Summary
Overview
Work History
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Certification
Accomplishments
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Amy Castro

Brandon,FL

Summary

Knowledgeable professional eager to leverage knowledge in occupational health and safety. Qualified to create safety policies, conduct inspections and deliver training. Smart and efficient with relevant software and technology for data analysis and reporting.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Safety Director

Cool Today, Plumbing Today, Energy Today
Sarasota, FL
06.2023 - Current

Mentored junior staff members on proper techniques for hazard identification, risk assessment, and incident reporting procedures.
Streamlined communication channels between departments for reporting potential hazards or unsafe conditions, enabling prompt action and resolution.
Provided guidance to department supervisors regarding best practices for maintaining safe work environments tailored to their specific needs.
Cultivated strong relationships with external vendors and suppliers, ensuring that all equipment and materials used within the organization met established safety standards.
Conducted thorough investigations into workplace accidents, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.
Managed emergency response teams during crisis situations, ensuring timely and efficient resolutions with minimal disruption to operations.
Spearheaded incident prevention initiatives by proactively addressing identified areas of concern within the workplace environment.
Developed and maintained a strong safety culture within the organization, leading to increased employee morale and productivity.
Collaborated with management to develop effective safety policies and procedures for various departments.
Helped to build culture of safety focused on reducing incidents and eliminating hazards.

Indoor Air Quality Specialist

Cool Today
Sarasota, FL
01.2020 - Current
  • Sales, customer relations, diagnostics of indoor air quality concerns, providing reports to customers regarding findings, creating proposals, setting up finance, ordering materials, scheduling crews, customer concerns and complaints, collaboration with the accounting team to set up task codes, close outstanding IAQ jobs for both central and North offices, collaboration with install crews, service/ maintenance management, service/ maintenance technicians, install management, sales consultants and sales management regarding findings, sales leads, opportunity for training, warranty and customer complaints and concerns
  • While with Cool Today I also worked in Plumbing Maintenance, Plumbing Service, HVAC Maintenance and HVAC Service

Air Conditioning Maintenance and Service

Surfin Plumbers
Bradenton, FL
07.2019 - 12.2019
  • Performed General Maintenance and Service on Residential and Commercial HVAC units Generating leads for Comfort Consultants Documenting Findings and Reporting Concerns to Customers Collaboration with Management, Sales and Install

Sales and Marketing Manager

Gorjanc Comfort Services
Highland Heights, OH
01.2019 - 06.2019
  • Residential Heating and Air Conditioning sales, creating and presenting estimates, presentation of products, customer relations, inside and outside sales, assisting customers with financing application process, assisting customers with product related questions, and completing post sale follow up to assure customer satisfaction.

Claim representative

Fleet Response
Independence, OH
01.2014 - 01.2019
  • Customer service and client relations, in-depth review of accident details and facts of loss to determine liability, review of drivers monitoring devices including dash cam footage and speed sensing devices, setting up drivers with safety courses including defensive driving, road safety and general liability programs, working with FEDEX setting up driver safety training program, collaboration with shops and fleet managers oversea the repair process and driver liability claims
  • Uploading documents and gathering support to collect against at fault parties, processing payments to vendors, business to business sale, daily report monitoring, database monitoring, monitoring market labor rates, standard practices, part availability and part pricing, monitoring of the fleet safety program to ensure adherence with DOT and Osha regulations, create training material, and training of new employees.

Skills

  • 8 years in the Skilled Trades industries
  • 5 years in Fleet management
  • Employee Training and Development
  • Processing Automotive Insurance Claims Payments, Denials and Appeals
  • Review Dash Cam Footage to Determine Liability
  • Pulling Driving Records and Background Checks for Fleet Drivers
  • Documentation and Report Creation
  • Tracking, Fleet Inventory, Maintenance Records
  • All Microsoft Office Applications
  • Workplace inspections
  • Construction safety
  • Hazard Identification
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Accident investigation
  • Safety Training
  • Staff Training
  • OSHA Compliance
  • Safety and compliance inspections

Certification

OSHA 10

OSHA 30

Adult, Child and Baby First Aid / CPR / AED Certified.

EPA

Accomplishments

  • 2023 COOL TODAY Promoted to Safety Director
  • 2023 COOL TODAY Spirit Award winner
  • 2021 COOL TODAY Promoted to Indoor Air Quality Specialist
  • 2020 COOL TODAY Promoted to HVAC Service
  • 2019 COOL TODAY Promoted to Plumbing Service
  • 2018 GORJAC COMFORT SERVICES - EPA Certified Type I and II
  • 2018 FLEET RESPONSE Named employee of the year
  • 2018 FLEET RESPONSE Accountability Award
  • 2017-2018 FLEET RESPONSE Anti-Fraud Training Course Completion
  • 2017-2018 FLEET RESPONSE California Fair Claims Settlement Practice Course Completion
  • 2017 FLEET RESPONSE Promoted to Claim Representative
  • 2016 FLEET RESPONSE Promoted to department lead in the maintenance department
  • 2015-2016 FLEET RESPONSE - Named outstanding performance award winner two times.

Timeline

Safety Director

Cool Today, Plumbing Today, Energy Today
06.2023 - Current

Indoor Air Quality Specialist

Cool Today
01.2020 - Current

Air Conditioning Maintenance and Service

Surfin Plumbers
07.2019 - 12.2019

Sales and Marketing Manager

Gorjanc Comfort Services
01.2019 - 06.2019

Claim representative

Fleet Response
01.2014 - 01.2019
Amy Castro