Scott Sawyer
Cabinetmaker and Preservation Historian
Newport News,VA
Summary
Self-motivated preservationist with excellent mechanical abilities and solid physical health. Skillful reading and interpreting blueprints and work orders, operating and maintaining all woodworking machines, and using precision tools to check quality of finished goods. Energetic individual possessing positive attitude.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Cabinetmaker
Sawyer Custom Furniture And Fine Woodworking
Newport News, Virginia
07.2018 - Current
- Estimated costs for custom cabinets design and installation.
- Installed hardware such as drawer pulls, hinges and handles.
- Budgeting expertise
- Repaired cabinets and cabinet parts.
- Staining expertise
- Installation understanding
- Interior design knowledge
- Blueprint design understanding
- Saw safety master
- Worked with clients to design custom cabinets and budgets.
- Maintained compliance with all safety and code regulations to protect crew members, clients and structures from harm.
- Maintained proper fit and appearance of cabinets and countertops to fit into desired installation area.
- Studied project plans and blueprints to determine required materials and specifications, plan projects and coordinated necessary supplies.
- Designed furniture using computer-aided drawing programs.
- Developed and retained excellent tool and machinery skill to produce consistent, top-quality work.
- Performed final touch-ups with sandpaper or steel wool.
Preservation Millworker
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, VA
04.2021 - 12.2021
- Provide support to all Foundation operations as called upon, and when recognized as necessary, in most appropriate, direct, cost effective, and timely manner without limitations. Provide high level carpentry skills for alteration, construction, or repair of 18th century original or reconstructed buildings, support buildings, and building components such as shingles, doors, windows, framing, and hardware. Provide millwork skills for the manufacture, fabrication, and installation of cabinets, furniture and wood components of building structures. When permitted, provide carpentry skills for tasks of work layout, framing, installing shingles, flashing, stairs, handrails, flooring (wood and tile), hanging doors, cutting, replacing and glazing window panes, installing and rekeying locks, preservation of original and reproduction work; integrate installation of plumbing, wiring, heating, and air conditioning; insulation, hanging pictures, installing shutters and draperies, and installation and repairs of modern and 18th century hardware.
- Provide millwork skills for the safe operation of joiner, tilting arbor saw, thickness planer, thickness sander, mortise and tenon machine, lathe, shaper, band saw, scroll saw, router, shaper, and any other woodwork machinery, portable and stationary, acquired by Colonial Williamsburg for use in the Millwork Shop.
- Provide millwork skills that include the manufacture, fabrication, assembly, and repair of posts, rails, garden benches, window sashes, doors, doorsills and jambs, cabinets, reproduction of antique furniture and repairs to carts and carriages. Provide millwork items to support Facilities Maintenance, museums, and various other departments throughout the Foundation.
- Use non-electric hand tools, when necessary, to produce mortise and tenon joints, and other woodworking joints to Colonial Williamsburg’s quality and historical standards.
- Provide maintenance of all shop machinery and lumber storage areas (as assigned by foreman), general housekeeping, and other related tasks. Identify and act on safety hazards within the shop and other areas throughout the Foundation.
Education
Diploma - Cabinet And Furniture Making
North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA06.2018
Skills
- Milling machine operations
- Production output documentation
- Planing machine operations
- Manufacturing specifications
- Worksite safety
- Machinery operation
- Work order review
- Machine Calibration
- Assembly protocols
- OSHA guidelines
- Production deadline management
Accomplishments
-Retired 20 year U.S. Navy Veteran trained in multiple disciplines including OSHA HAZMAT and safety standards as well as primary occupation as a paralegal which taught extremely demanding standards of research and writing in order to present briefs to all levels of military justice courts.
-Current Undergraduate in History at the University of Maryland pursuing a degree in Early American History to augment research and study at North Bennet Street School education in Early American Furniture making, restoration, and preservation.
Affiliations
- Ancient and Free Accepted Masons
- Society of American Period Furniture Makers
Timeline
Preservation Millworker
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
04.2021 - 12.2021
Cabinetmaker
Sawyer Custom Furniture And Fine Woodworking
07.2018 - Current
Diploma - Cabinet And Furniture Making
North Bennet Street School