RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCES
MAY 2025-SEPTEMBER 2025
May 2024 - Current
January 2024-September 2024
MICHAEL GRIMM LANDSCAPING & TREE SERVICES
4196 LAFAYETTE ROAD, JAMESVILLE, NY 13078
315-447-0124 | MICHAELGRIMMSERVICES.COM
POSITION | Garden & General Maintenance Field Crew + Landscape Designer
EXPERIENCES
Field work: On-site commercial and residential property care and maintenance, new plantings, plant removal, tree and shrub trimming, shearing and pruning, mulching, weeding, installation of stone, all elements of maintaining a property minus mowing, hardscaping or tree work.
Design Work: Created residential garden designs and planting palettes for client proposals, created planting plans and precise construction documents to communicate the design for possible building purposes. Programs used: Autocad, Excel.
MORGAN MEILE LANDSCAPES
6278 THOMPSON ROAD, SYRACUSE, NY 13206
315-530-0445 | MORGANMEILE.COM
POSITION | Nursery Apprentice, Salesperson and Landscape Designer
EXPERIENCES
Nursery work: Maintained nursery grounds, pruning, watering and caring for all plants and trees, worked directly with customers to find the perfect plant(s) for their projects based on specific needs, provide excellence in customer service, share the most up to date and accurate information regarding plant care, plant growth, and plant maintenance, troubleshoot disease and pest issues with customers, work closely to provide the healthiest and most beautiful plants possible.
Design Work: Worked with the garden center manager to create residential garden designs. Sometimes also worked directly with customers at the nursery to sketch out ideas on the spot to generate planting ideas to consider while they browsed our selection of plants. Programs used: Autocad, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop.
CENTER FOR COMMUNTIY DESIGN RESEARCH
SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY
315-470-6500 | ESF.EDU
POSITION | Graduate Research Assistant + Community Facilitator
SUNY ESF - Landscape Architecture Department
Americorps Funded SUNY ESF Research Project
EXPERIENCES
Office Work: Creative project work; graphic design of marketing materials for local events, follow up phone calls and communication with community change makers and leaders to help community to access their projects and goals, produced national conference poster by synthesizing all of the research project information to date for the work already produced and currently underway for the AmeriCorps national conference poster that our group would present in Columbus, OH.
Community Work: Co-facilitated a variety of workshops with local community leaders and members in the Syracuse area to gather information, ideas and projects the community wanted to initiate, advertised and walked door to door to hand out event information and talk to the neighborhoods that would be impacted by some of the community design projects happening, as well as participated in the SMTC Safe Streets project initiative; painting street murals and crosswalks and decorating street corners with native flower pot accents in hopes to slow traffic in neighborhood streets.
TEACHER'S ASSISTANT for DEBBIE KU
SPRING 2025 - FALL 2025 - SPRING 2026
SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY
315-470-6500 | ESF.EDU
POSITION | Graduate Teacher's Assistant for three consecutive semesters)
SUNY ESF - Landscape Architecture Department for LSA 182 + LSA 201
EXPERIENCES
I supported Debbie's first year BLA students with the following two entry level courses that allow all BLA students to move forward with a solid toolkit for analog and digital workflows for landscape architecture processes.
LSA 182: An analog only introductory drawing, drafting and crafting course. Students learn and master the basics of field and form, texture and pattern, one-point and two-point perspective drawing, and overall compositional and layout considerations and strategies for landscape architecture.
LSA 201: A digital only course that introduces BLA students to digital workflow; AutoCad, the Adobe suite, and Sketchup. This class prepares students for programs and workflows they will use for many years to come. Here we master the basics and get students comfortable with translating the analog and the hand drawn and crafted to digital construction and rendering.
"The Mission of the CCDR is to educate students, community leaders and citizens about the value of place and through the shared practices of planning and design."
CCDR is dedicated to...
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Helping communities address difficult environmental and social conditions through community based physical design and planning
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Developing civic capacity to manage sustainable communities
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Increasing community access to resources and information
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Identifying/investigating critical issues facing communities, offer solutions
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Fostering design literacy and developing public appreciation for the value of design and planning"
ROTOLITE ELLIOTT CORPORATION
2021-2023
1 GROVE STREET, PITTSFORD, NY 14534
585-385-1463 | ROTOLITE ELLIOTT
POSITION | Customer Service Specialist + Brand Ambassasor
Full-time office manager & daily operations
EXPERIENCES
Office work: Managed the main office for Rotolite-Elliott, a third generation family owned and operated printing and design service for local builders, contractors, architects, and businesses of all sizes; small and large. I was the main customer interface, managed billing and purchasing of company supplies, fostered an atmosphere of support, compassion and reliability for our team of employees, continued on the Rotolite way with immense dedication to excellence in customer service and experience while providing a high-quality product in a timely manner at a great price.
HONEY BROOK HEALTH
2015-2021
Based in Rochester, NY and Canton, NY
Served local, regional, national and international customers.
Original brand website from 2015-2018 (Link below.)
Official company store and services website was deactivated in 2021 (No link available.)
POSITION | OWNER, OPERATOR, COMPANY FOUNDER
EXPERIENCES
Honey Brook Art and Wellness began in 2015 and evolved into Honey Brook Health by 2021. Honey Brook Health specialized in one of a kind, handcrafted, eco-friendly- health promoting products and services. I worked with countless local businesses; private, public and non-profit. Running my own business for six years taught me about design and development, process and making, marketing, customer service, determination, passion, and constantly adapting and evolving as I changed and as the needs of the world and my clients evolved and changed with ongoing world events.
HBH started with educational workshops for kids and adults on papermaking, book making and binding, and wood block carving printmaking techniques, in addition to one-of-a-kind wood block prints, handmade journals and cards for direct sale.
By 2017, after my own environmentally driven health concerns, I was on a mission to eliminate as many toxins and chemicals from my life as possible, as well as customers who would be the recipients of my products. My journals were already adhesive-free, entirely made of natural materials that could be burned and returned to the earth if needed. I was inspired to purchase local beeswax and began making my own hand-crafted, non-toxic, lead-free, beeswax candles.
I also created BeeBlaze Firestarters, another non-toxic, eco-friendly product with the cut offs from all other processes within my business, beeswax, shredded paper, wax and thread bits, and wood dust from a local woodworker who made custom wooden lids for my USA made amber glass candle edition.
I sold all of these products directly at events, through local store fronts in Rochester, and online through my company website. By 2019, upon earning my health coaching certification in all three life stages through the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute and my RKC Kettlebell certificate through RKC/Dragon Door- I folded health coaching services and strength and conditioning coaching into HBH in addition to the handcrafted, non-toxic products.
MLA Awards & Highlights
Winter 2024
Fall 2024- Spring 2025
Spring 2025
Spring 2025
2024 Gasparini Scholarship Recipient
ASLA Student Chapter Treasurer
Highlighted Student in the SUNY ESF Donor Magazine
Inducted into Sigma Lamba Alpha Society
