Dedicated Machinery Technician with experience keeping machines operating and producing specification-compliant Coast Guard products. Background includes working alone or with skilled groups to monitor and maximize work quality. Dependable and hardworking with strong attention to detail. I have worked a variety of different jobs and positions throughout my working carrier, and have learned several skills through these jobs. I can quickly adapt to learn a new skill for the job that I am doing. I always do my best regardless of the job that I am tasked with. I can work well with others or on my own. I am good at working with my hands and enjoy working with equipment and tools.
I was a Machinery technician 3rd class (E-4), at Training center
Yorktown with the US Coast Guard. I worked on the 38 foot special purpose training craft at Yorktown, where I was responsible for maintaining, repairing, and troubleshooting the mercury 300 outboard engines as well as the Westerbeke diesel generators onboard the boats. I assisted in installing five new outboard engines on the boats, as well as installing four new Westerbeke generators. Before I transferred to Virginia in 2019, i was stationed onboard the United States Coast Guard Cutter Seneca in Boston, Massachusetts. I worked onboard the Seneca as a deckhand from May 17 of 2018 to June 12 of 2019, and was responsible for maintaining line lockers, helm and lookout duties, and paint work onboard the ship, as well as setting up the deck for anchoring, towing, and man overboard evolutions.
I worked as a carpenter's apprentice for the Keystone Mountain Lakes Regional Council of Carpenters, where i assisted with different aspects of the job on various construction sites, including drywall, framing, and demolition work.
I worked as a certified lifeguard and both Bellefonte and State College YMCAs, as well as a substitute swim instructor. I was in charge of opening and closing the pool, as well as cleaning the pool and running chlorine tests and maintaining first aid and CPR certifications.
I worked as a farmhand at Eagle Valley Equestrian Center, where i was in charge of feeding the horses, as well as taking different horses out to the pasture for exercise. In addition, i also cleaned out the horse stalls, ensuring that horses had clean sawdust in their stalls as well as fresh hay to eat. I also operated the tractors and skid loaders that were used to refill the sawdust hoppers and spread manure in the fields.
I am an Eagle Scout out of troop 45 in Milesburg, Pennsylvania. I was also a competitive swimmer for ten years throughout elementary school and high school. I served in the US Coast Guard as both a deck hand and a machinery technician for four years, and have been able to travel to many different places both in and out of the United States, including Boston, Panama, Gulfido, Guantanamo Bay, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Yorktown Virginia.
I like to stay in shape, so I like to go in before work to lift weights with friends, and in my off time I enjoy swimming and skateboarding. One of my favorite pastimes is doing woodworking projects, like building shelves, boxes, and carving wooden spoons. I really enjoy getting out in the woods to go hiking or fishing, I tie a lot of my own flies for fly fishing . I also like to spend time working on my truck, adding aftermarket parts and doing maintenance work on it.