Carissa Morrison
Aspiring Author/Currently A College Student
Port Saint Joe, FL 32456
[email protected]
8502276926
I am currently attending classes online at Full Sail University, pursuing a Certificate in Creative Writing. I plan to enroll full time student again next year with hope in earning a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing. I am looking forward to a career writing scripts for movies and television shows in the Entertainment industry. Right now, I am looking for an online entry level writing job to pay my bills while I attend college. I was waiting tables (5 years), I have customer service experience. I would like to put my role of serving customers in a retail setting behind me and kick-start my writing career. I am open to new opportunities; a chance on a new but passionate writer (myself) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer Work Experience
Lead Sales Associate/Key Holder
Dollar General - Port Saint Joe, FL March 2020 to Present
Greeting customers; running a cash machine in an order to scan, total, and bag Dollar General merchandise for each customer; providing excellent customer service to shoppers; handling money; working with a team of employees; providing assistance to other employees when necessary. I was began at Dollar General as a cashier; after two weeks of training I was promoted to Key Holder; After 5 months I continue in position as a Lead Sales Associate/Key Holder
Server
Pat's Eatery - Braselton, GA March 2018 to November 2018
Developing a good sense of knowledge for a POS system; using a hand-held tablet at table for customer order; gaining an overall sense of knowledge for a high-class dining setting
● Upselling; wines and spirits, deserts, and daily specials prepared by head of kitchen
● End-of shift clean-up; assisting kitchen staff with BOH clean up, checking over duties of other servers;
Salesperson
Waffle House - Garden City, GA September 2016 to January 2017
Cleaning dining room, tables, and bathrooms each shift beginning and end
● Taking customer orders and delivering each order aloud to cook staff; operating a cash machine and transacting customer money and delivering change
Food Runner
Dockside - Port Saint Joe, FL March 2015 to September 2015
Delivering hot and fresh food to customers at table; garnished
● Assisting wait staff during busy shifts; refilling drinks, cutting fruit, and cleaning up tables after customers leave and preparing tables for following customers
● Picking up host shifts when needed; seating customers, cleaning tables, delivering drinks
Education
Certificate in Creative Writing
Full Sail University - Orlando, FL
October 2020 to Present Skills
• Customer service
• Kitchen
• Food service
• Server
• POS
• Sales
• Team Leader (Less than 1 year)
• Host/Hostess
• Restaurant Experience
• Leadership
• Microsoft Office (6 years)
• Adobe Creative Suite (Less than 1 year)
• Google Docs (3 years)
• Google Cloud Platform (2 years)
• Android (6 years)
• Apple Pages (1 year)
• Apple Keynote (1 year)
• Analysis Skills (Less than 1 year)
• AP Style (Less than 1 year)
• Content Creation (Less than 1 year)
• Creative Writing
• Blogging
• Mac OS
• Copywriting
• WordPress
• Helen By Carissa Morrison Helen was carrying a 50-foot chain over her shoulder using substantial strength. She hadn’t known a friend in her lifetime. On even the sunny days her teeth wouldn’t be exposed for her lips to greet anyone with delight. She couldn’t speak the simplest kind word and she lacked ability to leave the premises of her cage without intent of kidnapping, killing, or stealing anyone worth a life or anything worth value. I hear her coming. She was fat, flat-footed, hardly
could see, and taller than me, but I could take her. I could tell that she woke up in Hell today. Her thoughts are burning for miles in her corrupt gourd. Her train-of-thought is over-powered with speed and noise, the louder, the crazier. Her thoughts are a repetitive chant that gives me chills. “Stop, Stop, Stop! I just want it to stop!” Helen’s thoughts radiated through my brainwaves. If I could’ve turned my ESP off, I would have. Instead, I became stuck in her repetitive plead for mercy. Her
flat, heavy feet were creating thunder, echoing through the walls, inching her way to my room. Crayons thrust out of her ears; her face is melting Crayola colors yet she is still walking towards
my room not showing any sign of unusual struggle. Now standing stomach-to-face with me at my bedroom doorway I could only think of her belly flopping my petite body across the room... but I wasn’t scared. I had my secret weapon; the secret was that I had a weapon in my possession. She was only two feet short of making me believe that she was going to kill me. I noticed as her fear gave in and her weak defense surrendered, she was beginning to trust me instead of using her knife, as she should have to kill me, she had thought better about it. All’s well, her underestimation will be my victory. I time my angle, aim my arm, and swing. She fell to the ground and I grabbed my axe out of her hip bone. She was dead. I called Drew and told him what I had done. He told me to clean up the mess and he would be home from work soon. Helen was no longer a problem, and with her out of my way and Drew a happier man for it, I will be his hero and he would finally have me as his wife. I welcomed him home with a kiss. An Original Story | Creative Writing Example “Is mother gone?” He asked for reassurance. “Yes honey, she is taken care of.” END (1 year)
• Adobe Illustrator
Certifications and Licenses
Creative Writing
October 2020 to Present
I am currently in college earning a Creative Writing Certificate. I will graduate June 2021.
Assessments
Social media — Proficient
December 2020
Knowledge of popular social media platforms, features, and functions Full results: Proficient
Indeed Assessments provides skills tests that are not indicative of a license or certification, or continued development in any professional field.
Additional Information
Food Industry Skills
providing customer service in a restaurant setting; providing food service to customers; resolving and attending to complaints; creating a great experience for customers by having a genuine care for their meal satisfaction, drink refills, and service; dressing-up dining room for breakfast, lunch, and dinner accordingly; communicating important details such as reservations, customer requests, and reservations, and changes to order ticket to kitchen; gathering and calculating restaurant and each server's sales, handling end-of-shift tip-out, and finalizing credit card reports; complete