

Top-performing Army vet with over 23 years of honorable service and multiple deployments. Team player with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Able to motivate personnel, conduct performance evaluation reviews, and ensure compliance with standard operating procedures. Ability to make important decisions, and communicate effectively in stressful situations. Focused professional with several years of experience as key member of crew while fighting numerous fires across multiple types of terrain and in varied weather conditions. Talented at establishing water supplies, planning escape routes and directing crews. Extensive experience performing forest maintenance and improvement by cutting brush, planting trees, marking and cutting timber and creating fuel brakes.
● Hours per week: 40 PLUS
● Duties include use of hand tools, including pulaski, shovel, McLeod, chainsaws, drip torches, and performing ground reconnaissance on wildfires and prescribed burns.
● Fuel monitoring
● Carried two way radios to facilitate communications on the ground and to
coordinate tasks on the fireline.
● Met and maintained a physical standard which includes arduous pack test
completing 3-mile walk with 45 pound vest or pack in 45min
● Tasked with initial attack from a type-6 engine, deploying hose pack or
digging hand lines, extended attack, and mop up.
● Prepping multiple prescribed burn units for the burn season.
● Firefighter type 1 Task Book Opened
● Helicopter Crew Member Trainee Task book open
● Duties include the use of hand tools including pulaski,shovel, McLeod,
chainsaw’s, drip torches and performing ground reconnaissance on
wildfires.
● Carried two way radios to facilitate communications on the ground and to
coordinate tasks on the fireline.
● Met and maintained a physical fitness standard which includes Arduous
pack test completing 3-mile walk with 45 pound vest or pack in 45min.
● Tasked with initial attack, deploying hose packs or digging hand lines,
extended attack, and mop-up.
● I participated every morning in a strenuous training program consisting of
long distance runs, calisthenics, and work hardening exercises as well as
long hikes.
● MANDATORY
FIREFIGHTER
● FIREFIGHTER I
● FIREFIGHTER II,
● FIREFIGHTER TYPE II
(wildland)
● Hazmat 1st Responder
Awareness
● Hazmat 1st
Responder
Operation
● Technical
Rescue
Awareness
● NWCG
Coursework: