Carl Birdsell

• Under the authority of the Facility Management department.
• maintains the grounds of various departmental offices around town and in outlying villages as requested.
• Trims and cuts trees, hedges, grass and weeds, rakes up and hauls away leaves, tree branches and other cuttings, maintains a safe, clean and obstruction free environment around buildings. conducts pest and rodent control where needed.
• operates a work truck with a small crew and frequently uses trailers to pick up incoming supplies. mixes and pours concrete. provides chairs for public events.
• recognizes needed work and brings this to the attention of supervisors. makes suggestions for methods on tackling projects and how best to accomplish them in a professional and timely manner.
• Interacts with members of various departments in a courteous and professional manner. Maintains a good working relationship with other members of the Facility Management team and is ready to assist them as needed.
• Reports to supervisor regarding necessary periodic maintenance of the department’s equipment and performs maintenance where possible such as sharpening saws, changing air, fuel filters, trimmer string and spark plugs. Informs supervisor whenever any stocks are running low to ensure smooth continuation of operations,
• always maintains the utmost integrity when it comes to the maintenance and care of the Nation’s property.

From 2010 to 2018 I made my living selling small items on eBay by hosting online auctions, selling rare coins, gold and silver bullion, pocket knives, collectibles, had a top rated seller rating, always filled and shipped orders promptly, offered free shipping and stood behind the principle of faithfulness and reliability to the customer. If an item was lost or damaged in the mail the customer always received satisfaction at no expense to themselves. I prided myself on personal integrity when doing business with my customers. I believe happy customers is one of the essential qualities of any successful business. I always enjoyed receiving positive feedback from a satisfied customer.

duties included,

Laying out and photographing items for sale, in an attractive manner.

Uploading pics to the eBay sellers site, and typing in all pertinent text and info regarding the said item.

Proofreading the listing to make sure there were no errors in the listing or description.

Posting the various sales listings in order.

Monitoring sales, and communicating with the buyer regarding special requests or shipping conditions.

Packaging and labeling the customer’s item.

Delivering items to a postal drop off site.

Following up on the tracking to see that the customer received their item, and was happy.

Returning positive feedback, and addressing problems promptly.

Maintaining the stock of bubble mailers, envelopes, ziplock baggies, coin flips printer paper, and tape.

• Responsibilities included, stocking shelves, organizing shelves, sweeping and cleaning the facility on a daily basis.
• delivering rental and sales product, floor grinders, vacuums, saw blades grinding pads, discs etc. and picking up new product from shipping facility.
• receiving in new product for preparation to be added to the inventory by sand blasting, painting, engraving, labeling product and placing it in the proper location on shelves.
• pulls product for customers and preps it for shipment by printing bills of lading, packing slips, shipping labels, putting product in proper sized box and sealing box with tape and a banding machine. logging all this info into the computer.
• loading finished packages up at the end of the day to deliver to the shipping facility.
• Assist the owner in any way desired, such as loading trailers, accompanying them to a trade show, helping set up and tear down at demos.
• repairing vacuums, floor grinders and other rental equipment, maintaining a clean and organized rental floor.

• Applicant worked as a heavy equipment operator for a large decorative sand and gravel company. responsibilities included.
• Running a 710 John Deere backhoe sorting boulder out of the charging pile that were too large to fit through the crusher, sorting decorative boulders by size for sale to end customers.
• using the same backhoe to fuel all the stationary equipment, crushers, generators, dozer and other equipment on a daily basis.
• Using a water truck to keep the plant area and haul roads wet for dust abatement, maintaining six miles of haul road by wetting, grading with a road grader and putting down a plant based lignon dust mitigator.
• operation of a case skid steer loader and various attachments to keep the moon dust cleaned out from underneath the conveyor belts and crusher.
• using a 921 case wheel loader to prep areas for products, relocating the company’s bone yard to mine a new area.
• using six yard volvo wheel loaders to load haul trucks.
• operating haul trucks caterpillar and volvo and interacting with supervisor on which location from which to haul, working with the primary loader operator to coordinate hauling activity.
• welding and repair work on crusher including greasing convayors, and assisting the mechanic in his duties.
• checking and reporting on water levels, lignon levels fuel and other stocks to resupply and maintain smooth operation.

• Coordinated with the customer what they wished to have done, conveyed to them relevant info including estimated time job would take, equipment transport fees, price etc.
• did small residential excavating work using a backhoe and dump truck.
• digging jobs included house pads footings, horse arenas, electric, gas and water lines, swimming pools, septic systems installed and backfilled, fine grading around structures, backfilling trenches, stem walls, plumbing lines etc. clearing land for home sites, building roads, cutting and filling slopes.
• hauling materials such as fill dirt, decomposed granite, abc, spreading drive way gravel with the truck and spreader chains. hauling mortar sand. leach rock, and also produced a screened gravel and fill dirt in house for sale.
• maintained all the equipment, changed oils, and filters for fuel, engine and hydraulic oil, as well as replacing bad hydraulic lines. has experience working on engines, alternators, batteries water pumps. clutches, brakes, and some automotive electrical.
• has extensive experience at welding, stick, mig, cutting and steel fabrication, running a grinder, drills and a chop saw. has done some tig welding.
• experience operating dump trucks, backhoes, dozers, wheel loaders, generators, welding machines, pneumatic cable muckers, underground muckers and low profile haul trucks.
• was involved in placer mining as a youth, where he worked with all the machinery listed above.