James Knudson
Sparks
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Union 2nd period Apprentice Carpenter
Robert's Obayashi General Contractors
San Jose
01.2025 - Current
- Framing
Apprentice Carpenter
G&S Construction & Knudson Builders
S. Lake Tahoe
01.2024 - 12.2024
- Framing
Volunteer
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
S. Lake Tahoe
06.2024 - 10.2024
- Strike team assignments on wildfires
- Medical aids
- Maintenance of station, apparatus, and equipment
- Wildland/structure fire skills training
Kimball Tree Service
S. Lake Tahoe
10.2023 - 11.2023
- Use of heavy equipment/ Skid steer
- Cutting & limbing trees, Wood chipping
Defensible space
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
S. Lake Tahoe
06.2023 - 10.2023
- Clearing brush, chipping, prescribed burns
- Strike team assignments on wildfires
- Medical aids
- Maintenance of station, apparatus, and equipment
- Wildland/structure fire skills training
Volunteer
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
S. Lake Tahoe
05.2022 - 10.2022
- Strike team assignments on wildfires
- Medical aids
- Maintenance of station, apparatus, and equipment
- Wildland/structure fire skills training
Carpenter
Knudson Builder's
S. Lake Tahoe
06.2015 - 07.2020
- Demolition, concrete work, and framing
Education
AA degree - Fire science & Fire academy
Lake Tahoe Community College
01.2023
Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy Graduate -
Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy
06.2022
High School Graduate -
South Tahoe High School
01.2019
Skills
- Wood framing, Concrete work
- Basic Life Support: First Aid Certification
- EMT Certification
- Confined Space Awareness Certification
- Firefighter Survival Certification
- Hazardous Materials First Responder Operational Level Certification
- Ice Rescue Operations Certification
- CALFIRE Basic Firefighter
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group S-190, L-180, S-130
- FEMA IS-00200c, IS-00700b, IS-00800d, IS-00100c
- Construction Fall Protection
- MEWP Operator Qualification Theory (CITF)
- OSHA 10 Construction
- OSHA 10 Hour
- Scaffold User Safety-Expires: 3/20/2029
References
- Chief Gary Gerren, Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department, (530) 544-3300
- Robert Kimball, Kimball Tree Service, (530) 721-1531
- Gerrick Terrell, G&S Construction, (530) 318-0689
- Pete Knudson, Knudson Builders & Superintendent for Robert's Obayashi, (530) 318-6725
Timeline
Union 2nd period Apprentice Carpenter
Robert's Obayashi General Contractors
01.2025 - Current
Volunteer
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
06.2024 - 10.2024
Apprentice Carpenter
G&S Construction & Knudson Builders
01.2024 - 12.2024
Kimball Tree Service
10.2023 - 11.2023
Defensible space
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
06.2023 - 10.2023
Volunteer
Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department
05.2022 - 10.2022
Carpenter
Knudson Builder's
06.2015 - 07.2020
AA degree - Fire science & Fire academy
Lake Tahoe Community College
Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy Graduate -
Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy
High School Graduate -
South Tahoe High School