Samantha Heyser
Animal Care Keeper at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Heyser is an animal care and conservation professional with over a decade of hands-on experience and a formal background in Exotic Animal Training and Management and Zoology. She has led multi-species husbandry programs, managed time-sensitive animal care operations, and implemented operant conditioning protocols to improve voluntary health checks and enrichment. Comfortable in public-facing roles, she regularly presents animal talks and meet-and-greets to boost public education and conservation messaging. Samantha combines veterinary skills, breeding and husbandry expertise, and proficiency with ZIMS to coordinate cross-functional teams and refine care processes. Notably, she has experience caring for 30–50 diverse species at once and translating complex animal welfare needs into practical, trainable protocols for staff and veterinarians.
10 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Exotic Animal Training and Management, Associate's degree, Exotic Animal Training and Management at Moorpark CollegeBachelor's Degree, Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Zoology/Animal Biology at Oregon State University
Github Skills (35)
windows9
android9
macos8
flutter8
cross-platform8
desktop8
ios8
material-design7
dart7
mobile6
dall-e6
sinatra6
ruby-on-rails5
web-framework5
jekyll5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
earnestaddae/bizzafrica
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
earnestaddae/get_ready
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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