Richie Lee Zdenek
Selden,NY
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Reciver/Stocker
Lowes Home Improvment
Medford, NY
11.2023 - Current
- Oversaw incoming shipments, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company standards.
- Coordinated unloading processes to optimize workflow efficiency in receiving area.
- Trained new staff on safety protocols and best practices for inventory management.
- Implemented improvements in stock organization, enhancing retrieval speed and inventory accuracy.
- Managed inventory control systems, maintaining accurate records of received merchandise.
- Conducted routine audits of received goods to identify discrepancies and prevent losses.
- Collaborated with team members to streamline receiving operations and improve productivity metrics.
- Kept work areas clean, safe, and organized.
Volunteer Fire Fighter
Selden Fire Department
Selden, New York
01.2007 - Current
- I protect the public in emergency situations. I respond to a wide variety of calls, such as car crashes, chemical spills, flooding, water rescue and general rescue as well as fires. I am trained as a first responder and can provide first aid until the arrival of ambulance personnel. In addition to attending emergency call outs and rescuing people and animals from life-threatening situations, perform practice drills and work with police and ambulance service personnel
- Duties include but are not limited to fire suppression in structural as well as wild land environments and emergency medical services under highly stressful emergency conditions. Also, fire prevention, public education, vehicle, and station maintenance under the supervision of a Captain. Perform Trench Rescue Awareness Level, RIT-Firefighter Rescue, Basic Structural Collapse Operations, Confined Space Awareness and Safety, Heavy Rescue, Apparatus Operator for Emergency Vehicle Operations. Firefighter One Certified. Certified in CPR, First Aid and AED and Fire Police.
- Position:
Police Telecommunications
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 3
Brooklyn, New York
10.2017 - 01.2024
- Monitors, tests, and records the results of the pager tests, consolidated facility alarms, audio logger, multi-facility closed circuit surveillance television, and emergency radio system;
- Operating several complex computerized functions which include, multi-channel radio systems, closed circuit television systems, intrusion, panic, fire, cardiac arrest, crisis intervention, internal/external disaster, refrigeration, telephone, switch, medical gases, bomb threats, threatened suicide
- Placing overseas calls and faxes for staff members to communicate with overseas parties;
- Handling incoming calls approximately 50% of the time using the computer for location of clinics, units, and staff members;
- Monitoring a complex security closed circuit camera system;
- Taking emergency and non-emergency police, fire, and ambulance complaints and dispatches the appropriate units to the locations required;
- Insuring that the Police logger device and closed-circuit TV recording devices are working properly;
- Resolves Veterans Affairs outpatient related questions, inquiries or complaints by utilizing network resources, global outlook directory and VISTA employee and patient information.
- Records details of calls for clinical staff and acts like an operator to patients, other professional and clinical staff, and the public.
- Renders advice and assistance on the operations/logistics of the VA to doctors, employee and veterans alike.
- Work closely with VA employees at all levels to accomplish the mutual goal of helping the veterans.
- Prepare schedules using Amion (online physician scheduling), paper data, and emailed data sent in by various departments to compile a daily schedule of all on call doctors.
- Initiates action plan for system wide outages of phone lines, computers, alarm systems, in the Brooklyn, St Albans and Staten Island Campus’s. Responsible for putting in trouble tickets for outages, informing management and executive officers.
- Assignment:
Security Personnel
White Stone Group, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 3
Brooklyn, New York
05.2014 - 10.2017
- Providing assistance for all Veterans, employees and visitors within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Brooklyn Facility to include the protection of personnel and civil rights; and the protection of VA owned or controlled property. I assure that all employees, patients and visitors comply with all federal, state, county and municipal laws and ordinances as they pertain to VA property and agency rules and regulations pertaining to law enforcement work. I am involved with to a wide variety of emergencies at the Veterans Affairs facility to include, bomb threats, crimes in progress, disturbances, assaults, etc.
- I determine the need for and conducting searches while preforming my official duties within the Veterans Affairs facility I am assigned to as well as taking statements from witnesses and defendants when applicable, testifying in Federal and State court if necessary. A vital aspect of my duties also include foot patrols and enforcing traffic rules and regulations, operating metal detectors and hand-held units, operating and monitoring Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system, a two-way radio system and/or an access control system; and performing other related duties as assigned within the Veterans Affairs facility.
- Quick to respond to the needs of veterans, visitors, and veterans of the USDVA to identify and resolve problems by enforcing the law, preserve the peace and ensuring each person’s constitutional rights.
- Assignment:
Custodian/Maintenance Worker
Middle County School District
10.2000 - 12.2007
- Within the Middle County School District I sanitized building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming when necessary. I gathered and emptied refuse as well as clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, and squeegees. I made the necessary adjustments and minor repairs to heating, cooling, ventilating, plumbing, and electrical systems. Cleaned and restored building interiors damaged by fire, smoke, or water, using commercial cleaning equipment. I drove vehicles required to perform or travel to cleaning work, including vans, industrial trucks, or industrial vacuum cleaners. Follow procedures for the use of chemical cleaners and power equipment, in order to prevent damage to floors and fixtures. I vital aspect of my position was to monitor building security and safety by performing such tasks as locking doors after operating hours and checking electrical appliance use to ensure that hazards are not created. I notify managers concerning the need for major repairs or additions to building operating systems when applicable.
- Position:
Education
High School Diploma -
Newfield High School
Selden, NY06.2007
Skills
- Shipping and receiving
- Customer service
- Product inspection
- Record preparation
- Inventory restocking
- Team player attitude
- Speed and agility
Certification
Extensive law enforcement/security training to include Certified, Armed Guard Security License, New York State County of Suffolk Pistol License, Sixteen Hour On-The-Job Training Course for Security Guard Certificate, Eight Hour Pre-Assignment Training Course for Security Guard Certificate. Firefighter One Certificate, National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) 100, 200, 300,700, and 800 Training, CPR Certified, First Aid Certified, AED Certified and Fire Police
Timeline
Reciver/Stocker
Lowes Home Improvment
11.2023 - Current
Police Telecommunications
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 3
10.2017 - 01.2024
Security Personnel
White Stone Group, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 3
05.2014 - 10.2017
Volunteer Fire Fighter
Selden Fire Department
01.2007 - Current
Custodian/Maintenance Worker
Middle County School District
10.2000 - 12.2007
High School Diploma -
Newfield High School