Gardener Objective:
To serve nature and embellish the city parks by taking care and maintaining soil, water resources, flora and fauna. I Want to add and enhance the greenery through nurturing more plants and protecting urban eco systems. This would ensure a healthier tomorrow in the age of global warming.
Qualifications summary
Accomplished in Planning and executing small scale landscaping operations and maintaining grounds and landscape of public parks and playgrounds, private and business residences.
Participate in preparing and grading terrain, soil & lawns: Spading and rototilling, applying organic fertilizers, seeding and sodding lawns, applying pest control techniques, managing Irrigation systems and transplanting shrubs and plants, using manual and power-operated equipment.
Leadership Skills
Organized and facilitated all planting related activities, indoors and out.
Arranged for and led field trips.
Created and facilitated new opportunities for community & volunteers involvements.
Communication Skills
Initiated proposals for adding new activities to the Horticulture program.
Assisted in grant writing as a member of the “Garden Team.”
Organized crews of voluntaries to weed, grade terrain and plant, shrubs, plants and fruit trees.
Interpersonal Skills
Worked with wide variety of people, employees, community members, including those with mental instability, addiction problems, personality disorders, physical disabilities and impairments, as well as groups of volunteers.
Agricultural Skills
Garden Design
Plant propagation and culture
Irrigation including rain catchment systems
Permaculture design principles
Pest control by benign insects
Entrepreneurial Skills
Experience in hiring and managing employees.
Managing finance, budgets and payroll.
Successfully marketing and selling products and services.
Networking skills and providing customer satisfaction.
Computer Skills
Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop on both PC and Mac, and Macintosh’s i Work iDVD,iMovie & Final Cut Pro.
Foreign languages:
Fully bilingual English-Spanish. Fluent in French and Italian.
Experience details:
Recreations & Parks
City and County of San Francisco
Stern Grove Park
9916 Public Service Aid 10/17/11 to Present
Maintain grounds of parks, playgrounds &pathways; sweeping and raking, blowing, weeding, cleaning up litter & garbage containers, clearing brush and debris, using hand and powered tools. Prepare soil for planting, by clearing garbage, weeding & rototilling. Take care of plants, shrubs and trees, removing ivy, pruning, irrigating, planting, transplanting, cultivating. Install traps for gophers. Maintain lawns by mowing, edging, seeding, watering. Operate manual and powered garden equipment: mowers, reciprocator, string trimmer, hedgers, pole saw, chain saw. Drive a cushman with a dumper.
Gardener at Cypress Lane Brisbane city: 2010 to present
I Volunteer at the wetlands project of Brisbane to restore polluted soil in order to bring back the natural habitat of local frogs. We work on these projects: Plan lawns, and plant and cultivates them, using gardening implements and power-operated equipment. Plant new and repair established lawns, using seed mixtures and fertilizers recommended for particular soil type and lawn location. Locate and plant shrubs, trees, and flowers selected by project director or those recommended for particular landscape effect. Mow and trim lawns, using hand mower or power mower. Trim shrubs and cultivate gardens. Clean grounds, using rakes, brooms, and hose. Spray trees and shrubs, and apply supplemental liquid and dry nutrients to lawn and trees. May dig trenches and install drain tiles. May make repairs to concrete and asphalt walks and driveways.
Alazan Costa Rica
02/07 to 11/07
Worked on multiple projects of different scope and with different purposes, including: landscaping areas of the property for residential use, restoring other areas to natural habitat, and using plants and water paths to manage excess rainwater runoff on our slopes. Using power tools and hand tools, helped clear terrain, remove trees and rocks, and level and grade terrain. Helped with soil retention and erosion control, irrigation, soil preparation, and planting lawns, shrubs, plants and trees.
Mentor At Tilt:
The After school 8 weeks ongoing youth program of Nine St. Independent film Center. I teach young people the fundamentals of movie making and media literacy through hands - on training in video production.
Education and training:
B.A. in Business administration National Polytechnic Institute, (founded in 1936, Mexico’s largest and most important public technological higher education center) Graduated in 1999.
Diploma courses (each 6 months long, taken in Mexico between 2004 -2007) in Teaching techniques, Marketing, Creativity, Advertising, and Leadership.
Activities and Interest
Gardening, Fitness and health, meditation, yoga, scuba diving, Video production/editing, long distance & Mountain biking, hiking, swimming, poetry, fiction writing.
This project is located between the Trocadero and the BBQ pits on Stern Grove, the images below show the work made on the slope which consisted in clearing the ground area by hand, shovels, spades and string trimmer from Ivy, debris, trash, roots, runners, grass and rocks. We removed Ivy from the trees as well.
Later the work focused more on the soil aerating, rotating and preparing soil to plant shrubs, coffe beans and fuchsias.
