Lile Cremeans

About Lile Cremeans

I am an OPEN LINK LION and welcome your invitation to connect. Recruitment experience includes search firm; both in office and virtual work from home. Management of multiple departments with up to 25 direct reports. Specialties: FLC Full Cycle Recruiting, lead generation, CTS/ATS/CRM system experience, lead generation, recruiting plan development, internet search, proactive call planning, cold calls, closing requisitions against a time frame, fast-paced recruiting, offer negotiation, staffing, customer relations, database administration, hiring, inventory management.

Experience

1. Horticulturist

   Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

   Apr 2023 — Present

   The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is the second oldest zoo and display park in the United States. The Garden features a large diversity in woody and herbaceous collections and an expansive plant production and growing nursery. Stunning summer annual displays and a diverse collection of perennials are featured as one of the region’s largest annual and perennial trials. Job duties include the following. • Garden Maintenance – habitat maintenance, perennial and grass cutbacks, planting and watering new plantings of perennials, trees, and shrubs, mulching, pruning trees and shrubs, string trimming, and weed control in naturalized garden areas, applied pesticides when necessary using backpack sprayer and required PPE • Display Garden Installation and Maintenance – maintaining indoor conservatories, tilling and amending soil, planting, mulching, watering, and controlling weeds in colorful display beds, pruning, potting and maintaining decorative containers, and evaluating plant performance• Nursery Growing and Maintenance – watering, growing summer annuals, tropicals, perennials, and shrubs, weed and pest control, labeling, assisting with plant inventories• Projects – assisting with the installation of new landscapes, planting trees & shrubs, placing rocks, grading soil, and mulching• Outer Property Maintenance – mowing, string trimming, planting, mulching, and weed control in parking lots, community gardens, and adjacent properties• Garden Event Prep – assisting staff with set up and facilitation of indoor and outdoor garden events• operate motorized landscaping equipment (string trimmers, blowers, reciprocating saws, hedge trimmers, tillers) and vehicles (dump trucks, vans, golf carts, John Deere tractors and trailers)

Education

• Marshall University

  Bachelor of Business Administration

• Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

  Landscape Horticulture, Turfgrass Management

Skills

• Executive Coaching
• Management
• Research
• Healthcare
• Healthcare Management
• Executive Level Relationship Building
• Negotiation
• Hospitals
• Academic Medical Centers
• Sales
• Strategic Communications
• Medical Devices
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Training
• Strategic Planning
• Recruiting
• Executive Positions
• Coaching
• Executive-Level Relationships
• Team Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership