Renee Yuksel
reneeyuksel79@gmail.com
Professional Summery
Goal-oriented, self-motivated, enthusiastic professional sincerely interested in career growth. Accomplishes results that exceed the standard, while demonstrating multifaceted knowledge. Enjoys sharing information with others to help them succeed. Strong skills in leadership, problem-solving, and organization benefit the whole team, whether in a leadership or team-player role.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Cum Laude
Experience
Strolling Donkeys Self-Employed 03/2025-Present
❖ Started my own Publishing House called Strolling Donkeys.
❖ Created Website for Strolling Donkeys.
❖ Formed an LLC for the company.
❖ Hire freelance editors for novels that are published under the Publishing House.
❖ Hire book cover designers for the novels that will be published.
❖ Published Novels under Strolling Donkeys.
❖ Continue to write my own novels for publication.
Registered Behavioral Technician, Autism Education and Therapy 11/2024-03/2025 Center, Nashville, TN
❖ Check before starting work to see if any updates have been made to my student behavioral plans and goals.
❖ Run daily goals and record accurate scores.
❖ Assist the student with additional support for daily activities, such as carrying items or helping prepare lunch.
❖ Responsible for picking up students in front of the school every morning and taking students to their parents’ vehicles after school.
❖ Discuss how the learner is doing with goals and behavior changes with the BCBA.
❖ Pair with a Student I’m responsible for assisting.
❖ Prepare for new goals by making new material, such as flash cards or pec pictures.
CORRECTIONAL OFFICER Trousdale Correctional Facility, TN
04/2024-10/2024
❖ Keep accurate records of daily logs.
❖ Conduct safety checks for the housing units.
❖ Conduct scheduled cell counts.
❖ Distribute mail to inmates.
❖ Keep inmate behavior in line with rules and procedures.
DCS Case Manager Department of Child Safety, Phoenix, AZ
04/17/2023-09/15/2023
❖ Contact clients and children at least once a month for updates on their welfare.
❖ Enter all information into the department’s computer system, Guardian.
❖ Check for court hearings and information on Jax.
❖ Conduct background checks on JWI.
❖ Receive calls from clients, children, placements, service providers, and call back within twenty-four hours.
❖ Provide information about the services the Department of Child Safety can offer families. Regarding financial, housing, mental health, substance abuse programs, and state insurance.
❖ Conduct walk-throughs of homes to assess the home’s safety.
❖ Advocate the best permanency plan for the child in care.
❖ Conduct team decision meetings, as well as child/family team meetings.
❖ Connect clients and children to our services such as clothing allowance, transportation to and from parent visitations, bus passes for parents, summer camps for children, and any needs the children have while in out-of-home placement.
Quality Lab Mark Anthony Brewery, Columbia, SC
10/2022-01/06/2023
❖ Ran quality checks for filled beer cans collected from the manufacturing lines.
❖ Every half hour and every hour, checks were performed.
❖ A sample of 8 is collected for the hour check, and 3 for the half-hour check.
❖ Ran test on the carbo machine for alcohol levels, CO2, CO, ER, calories, density, can, and
bottle weight.
❖ Performed TA test for acidity and PH levels.
Salt and Flake Technician Invista, Camden, SC
01/2022-10-2022
❖ Produce Nylon Polymer 66
❖ Move Hoppers containing flake to drop ports.
❖ Assist the casting operator with help if needed.
❖ Use the RF scanner to check in each hopper before dropping them in the drop port.
❖ Clean the floors in walkways and around the drop port for flakes to place in the floor sweep boxes.
❖ Check on the computer the locations of each flake code for the location of the drop port.
❖ Check for updated schedules for the casting machine.
❖ Packaging of flake at a stationary blender.
❖ Operating a machine that dispenses flakes into shipping boxes along with a conveyor belt.
❖ Checking classifiers for excess flakes in the bucket and cleaning the area.
Lab Technician SGS Mineral Lab, Kershaw, SS
08/2021-12/2021
❖ Load mineral samples on the rack to dry.
❖ Load mineral samples into the oven to dry any moisture to run in the LECO testing machines.
❖ Know how to use a crushing machine to crush samples.
❖ Know how to pulverize samples with either the ABM machine or the hand pulverizing machine.
❖ Can prepare Mills samples by using a press machine to drain water out of the samples.
❖ Can weight and record data on daily record logs.
❖ Know how to process cyanide mill samples by either a press machine or a water filter.
❖ Can use the press machine on acids.
❖ Scan in and record samples in the computer system.
❖ Print out sample labels and place them on envelopes for processing.
❖ Clean and sweep at the end of the day.
Personal Trainer Certificate, ISSA certified
06/2021
❖ Learned human anatomy.
❖ Learned how to make a workout routine for various programs.
❖ Know about nutrition and how it incorporates into a healthy lifestyle.
❖ Can make meal plans for clients.
❖ Know how to develop muscle strength and tone.
❖ CPR/AED certified.
Splitter Ross Distribution Center, Rock Hill, SC
2020
❖ Split merchandise off the conveyor belt by the PTL(put to light) system.
❖ Scan the barcode, and the system PTL will have a blue or green light above the store shipping boxes to where the merchandise is placed.
❖ Merchandise is placed on carts after lifting boxes off the conveyor belt.
