Owen Parry
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Apprentice Horticulturist
Andreasens Green
02.2020 - 01.2022
- Moved from team to team around the nursery to learn all areas of nursery operations: Potting, Maintenance, Dispatch and Advanced Trees.
- Maintained all types of Australian native trees and shrubs to the Australian standard.
- Trained and Experience in Skidsteer operations
- Trained and Experienced in Tractor Operations
- Trained and Experienced in Forklift Operations
- Trained in Biosecurity with a focus on Australian Natives
- Retained knowledge of garden plants and understanding of cultural requirements to maximize growth and cultivation.
- Inspected beds of trees to identify biosecurity needs.
- Maintained horticultural calendar to track bloom periods and seasonal cultural needs.
- Tagged and labeled plants in nursery to record planting location information.
- Performed minor repair of power and irrigation equipment to maintain proper functionality.
- Altered soil types to grow different types of plants in non-native environments.
- Researched composition of soil to determine effects on plant growth.
- I dug alot of holes....
Education
Currently Studying - Horticulture Cert III
Tafe NSW
Richmond03.2024
Currently Studying - Nursery Operations Cert III
Tafe NSW
Richmond02.2024
Statement of Attainment - Biosecurity
Tafe NSW
Richmond11.2021
Statement of Attainment - Game Harvester
Tafe NSW - Online
Online11.2020
High School Diploma -
Erskine Park High School
Erskine Park, NSW12.1999
Skills
- Organization
- Multitasking Abilities
- PPE Use
- Calm Under Pressure
- Excellent Communication
- Self-Directed
- Safety Procedures
- Irrigation Systems
- Pruning Skills
- Power Tool Operation
Hobbies
- Growing Vegetables and Flowers - I have too many pot plants!
- Cooking - Asian Cuisines for the most part.
- Part time Guitarist - Acoustic blues....
- Sport Shooter - Competition and Hunting at the moment branching into Pest Control in the foreseeable future.
- Keen Golfer with no time to play.
- Fisherman - Beach and Rock fishing mostly.
- Computers - More tech than games, I build computers and used to repair them for money when i was younger.
Additional Information
I have been a Chef for 20 Years, I travelled Europe cooking and learning and currently run my own business. When you hire me, you will not only be hiring a keen Horticulturist with a passion for plants and learning, You will be getting a kitchen manager with 20 years experience in high stress environments and people management and everything else that comes along with that.
Thankyou for your consideration.
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Apprentice Horticulturist
Andreasens Green
02.2020 - 01.2022
Currently Studying - Horticulture Cert III
Tafe NSW
Currently Studying - Nursery Operations Cert III
Tafe NSW
Statement of Attainment - Biosecurity
Tafe NSW
Statement of Attainment - Game Harvester
Tafe NSW - Online
High School Diploma -
Erskine Park High School
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