Cameron Kimball

Starting from a front desk position where my main duties included assisting customers with inquiries, concerns, and complaints promptly and effectively, and ensuring climber safety by teaching correct belay techniques. I was also responsible for assisting membership sign-ups, renewals, and cancellations. I then moved into a Routesetting position where I currently work, using rope access gear and techniques to set/remove new climbs on the walls as well as preparing the walls and resources for competitions and events. This has also required the certification and operation of an articulating aerial boom lift       (3B MEWP)

Life Time Fitness is where I took rock climbing from just a passion and a sport to a career and a creative outlet. Being a concrete-walled tape style gym, I learned much of the oldschool and commercial style setting here. I Co-Headset at the Gilbert location and eventually became sole Headsetter until being asked by the Tempe location to come set for their location. I also taught belay lessons and climbing development classes as well as recreational classes at both locations.

Appen performs social media evaluation. Here I review and rate social media content using a web application to support measurement of data relevance. I evaluate online web content according to detailed criteria. Using gathered user demographics, search intent, and keen intuition, I improve the relevancy of search results and tools within various social media search engines. This position relies on following strict procedure and maintaining high attention to detail.

Both customer service and management roles were learned at this establishment. Working at two locations and picking up their systems with ease, gave owners assurance to rely on myself to run closing shifts, alone within the first two weeks, and opening shifts alone soon after. Many common retail roles were experiences in this time such as counting drawers, receiving stock, paying invoices, and opening/locking up shop. Many tricks of the trade and inside tips about functional glass art were picked up and implemented in this position, only growing my love for the glass blower/collector community.

At WHCL, there is endless work ethic to learn. Averaging 70+ hour weeks of full body labor, these were the hardest workers I knew. Being part of that team has definitely improved my work flow and drive to do better. Customer service was always key, as majority of customers were high profile and required nothing less than extensive precision on site to ensure their property looked even better than before. Employment ended on a work related injury that left me unable to walk, and unable to use work-related equipment. Have since recovered.

Most of my early career growth was experienced at Suncoast Post-Tension, both personally and professionally. Starting with various labor jobs (i.e. re-painting, cutting rebar, as well as loading both rebar and Post-Tension trucks) and shortly after, progressing into marketing/networking positions, creative design sales projects, and ultimately residential estimating. As a Sales Expeditor, I worked closely and personally with both the customers and sales team to compile and send bids, on a very strict schedule. As an Estimator, I learned to read construction plans and pay full attention to detail in a fast paced environment. Held 6 different positions over two years and have been consistently looking to progress and evolve my career since.