❖ If no work is sent down the conveyor, a timesheet for downtime is filled out.
❖ If no store is selected, the merchandise is indicated as (Push) and sent back down the
residual conveyor until a store is selected in the system.
❖ Merchandise can also be passed between zones if the system selects other stores in a zone next to yours.
Substitute Teacher Rock Hill School District, SC (York County)
2019-2020
❖ Follow the procedures left by the teacher.
❖ Have experience as a teacher’s assistant.
❖ Follow separate school procedures for check-in.
❖ Assist students with their assignments.
❖ Successful classroom management.
❖ Take roll and report absences.
Bee Keeper Owns a commercial business
2019
❖ Manufactures its own nuke and 8-frame boxes.
❖ Check hives routinely to ensure hygiene and health.
❖ Prevent swarming and create new nukes by using existing queen cells.
❖ Can treat for Varroa mites and hive beetles.
❖ Make sure hives have adequate sugar water and pollen patties.
❖ Can prevent burr comb.
❖ Can make queen cells.
❖ Sell nukes and nuke boxes.
Trainer Ross Distribution Center, Rock Hill, SC
❖ Seasonal Distribution Center Trainer (July 2019-August 2019)
❖ Follows training procedures and protocols for all departments.
❖ Works one-on-one with trainees to ensure he/she has learned all instructed procedures and
protocols.
❖ Performs observations on trainees to check performance level.
❖ Demonstrates to trainees the correct procedures and protocols for the specific department.
❖ Responsible for following up with trainees’ performance reports for a specified time.
❖ Utilize Starlinks and Ross Connects software, along with operating training videos on
overhead projectors.
❖ Comfortably gives public speeches for orientation classes as well as small group training
sessions.
❖ Conducts test preparation and then administers and grades certification tests.
❖ Specialist 1 (May 2018-Present)
❖ Work in the Home and décor department’s exceptions area.
❖ Fix issues with merchandise that pickers can’t process into shipping boxes.
❖ My responsibilities include researching the problem associated with each case and resolving it
on all cartons returned to the exceptions. Then, the cartons are returned to the picking area for processing and shipping.
❖ Problems include making new MLPS and LPNs for the cartons or reprinting lost or
damaged ones. Printing Ross tickets for merchandise and marking the merchandise. After
returning it to its picking area.
❖ Process damaged merchandise
❖ IF merchandise has not been shipped on time, I have to reintroduce the merchandise back
into the system (RTS) or reunit ID it.
❖ Use Ross’s leading computer software on a computer cart, ICW, RDM, RFgun.
❖ Unit ID (July 2017-2018)
❖ Work processing pallets of merchandise or conveyor belts via a computer cart.
❖ Must meet deadlines for processing merchandise.
❖ Performance is measured in percentage as to how fast merchandise is input into inventory via RDM software.
❖ Read receiving reports and accurately input data into RDM software.
❖ Creates MLP and LPN, which are barcoded stickers for scanning so that merchandise can be marked and processed for outbound shipping.
❖ Look up merchandise based on the receiving report and identify the style and quantity in the inventory via RDM software.
❖ Clean computer cart and restock supplies.
❖ Put To Voice (May 2016-July 2017)
❖ Place Merchandise into outbound shipping boxes according to the instructions of a Vocollect headset. The headset informs the user of the location and quantity of merchandise to place.
❖ Must use a pallet jack to move merchandise to locations.
❖ If the box is full when arriving at a location, the user must push the box onto a
conveyor belt behind it and get a new box on a monorail in the center of the aisle. Place a new shipping label on the box, then place the merchandise inside as instructed by the headset.
❖ Sweep the assigned aisle at the end of every shift.
❖ Earned Blue Chip bonus each week for exceeding production goals.
❖ Certified buddy trainer whose responsibilities are to teach new hires how to use the
Vocollect headset, shipping box label procedures, and procedures for picking up new pallets of merchandise and dropping off ones when trainers are not available on the floor for assistance.
Author 2015-Present
❖ Continue to write new novels to be published at a later date.
❖ Used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher to format, write, and edit two adolescent
adventure novels about a Belizean archaeologist named Clara Bennett.
❖ Researched Mayan culture and history for authentic accuracy.
❖ Uploaded and converted files for book cover illustration.
❖ Learned Publishing procedures and uploading on Amazon.
ESL Teacher (Adult Students) Camino De Salvacion, Charlotte, NC
2013-2016
❖ Volunteer position through LifeBuilder Ministry.
❖ Successfully taught English grammar, pronunciation, and reading.
❖ Effectively prepared fun activities for students to practice speaking English, while keeping
them motivated and engaged during class.
❖ Assisted students by going over homework and classwork together during class time.
❖ Had to prepare custom lessons based on each student’s learning level.
❖ Strongly assisted many students in achieving desired employment opportunities by improving English language skills.
Accomplishments
Registered Behavioral Technician license for teaching Autistic children.
100-Hour TEFL Certificate by International TEFL Teacher Training.
Mission work in Peru
Undergraduate Honors Thesis “Ceramic Designs from the Otis Hare Site, 8Li 172, in Northwest Florida
REFERENCES
Aaron Slater Wells (803) 379-8507
Pam Moore (803) 467-7095
Lynn Sanborn (803) 477-8737
