Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
References
Timeline
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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