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Samuel Berke

Williamsville ,NY

Summary

Dedicated a hardworking landscaper skilled in designing and maintaining landscaping work. Persistent in delivering high quality work through problem solving and exerting full potential of energy at the task at hand, without ever taking shortcuts. Knowledgeable in every area of landscape design and maintenance with 6.5 years experience. History of working great with, getting along with, and take lead with peers. Also have knowledge in installing and maintaining artificial turf.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Landscape Design/Maintenance

Properties Maintained
Cheektowaga , NY
2021.09 - Current
  • Used machines and equipment, such as woodchippers, commercial mowers, ski-steer, log splitter, plow, and salter.
  • Maintained commercial settings doing lawn care/mowing, bush trimming, tree removal, leaf removal, plowing/snow removal, and salting parking lots.
  • Planted bulbs, trees, bushes and flowers for residential and commercial clients. As well as mulched.
  • Installed new beds and designs.
  • Drove dump trucks with trailers attached

Landscape Design/Maintenance

A To Z Landscape & Design
Cheektowaga , NY
2018.05 - 2021.09
  • Removed existing lawns and installed sod
  • Consulted with customers
  • Managed crew as foreman
  • Performed planting, watering, of bushes and shrubs
  • Designed and installed beds, as well edged existing beds
  • Mixed and applied weed killers
  • Installed stonework
  • Used trimmers and chainsaws for grounds maintenance, brush clearing and tree removal and thinning.
  • Maintained grounds by trimming, weeding and general clean-up.
  • Used commercial mowers

Landscape Design/Maintenance

Green View
Clarence , NY
2016.05 - 2017.11

* Same description as A-Z with addition to-

  • Drove large dump body trucks, with enclosed trailers, dump trailers, and flatbed trailers
  • Transferred materials to designated areas using trucks
  • Strategically picked out and purchased shrubs/plants

Turf Installer

Elite Synthetic Surfaces
Long Island , NY
2014.07 - 2015.09
  • Installed synthetic turf for football, soccer, lacrosse, and baseball fields- making precision cuts, carefully gluing all designs, lines, and numbers into field
  • Installed foundation of fields using crusher run and sand
  • Installed rubber underneath turf
  • Installed goal posts/uprights
  • Installed rubber and sand into turf
  • Installed turf for backyards/putting greens in backyards- cleared out and removed existing landscape, added wood border, leveled out area using crusher run, cut and nailed turf to wooden edges, dug out and made golf bunkers
  • Used compactors for backyard installs
  • Made repairs on fields by cutting out old turf and gluing in newly cut turf

Education

High School Diploma -

Williamsville South High School
Williamsville, NY
06.2014

Skills

  • Stonework
  • Grounds maintenance
  • Landscape equipment operation
  • Pruning skills
  • Transplanting and potting plants
  • Weeding gardens
  • Trimming and weeding
  • Planting flowers and bushes
  • Watering lawns and trees
  • Landscaping layouts
  • Removal procedures
  • Project Scheduling
  • Leading/guiding peers
  • Controlling work process and steps
  • Turf repair and instillation

Timeline

Landscape Design/Maintenance

Properties Maintained
2021.09 - Current

Landscape Design/Maintenance

A To Z Landscape & Design
2018.05 - 2021.09

Landscape Design/Maintenance

Green View
2016.05 - 2017.11

Turf Installer

Elite Synthetic Surfaces
2014.07 - 2015.09

High School Diploma -

Williamsville South High School
Samuel Berke