Mel Gaunt

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Procreate. Specialties include: Branding/identity design, illustration, packaging, business collateral, stationary, web design and social media graphics.

• Managed wide variety of plants of all different zones from seedlings to mature specimens, keeping soils and planting beds healthy and conducive for growth.
• Operated cash register for cash and credit card transactions. Resolved customer complaints and maintained clean and tidy checkout area.
• Loaded and unloaded plants and nursery items from delivery trucks from auction as well as assigned pricing to inventory.
• Diagnosed and treated pest and disease problems in plants, shrubs and trees.
• Rearranged planting beds and flower gardens seasonally.
• Assisted customers with finding requested plants and flowers as well as suggesting and answering questions about plants and products sold throughout store.
• Researched, purchased and installed new cash machine monitors, drawers and POS systems for 4 checkout lanes.
• Created and managed a brand new user friendly website. Managed up until November 2023.
• Communicated with coworkers and management to report and solve challenges.
• Participated in safety meetings.

• Managed wide variety of plants of all different zones from seedlings to mature specimens, keeping soils and planting beds healthy and conducive for growth. Aided in propagation.
• Loaded and unloaded plants and nursery items from delivery trucks as well as assigned pricing to inventory.
• Worked closely with managers to launch a series of custom blended, sustainably packaged soil line.
• Diagnosed and treated pest and disease problems in plants, shrubs and trees.
• Rearranged indoor and outdoors displays seasonally.
• Assisted customers with finding requested plants and flowers as well as suggesting and answering questions about plants and products sold throughout store.
• Communicated with coworkers and management to report and solve challenges.
• Resolved customer complaints and maintained clean and tidy checkout area.
• Specialized in indoor tropicals, carnivorous plants, planted terrariums/vivariums & paludariums.

Various fieldwork positions such as: planting, cultivating and harvesting corn, wheat and hay crops as well as swathing, combining, baling, raking, manure spreading, driving truck, yard and equipment maintenance and landscape grading.

Equipment operator; including irrigation, sod cutting, delivery and laying. Mowing, fertilizing as well as potato planting, hilling, inspection, documentation, harvesting, forklift, skid steer, disking, shipping and transportation. (Valid Class 3Q drivers license.)

Attended and completed first year Parts Technician course at NAIT. Responsible for daily shipping and receiving as well as ordering, inventory, stocking shelves and shop maintenance. Successfully operated heavy equipment such as forklifts and skid steers. (Certified for both)

Various fieldwork positions such as: Swathing, combining, baling, raking, manure spreading, harvesting and landscape grading.

Worked in various positions including landscaping. Job included planting trees, maintaining trees and flowerbeds, laying sod, grading, flower presentation design, planting, maintenance and care of greenhouse plants, flowers and products.) As well as general maintenance of shop and garden products and occasional cashier duty. Monitored and evaluated condition of trees, shrubs, lawns and flowerbeds.

Responsible for daily milking, feeding, medicating and for the general health and well being of cattle, as well as field work and yard/equipment maintenance. (Baling, swathing and raking hay.)

Worked directly with mechanics/welding/machining and parts technicians as well as general shop maintenance and operation of the wash bay. Maintained compliance with all safety procedures when operating forklift equipment and heavy duty power tools.

Responsible for daily milking, feeding, cleanup, medicating/vaccinations and for the general health, upkeep and wellbeing of cattle as well as daily maintenance of the farmyard/equipment. Herded livestock ranch ATVs and operated farm equipment such as tractors and trucks safely with care and precision.