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Andrew Smith

287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000
[email protected]
(000) 000-0000

Professional Summary

Dedicated, Barn managers must be highly skilled in all aspects of horsemanship, possessing a solid working knowledge of basic medical treatments, equine nutritional needs, and equine behavioral management techniques. Depending on the size of the stable, they may be involved with a variety of hands-on tasks such as feeding, mucking out stalls, turning horses out to paddocks, wrapping legs, and assisting with veterinary treatment, as well as training and braking horses.

Employment history

Barn Manager, Brown, Hermann and Strosin. Busterview, Alaska
Jan. 2019 – Present
  • Train workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties, and safety precautions.
  • Observe animals for signs of illness, injury, or unusual behavior; notifying veterinarians or managers as warranted.
  • Treat animal illnesses or injuries, following experience or instructions of veterinarians.
  • Assign tasks such as feeding and treatment of animals, and cleaning and maintenance of animal quarters.
  • Observe animals’ physical conditions to detect illness or unhealthy conditions requiring medical care.
  • Cue or signal animals during performances.
  • Train horses or other equines for riding, harness, show, racing, or other work, using knowledge of breed characteristics, training methods, performance standards, and the peculiarities of each animal.
  • Use oral, spur, rein, or hand commands to condition horses to carry riders or to pull horse-drawn equipment.
  • Place tack or harnesses on horses to accustom horses to the feel of equipment.
  • Administer prescribed medications to animals.
  • Retrain horses to break bad habits, such as kicking, bolting, or resisting bridling or grooming.
  • Evaluate animals to determine their temperaments, abilities, or aptitude for training.
  • Feed or exercise animals or provide other general care, such as cleaning or maintaining holding or performance areas.
  • Talk to or interact with animals to familiarize them to human voices or contact.
  • Conduct training programs in order to develop and maintain desired animal behaviors for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding and related areas.
  • Keep records documenting animal health, diet, or behavior.

Barn Help, Kuhic, Dietrich and Stehr. South Jasonstad, New York
Apr. 2016 – May. 2016
  • Place tack or harnesses on horses to accustom horses to the feel of equipment.
  • Use oral, spur, rein, or hand commands to condition horses to carry riders or to pull horse-drawn equipment.
  • Feed or exercise animals or provide other general care, such as cleaning or maintaining holding or performance areas.

Child Care Taker, Hilll-Trantow. New Dominique, Oklahoma
Feb. 2015 – Mar. 2015
  • Communicate with children’s parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
  • Dress children and change diapers.
  • Maintain a safe play environment.
  • Sanitize toys and play equipment.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
  • Regulate children’s rest periods.
  • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
  • Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
  • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.

Education

Ratke Institute, Gutmannville, Connecticut
High School Diploma, Student, Present

Skills

Communications
Experienced

Relationship
Experienced

Management
Expert

barn manager

  • Interpret and explain policies and rules to individual employees, and business partners 
  • Teaching general horsemanship principles and skills
  • Teaching students in groups or individual lessons
  • Clean tack, fitting on horses, ensuring comfort
  • Developing and enforcing exercise routines
  • Administering medications and provide first aid, focusing on health and well being of each assigned horse
  • Unloading grain and hay

barn manager

  • Greet clients and assist them with their animals, ensuring a positive experience.
  • Observe animals for signs of illness, injury, or unusual behaviour; notifying veterinarians or managers, and treating as warranted.
  • Scheduling of lessons
  • Watching their charges closely for soundness and health changes

barn manager

  • Manage and carry out the daily care of equine in order to maintain smooth function in the barn by performing the necessary tasks.
  • Maintain equine health through occasional specialized care such as administering medication or cleaning wounds. 
  • Instruct campers and teach them the basics of equine care and anatomy through organized activities. 
  • Teaching students to ride in groups or individual lessons

barn manager/ beginner-intermediate riding instructor

  • Supervision of 14+ horses ranging in ages from yearlings to 37 year olds
  • Manage feeding of horses
  • Maintaining equipment, supply, and feed inventory
  • Stables maintenance 
  • Cleaning and maintaining feed buckets, equipment, laundering gear and barn area
  • Dispensing and applying prescribed medications and treatments
  • Available for emergency after hours

