Career Focus
Group fitness instructor/personal trainer position in a company whose culture supports healthy independent employees
Summary of Skills
- Strong leadership skills: Trained and motivated all varieties of personalities through harsh situations
- Conflict resolution
- Team spirited: Develop the weakest team members’ strengths
- Creative solutions
- Energetic
- Goal driven
- Independent worker
- CPR/First Aid certified
- Group Fitness and Personal Training Certified through NETA (National Exercise Trainers Association)
Accomplishments
- As a non-commissioned officer for the United States Marine Corps, I lead, and managed and trained over thirty marines during regular training and overseas in Afghanistan, Africa, and Bahrain.
- Enthusiastic and dedicated individual with high integrity, strong work ethic, and great leadership skills.
- Earned my Marine Corps Martial Arts black belt
- Certified in combat life saver
- Ran Cellcom full marathon in May 2013
- Licensed over one hundred marines in tactical vehicles in one year.
Professional Experience
Valley Athletics (September 2013-Present)
Neenah, WI
Teach group fitness classes such as TRX suspension training, boot camp, and personal train an assortment of clients. Help clients receive their goals and overcome setbacks.
YMCA Group Fitness Instructor/Wellness Coach (November2012-Present)
Apple Creek Fox Cities YMCA
I teach classes to include full body boot camp both (indoor and outdoor) and strength and resistance. Informed clients how to strive for goals and work hard for their desires. I did fitness testing, made workout programs for individuals, and made nutritional guides for our clients.
United States Marine (Corporal, Licensing Non-Commissioned Officer, Squad Leader) (March2009-October2012)
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. Taught the upmost form of discipline and responsibility for my fellow marines and I. Stationed in Camp Lejeune in the Combat Engineer Battalion. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. Advised superiors of new and improved tactics on the battlefield. Trained and guided marines to strive for perfection. Represented our organization to the best that went before us in history. Licensed over three hundred marines in tactical vehicles. Trained in combat life saver to save marines in combat.
Environmental Technician (January 2001-Febuary 2009)
Chief Industrial Services- Winneconne, WI
As an Environmental Technician I was deployed to customer facilities on a regular basis in order to perform industrial cleanup and remediation work. This position required excellent interpersonal and communication skills both with customers and co-workers. As jobsites and onsite tasks were constantly changing, good troubleshooting and problem solving skills were necessary on a day to day basis. A strong work ethic, mechanical ability, and the ability to represent my employer in a professional manner both in attitude and appearance were regarded as highly important.
Education
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh- Kinesiology (2013-present)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA
University Fox Valley- Kinesiology(2007-2009, 2013)
Menasha, Wisconsin USA
Forty credits towards a bachelor’s degree prior to enlisting in the United States Marine Corps
Winneconne High School (2007)
Winneconne, Wisconsin USA
High School Diploma
Professional Affiliations
Veteran of Foreign Affairs (2013-Present)
United States Marine Corps Association
Masonic Mason- Winneconne, WI chapter