Cami Pareto

Remote Operations Manager & Data Entry Specialist

Cami Pareto joined Carolina Waterfowl Rescue in May 2025 looking for an opportunity to once again make animals part of her life. What began as a focused role entering medical records has quickly grown into responsibility for many of the behind-the-scenes systems that help keep CWR's remote operations running.

Cami originally joined the organization as a Data Entry Specialist, working extensively in RaptorMed, CWR's patient recordkeeping system. Her attention to detail and growing involvement with the organization eventually led to her promotion to Remote Operations Manager.

Today, Cami oversees CWR's remote operations, including the hotline, scheduling, training, administrative responsibilities, and the people who help keep those functions moving. At the same time, she remains closely involved with RaptorMed and the medical records that first connected her to CWR's patients.

For Cami, data entry is far more than simply entering information into a computer.

She pays close attention to patient charts, making sure important information is accurately recorded and helping ensure that nothing slips through the cracks. Because she follows medical records as they develop, Cami has a unique window into an animal's entire rehabilitation journey. She can watch a patient's record evolve from admission and treatment through healing, recovery, and, when all goes well, release.

Those successful outcomes are among the most rewarding parts of her work.

Cami's role also puts her on the front line of another critical part of CWR's operation: the hotline.

Calls to a wildlife rescue can represent the very beginning of an animal's journey to care. Cami takes particular pride in the moments when a hotline call results in an injured or vulnerable animal safely reaching the rescue. Knowing that her work helped connect that animal with the care it needed gives her a direct connection to CWR's mission, even when she is working remotely.

As Remote Operations Manager, Cami has expanded from her original medical data responsibilities to overseeing hotline operations, scheduling, training, administrative duties, and other aspects of CWR's remote team. Her previous professional experience as both a legal assistant and an executive assistant provided a strong administrative background for a position requiring organization, communication, accuracy, and the ability to keep track of many moving pieces at once.

CWR is Cami's first experience working with an animal-focused nonprofit, but caring about animals has long been part of her life.

Before moving to North Carolina, Cami lived in Florida, where she was an active volunteer with local animal shelters. After relocating, she found herself looking for another way to become involved with animals. That search ultimately led her to Carolina Waterfowl Rescue.

Cami grew up around a variety of animals, including horses, parrots, cockatiels, and parakeets, and she has continued to share her life with animals as an adult. Today she has three cats and a horse.

She also recently said goodbye to her beloved dog of 15 years, a loss that has reinforced just how profound the bond between people and animals can be.

Among CWR's many species, Runner ducks have particularly captured Cami's heart. Their distinctive upright posture reminds her of tiny penguins, and something about their unique appearance never fails to make her smile.

Cami's love for animals is something she is also passing along to her 10-year-old daughter. Just as animals were an important part of Cami's own upbringing, she is now teaching her daughter the same compassion and appreciation for them.

Outside of work, Cami enjoys reading and thrifting and, most importantly, spending time building a life with her daughter.

Although Cami's CWR position is largely behind the scenes, the results of that work are very tangible.

An accurately maintained medical chart helps preserve the information needed to follow a patient's care. A well-trained hotline team helps members of the public receive consistent guidance. Effective scheduling keeps remote operations covered. And a successful hotline call can end with an injured animal arriving safely at CWR's doors.

For Cami, some of the greatest rewards come at the end of that process.

Watching an animal's chart progress from illness or injury to recovery is meaningful. Seeing that animal finally reach the point where it can be released is even better.

As Cami puts it, there is simply no better feeling than seeing an animal healed and returned to where it belongs.