April Pottorff
Gladstone
Summary
With extensive experience in maintaining organized work environments and ensuring compliance with health regulations, this professional excels in collaborative settings to enhance production efficiency. Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning and skill refinement, supporting new team members through effective onboarding. Proficient in quality assurance, customer relations, and safe handling of heavy objects, contributing to seamless operations in dynamic environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Line Cook/Prep Cook
FairWave
Kansas City
09.2025 - Current
- Work environment organization. Keeping workspace clean and organized, according to local state and city health department and FairWave policies and regulations.
- Daily production efficiency. Able to work well in a collaborative environment, to ensure that all orders are prepared to receive in a timely and efficient manner to spec.
- Continuous education and skill refinement. You will be tasked with engaging and learning from other department Leaders as well as other Team Members to elevate and refine your skills. In addition, you will be tasked with providing support to new Team Members as they are on boarded, teaching them your department's practices.
- Task refinement and feedback. You will be tasked with not only learning our recipes but being open to feedback on our processes to elevate your knowledge of day-to-day kitchen operations. This requires a level of curiosity and brave accountability, to ensure that feedback is understood and implemented properly.
- Kitchen collaboration. You will be part of a larger group of kitchen Team Members that will work the majority of the time at the main location you are hired for. All Team
Dock Receiver
Hillcrest Platte County
Parkville
09.2023 - 05.2025
- Sorting product properly and efficiently
- Coordinating volunteers
- Working with elderly
- Working with disabled individuals
- Approaching issues with a friendly problem-solving attitude
- Making customers and donors feel welcome and appreciated.
- Assuring quality of incoming AND outgoing product
- Safely and efficiently moving furniture or other heavy objects (50+ lbs)
- Maintained a clean, organized workspace and storage space
Assembly Line Production
Johnson Controls
Albany
08.2022 - 03.2023
- Actively met assembly goals
- Performed in depth assembly of Industrial Air conditioning
- Conducted routine maintenance
- Responsible for shipping and packing duties
Maintenance/cart associate
Walmart
Bethany
03.2022 - 08.2022
- As a maintenance/cart associate I would maintain cleanliness and working order of my store, keeping the building, bathrooms, and surrounding area to the utmost standard of sanitation.
- I was also put in charge of keeping the shopping carts stocked so that customers may have an easier shopping experience
Food Champion
Taco Bell
Bethany
04.2021 - 03.2022
- As a food champion, I prepared and served food product to the best of my ability and highest standard.
- I worked well alongside others in a fast paced kitchen environment as a team.
- I also kept my work area tidy and as clean as possible
Education
High school diploma - Upper secondary education
South Harrison High School
Bethany, MOSkills
- Continuous integration
- Walking (transportation method)
- Experience with children
- Box truck
- Computer skills
- Van driver
- Order shipping
- Measurement conversions
- Outdoor work
- Negotiation
- Quality assurance
- Retail sales
- Catering
- Guest relations
- Simple food item preparation
- Retail management
- Moving
- Phone etiquette
- Product demos
- Grilling
- Sanitation
- Leadership
- Cost control
- Woodworking
- Baking
- Hospitality
- Greeting customers
- Continuous improvement
- Kitchen Experience
- Customer relationship building
- Delivery driver experience
- Safe work practices
- Supervising experience
- Management
- Industrial construction
- Seafood
- Technical Proficiency
- Dishwashing
- Typing
- Construction
- Front desk
- Heavy Lifting
- Assistant manager experience
- Supply chain
- Handling customer inquiries
- SUV driving
- Plumbing
- Kitchen stations
- Quality inspection
- Working with people with developmental disabilities
- Passenger vehicle
- Shift management
- Organizational skills
- Customer inquiry handling
- Individual consumer customer service
- Drink service
- Food handling
- Office management
- Caregiving
- Commercial driving
- Classroom experience
- Property maintenance
- Logistics
- Analysis skills
- Rigging
- Culinary experience
- Training & development
- Grocery store
- Hand hygiene
- Quality control
- Home health
- Basic math
- Merchandising
- Sanitation procedures
- GPS
- Maintaining an organized workspace
- Remodeling
- Fair Housing regulations
- Data collection
- Time management
- Custodial Experience
- Load & unload
- Knifeskills
- Equipment repair
- Food Preparation
- Attention to detail
- Sports car handling
- Teamwork
- Inventory control
- Production planning
- Manual transmission
- Working with people with autism
- Communication skills
- QuickBooks
- Computer literacy
- Store management
- Customer communication
- Office experience
- Renovation
- Phone call backs
- Kitchen management
- Dietary aide experience
- Visual inspection for quality control
- Productivity software
- Food service management
- Fine dining experience
- Maintenance
- Retail math
- Order taking
- Mobile applications
- Customer service
- Customer complaint resolution
- Computer operation
- Cake decorating
- Security
- Bakery
- Restaurant experience
- Infection prevention management
- Working with people with disabilities
- Electrical experience
- Packaging
- Power tools
- Courier
- Food service
- Microsoft Excel
- Maintaining patient confidentiality
- Assembly
- Team management
- Cleaning Experience
- Processing cash transactions
- HVAC
- POS systems
- Creativity
- Order preparation
- Public relations
Certification
- Driver's License
- Food Handler, 05/01/26
- Food Safety Certification
- Food Handler Certification
- ServSafe
Languages
English
Timeline
Line Cook/Prep Cook
FairWave
09.2025 - Current
Dock Receiver
Hillcrest Platte County
09.2023 - 05.2025
Assembly Line Production
Johnson Controls
08.2022 - 03.2023
Maintenance/cart associate
Walmart
03.2022 - 08.2022
Food Champion
Taco Bell
04.2021 - 03.2022
High school diploma - Upper secondary education
South Harrison High School