barn manager

  • Daily handling of racehorses from yearlings up until they reach two-year-olds continuing care throughout the sale’s until they ship off to the race track
  • Assisting with training procedures and plans
  • Monitoring status of sale horses regarding health, behavior, diet and training progress. 
  • Preparing sale horses for the daily training plan
  • Managing barn policies and procedures while implementing new plans delegated by the business owner
  • Direct or coordinate activities of sale horses concerned with the production and sales
  • Confer with business partners that hold a certain perchantage of ownership to discuss sale activities, horses behavior and training goal

barn manager, horse trainer, sales

  • Installed Point of Sale system for more efficient inventory and tax tracking.
  • Maintain Website as well as a Facebook page to increase web visibility. 
  • Direct and coordinate activities involving sales of manufactured products, services, commodities, real estate or other subjects of sale. (We also sell equine properties)
  • Confer with potential customers regarding training needs and advise customers on duration of train time.
  • Preform quotes for livestock trailers.
  • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet customers’ varying needs, abilities, and interests.

barn manager

  • Riding 
  • Arranging and overseeing vet visits, worming & shots
  • Overseeing farrier scheduling & visits
  • Teaching general horsemanship principles & skills

barn manager

  • Tended to all horses’ needs such as turn in/out, feed and water, and groom.
  • Aided boarder needs such as tacking and un-tacking after all rides.
  • Barn duties consisted of cleaning stalls, aisles, rooms, tack, laundry, and preparing the arena for riders.
  • Riding was included into every day work.
  • Night checks were required to do every night. 

barn manager

  • Make sure things are clean and animals are taken care of.
  • Feed 11 horses 2 times a day.
  • Exercising certain horses and making sure they are fit and in shape.
  • Make appointments for feed, hay, farrier, vet, dental, ect. 
  • Making sure barn is clean and organized at all times.

barn manager

  • Handle daily chores around the property, including feeding, turnout of horses, and cleaning.
  • Assists trainers with difficult horses.
  • Organizes tack and other supplies.
  • Taking out

barn manager

  • Manage and execute the daily care of equine in the barn to maintain smooth function in the program by performing necessary tasks. 
  • Perform specialized care such as administering medication or cleaning wounds. 
  • Instruct campers and teach them basics of equine care and anatomy. 
  • Bringing in

barn manager/ trainer

  • Supervision of 14+ Horses
  • Developing & enforcing feed & cleaning schedules
  • Ordering supplies & feed
  • Dispensing & applying prescribed medications and treatments
  • Developing & enforcing exercise routines
  • Available for emergency after-hours
  • Managing disposal of waste

barn manager

  • Feed foals, mares, and yearlings.
  • Prep walk yearlings for sales.
  • Ensure safety for all horses on site on the farm.
  • Muck and clean stalls.

barn manager

  • Train horses or other equines for riding, harness, show, racing, or other work, using knowledge of breed characteristics, training methods, performance standards, and the peculiarities of each animal.
  • Use oral, spur, rein, or hand commands to condition horses to carry riders or to pull horse-drawn equipment.
  • Organized tack and supplies.
  • Helped prepare horses for daily lessons, as well as shows.

barn manager

  • Daily chores, basic care of equines on a day to day basis. 
  • Ordering hay and shavings deliveries as well as other farm necessities 
  • Managing the farrier and vet schedule as well as basic health needs of the equines. 
  • Handled daily chores around property, including feeding, cleaning stalls, and turnout of horses.

barn manager

  • Ensured health and welfare of over 25 horses in coordination with veterinarians, farriers, and nutritionists
  • Assessed individual needs of clients and staff through daily communication
  • Trained new employees on company’s procedures on how to care for horses properly
  • Administered medications, treated injuries and illnesses in accordance with veterinary advice
  • Instructed private riding lessons for beginner students
  • Interviewed, hired, trained, and supervised new employees using leadership and communication skills to create a superior work environment and team
  • Observed horses’ conditions, diet, farrier care and noticed horse illness and injury