Derrick Ludlow

Created a business that specializes in welding/fabrication and powder coating/sand blasting. This business consisted of various jobs and tasks Performed including the following.

• General welding repairs using MIG, TIG, and stick welding processes.
• Welding metals such as aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel in various thickness.
• Use of grinders and air tools to prep metals.
• Building tools and jigs for various fabrication projects.
• Utilizing plasma cutting machine and oxygen/acetylene torches to cut various metals.
• Fabricating/welding automotive racing components.
• Fabricating/welding roll cages and tubular chassis, using equipment such as a tubing bender and tubing knotcher.
• Fabricating and welding components using blueprints.
• Heavy equipment repairs.
• Powder coating and sand blasting various parts.

Skills developed from this business.

• Marketing/promoting using cold calling, and door to door tactics as well as social media platforms.
• Bookkeeping.
• Social skills engaging with various customers in person and online.
• Understanding how to operate and manage a small business.
• Mental skills of how to adapt and overcome different situations on the fly on jobs in the field.
• Advancing my experience with welding and fabrication.

Part-time automotive technician during slow periods of business. The tasks performed as a automotive mechanic were the following.

• Performed diagnostic tests and troubleshooting procedures to find and identify root causes of mechanical issues in automotive vehicles.
• Use of hand tools, air tools, heavy equipment, diagnostic equipment, service manuals and mechanical knowledge to repair vehicles.
• Test driving various vehicles to identify problems within them, as well as making sure identified problems are resolved after performing repairs.
• Repairs involved engines/engine components, transmissions/transmission components, electrical systems, and suspension components.

Welder/fabricator for a company that specalized in industrial HVAC compnents. the tasks performed conisted of the following

• Used MIG and TIG welding processes on various metals such as 300 series stainless steel, carbon steel, and inconel steel.
• Fabricated/welded a wide range of industrial HVAC components from procedures and blueprints, maintaining critical tolerances within the parameters according to the blueprints.
• Constructing components with the use of hand tools, air tools, grinders, welding machines, plasma cutting machines, oxygen/propane torches, heavy equipment, over head hoists, cranes, bandsaws, hydraulic equipment, drills, machining lathes, and Various measuring tools/equipment.
• Tested components after constructing with air pressure, water pressure, dyes, and electronic equipment to ensure quality and to meet blue print requirements.
• Rigging extremely heavy units, raw steel material such as flanges, pipe, angle iron, and sheet steel in a variety of thickness using over head cranes, hoists, straps, and chains.

Millwright for a company that specialized in industrial HVAC, welding, And fabrication. Tasks performed consisted of the following.

• Installed and repaired industrial HVAC systems.
• Installed and repaired steam systems, water systems, and gas systems using MIG, Sick, and TIG welding processes.
• Work was performed with a crew of men or by myself in shop or in the field with a service truck.
• Welding and fabricating various projects in shop with blueprints.
• Jobs involved the use of welding machines, plasma cutting machines, oxy/acetolyne torches, hand tools, air tools, heavy equipment, chain hoists, forklifts, man lifts, and cranes.
• Welding/fabricating platforms, stairs, and heavy machinery repairs.