Dominic Tappella

- Organize, manage, and execute SCUBA diving job sites in accordance with PADI, ACDE, ADCI, and OSHA standards

- Maintain and check diving equipment for functionality and safety

- Supervise and train other divers for performance of essential functions and duties of position

- Manage sales, finances, customer relations, and advertising initiatives

- Operate truck and trailer between job sites

- Utilize specialized underwater electric, pneumatic, and hydraulic hand tools

- Plan and carry out complex tasks for sunken watercraft salvage projects with fellow contractors

- Maintain personal and company commercial dive equipment including Kirby Morgan helmets, wet/dry suits, compressors, air umbilicals, welders, torches, hydraulic systems, pneumofathometers, gas racks, hyperbaric chambers, water pumps and diesel machinery

- Execute a plethora of underwater tasks including hydroelectric dam maintenance, dredging, pile driving, bridge inspection/maintenance, HAZWOPER dives, sediment sampling, oil field maintenance, and pipe penetrations

- Managed SCUBA divers utilizing company protocol

- Maintained customer relations with clientele

- Operated heavy duty trucks and trailers

- Performed bids and job site assessments

- Planned efficient routes daily for job sites

- Checked crew mates' dive gear for safe usage

- Supported a healthy living environment for kangaroos, wallabies, and emus

- Assisted in nutritional needs such as diet planning, feeding, and medicine application

- Answered questions pertaining to zoo's Australian wildlife

- Created fun, engaging, family-oriented events by helping with organization and planning