Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Professional Development
Research
Awards
Publications
Timeline
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Kellie Hewitt

Calgary

Summary

Animal health technologist with 30+ years of experience in the veterinary industry. A versatile professional proficient in teaching, management, research, animal nursing, clinical care, sales, and service. Proactive customer service representative with 10+ years of experience in fast-paced environments. Recognized for exceptional organizational skills and efficiency. Highly regarded for delivering outstanding customer service and handling inquiries with grace and professionalism.

Overview

2016
2016
years of professional experience

Work History

Animal Health Tech

Coombs Animal Hospital

Regional Sales and Service Manager, Southern Alberta/Saskatchewan

Dispomed Inc.
  • Sales, service and instruction on Anaesthetic, dental and other related equipment

Assistant Training Coordinator Centre for Comparative Medicine

University of British Columbia/ Animal Resources Centre
10.2015 - 01.2016
  • Delivered educational programs in laboratory animal science to the research community at UBC, these programs included handling, restraint, injection, blood sampling, anesthesia, euthanasia, gavage

Territory Sales Representative

Aventix Animal Health
01.2004 - 01.2007

Veterinary Sales Manager

Iams Canada, Proctor & Gamble
01.2000 - 01.2002

Territory Manager

Tyco Healthcare Group
01.1999 - 01.2000

Senior Sales Representative

Roche Diagnostics
01.1998 - 01.1999

Senior Sales Representative

McCarthy and Sons Service
01.1993 - 01.1998

Research Assistant

Neurodegenerative Disorders Center, University of British Columbia
01.1988 - 01.1993
  • MRI and PET studies of manganese-intoxicated monkeys
  • Working with known Neurotoxins, performed very complex surgical procedures to induce a Hemi- Parkinsonian monkey
  • Maintained environment providing a healthy ethically treated primates, free of pain and discomfort
  • Established human endpoints

Education

Advanced Marketing and Facilitation -

01.2002

Advanced Sales and Marketing -

01.2002

Diploma - Animal Health Technology

Old’s College
Old’s, Alberta
01.1984

Skills

  • Organizational skills
  • Excellent communication verbal and written skill
  • Detail-oriented
  • Collaboration
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office
  • Correspondence Handling
  • Office administration
  • Routing Mail

Languages

English
Professional Working

Professional Development

  • Hill's Veterinary Technical Nutritional Counselor Program, 03/01/15
  • Hill's Veterinary Diets Sales and Marketing, 01/01/15
  • Rayne Nutritional Training and Sales, 05/01/14
  • Royal Canin Nutritional Training and Sales, 01/01/14
  • Iams University, Topeka, KS, 01/01/00
  • Certified Equine Massage Therapy, 01/01/16

Research

Assistant Training Coordinator, University of British Columbia/ Animal Resources Centre, 10/01/15, 01/31/16

Awards

  • Top Salesperson
  • 1996
  • 1997

Publications

  • MRI and PET studies of manganese-intoxicated monkeys, Shinotoh H, Snow BJ, Hewitt KA, et al., Neurology, 1995, 45, 1199-1204
  • The transport of L-6-fluorodopa and its metabolites from blood to cerebrospinal fluid and brain, Hammerstad JP, Pate BD, Hewitt KA, Chan GLY, Ruth TJ, Calne DB, Annals of Neurology, 1993, 34, 603-609
  • Routine determination of [18F]-L-6-fluorodopa and its metabolites in blood plasma is essential for accurate positron emission tomography studies, Chan GLY, Hewitt KA, Pate BD, Schofield P, Adam MJ, Ruth TJ, Life Sciences, 1992, 50, 309-318
  • The reproducibility of striatal uptake data obtained with positron emission tomography and fluorine-18-L-6-fluorodopa tracer in non-human primates, Pate BD, Snow BJ, Hewitt KA, Morrison KS, Ruth TJ, Calne DB, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1991, 32, 1246-1251

Timeline

Assistant Training Coordinator Centre for Comparative Medicine

University of British Columbia/ Animal Resources Centre
10.2015 - 01.2016

Territory Sales Representative

Aventix Animal Health
01.2004 - 01.2007

Veterinary Sales Manager

Iams Canada, Proctor & Gamble
01.2000 - 01.2002

Territory Manager

Tyco Healthcare Group
01.1999 - 01.2000

Senior Sales Representative

Roche Diagnostics
01.1998 - 01.1999

Senior Sales Representative

McCarthy and Sons Service
01.1993 - 01.1998

Research Assistant

Neurodegenerative Disorders Center, University of British Columbia
01.1988 - 01.1993

Advanced Marketing and Facilitation -

Advanced Sales and Marketing -

Diploma - Animal Health Technology

Old’s College

Animal Health Tech

Coombs Animal Hospital

Regional Sales and Service Manager, Southern Alberta/Saskatchewan

Dispomed Inc.
Kellie Hewitt