Caesar A. Miramontes
Jacksonville,NC
Summary
Values-driven Senior Enlisted Leader and Military Veteran (Ret.) with 22 years of Marine Corps service, transitioning into the spiritual and ethical formation of youth. A proven moral guide and protector, offering a unique blend of leadership, high-stakes operational experience, and a deep commitment to faith-based mentorship. Would be willing to pursue the Louisiana Practitioner Teacher Program if requested.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Heavy Equipment Supervisor (WS-10)
Department of the Navy
MCLB Albany, GA
01.2025 - 12.2025
- Directed depot-level maintenance and rebuild operations for heavy tactical assets and ground combat equipment while supervising vertical construction projects, including site-specific additions and structural modifications.
- Managed hazardous materials (HAZMAT) and high-pressure systems, specifically overseeing the safe handling of lead-acid batteries, industrial tires, and the servicing of high-pressure compressed nitrogen bottles.
- Enforced strict QA/QC standards and technical manual compliance for hydraulic and powertrain overhauls.
- Administratively, managed a $2.7M equipment inventory with 100% accountability and exercised fiscal authority to approve expenditures for mission-critical parts and equipment.
- Served as the primary customer service liaison for active duty commanders and oversaw all personnel management, including leave requests, timesheets, and performance evaluations for a multi-disciplinary crew.
General Construction Investigative Consultant
Nicholson Professional Consulting Incorporated
01.2024 - 12.2025
- Responsible for investigations on behalf of surety bond companies to validate or dismiss bond claims on multi-million-dollar projects.
- If claims were validated, would fill the role of the general contractor assistant-superintendent to complete the project in coordination with the owner (usually a government agency) and the surety, ensuring all subcontractors were ratified to remain on the project or to handle contracting new subcontractors.
- My duties include conducting weekly production meetings with many subcontractors, including steel framing, concrete, plumbing, electrical, drywall, and painting.
- Responsible for validating that construction plans were free from errors and, if errors were identified, tracking the corrections and publishing the changes to the project.
- Constantly interact with the counsel for the surety and the owner regarding the schedule and budget.
- Track all expenditures internal to Nicholson and validate pay applications that reflect completed work to the fees being charged.
- Key projects included: II MEF Headquarters Building, Camp Lejeune, NC; NCIS Building, Camp Lejeune, NC; Post Office, 9,000 sqft addition project, Simpsonville, SC; 5th Floor Remodel VA Hospital, Durham, NC.
Drywall Superintendent
HKAA Services
01.2023 - 12.2024
- Responsible for de-conflicting any issues between the general contractor and gypsum subcontractors assigned to a project.
- Understand the full scope of work for a project to forecast delays caused by other subcontractors in other trades.
- Report damages caused by other trades to drywall and all other finished work, and track labor and material costs with the general contractor.
- Attend weekly production meetings, present a detailed plan of forecasted work, and provide suggestions to other trades and subcontractors as needed.
- Be accountable for all leased and owned equipment on site.
- Must maintain inventory of supplies and schedule deliveries to prevent delays and loss of paid man-hours.
- Report and record timesheets for all project personnel to subcontractors so they can submit certified payroll.
- Key projects included: Engineer Schoolhouse Building, Camp Lejeune, NC.
Project Manager
DSW Homes LLC
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Responsible for managing the completion of renovation and reconstruction of residential projects awarded by the North Carolina storm recovery program and returning dislocated families to their homes.
- Required to coordinate with the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency to relocate the families to temporary housing and arrange temporary storage while construction is underway.
- Required to order all necessary permits under the scope of work for each project.
- Develop relationships with local subcontractors, negotiate rates, and approve invoicing as work is completed.
- Meet internal and state-mandated milestones on time and under budgeted profit margin.
- Key project accomplishments included: Home Elevation Project; Teardown & Reconstructions; Safety Standard Remodels.
Senior Program Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Camp Pendleton, Okinawa
01.2018 - 12.2024
- Responsible for training, manning, supplying, and employing Marines of various military operational specialties.
- Accountable for forecasting and replenishing consumable supplies consisting of office supplies, sets, kits, tool sets, repair parts, fuel, ammunition, and rations for units at the Regimental level consisting of 1,200 Marines.
- Charged with controlling operations and inspectable programs of training, safety, hazardous materials, inventory control, and technical publications.
- Ensured compliance with the Department of Defense's human resource and equal opportunities regulations.
- Most importantly, was responsible for mentoring and counseling Marines to ensure they maintained a positive career progression trajectory, and those who did not meet standards were processed for administrative separation to protect the trust and confidence the American people give to the Marine Corps.
- Consistently trained units to perform well above the average. The last four inspections across the four units scored 90% or higher in any inspectable areas.
- Maintained the highest employee satisfaction numbers for the last five years. Successfully retained the largest number of first-term Marines at any unit assigned to.
- Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (Senior Leadership Award) for superior performance of duties as Senior Program Manager.
Senior Shop Foreman
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Okinawa
01.2015 - 12.2018
- Immediate Manager of three maintenance sections consisting of two combat vehicle platforms and spanning operations across the Pacific region (Okinawa, Mainland Japan, Korea, Philippines, Hawaii).
- Directly organizes the logistical movement of equipment and personnel, taking into account work priorities and available resources while maintaining an average readiness percentage above 90%.
- Implemented procedures that reduced the standard maintenance cycle time by one-third and policies in logistics that resulted in a high mission-capable status with exemplary readiness percentages.
- Served as Arrival Assembly Operations Element Chief in support of Korean Military Exchange Program exercise 17-2, comprised of 44 Marines of different MOSs that completed offload and regeneration of equipment totaling 368 principal end items valued at $76,172,424.15.
