Phillip Clemens

• Executed safe climbing techniques to efficiently access and prune trees.
• Utilized advanced rigging methods for removals and hazard mitigation.
• Mentored junior climbers on best practices for tree care and safety protocols.
• Implemented proper pruning standards for health of the tree while maintaining desired aesthetic outcome for the customer.

- Review work orders and communicate with sales team, customer and crew to effectively deliver a quality product in a safe and timely manner.

- Identify and assign appropriate work and zones for team members based on skill levels and equipment needed for large scale commercial properties.

- Help with training new employees and make sure they are comfortable with any task/ equipment before clearing them to do so.

- Working with a team to perform assigned work orders safely and efficiently within the time allotted.

- Climbing trees of all types, condition and sizes for pruning, building clearance and removal- often having to employee advanced rigging techniques.

- Traveling for special projects- Including but not limited to hurricane damage, often for weeks at a time.

- On call 24/7 for emergency city removals.

- Review all work orders and communicate with the sales team, customer and crew to effectively deliver a quality product in a safe and timely manner.

- Ensure vehicles, trailers, chippers and all equipment are well maintained and safe to operate.

- Pre job site inspection of all trees and property to ensure safety of team and log any preexisting damage before executing work orders.

- Help with training new employees and make sure they are comfortable with any task/ equipment before clearing them to do so.

- Work over weekend(s) to help with scheduling issues or revisits.

- Help other crews with work orders if ours was completed earlier than allotted.

- Managing a staff of 36 individuals to effectively and safely run a 24 hr park program. This includes but is not limited to

- Testing all features daily to ensure public readiness and communicate changes to the grooming staff.

- Delegating tasks to the leads to ensure teams are fulfilling duties and operations in a safe and timely manner. Participating in regular meetings with multiple departments to build safe and progressive parks for all ability levels.

- Schedule flexibility between days, swing and grave to help operators when short staffed.

- Department snowmobile and feature testing trainer

- Work with a team to ensure quality tree care is done safely and efficiently

- Climbing trees in residential areas and falling trees for new developements

- Operating chippers, stump grinders and avants.

- Driving company vehicles and trailers.

- Safely and efficiently operate snow cats (Pisten Bully and Prinoth) to maintain, groom and refresh features in all terrain parks for Alpine ski resort and Olympic valley.

- Working with other operators to ensure a quality product.

- Communicating with park supervisors and managers to make any necessary changes to features.

Winter

- Managed a team of 36 staff members to efficiently and safely run the 24hr operation of 150 features and a 1/2 pipe.

- Testing all features daily to ensure public readiness and communicate changes for the grooming staff.

- Delegating tasks with the leads to ensure each teams were fulfilling duties and operations in a safe and timely manner.

-Participating in regular meetings with multiple departments to build safe and progressive parks for all ability levels

Summer

- Lead a 3 man team to fall dead and dying trees ~(5k) within the resort boundaries to improve forestry health and fire mitigation.

- Maintained defensible spacing for lodges and other structures.

- Keeping lift lines clear and safe of hazard trees.

- Designing, building and managing all terrain parks for Heavenly Ski Resort.

- Hiring, training and managing all staff. Directing and coordinating with day staff and operators.

- Feature testing/ coaching and evaluating all testers.

- Budgeting, payroll, orders and rentals.

-Documenting and uploading all daily maintenance, safety meetings and coaching sessions.

- Designing/fabricating new features and maintaining existing ones during off season.

- Worked with forest service to select trees for falling & building a wood feature park.

- Working with other departments such as Snowmaking, Health and Safety, Ski Patrol and Events to provide the best and safest product for our customers.

Saw to day to day maintenance and testing of both High Cascade and Windells terrain parks.

-Testing features, sled operator, shaper, chainsaw operator, transporting features.

Run the day to day operations of the terrain parks at Heavenly. Which include but not limited to
-Working with and looking after the safety of the park crew.
-Making sure all entrance exits and signage are properly displayed.
-Testing all features.
-Holding regular coaching sessions for all testers.
-Making sure all features are well shaped and maintained.
-Operating a sled in all snow conditions.
-Working with and communicating with Operators and Manager.
-Holding regular safety meetings.
-Fabricating and building rails/ boxes/ jibs during off season.

Help with design and build of terrain parks.

-Managing staff and insuring all features are ready for campers before arrival and throughout the day.

-Setting up and maintaining progression bag for campers/ teams for training. -Refabbing and transporting all features for the summer.

Helping create and maintain 3 Terrain Parks & a Burton Stash Park. Duties included but not limited to.

- Maintaining all features in all parks.

- Test all features continuously throughout the day.

- Make sure all signage and animation is properly displayed

- Judged all freestyle events and helped with design/ maintenance

- Helped and work with operators to refresh terrain park features

Gateway is a side project of Planet that built terrain parks in city/ urban. parks.

- Designed, built, shaped and tested features for the park.

- Helped with staff picks and snow guns.

- Helped with maintaining features during operations and special events/ competitions

- Including but not limited to designing, building and managing all terrain parks for Bogus Basin Ski Resort.
- Oversaw the day to day operations of the parks with a staff of 12.
- Organized and ran all freestyle events on the mountain.
- Coordinated with cats, patrol and events director.

- Worked closely with Mountain Operation Director
- The safety and moral of my crew was always priority one even when asked to perform hard or dangerous jobs.

Helped with fabrication, delivery and set-up of features for freestyle events.

- Ensuring all rails/ Jibs were finished and ready for delivery.

- Delivered and set up features for Rail Jams.

- Tested courses and setups before events

- Assisted tree fallers and arborist(s) in safely falling and removing trees from private properties.

- Limbing, bucking and hooking trees for winching into forestry chipper.

- Emphasis on creating defensible spaces and removal of hazardous and dead or dying trees.

- Helped select and fall trees for designing and building wood park features.

- Designed and built wood rails/ jibs and wall rides in off season.

- Helped maintained all features over winter.

- Helped with contest venues. Including design, builds and testing.