Both Vickie Megowan and Tiffany Schmidt have been members of the Store to Door community for quite a while–both began as regular volunteers before transitioning to staff roles. Recently, both Tiffany and Vickie have expanded their roles with Store to Door, serving as Program Coordinators at Beaverton and Hollywood Fred Meyer locations, respectively. While many involved with our work may know one or both, we are excited to introduce them to our community as a whole! We hope you will help us express our gratitude for their consistent commitment to our work and the homebound clients we serve!
Vickie Megowan
Program Coordinator, Beaverton
Tell me something about your personal background, briefly!
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to Portland 4 years ago. I enjoy gardening, hiking and wine. My 3 adult sons still keep me busy as well as my fur babies, 2cats and 1 dog.
What is your professional background? How does that inform your work with us?
My professional background started as a licensed veterinarian assistant after attending college. I have worked in administrative office positions until taking time off to raise my sons. Prior to moving to Portland, I worked for my local school district for 10 years with the early intervention program and kindergarten classes. I worked with children with a variety of special needs.
How did you connect with Store to Door?
While visiting a yarn shop in Multnomah Village I met a woman named Eleanor and she shared her experience volunteering with Store to Door.
What is your favorite thing about working with Store to Door?
My favorite thing about working with Store to Door is the people. My co-workers are easy to get along with, extremely patient and are all fantastic to work with. Dedicated volunteers make this program work and I’m always amazed by them.
Do you have a personal connection with our work?
My personal connection to our work would be my interest and fondness in the elderly population. I have always been the person on the block who checked in with the elderly neighbors to see if they needed anything. Also, having worked with children with disabilities carries over to adults with special needs that we also service.
How have you been staying positive during this difficult year?
Working, long telephone chats with friends and my sons have all helped to keep me positive during this challenging year. Spending a lot of time in my garden/forest has been very therapeutic. Thanks to my new job, I have been learning a ton of new computer skills.
Tiffany Schmidt
Program Coordinator, Hollywood
Tell me something about your personal background, briefly!
Before COVID I spent most of my free time as a competitive West Coast Swing Dancer, something I picked up in college and a hobby I’ve enjoyed for the last 12 years. Since COVID has ended all dance gatherings, I’ve found myself enjoying a lot of cooking, true crime podcasts, and gardening.
What is your professional background? How does that inform your work with us?
Pre COVID I worked as an Executive Assistant and Operations Manager. My skillsets lay heavily within organization and reassessing processes.
How did you connect with Store to Door?
I used to work at Elemental Technologies / AWS Elemental and actively volunteered with them at Stoor to Door.
What is your favorite thing about working with Store to Door? Do you have a particular story that illustrates that?
Getting to regularly see how we are positively impacting our clients!
How have you been staying positive during this difficult year? Have you learned anything new lately that you’d like to share? What are you interested in?
When COVID hit, my way of staying positive and keeping myself busy was by volunteering with Store to Door. It’s helped me cope by knowing that I am physically doing something to help others during all of this.