Tea Parker-essig
Visitor Center Aide at Extended Day Child Care Inc.
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolTea Parker-essig is a designer-turned-ecologist with a decade of hands-on experience restoring urban habitats and helping sustainability-minded clients transform yards into resilient, native landscapes. Skilled in landscape design, nursery propagation, and low-input maintenance, Tea pairs technical plant knowledge (300+ local species) with user-centered communication developed through UX and research roles. They’ve led community education—from guided forest-bathing hikes to workshops—and managed operations as a lead gardener and office manager, blending fieldwork with bookkeeping, contracting, and marketing. Comfortable in lab and customer-facing roles, Tea has translated rapid procedural learning into accurate environmental sample intake and client support. Based in Oakland and studying design at UC Davis, they bring a rare mix of formal design training, botanical expertise, and empathetic community engagement to conservation and habitat-focused projects.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA Landscape Architecture, Associate of Arts - AA Landscape Architecture at Merritt CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Design and Visual Communications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Design and Visual Communications at University of California, Davis
French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (9)
python9
kubernetes9
jekyll3
capability3
server2
reload2
merge1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tparkeressig/des157-w17
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:139 pushes in 1 year 1 month
tparkeressig/des117
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:52 commits in 1 month
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