Christina Greer Newton

christina_newton15@mymail.eku.edu

Education:

Bachelors of Science in Horticulture

Eastern Kentucky University Graduated December 2017 Summa Cum Laude
Concentration: Nursery/Landscape GPA: 3.93

Related Experience:

Temporary Exhibition Horticulturist September 2018 – October 2018 (Atlanta, GA)

Atlanta Botanical Garden
 Maintain the mosaiculture pieces in the “Imaginary Worlds” exhibit
o Replanting
o Trimming
o Watering
 Learn how to operate machinery required such as lifts
 Prepare mosaiculture pieces for holiday lights by removing all plants and painting
 Assist guests when needed by answering general and plant related questions

Floral Arranger/ Customer Service December 2017 - Present (Stone Mountain, GA)
Hall’s Flower Shop and Garden Center
 Arrange European Garden Baskets and other plant related designs
 Seed, plant, and cultivate products in the garden center
 Assist customers with plant selections and landscaping advice
 Arrange everyday floral designs such as roses, mixed vases, corsages and boutonnieres
 Operate the phones, place orders for customers over the phone and in person, handle
transactions
 Balance cash drawers and assist in opening and closing shop
 Record in Excel and assist in the creation of new design “recipes”
 Continue to train in MAS Point of Sales System and Tim Huckabee Floral Strategies

Wedding Coordinator September 2018 (McDonough, GA)

Crown/Wilson Wedding
 Designed and set up the ceremony and reception sites
 Orchestrated the cues for the wedding party and DJ
 Coordinated the timeline for the reception
 Ensured the venue was cleaned

Greenhouse Technician March 2015 – December 2017 (Richmond, KY)

Eastern Kentucky University Department of Agriculture
 Maintain a variety of plants in five greenhouses for use in teaching students and in fundraisers to
benefit the Horticulture Club/Program
 Assist horticulture professors with class projects (irrigation, landscaping, pesticide applications,
seeding, transplanting/propagation, construction/landscape machinery, etc.)
 Complete unsupervised weekend plant maintenance

Floral Arranger/ Customer Service May 2017 – August 2017 (Stone Mountain, GA)
Hall’s Flower Shop and Garden Center (Mosmiller Scholar Internship)
  Arranged everyday floral designs such as roses, mixed vases, corsages and boutonnieres
 Trained in modern and traditional designs including sympathy and wedding designs
 Operated the phones, placed orders for customers over the phone and in person, handled
transactions
 Assisted in the garden center with planting and arranging
 Trained in MAS Point of Sales System and Tim Huckabee Floral Strategies

Additional Job Experience:

Assistant Preschool Teacher/ Front Desk Worker May 2016 – August 2016 (Stockbridge, GA)
Eagle’s Landing Learning Center
 Cared for children aged three months to twelve years (Class sizes ranging from 6 – 25 children
based on age)
 Executed everyday tasks including drafting and editing documents for teachers
 Assisted with field trips and swimming trips supervising more than twenty-five school-aged
children
 Operated the front desk answering phones and questions, filing and keeping records, and taking
payments

Activities:

 Mentored current FFA members for Career Development Events as an FFA alumni (September 2018)
 EKU Horticulture Club President (September 2014 – August 2015)
 EKU Horticulture Club Vice President (August 2015 – August 2016)
 EKU Horticulture Club Secretary and Social Media Coordinator (September 2016 – December 2017)
 Served as an EKU Agriculture Ambassador (2016 – 2017)
 Member of the Agriculture Honors Society, Delta Tau Alpha (2016 – 2017)
 Member of the National FFA Alumni Association (2014 – Present)
 Attended and competed at the National Collegiate Landscape Competition (March 2015 – March 2017)
 Attended and participated as an Ag Ambassador at the National FFA Convention (October 2016)
 Kentucky GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) Certification (April 2016)
 Worked a Directed Work Experience Greenhouse Job for Class Credit (Fall 2014)

Awards:

 EKU College of Business and Technology’s Distinguished Senior Award (2018)

 EKU Department of Agriculture’s Distinguished Senior Award (2018)
 EKU President’s Award (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016 – Fall 2017)
 EKU College of Business and Technology Dean’s List Award (Fall 2014 – Fall 2017)
 Named the recipient of EKU Department of Agriculture’s Outstanding Horticulture Student (2017)
 Awarded the American Floral Endowment’s Mosmiller Scholar Internship (Fall 2016; Completed at
Hall’s Flower Shop & Garden Center in Summer 2017)
 Richmond Garden Club Scholarship Recipient (2016)
 Named the recipient of EKU Department of Agriculture’s Outstanding Freshman Award (2015)
 EKU Regent’s Scholarship (2014 – 2017)
 Future Farmers of America (National FFA) Scholarship (2014)