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Nancy Wilde

Vernon

Summary

Confident, customer focused with years of experience renovation, construction and manufacturing. Fun, team player and efficient, I look forward to having the "best day ever" when I work and like to encourage that same with customers and co workers.


Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Employment Advisor

Community Futures North Okanagan
06.2024 - 12.2024

Worked with clients to explore skills and abilities and find and encourage employment opportunities.


Go into the community to meet and hear the interest and needs of employers.


Participate in several Employ workshops helping youth learn what employers are looking for and how to be a good employee.

Office Assistant and Sign Installer

CGL Contracting
03.2022 - 06.2024

Kept trucks and equipment up to date of door decals. Produced signs for job sites, barricades and other construction needs.


Office work included picking up and distributing mail where needed, maintaining all emails that came into the office and forward to appropriate person.


Support the financial people in the office with general office help.


Keep track of office supplies, maintain a tidy office.

Sign Design, Sales and Manufacturing

Wayside
03.2014 - 03.2022

Sold my business to Wayside and became an employee. Worked in all areas of the sign shop including sales, design, manufacturing and installation.


Owner

Wilde Imagination Sign & Design
03.1994 - 03.2014

Started my own sign business after 15 year working for another sign shop and an awning business.

Over the 20 years of being self employed, I learned a great deal about customer relationships, time management, material maintenance, keeping an organized shop.

I managed as many as 3 employees and worked with numerous trades to help produce and install some of the signs we produced.


Education

VSS
Vernon, BC

Skills

  • I am a very confident sales person when I know my product I have worked in the trades for many years and am knowledgeable of building materials, tools and processes
  • I have and can use most all tools in a workshop (don't like table saws but know how) I can suggest what is a better tool, fastener, paint, glue, material in many situations
  • My many years in the sign industry included using just about every kind of paint and paint system Having renovated and maintained over 6 houses, I am confident with what's needed in many of these applications
  • I assisted teaching the residential insulation course at Vernon Okanagan College last winter There was a main instructor but I did assist in the teaching, the inshop learning to build samples and apply the various methods of insulation At that course I led the "tail gate safety meeting" at the beginning of each class Also encouraged and expected safe workshop practices
  • I am comfortable using computers I use a design software called Flexi for sign design I understand scale, ratio and pretty good at math I'm a great "sketcher" when you have an idea
  • Keeping an organized work space is important I have used the LEAN method of organizing to keep an efficient shop

Timeline

Employment Advisor

Community Futures North Okanagan
06.2024 - 12.2024

Office Assistant and Sign Installer

CGL Contracting
03.2022 - 06.2024

Sign Design, Sales and Manufacturing

Wayside
03.2014 - 03.2022

Owner

Wilde Imagination Sign & Design
03.1994 - 03.2014

VSS
Nancy Wilde