Eileen Pabon Rivera
Newport News,VA
Summary
Accomplished Combination Welding Program Coordinator well-versed in running station programming in high-stress environments. Expert in personnel leadership, resource management and key decision-making. Articulate, motivational and analytical in approaching problems impacting team performance or station results.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Combination Welding Program Coordinator
Tidewater Tech
12.2023 - Current
- Coordinate all aspects of the program, including supervision of faculty and staff and performing administrative functions related to daily operation.
- Assist Campus and Home office Education directors in developing curriculum, preparing courses materials, class scheduling, and maintaining tools and equipment used by students.
- Conduct faculty meetings participate in educational conference, professional training, and seminars.
- Assist in staff management, including interviewing, hiring, administering disciplinary actions, and dismissals.
- Stand in as a substitute instructor to accommodate staffing needs.
- Ensure program is operating under all Department of Education and Accrediting Commission, federal/state/local laws, regulations, rules and code requirements.
Lead Welding Instructor
Tidewater Tech
08.2021 - 11.2023
- Trained Instructors and students on various welding tasks and used diverse instructional methods to increase identifying and long-term educational success.
- Provide coordination and instruction for all current and future welding courses.
- Maximized student success by keeping up-to-date on course materials and modern curriculum
- Maintained laboratory with equipment, tools and supplies to meet course needs.
- Ensure continuous evaluation and revision of courses objectives,courses outlines, teaching strategies, in the specific curriculum.
- Kept updated with developments in subject area curriculum, technical and career trends and teaching resources and methods.
Structural Welder
Newport News Shipbuilding
10.2019 - 06.2021
- Tested welding and safety equipment to check performance.
- Used GMAW, FCAW and SMAW welding on structural supports.
- Skilled with gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
- Inspected welds and checked whether critical measurements met specifications upon completion.
- Set up and operated hand and power tools, including shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Maintained correct length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead.
- Utilized welding equipment and other hand tools with utmost safety and efficiency.
- Calculated dimensions for welding jobs by accurately adding and multiplying whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
- Use Heat torch, Arc gouge
- Firewatch certified
Fabrication Shop Welder
Advex Corporation
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Used GMAW, FCAW and GTAW welding to weld foundations
- Install and maintains pipes for various systems and projects
- Complete following strict NAVY standards and procedures, along with ensuring that hangers, valves and support structures are property installed and maintained.
- Followed approved process for assembly.
- Adjusted welding technique to meet unique requirements of each job.
- Utilized welding equipment and other hand tools with utmost safety and efficiency.
- Completed projects using GTAW and GMAW welding techniques.
- Calculated dimensions for welding jobs by accurately adding and multiplying whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
- Arc gouge
A Class Structural Welder
BAE Systems
02.2017 - 12.2018
- Skilled with gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
- Used GMAW, SMAW, FCAW to melt and deposit metal from electrode to workpieces.
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
- Operated hoists, cranes and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
- Used arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc and gas welding equipment to weld ship parts.
- Interpreted verbal and written instructions from work orders and welding blue prints.
- Set up and operated hand and power tools, including shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Welded various types of connections, to complete tasks on-time and with high-quality final results.
A Class Structural Welder
VT Halter Marine
11.2014 - 12.2016
- Maintained correct length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead.
- Assigned to complete welds on pipes by following strict NAVY standards and procedures, along with ensuring that hangers, valves and support structures are properly installed and maintained.
- Skilled with gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
- Interpreted verbal and written instructions from work orders and welding blue prints.
- Used GTAW, GMAW, FCAW and SMAW to melt and deposit metal from electrode to workpieces.
- Used arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc and gas welding equipment to weld ship parts.
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
Apprentice Welder
Huntington Ingall’s Shipbuilding
09.2011 - 11.2014
- Used arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc and gas welding equipment to weld ship parts.
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
- Interpreted verbal and written instructions from work orders and welding blue prints.
- Set up and operated hand and power tools, including shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Maintained correct length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead.
- Skilled with gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
- Welded various types of connections, to complete tasks on-time and with high-quality final results.
Education
Certified Welding Inspector
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
Troy, OH10.2022
American Welding Society Certification - Pipe Welding, GTAW, FCAW, SMAW & GMAW
TNCC
Hampton, VA2019
Welding
MGCCC
Gulfport, MS2011
Marketing
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR05.2005
GED
Ana Roque De Duprey
Humacao, PR2003
Skills
- Classroom Instruction
- Creative solutions
- Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure
- Performance Improvement
- Data Integrity
- Excellent computer skills with proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and CampusNexus
- Faculty/staff meetings
- Expert in SMAW, FCAW, GTAW and GMAW welding
- Knowledge of welding on different types of base metals
- Experience with welding standards such a AWS, NAV-SEA
- OSHA 10-Maritime
- American Welding Society Member
- Fire watch
- Safety procedures knowledge
- Electrical equipment maintenance
- Basic Math and measuring aptitude
- G-W 13e Instructors resources
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Blueprint fluency
- Commercial contractions
- Effective at multi-tasking
- Air carbon arc gouging
- Plasma, Heat torch
- Ensure quality work through extensive knowledge of metallurgy,
welding techniques, and engineering requirements
- Instructor, cover the basics through book work and teach hands-on in the classroom's
- Student Engagement
Timeline
Combination Welding Program Coordinator
Tidewater Tech
12.2023 - Current
Lead Welding Instructor
Tidewater Tech
08.2021 - 11.2023
Structural Welder
Newport News Shipbuilding
10.2019 - 06.2021
Fabrication Shop Welder
Advex Corporation
04.2019 - 10.2019
A Class Structural Welder
BAE Systems
02.2017 - 12.2018
A Class Structural Welder
VT Halter Marine
11.2014 - 12.2016
Apprentice Welder
Huntington Ingall’s Shipbuilding
09.2011 - 11.2014
Certified Welding Inspector
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
American Welding Society Certification - Pipe Welding, GTAW, FCAW, SMAW & GMAW
TNCC
Welding
MGCCC
Marketing
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
GED
Ana Roque De Duprey
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