Tristan Shirley
Gainesville,GA
Summary
Professional emergency response specialist with experience in fire suppression, rescue operations, and hazardous material handling. Strong focus on teamwork, ensuring safety, and achieving operational goals. Reliable and adaptable with skills in emergency medical response, incident command, and community education. Known for effective communication, physical stamina, and quick decision-making.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Firefighter
Hall County Fire Services
Hall County GA
08.2023 - Current
- High-Value Responsibility Gaps for Firefighter Role at Hall County Fire Services
- Conduct routine inspections of firefighting equipment and gear to ensure operational readiness and safety.
- Respond to emergency calls swiftly, assessing situations to determine appropriate firefighting tactics.
- Collaborate with fellow firefighters during drills to enhance teamwork and improve emergency response protocols.
- Perform hazardous material containment procedures in compliance with local regulations and safety standards.
- Participate in community outreach programs to educate the public on fire prevention and safety practices.
- Performed life-saving procedures during medical emergencies, administering CPR and first aid as needed.
- Responded to emergency medical calls to perform lifesaving procedures and other emergency medical services.
- Collaborated with fellow firefighters to execute efficient firefighting strategies, mitigating property damage and loss of life.
- Operated fire hoses, hydrants and extinguishers to eliminate fire and prevent from spreading.
- Drove and operated structural pumpers, tankers, ladders, and service vehicles to aid in rescue operations.
- Maintained optimal readiness for emergency situations by regularly participating in drills and training exercises.
Arborist
Dirty Dawgz Tree Service
07.2022 - Current
- Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
- Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
- Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
- Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
- Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes or other tools.
- Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
- Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
- Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
- Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
- Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
- Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
- Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
- Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
- Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
- Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
- Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
- Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
Welder (Production)
Self Employed
01.2021 - Current
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
- Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.
- Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal cutting equipment, such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
- Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
- Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
- Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
- Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
- Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
- Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
- Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
- Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
- Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
- Operate brazing and soldering equipment.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials.
- Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
- Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
Ranch Hand
Shirley Show Cattle
08.2021 - 06.2022
- Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
- Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
- Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
- Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
- Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
- Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
- Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
- Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.
- Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
- Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
- Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
- Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.
- Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
- Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
- Collect, inspect, and place eggs in incubators, operate machines for egg washing, candling, and grading, and pack eggs in cartons.
- Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
- Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
- Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
- Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
Education
High School - General Studies
Jefferson City highschool
Jefferson City01-2022
Skills
- Structural firefighting
- Fire safety
- Equipment maintenance and repair
- Fire suppression tools operations
- Fitness and agility
- Emergency response
- Medical equipment usage
- Fire pump operation
Timeline
Firefighter
Hall County Fire Services
08.2023 - Current
Arborist
Dirty Dawgz Tree Service
07.2022 - Current
Ranch Hand
Shirley Show Cattle
08.2021 - 06.2022
Welder (Production)
Self Employed
01.2021 - Current
High School - General Studies
Jefferson City highschool