Brenna Healy
Philadelphia
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Field Hand
Love 'n Fresh Flowers
Philadelphia, PA
04.2025 - Current
- Working closely with a small team to maintain and produce beautiful flowers and plants. Daily tasks include harvesting, mulching, weeding, starting seeds, transplanting starter plants, fertilizing, laying irrigation, broadforking, and any other tasks the farm demands.
- Responsible for spraying homemade amendments and organic pest controls.
- Capable of operating heavy tools safely, such as small chainsaws, hedgetrimmers, loppers, boltcutters, ect., while keeping farm and personal tools clean and sharp.
- Able to meet physical demands of lifting heavy materials, such as wheelborrowing plant material, mulch, or rocks, hauling sandbags, carrying heavy water buckets and plant crates, digging out old trees or shrubs, and moving heavy winter plant covers.
- Trusted to complete daily tasks in a timely manner to the discretion of myself and team while maintaining good health and safety in seasonal weather changes.
- Helping customers pick up their wholesale flower orders and keeping track of sales from the market floor.
- Respectfully working with the land to be careful around local wildlife. No task carelessly disrupts wild spaces on the farm.
Floral Designer
Long Stems
Merion Station, PA
05.2020 - 02.2024
- Responsible for opening and closing the shop in a timely manner.
- Processing flowers and plants for merchandising.
- Designing floral and potted arrangements to clients specific preferences.
- Receiving customer orders and processing them through Dove software.
- Receiving and making calls to and from customers, distributors/wholesalers and others.
- Keeping the shop clean, including workstations and flower coolers. Maintaining clean and organized displays and retail space.
- Pricing merchandise.
- Landscaping jobs at the shop and requested locations.
- Flower farming on the owner's property, including planting and spacing plugs of different varieties, digging up and storing Dahlia tubers, establishing perennial plants, and harvesting and processing blooms for designing in the shop.
- Photographing designs for website and social media use. Taking photos at locations while setting up events as well as creating photoshoots for new design ideas.
Shop Employee
Koolau Farmers
Honolulu, HI
07.2022 - 09.2022
- Worked on the store floor as customer service help, cashier, and answering phone calls.
- Maintained outdoor plants (vegetables, grasses, fruit and citrus trees) by watering every start and end of shift. Maintaining plants in the greenhouse and inside the shop.
- Stocked shelves, merchandising, and pricing. Measured out and priced medium mixes.
- Making terrariums and other styles of house plant designs, such as kokedama.
- Gained knowledge of local plants and produce.
- Recommending tools, mediums, and fertilizers for customers for their own small farms and houseplants.
- Unloading large shipments of plants and organizing the greenhouse to be accessible to employees and customers.
Bartender
Tuned Up Brewery
Spring City, PA
04.2024 - 10.2024
- Responsible for opening and closing the restaurant.
- Learning time management skills and personal responsibility when left with opening and bar set up on solo opening and closing shifts.
- Food and drink safety when serving customers. Keeping up with cleaning standards for regular inspections.
- Maintaining a positive team environment with a small staff and communicating clearly in a busy environment.
- Taking creative initiative to design and draw menus and event signs.
- Customer service skills, creating a welcoming environment for new customers and maintaining familial relationships with regular patrons.
Cook
Leslie and Danz Munchwagon
Honolulu, HI
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Working as a line cook and cashier in a fast-paced environment in a tourism-based city.
- Customer service experience.
- Responsible for register and tip count at start and end of day.
- Gained experience with inventory and ordering.
- Personal responsibility for running the food truck on solo shifts.
Bartender/Front of House
Il Lupino Trattoria & Wine Bar
Honolulu, HI
11.2020 - 05.2021
- Climbing the ranks of Front Of House, from Busser, Runner, Expo, Barback, to Bartender.
- Working in a fast-paced environment in a high traffic area.
- Gained customer services skills and teamwork working nights and closing shifts.
Education
High School -
Owen J. Roberts High School
Pottstown, PA06-2019
Skills
- Time Management
- Adaptability to changing conditions
- Safety awareness
- Communication and teamwork
- Customer Service
- Landscape Maintenance
- Small Farm Experience
- Floral and Fauna Design
- Retail Sales
- Pest control
- Organic farming practices
- Team collaboration
Timeline
Field Hand
Love 'n Fresh Flowers
04.2025 - Current
Bartender
Tuned Up Brewery
04.2024 - 10.2024
Shop Employee
Koolau Farmers
07.2022 - 09.2022
Cook
Leslie and Danz Munchwagon
05.2021 - 06.2022
Bartender/Front of House
Il Lupino Trattoria & Wine Bar
11.2020 - 05.2021
Floral Designer
Long Stems
05.2020 - 02.2024
High School -
Owen J. Roberts High School