KEVIN TACKETT

Seeking a challenging position to utilize multifaceted skillset and make a positive contribution to The City of Rohnert Park

• Honorably Discharged from United States Navy after 20 Years of Active duty
• 12 Years experience testing, repair/troubleshooting hydraulic and pneumatic aircraft components
• Diverse 9+ years experience in a fast-paced military aircraft production/maintenance environment.
• Command Career Counselor & Command Finical specialist
• Extremely detail oriented, strong team player and very well organized
• Capable of making numerous and difficult decisions under stressful conditions
• Dedicated, cheerful, and hardworking. Performs all duties enthusiastically
• Unsurpassed loyalty and team unity
• CDL/Commercial Class A Drivers License (Airbrakes, Hazmat Endorsement, Tanker)
• Supervisor/Traffic Control Flagger Certified
• Certified Forklift Operator
• Advance CPR Certified
• Waste Water Collection System Maintenance Grade 3
• Confined Space Entry/Rescue Certified
• Held Military Top Secret Security Clearance

• Performs a full range of general repairs duties related to the wastewater collection system; performs trenching, shoring, and backfilling; repairs gravity mainline and force mains; repairs laterals; removes roots; repairs infiltration sealing and grouting; installs and maintains manholes; raises manhole to proper grade; installs and rebuilds airvacs; removes weeds and debris from pump stations, easements, grounds, and outfall lines.
• Operates closed circuit televising inspection system(CCTV); televises underground sewer lines, storm drains, and sewer laterals; identifies any sings of blockage/debris that may interrupt flow of the sanitary sewer or storm drains; identifies major problems with pipes including cracks, damage, holes, and collapsed pipe; tests sewer systems for faulty connections or leaks as well as for illegal connections.
• Operate and maintain, and clean lift stations, wet wells, siphons, vaults, manholes and various confined spaces. Work in lines, vaults and other confined spaces, utilizing proper safety techniques and equipment in accordance with Cal-OSHA and District's safety policies and procedures.
• Performs work in confined spaces; performs necessary precautions prior to entering confined spaces with potential hazardous atmospheres; use air quality monitors and ventilators.
• Sets traffic control including safety devices, signs, and barricades; ensures safety of public and work crew.
• Uses jackhammer and hand tools to expose broken wastewater service. Clean and vacuum sewer lines and remove blockages using flusher trucks, rodder trucks, hand rods, and high-pressure water hoses, repairs service lines, and installs or replaces broken lines, Install new taps, operate heavy equipment as needed.
• Maintain 450 sewer mains, 8,200 manholes, 18 wastewater lift and pumping stations, including ensuring all pumps are adequately working, install and maintain 40 Flow monitoring stations.
• Marks and confirms the location of underground recycled water, wastewater collection system lines, and other District utilities related to Underground Service Alert (USA) notifications.
• Operate a variety of equipment including large trucks and medium-sized construction equipment such as loaders, backhoes, trenching machines, and compressors, concrete saws, mechanical sewer cleaning equipment, paving equipment hydro/vacuum trucks and CCTV.
• Responds to service calls and uses hydrocleaning/vacuuming truck to clean and flush sewer lines on an emergency basis.

• Successful supervisor, managing, monitoring, training, and mentoring up to 316 personnel on Environmental Protection Agency and Federal regulations concerning Hazardous material, which achieved significant improvements in their productivity and zero discrepancies on two major environmental inspections.
• Counseled & mentored command personnel on VA benefits, military and civilian career issues, reenlistment And Post 9/11 GI bill benefits, Medical/Tri-Care benefits
• Managed and maintained $5,000,000 worth of hazardous material for three squadron deployments, with zero discrepancies.
• Instrumental in the weld shop, passing seven-Quality Assurance audits with Zero discrepancies. Revised and updated the forms used to track and maintain the welding program, ensuring 100 percent documentation, and Quality control for all items manufactured in the unit.
• Devised a comprehensive plan to immediately reduce the work centers backlog by 15 percent in 30 days.
• Known for a persistent attention to detail and maintaining high standards regarding ethical conduct, punctuality, quality of work, team dynamics, aviation safety/security and the human factor as a whole.

• Instrumental team player during sustained combat operations. Actions were essential to the squadron completing 675 combat missions, totaling 1,900 mishap free flight hours and a 100 percent combat mission completion rate.
• Honorably Discharged from United States Navy after 20 Years of Active duty June 1992 – July 2012
  o Persian Gulf War
  o Operation Enduring Freedom
  o Operation Iraqi Freedom
  o Completed 5 oversees Deployments on US Air Craft Carriers
  o Completed 2 oversees Deployments in Japan with US Marines units

• Advanced Confined Space Rescue
• Apprenticeship AIRFRAME MECHANIC (3100 hrs) Department of Labor 05-FEB-2012
• Advanced Aircraft Avionics/Mission Computer Repair Lemoore, CA 2010
• Command Career specialist training school San Diego, CA 2010
• Naval Aviation Quality Assurance Administration San Diego, CA. 2010
• Advance Aircraft Firefight Course Lemoore, CA 2010
• Hazardous Substance Incident Response Management Lemoore, CA 2008
• Hazardous Materials Control and Management (HMC&M) Technician North Island, CA 2008
• Aircraft Corrosion Control/Aircraft Paint Touch Up and Markings Lemoore, CA 2008
• F/A-18E/F Fuel Cell Entrant/Maintenance Lemoore, CA 2008
• F/A-18E/F Hydraulic/Structural System Maintenance Lemoore, CA 2007
• First Line Leadership Development Program Coronado, Ca 2006
• Serocylinder Test Station Operator/Maintainer Intermediate Maintenance Lemoore, CA 2003
• A/F27-T-10 Hydraulic Component Test Stand Intermediate Maintenance Lemoore, CA 2003
• Serocylinder Test Station Operator/Maintainer Intermediate Maintenance Lemoore, CA 2000
• Aircraft Hydraulic and Pneumatic Component Test Stand (HCT-10) Lemoore, CA 2000
• First Line Leadership Development Program San Diego, CA 1999
• Aircraft Hydraulic and Pneumatic Component Test Stand and Aircraft Component Repair Lemoore, CA 1996
• Naval Aviation VIDS/MAF and Scir Documentation San Diego, CA 1995