Current CV (Resume) of : Michelle
Barkay (Kaiser),
Resides : Nanaimo , BC, Canada
Email: email
me here
Website: www.gypsymermaid.com
Messages:
(250) 754-6933
Objective: To work productively
Certificates/Agencies/Affiliations:
- Serving it Right
#970616S0109
- BCDL Class 5, since
1985
- BC Holistic Healing
Association 1999
- Set & Etiquette,
1997
- Traffic Control
Person, 1997
- Occupational First
Aid Level 1 (ex Feb '99)
- North
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 1999
- Valid European
Passport (Duel Citizenship Canada & UK)
- Greater
Vancouver Venture Center, YEP & Nexus 1998 (Grad and Member)
Interpersonal
Skills:
- Sales & Marketing
- Stress/Time Management
- Negotiating
- Motivating
- Delegating
- Wrangling
- Excellent Phone
Voice
- Bartending
- Waitressing
- Customer Service
Extraordinaire
- Great 'On Air'
presence during television interviews
Creative
Skills:
- Promotional Marketing
- Set Design
- Display Work
- Photography (including
B & W Darkroom)
- Acrylics on Canvas
& Glass
- Web Design
- Graphic Design
- Media Liaise
Mobile Massage Clients Past :
- 'So
Weird', So Weird Too Productions Inc. for Disney
- 'The
Void', Void Production Corp.
- 'Los
Luchadores' BIE Luchedores Productions Inc.
- 'Door
to Door' Door to Door Productions Inc.
- 'Edgemont',
Water Street Pictures Ltd.
- 'Mysterious
Ways', M Ways Production Corp for Lions Gate TV
- 'the
Chris Isaak Show', C.I. Productions for Viacom
- 'Big
Sound', Diva Productions Inc.
- Canada
Life
- The
Globe and Mail
- Don
Docksteader Volvo Dealership
- Greater
Vancouver Venture Center
- QuickWriter
(Educational Convention)
- YES
Canada
- HRDC,
Youth Initiatives, Federal Government, Vancouver
- HRDC,
NFSA Learning Fair, Federal Government, Coquitlam
Mobile Specialty Coffee Clients past &
present:
-
Maffeo Sutton Park,
Nanaimo (Wed - Sun 11am ish - dusk :weather permitting)
Including: Dragon Boat festival 2005/6, Silly Boat Festival 2005/6,
Bathtub Races 2005/6, Canada Day Festivities 2005/6, Concerts in the Park
2005/6, Paws for a Cause SPCA 2005, all other park events.
-
'Eureka', GEP Productions
Inc.,Ladysmith & Nanaimo
Educational
Highlights:
- Greater Vancouver
Venture Center, YEP & Nexus (Entreprenurial Programs)1998
- Westec School of
Bartending, 1997
- Greece, France
& UK (Independent Language & Cultural Studies), 1997
- Columbia Academy
(Video Production, Editing, & Set Decoration), 1991
- Italy, UK &
Holland (Independent Language & Cultural Studies), 1988
- Carson Graham Secondary
(Grad & Service Award), 1987
- Intuitive Proven
Massage Skills since elementary age
Employment: (*concurrent
as 2nd job)
- Entrpreneur/Owner
Operator: Mermaid's
Mug, Opened May 2005 - present
- Customer Service/ Barista
- The Bay, Nov 2005 - April 2006
- Administrative Assistant/Reception:
Blue
Revolution Consulting Group, Feb - May 2005
- Barista/Cashier/Customer
Service: Starbucks
Coffee, Mar - Aug 2004
- Customer Service:
Chapters, Oct - Mar 2003/4
- Founder & Executive
Director : ARTCAR
Society of Canada, 2002 to present
- Project Organizer/Media
Liaise/Fundraiser:Hot
n' Funky Festival
2005
- Project Organizer/Media
Liaise/Fundraiser:Hot
n' Funky Festival 2004
- Project Organizer/Media
Liaise/Fundraiser:
Funky
Art Car Festival, 2002
- Project
Organizer/Media Liaise/Fundraiser: Funky
Art Car Festival, 2001
- Project
Organizer/Media Liaise/Fundraiser: Funky
Art Car Festival, 2000
- Bartender/Waitress: Cafe Barney, 1999-2000
*
- Entrepreneur: Gypsy
Mermaid Enterprises, 1998 onward
- Bartender: Antonio's, 1998*
- Personal
Assistant to: Kevin
Morneau & Gord Karpinsky
(Re/Max Realty), 1998
- Production
Assistant,DGC: Various TV/Features/MOW's,
1996 - 1998
- Web Design
& Maintenance: Deelers
Antiques, 1997 - 1998*
- Promotions
Assistant/Hostess: JR
Country Radio, 1996 - 2000*
- Bartender/Manager: Cave of Wonder,
1997-1998*
- Administrative
Assistant/Events Co-Ordinator:
MRIC Ltd., 1996-1997
- Project
Organizer/Media Liase: Hinglish House Project,
1995*
- Bartending/Waitressing/Cashier/Secretarial: Various Events/ Companies,
1989-1996
Clerical/Computer:
- Accomplished in
the following applications:
WordPerfect,
MS (Office 2000, Internet Explorer, Word, Works, Outlook Express, Front Page,
Windows '95/98/NT/2000/XP), Mozilla Thunderbird & Firefox, Clarisworks,
Quicken, Lotus Filemaker Pro, Corel: (Draw, Webpaint, Webmaster), Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator,
Netscape, Composer VuePrint Pro, Applemail, Power Prospect, the Wave (Realtor's
special software) Eudora, HTML.... ongoing.....
- 15 line switchboard, fax, photocopier, postage
machine, etc, network, email, general office equipment
Volunteer
History:
Set Decorator: Deep Cove Theatre,
1999
Bartender: Various Film/Fundraisers/Charity
events, 1997 - ongoing
Charity
Events Co-Ordinator: Re/Max All Points
Realty Ltd, 1998 (Children's Miracle Network)
Associate
Producer: Roger's Cable 'Daytime'
Segments, 1998
Charity
Project Organizer:3 Tower Challenge,
1997 (Greater
Vancouver Food Bank )
Project
Organizer/Media Liaise: Hinglish House Project,
1995
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