025 - Current
- Supporting children and families as they navigate difficult medical experiences, whether it's preparing for a surgery, learning about a diagnosis, or just coping with the fear of being in the hospital. Use tools such as therapeutic play, emotional coaching, and age-appropriate explanations to help kids feel safer and more in control.
Bar Server
The Keg
08.2021 - Current
- Engaging with customers in a friendly and welcoming manner in order to keep the atmosphere of the restaurant enjoyable and inviting.
- Taking orders, inputting those orders into the computer system, running food, serving drinks, clearing plates to the dish area and discarding food left on plates.
- Dealing with issues either food or drink related.
- Working quickly but efficiently to provide top quality service at a good pace.
Dive Coach
Thunder Bay Diving Club
05.2018 - Current
- Teaching children the basics of diving and getting them interested in the sport as a whole.
- Helping them through difficult mental blocks and supporting them through the challenges and fear that comes along with the sport.
Dive Coach
Adventures Camp
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Very similar to regular diving coaching but with a bit of added difficulty of working with kids who have no experience in the sport whatsoever, thus I had to help them navigate the challenges that come with learning a new sport both physically and mentally.
Crew Worker / Manager
McDonald's
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Working window which entails either the order taking or putting food together.
- Working drive thru, fries, lobby, as well as in the position of G.E.L.
- G.E.L stands for guest experience leader and this is the position in which I got to work with customers, talk to them, receive their feedback and hopefully make their experience at our restaurant as memorable as possible.
- It was my job to keep customers happy and wanting to come back.
- Duties of being a manager were much the same from the crew working position with some more responsibilities.
Education
Honours Bachelors - Psychology
04.2025
Skills
- Customer service certified
- WHMIS training certified
- Reading, writing
- Communicates clearly with others
- Follows instructions well
- Motivated and hardworking
- Positive attitude
- Works well under pressure
- Leadership skills
- Organization
- Family-centered care
- Professionalism and ethics
- Stress reduction techniques
- Grief and loss support
Timeline
Child Life Specialist
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
05.2025 - Current
Dive Coach
Adventures Camp
06.2024 - 08.2024
Bar Server
The Keg
08.2021 - Current
Crew Worker / Manager
McDonald's
03.2019 - 07.2021
Dive Coach
Thunder Bay Diving Club
05.2018 - Current
Honours Bachelors - Psychology
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