Dylan O'Brien

Creating showhome gardens for the UK's leading housing developers such as Taylor Wimpey, Barratt and David Wilson.

• Enhanced garden aesthetics by planting, pruning and cultivating a variety of plants
• Working off plans to create interesting and exciting spaces that meet RSPB standards
• Building garden framework, sleeper beds and pergolas
• Creating wildlife ponds and bug refuges
• Planting, barking and turfing
• Installing irrigation
• Working with site managers, groundworkers and plant drivers to meet deadlines
• Trainee team leader
• Nationwide driving

After joining as an operative in April I was quickly promoted to Team Leader, maintaining some of the most popular commercial sites in the Midlands. Clients include Royal Mail, PureGym, Morrison's and retail parks such as Solihull, Battery, Selly Oak Shopping Park and The Fort.

• Mowing, hedging, strimming, pruning and weeding.
• Planting.
• Garden planning.
• Spraying.
• Teaching and managing operatives.
• Litter picking.
• Driving.
• Liaising and building relationships with clients.
• Creatively implementing ideas.
• Time management.

After only a few months at Singletons I was offered a job working in some of the finest gardens in Birmingham with an experienced and skilled gardener. An offer I could not refuse.

• Mowing, hedging, strimming, pruning and weeding.
• Pressure washing.
• Planting.
• Garden planning.
• Spraying.
• Leaf management.
• Team leading.
• Teaching and managing apprentices.
• Litter picking.
• Driving.
• Liaising and building relationships with clients.
• Creatively implementing ideas.
• Time management.

Working as part of a two-man team to maintain the grounds of the Birmingham Women's and Children's hospitals.

• Mowing, hedging, strimming, pruning and weeding.
• Leaf management.
• Litter picking.
• Driving.
• Hard landscaping.
• Fence painting.
• Occasionally working in the garden centre greenhouses.

Working as member of the build team for the biggest urban sports retailer in the country to provide custom skateboard and scooter builds, modifications, repairs and ice skate sharpening.

• Performed general warehouse duties such as picking, packing and dispatching.
• Passed courses on manual handling, fire safety, working with young people, using abrasive wheels etc.
• Assisting customers face-to-face and implementing their ideas.

Working alone to secure and maintain large temporary accommodation buildings.

• Mail distribution
• Letting rooms to new tenants, making them aware of rules and answering any questions.
• Monitored central alarm systems for fire, intrusion and duress alarms and responded to emergencies.
• Authorised entrance papers, granting and denying access to buildings.
• Inspected suspicious activities and monitored premises for criminal acts and rule infractions.
• Dealt with aggressive and occasionally violent tenants and visitors.
• Wrote detailed reports on property damage, theft, presence of unauthorised persons and unusual incidences.
• Protected facility and property guests by regularly circulating premises and monitoring surveillance feeds.
• Monitored and authorised entrance and departure of vehicles, cargo trucks and visitors.
• Reviewed evacuation plan to ensure safe evacuation practices in cases of emergency.
• Assessed ongoing risk factors and suggested improvements to senior management.

• General office duties.
• Typing, providing full transcripts with exceptional accuracy.
• Photocopying, scanning and filing documents.
• Implementing new filing system that reduced file location time.
• Effectively managing time sensitive workloads and adhering to deadlines.
• Packaging and dispatching.
• Delivering.
• DX (DocumentExchange) co-ordinator.
• Taking incoming phonecalls.

• Assisted in the management of graphics for brand and portfolio presentations.
• Worked to ensure motion graphics supported specific storytelling needs.
• Created and executed graphics in After Effects and Illustrator.
• Provided colleagues with administrative assistance.
• Received focussed tutorials on how to use programs such as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop etc.
• Created cropped and penned images which were used for live broadcasting.