Photo by me, of The Inn at Whittier, a place where I was employed for a Summer season during college.

Head of Security | Server, Rosetta Hall

July 2024-August 2025

After a short time on the staff, I became the head of security at Rosetta Food Hall, a restaurant that functions as a bar and dance club during the evenings. Managing a small team, I was responsible for ensuring the safety of more than 500 nightly guests each weekend.

  • Managed a team of seven other security professionals, assigning them responsibilities for each late night shift.

  • Worked as the front-facing representative of Rosetta Food Hall to guests at night, greeting them at the door, verifying their age, and identifying those who may be too intoxicated to drink.

  • Responsible for setting up the late night bar configuration and for returning Rosetta Food Hall to its daytime configuration at the end of each shift.

  • Showed versatility in training as a server and making myself available for whatever tasks were needed.

Head of Security, 4one4 llc.

September 2015-August 2016

I started out as one of maybe ten bouncers working at The Tin Can Bar in downtown Lansing, MI, which was a pretty rough neighborhood. I'd been a bouncer briefly in Iowa and enjoyed the work, especially the vigilance it took to catch people with fake IDs. After only a couple of months, I was moved to a new location in East Lansing, MI, and was made Head of Security at a location full of college students.

  • Used risk management techniques to quickly assess potentially dangerous situations

  • Evaluated potential clientele, ensuring no one underage, no one overly intoxicated, and no one looking to start trouble got into our bars

  • Practiced my people-skills while de-escalating any fights or hard feelings brewing in the bar

  • Kept a staff of ten employees and up to 200 customers safe

  • Worked closely with local law enforcement to ensure all federal and local laws were upheld

textbook agent, Collegeville Textbook Company

August 2015-August 2016

What I'm most proud of in this job is how quickly I was able to start working there. The day after moving to Lansing, I started working at Collegeville. I knew I'd be moving a few weeks earlier and found a temporary job at Collegeville during "textbook season" (the start of the semester) and performed well enough to parlay that into a regular job.

  • Worked in customer service, both helping college students find the textbooks they needed and behind a cash register

  • Organized and stocked inventory, adjusting to new organizational systems every few months

  • Earned a long-term position after working as a temp

Central Sterilizing Technician, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

October 2010-October 2013

During my first semester of college, I didn't have a class before 12:30 p.m. This may sound like a dream come true (which is why I chose that schedule), but I quickly found myself unable to wake up before 11 a.m. even when I needed to get things done. I was so used to the habit of sleeping in, I felt like I was wasting my days.

I found the Central Sterilizing Technician job on Iowa's Jobnet and was hired because my schedule worked best with theirs. They needed students to work in the morning and I needed something to do in the morning. The marriage of convenience lasted for three years and what I did, essentially, was fold surgical towels in the basement of a hospital. Three years of folding towels in a tiny hospital's basement.

It was weird.

  • Worked in a fast-pace, demanding environment

  • Worked in a sterile environment, where keeping a clean work space was literally a life-or-death ordeal

  • Garnered knowledge of hospital procedures from assembling and wrapping surgical trays, towel packs, and sheet packs

Housekeeper and Dishwasher, The Inn at whittier

Summer of 2012

I was staying with my mother in Alaska during the summer after my sophomore year of college and quickly found myself bored of doing nothing. I found a job at The Inn at Whittier—a small, upscale inn in the warm water port town of Whittier, AK—on Craigslist and went to work within a week.

Though it may sound strange to say what was essentially scrubbing the filth of strangers was an amazing experience, but it was. I consistently worked 60 or 70 hours a week, cleaning rooms as a Housekeeper during the day and cleaning dishes as a Dishwasher at night, but when I wasn't working I was outside in Whittier, exploring. The small town was full of mystery and wonder, a beautiful background for a seasonal job.

  • Worked in a fast-pace, demanding environment

  • Met ever-changing deadlines working inconsistent hours

  • Was on call both day and night in case of any emergencies or unexpected assignments

  • Became a perfectionist at the small, repetitive tasks needed to make the hospitality industry succeed