Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Air Conditioning Contractors License TACLA108585R
Timeline
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Kenneth Tarver

Lago Vista,TX

Summary

I have worked for controls companies for 20 plus years. I have vast knowledge in control systems and mechanical systems. I can perform work from the sales level, installation, programming, all the way to billing. I have the ability to learn new programs and software at a fast pace. I am able to adapt to change and redirection, good with fellow employees and excellent with customers. I am looking to keep growing myself and learning from new things and people. I am very excited to give my all to Trane and grow with the company.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technician

Trane
11.2021 - Current

Work with Project Manager's to execute project completion on time. Work with younger technicians, and contractors to complete project time lines. Job duties include programming, interpreting job drawings, specs, sequences, and updating submittals with field engineered changes. When the job is approaching completion we work with all trades, the customer and CX Agent to get the job closed.

Owner Operator

Lone Star Automation & HVAC, LLC
07.2020 - Current
  • Take calls from customer accounts, schedule, and perform controls service work on brands including but not limited to Johnson Controls Metasys, Johnson Controls Niagara brand, Distech, and Honeywell.
  • Bid small control jobs, shop vendors, order parts, perform the work from beginning to end. Duties include pulling wire, bending pipe, installing controller's and end devices, wiring of controller's and control panels.
  • Created engineered control drawings, engineering networks, programming, graphics, and floor plans.
  • Responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and all administrative duties
  • This position was the owner of a control service company performing small projects. This position included every aspect of a company from beginning to end.

Sr. Systems Specialist

Air Performance Service
07.2016 - 07.2020
  • Take calls from customer accounts, schedule, and perform controls service work on brands including but not limited to Johnson Controls Metasys, Johnson Controls Niagara brand, Distech, and Honeywell.
  • Manage overlapping projects handed down from management, duties included pulling wire, bending pipe, installing controller's and end devices, wiring of controller's and control panels.
  • Creating engineered control drawings, engineering networks, programming, graphics, and floor plans.
  • Responsible for the success of all of the junior technicians that were assigned to the projects.
  • Talked junior technicians through installation strategies, pulling wire for all protocols, programming, and some service calls.
  • Responsible for communication of project progress with the customers on all projects
  • Responsible for communication to the office for man power changes for the following day.

Sr. Systems Supervisor

Control Products
02.2010 - 07.2016
  • Worked to support all control systems sold to mechanical contractors. Brands included Johnson Controls, Honeywell, and several different lighting control systems.
  • Teach contractors how to troubleshoot, program, build graphics.
  • Take trouble calls from customer's on project's, problems included wiring issues, programming, or faulty parts.
  • Communicate with our controls vendor's when there was a technical support issue for one of our contractor's
  • Walked, jobs, ordered parts with customer's, retrieved PO numbers from customer's for completed work.
  • Responsible for 4 other system's specialist's performing duties similar to mine.
  • Took calls and managed the work load using myself and the 4 other tech's assigned to me.

Service Technician

Class 1 Controls
09.2008 - 02.2010
  • Run control service calls that were assigned, brands included Distech, Teletrol, Johnson Controls, and Phoenix fume hood and vivarium controls systems.
  • Worked on small and large projects, duties included pipe bending, wire pulling, mounting, wiring, and programming controller's.
  • Performed work on controls maintenance programs in many refineries.
  • Work with other technicians, supporting each other with a wide variety of knowledge

Controls Installer, Supervisor

Automated Air Service
10.2001 - 09.2008
  • Work on multiple installation projects at a time
  • Bend pipe, pull wire, mount control panel's, mount controller's and end devices.
  • Wire panel's perform startup and commissioning of vav's, ahu's, and fan coil units
  • Manage other installers, order material, and report job progress to the office
  • Ran light service call's with senior technicians
  • Performed service and installation, of mechanical systems when controls installation slowed down.
  • This company closed its doors when the owner retired, and I helped him close all of his jobs and maintenance contracts. I was the last employee to work here before closure.

Education

Heating, Air Conditioning, And Refrigeration Installation And Repair

North Harris Community College
North Houston

Metasys And Facility Explorer

Johnson Controls Institute
Dallas

Vacuum Sampling System

Air Cuity
Boston, MA

Air Conditioning Contractors License

Texas Department of Licensing And Regulation
Austin Tx

N4 Certification

Tridium University
Dallas
03.2020

High School Diploma -

Channelview High School
Channelview, TX
05.1998

Skills

  • Troubleshooting complex problems
  • Planning for complex jobs
  • Mentoring junior level technicians
  • Programming in multiple different software platforms
  • Building graphics and Floor Plans
  • Communicating to technicians and management
  • Excellence in customer satisfaction

Certification

I obtained my AC Contractors License while owning my own business. TACLA108585R

Air Conditioning Contractors License TACLA108585R

Studied and practiced to maintain license in the Air Conditioning field as a contractor

Timeline

Senior Technician

Trane
11.2021 - Current

Owner Operator

Lone Star Automation & HVAC, LLC
07.2020 - Current

Sr. Systems Specialist

Air Performance Service
07.2016 - 07.2020

Sr. Systems Supervisor

Control Products
02.2010 - 07.2016

Service Technician

Class 1 Controls
09.2008 - 02.2010

Controls Installer, Supervisor

Automated Air Service
10.2001 - 09.2008

Heating, Air Conditioning, And Refrigeration Installation And Repair

North Harris Community College

Metasys And Facility Explorer

Johnson Controls Institute

Vacuum Sampling System

Air Cuity

Air Conditioning Contractors License

Texas Department of Licensing And Regulation

N4 Certification

Tridium University

High School Diploma -

Channelview High School

I obtained my AC Contractors License while owning my own business. TACLA108585R

Kenneth Tarver