Task Force Maintenance Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Camp Lejeune
01.2014 - 12.2015
- Senior Maintenance Manager for the Marine Corps human trials study, integrating female Marines into Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) open positions previously held only by their male counterparts.
- Chosen for the assignment ahead of peers and seniors. Traditionally, an assignment of this magnitude is reserved for more seasoned managers; however, was trusted to possess the necessary maintenance management skills and multitasking ability to manage this enterprise-level experiment.
- Additionally, it was required to set up a new unit and return all assets to units across the country in 12 months.
- Required to learn and master the responsibilities of three new MOSs to employ their capabilities to support the mission correctly.
- Maintained supply and maintenance readiness of a fleet of Tanks, Light Armored Vehicles, and Assault Amphibian Vehicles at an above-average 95% for five months of live fire evaluation in Twentynine Palms, California, in direct support of the human trials study regulated by federal law and congressional oversight.
- Awarded the Marine Corps Commendation medal for superior performance of duties as Maintenance Manager.
Company Maintenance Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Camp Lejeune, NC
01.2012 - 12.2014
- General Manager of maintenance operations of a fleet of 47 Assault Amphibious Vehicles, eight commercial trucks, an armory containing over $4,000,000 of weapons, and senior mentor to 35 Marines.
- Oversaw the data entry of all repair orders from submission to completion, totaling well over 5000 transactions logged into GCSS.
- Charged with managing a quarterly operating budget of $65,000 for training operations, repair parts, office supplies, and general mechanic tool procurement and replacement.
- Successfully supported 200 days of field training across the country in varying climate extremes, ranging from desert, mountains, and frozen conditions.
- Created an organizational culture of attention to detail and team-based performance that allowed the shop to receive zero discrepancies upon a bi-annual inspection from higher headquarters; the inspection covered the ability to adhere to standard operational procedures, fiscal practices, and inventory accountability.
Armament Repair Platoon SNCOIC and 'E' TAMCN Representative Maintenance Operation Section
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Okinawa
01.2009 - 12.2012
- Established secondary repairable items maintenance program for AAV turret components and waterborne systems at Ordnance Maintenance Company from the ground up.
- Provided recovery capability on the north end of Okinawa for III MEF.
- Supervised the principal end-item exchange program with the 3rd Maintenance Battalion and the 31st MEU.
- Created a database utilizing Microsoft Access and Global Combat Supply System Marine Corps(GCSS-MC), providing an improved and streamlined user interface to track supply requisitions and back-ordered items. It would later be known as the Maintenance Production Report (MPR) and remains the primary means of tracking maintenance in the Marine Corps worldwide.
Inspector-Instructor Staff - AAV and Motor-Transport Maintenance Chief
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Galveston, Texas
01.2006 - 12.2009
- Responsible for organizational (2nd Echelon) maintenance of 14 AAVs, two MTVRs, four HMMWVs, and two water bowls.
- Managed the tool room, supply clerk functions, maintenance management, maintenance float program, and DSI.
- Conducted maintenance contract team support across the state of Texas.
- Certified and trained reserve mechanics to meet training standards and requirements.
- Upon orders, trained reservists to meet the deployment standard as a Provisional Infantry Company and deployed to Iraq with the First Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment as a Platoon Sergeant.
- Upon arrival in Iraq, my platoon was tasked with vetting a population of 3,000 local nationals and 5,000 third-country nationals aboard Al-Asad Air Base. This mission consisted of gathering biometric data, arranging polygraph interrogations for suspicious applicants, reviewing immigration paperwork, reviewing employment contract-based access, and controlling the port of entry for all non-American citizens.
Recovery Chief and Engine Rebuild Technician
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Camp Pendleton
01.2003 - 12.2006
- Served as AAV engine rebuild section NCOIC, responsible for inspecting, tearing down, rebuilding, and dyno testing Cummins VT903 diesel engines.
- Deployed twice to Al-Anbar, Iraq, to provide heavy equipment recovery capability as an AAVR7 Crew Chief to the Regimental Combat Team.
Education
High School Graduate - undefined
Santa Ana High School
Bachelor's - Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Business and Aviation
Liberty University
06.2026
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- Access
- Oracle-based data entry
- Procore
- Salesforce
- Microsoft Windows
- MacOS
- IOS
- Android
- Oracle Reports Writer
Awards
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Three Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals
- Two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals
- Combat Action Ribbon
- Three Certificates of Commendation
- Seven Marine Corps Good Conduct Medals
- 11 Sea-service Deployment Ribbons (3 Iraq deployments, 8 years in Okinawa)
Timeline
Heavy Equipment Supervisor (WS-10)
Department of the Navy
01.2025 - 12.2025
General Construction Investigative Consultant
Nicholson Professional Consulting Incorporated
01.2024 - 12.2025
Drywall Superintendent
HKAA Services
01.2023 - 12.2024
Project Manager
DSW Homes LLC
01.2023 - 12.2023
Senior Program Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2018 - 12.2024
Senior Shop Foreman
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2015 - 12.2018
Task Force Maintenance Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2014 - 12.2015
Company Maintenance Manager
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2012 - 12.2014
Armament Repair Platoon SNCOIC and 'E' TAMCN Representative Maintenance Operation Section
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2009 - 12.2012
Inspector-Instructor Staff - AAV and Motor-Transport Maintenance Chief
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2006 - 12.2009
Recovery Chief and Engine Rebuild Technician
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
01.2003 - 12.2006
High School Graduate - undefined
Santa Ana High School
Bachelor's - Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Business and Aviation
Liberty University