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James Yount

James Yount

Fort Lauderdale,FL

Summary

Hardworking, motivated, competent A/V Technician who works well independently or withing groups. Background as a chef carried over as I take great pride in my work with keen attention to detail.

I had a health scare in 2020 that resulted in a drastic diet change which is the core reason I got out of cooking. I had 4 surgeries and was hospitalized for 3 months. I am now healthy and understand what causes this and how to prevent it. I went from countless kidney stones the first couple of years to 2 last year and none so far in 2024. I am completely available to travel anywhere and everywhere. I am open to future relocation as well, especially to the West Palm Beach or Savannah, Georgia areas.

Being 6'5" also grants me a uniquely efficient advantage with ceiling work with not needing to move a ladder every few feet.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead A/V Technician

PI Marine
Fort Lauderdale, FL
07.2021 - Current
  • Quickly rose from apprentice to scoping, quoting, installing, scheduling, ordering, and invoicing my own jobs.
  • Comfortable installing and troubleshooting most common marine automation, entertainment, networking, and to a lesser extent, NMEA brands.
  • Familiar with working on class vessels and proper cable maintenance, device securing, and fireproofing necessary for installs.
  • Both enjoy and excel at coming to definitive conclusions through complex and and creative multi-step troubleshooting processes for unique A/V and networking issues.
  • Experience in clearly communicating and working with custom fabricators when necessary to achieve the most satisfied client as possible.
  • Traveled from Miami to Jupiter on a regular basis. Also available to travel abroad when needed.
  • Created inventory database system for new and refurbished equipment pulled from boats.
  • Experience in repairing various devices.

Private Chef

Chef James'
Pompano Beach, FL
06.2016 - 08.2019
  • Advertise and respond to postings on different mediums to create work.
  • Traveled abroad with clients, sometimes to remote islands, provisioning up to 16 peoples stay for 6 days. Cooking for them for the entire trip.
  • Reached out to each individual guest for possible allergies and requests.
  • Always willing to go the extra mile for the client. Once built a china-box on the beach out of sandstone cinderblocks to roast a pig in the Bahamas.
  • Managed and trained one employee to assist.

Education

2-Axis TVRO Antenna Systems Installation & Commissioning -

Intellian
Pompano Beach
05-2022

10-hour Maritime: Shipyard Employment -

OSHA
12-2021

Associate of Science - Culinary Arts

Keiser University
Tallahassee, FL
08-2010

High School Diploma -

Cardinal Gibbons High School
Fort Lauderdale, FL
06-2007

Skills

Comfortable using necessary proprietary tools to troubleshoot and install

  • Crestron
  • Control4
  • RTi
  • Kerio
  • Pepwave
  • Starlink
  • Maretron
  • Ruckus
  • Kaleidescape
  • Infuse
  • Plex
  • QNAP
  • and MORE!

Calm Under Pressure

  • Once successfully heimlich maneuvered a coworker purple in the face from a frozen strawberry

Timeline

Lead A/V Technician

PI Marine
07.2021 - Current

Private Chef

Chef James'
06.2016 - 08.2019

2-Axis TVRO Antenna Systems Installation & Commissioning -

Intellian

10-hour Maritime: Shipyard Employment -

OSHA

Associate of Science - Culinary Arts

Keiser University

High School Diploma -

Cardinal Gibbons High School
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