Andrew Smith
Reynoldsburg,OH
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Equipment Maintenance Technician
Illuminate USA
07.2024 - Current
- Adhere to established protocols to evaluate equipment for performance, safety, and productivity.
- Carry out detailed equipment failure analyses, leading both preventive and unscheduled maintenance tasks.
- Expertly troubleshoot and diagnose underlying equipment issues, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Document all equipment modifications, maintenance procedures, and pertinent details in the specified tracking system.
- Prioritize and strictly adhere to all safety guidelines and procedures.
- Other tasks as assigned by the Equipment Engineering
- Deliver and coordinate staff training and new hire orientation
- Assisted in supervising the daily activities of the production area to ensure that volume, cost, waste, and quality standards are achieved
- Monitor production activity, identify process problems, and suggest improvements
Motor Vehicle Operator
Cincinnati VA Medical Center
10.2021 - 07.2024
- Manages and maintains a fleet of 131 various vehicle types.
- Performs pre-, during-, and post-vehicle inspections, and ensures maintenance is completed as necessary.
- Transports ambulatory and wheelchair patients utilizing specially equipped buses, vans, and passenger vehicles.
- Serves as the Mobile Unit Enrollment Driver for the Outreach unit under the Office of the Director.
- Ensured that all administrative functions are completed promptly to allow the clinical staff to provide quality patient care and that all objectives of the team are met.
- Reviews accident paperwork and coordinates with GSA to ensure timely repair work is performed.
- Follows and enforces all federal and local safety standards to ensure a safe work environment.
- Delivered items from the warehouse to neighboring buildings, driving a box truck.
- Performs a wide range of warehousing activities, including receiving, storing, and shipping a variety of bin and bulk supplies, materials, equipment, and commodities in support of the operating location, and material for inspection according to established procedures.
- Maintains and monitors chemical inventory listings as well as MSDS books to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal standards.
- Operates an electric pallet truck to move, stack, unstack, load, sit-down, and stand-up forklifts (reach trucks) to move materials throughout the warehouse and place products in designated areas.
Production Technician
The Boeing Company
03.2019 - 10.2021
- Responsibilities included assembling, disassembling, and modifying Minuteman II guidance systems by changing, removing, replacing, or upgrading components to correct failures or implement changes.
- Troubleshoot electrical systems to isolate mechanical or electrical faults and repair faulty components.
- Work with engineers to troubleshoot complex electrical systems to isolate mechanical or electrical faults to repair the faulty components.
- Worked on calibration of recalled systems and components that were out of specification using test equipment such as network analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and multimeters.
- Performed soldering on circuit board assembly, manufacturer, and replaced cable harnesses according to engineering schematics and drawings.
- Documented all procedures and established processes to ensure contractual and regulatory compliance (e.g., repairs, test results, applicable modifications, and inspection results)
Police Officer
Cincinnati VA Medical
12.2013 - 03.2019
- Applied skills in de-escalating situations whenever possible and apply force when necessary to establish and maintain control and/or protect myself and others from injury or death.
- During active threat situations, such as an active shooter, the incumbent is required to follow my training and take the necessary action to neutralize the threat.
- Maintained a proficiency in specialized weapons, equipment, and tactics for defending against and/or repelling terrorist attacks, active threats, natural disasters, and chemical, biological, and/or radiological hazards, and all emergencies.
- Responds to all calls or alarms involving a crime in progress, crimes just discovered, and disturbances.
- Took charge of crime scenes or accident scenes and restricted access to persons required on the scene.
- Analyze facts quickly to identify suspects or witnesses and develop case information for use in pressing cases charges and bringing suspects to trial.
- Provided full support to the medical center's mental health clinics and programs, which exposed me to daily contact with suicidal and homicidal patients, patients who are intoxicated, under the influence of drugs, or exhibiting other forms of bizarre behavior.
- Responded individually or with psychiatric intervention teams to protect persons from injury and restore order when the incident escalates beyond the management capabilities of clinical staff.
Mechanical Electrical Technician
United States Air Force
04.2005 - 11.2013
- Performed preventative maintenance according to Air Force guidelines.
- Earned Air Force Commendation Medals.
- Extensive knowledge of air conditioning, electrical systems, plumbing, steam fitting and electronics.
- Responded and resolved emergency heating, ventilation, and air conditioning calls and performed all preventative maintenance and repair on all types of mechanical engines and equipment.
- Responsible for repairing, reworking, and calibrating assemblies to meet operational tolerances and repacking and preparing pumps.
- Installed valves and replaced motors and pumps, repairing leaks when necessary.
- Tested for voltages under varying loads, output, and input of power at various operating temperatures, amount of current used at different voltages, electrical leakages, short circuits, open circuits, and electric motor torques.
- When necessary, restored electrical power and reset electrical systems.
- Conducted all maintenance operations with little supervision using computer monitoring systems.
- Gained extensive knowledge of equipment assembly, installation, repair, and electronics related to utility systems and read blueprints, instructions, specifications, schematics, and technical orders to determine methods and sequence of assembly operations.
- Maintained maintenance records and logbooks and performed regular audits to ensure government compliance.
- Safeguarded material, items, and equipment always remaining alert and challenging unauthorized personnel.
- Transported HVAC equipment in a diesel-powered commercial vehicle with a 10 to 20-ton weight limit.
Education
Manufacturing Technology -
Cincinnati State Community College
01-2013
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FederaLaw Enforcement Training Center
01-2014
Mechanical and Electrical Technology - undefined
Community College of the Air Force
01-2007
Skills
- Mechanical Troubleshooting
- Electrical Troubleshooting
- Schematics & Blueprints
- Wire Repair
- Calibration
- Preventative Maintenance
- Root Cause Analysis
- Rebuild & Assembly
Timeline
Equipment Maintenance Technician
Illuminate USA
07.2024 - Current
Motor Vehicle Operator
Cincinnati VA Medical Center
10.2021 - 07.2024
Production Technician
The Boeing Company
03.2019 - 10.2021
Police Officer
Cincinnati VA Medical
12.2013 - 03.2019
Mechanical Electrical Technician
United States Air Force
04.2005 - 11.2013
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FederaLaw Enforcement Training Center
Mechanical and Electrical Technology - undefined
Community College of the Air Force
Manufacturing Technology -
Cincinnati State Community College