
My earliest work experience involved customer service, giving me plenty of training in working with people to solve problems and find information. I began in carpentry in August 2015 and quickly took to liking it. I enjoy planning out the steps of the work and finding ways around obstacles that arise. I especially enjoy the fine interior work, of taking beautiful, decorative products and installing them to perfection. I am detail oriented and always strive for a superior quality product, as any customer expects. I get along well with coworkers and superiors and tend to avoid contentious situations with others. I have gained a great deal of knowledge regarding the construction field since I began and I am looking to further that knowledge and experience.
Performed various assembly tasks for assembling airport rescue firetrucks such as: drilling and tapping holes for bolting pieces together, modifying premade parts to fit better through sanding and cutting of metal, plastic, or fiberglass components, and installation of these components throughout the interior and exterior of the truck cab. I gained experience with glass installation and use of Sika adhesives, especially with using Sika to neatly backfill around holes, certain brackets and panels, and all windows on the cab. Lastly I did a great amount of electrical wiring relating to cab doors, windows, lighting, sirens, communications, and additional components within the cab. This involved routing and installing some premade harnesses, but also modifying these harnesses and adding additional wiring inside the cab. I am well experienced with Super Seal and Deutsh type fittings, splicing, wrapping with heatshrink, and covering wires with protective loom.
I worked on a wide variety of custom cabinet projects, some remodeling, some new construction, some add-on cabinetry, but with a wide variety of styles and finishes. I spent 3 years as one of a two person install crew, with plenty of time spent assembling cabinets, sanding parts to be finished, and unloading deliveries of lumber and wood products by forklift. I worked in the field leveling and fastening cabinets, and attaching parts like scribe ends, finished panels, doors and drawer fronts, and hardware like handles, insert hardware, and even small scale wiring for add-on lighting. After that I began training for the primary machining job, to take over for a retiree. This involved laying out specific cabinets of a very custom design, cutting melamine and MDF sheet goods for cabinet parts using a cut list, building face frames out of solid lumber using a layout sketch, and building numerous other kitchen related parts to be sanded and finished My work involved lots of power tools: corded saws, belt sanders, measuring tools, miter saws, and pneumatic tools for field work, larger shop tools such as table saws, chop saws, edge banding machines, wide belt sanders, jointers, planers, and more.