James Lewis
Harrington,DE
Summary
Experienced Construction Superintendent bringing 30 years of experience in Mechanical construction. Expert project and team manager with deep understanding of safety, scheduling, and codes. Talented at motivating workers to keep projects moving forward for on time completion.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Service Sales Representative
ModernControls Inc.
New Castle, DE
09.2023 - 01.2024
- Responsible for Service sales, bid work
- Provide comprehensive proposals for all types of mechanical projects, service, and Maintenance agreements on a Commercial and Light Industrial atmosphere.
Service Manager
Diamond Mechanical, inc
Camden, DE
11.2020 - 09.2023
- Responsible for day to day activities for the service department
- Work directly with customers for scheduling service and maintenance calls, part returns, and warranty calls
- Responsible for building the Service Department thru initiating new service and dispatching software
- Developed a Truck Inventory Control Program with automatic ordering integrated into dispatching software
- Responsible for scheduling a 4 man service team and maintaining shift rotations, fleet repairs and maintenance, GPS integration and tracking
- Responsible for establishing new clientele, and maintaining current contractual agreements.
Field Supervisor
Clark Service Group
Delaware
08.2017 - 11.2020
- Field Supervisor for Delmarva region, oversaw the day to day activities of Delmarva technicians
- Confirmed part orders and customer scheduling
- Worked directly with customers to rectify grievances
- Assisted in generating daily schedules for my assigned region
- Maintained refrigeration and truck stock logs and orders for the technicians
- Repair and maintain all forms of food preparation and cooking equipment, All sizes of refrigeration systems, Soda systems and Brewing equipment.
Owner
Lewis And Sons Mechanical
Harrington, DE
10.2015 - 08.2017
- Owner operator of Food service equipment repair company specializing in Refrigeration and HVAC
- Repaired and maintained all forms of food preparation and cooking equipment.
Service Technician
Food Equipment Service
Newport, DE
05.2014 - 10.2015
- Service and installed Food service equipment, including Mixers, Brewers, and Soda systems
- Performed regularly scheduled maintenance on Foodservice equipment and HVAC/R systems
- Repaired and installed walk in coolers and freezers or varying sizes.
Service Manager
Gregg And Sons
Smyrna, DE
02.2013 - 05.2014
- Performed daily scheduling for a crew of 7 technicians, verifying appointments and time logs
- Developed and built a maintenance system for customers
- Monitored fleet services and maintenance
- Developed effective marketing strategies for obtaining new clients
- Fielded all customer communications and complaints
- Built weekly and monthly service and maintenance reports for the company president.
Service Technician
EMR inc
New Castle, DE
06.2011 - 02.2013
- Repair, install, and maintenance on all forms of food preparation and cooking equipment
- Serviced, installed, and maintained all forms and sizes of commercial refrigeration; install, serviced, and maintained soda and brewing systems.
Service Technician
Gregg And Sons
Smyrna, DE
08.2010 - 06.2011
- Installed and serviced Food preparation equipment including all sizes and forms of refrigeration, cooking equipment, soda systems, Brewing systems, Brewery equipment, and HVAC equipment.
HVAC/R Service Technician
Service Unlimited, inc
New Castle, DE
07.2007 - 08.2010
- Tested equipment following each install to determine efficiency and proper functionality.
- Ensured that all safety standards were followed when performing service on HVAC-R equipment.
- Ordered necessary parts from suppliers in order to complete jobs efficiently.
- Retained careful and thorough maintenance and repair records in case customers required future service.
- Answered service calls to address ventilation, air conditioning and heating system issues.
- Maintained and serviced HVAC systems and refrigeration equipment.
- Repaired faulty wiring, motors, compressors, condensers, evaporators, and other components of HVAC-R systems.
Education
Variable Frequency Drives Troubleshooting/Warranty Initiator - VFD Service, And Warranty Verifier
United Electric
Dover, De 03-2023
BAS Integrations Degree - Building Automation
Smart Building Acadamy
Dover, DE09-2022
Start Up And ITM Commissioning - Daikin ITM And Commissioning Practices
Daikin University
Remote02-2021
Yanmar Certifications - Yanmar Natural Gas Condenser
Yanmar North America
Savannah, GA06-2020
HVAC/R Journeyman Certification - State Registered HVAC/R Apprenticeship
Delcastle Technical School
New Castle, DE06-2009
Journeyman Certification-Plumbing - State Registered Plumbing Apprenticeship
Delcastle Technical School
New Castle, DE01-1999
240 Hour Pipe Fitting Course - Pipe Fitting
Delaware Skills Center
Wilmington, DE04-1997
Diploma -
Delcastle Technical Highschool
Skills
- Maintenance
- MS Office
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- Forklift
- Hand Tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Time Management
- Sales
- Word
- Networking
- Refrigeration
- HVAC/R
- Service Technician Experience
- Mechanical Knowledge
- Handyman
- Equipment Repair
- Troubleshooting
- Boiler
- Low Voltage
- Blueprint Reading
- Schematics
- Paperwork Processing
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Records Management
- Business Development
- Client Relationship Building
- Customer Relations
- Sales Expertise
- Blueprints and Specifications
- Equipment Installation
- Lead Development
- Load Calculations
- System Maintenance
- Schematic Reading
- Service Contract Sales
- System Design
- Ventilation Systems
- Energy Optimization
- Variable Speed Drives
- Microsoft Office Proficient
- In-Depth Knowledge of Refrigeration Systems
- Defensive Driving Training
- HVAC and Refrigeration Systems
- Construction Site Safety Training
- Welding Techniques
Certification
- Driver's license
- EPA Section 608 Certification, Present
- VFD warranty repair certified, Present, Certified for ABB, Danfoss, and Schneider. Can certify for 3 year factory warranty, provide set up and repair.
- Yanmar GHP, Present, Certified to perform maintenance on Yanmar GHP units, and perform full start up and commissioning.
- Plumbing Journeyman, Present, Certified Journeyman plumber for state of Delaware
- Journeyman HVAC, Present, Certified HVAC Journeyman.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Service Sales Representative
ModernControls Inc.
09.2023 - 01.2024
Service Manager
Diamond Mechanical, inc
11.2020 - 09.2023
Field Supervisor
Clark Service Group
08.2017 - 11.2020
Owner
Lewis And Sons Mechanical
10.2015 - 08.2017
Service Technician
Food Equipment Service
05.2014 - 10.2015
Service Manager
Gregg And Sons
02.2013 - 05.2014
Service Technician
EMR inc
06.2011 - 02.2013
Service Technician
Gregg And Sons
08.2010 - 06.2011
HVAC/R Service Technician
Service Unlimited, inc
07.2007 - 08.2010
Variable Frequency Drives Troubleshooting/Warranty Initiator - VFD Service, And Warranty Verifier
United Electric
BAS Integrations Degree - Building Automation
Smart Building Acadamy
Start Up And ITM Commissioning - Daikin ITM And Commissioning Practices
Daikin University
Yanmar Certifications - Yanmar Natural Gas Condenser
Yanmar North America
HVAC/R Journeyman Certification - State Registered HVAC/R Apprenticeship
Delcastle Technical School
Journeyman Certification-Plumbing - State Registered Plumbing Apprenticeship
Delcastle Technical School
240 Hour Pipe Fitting Course - Pipe Fitting
Delaware Skills Center
Diploma -
Delcastle Technical Highschool