Tyshawn Phillips

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Environmental Services

• Cleaned high rise windows using cradles or ropes.
• Cleaned interior and exterior walls and ceilings of offices, apartments, and other buildings by hand, or using pressure-based machinery and chemical solutions.
• Painted and performed wall paper installations for indoor and outdoor areas of offices and homes.
• Maintained equipment used in environmental custodial-work such as floor machines, lawn mowers, wet/dry vacuum cleaners, buckets and wringers, brushes, brooms, mops, dust cloths, shovels, rakes, hoses, small hand tools, sprinklers, and sprayers.
• Knowledge of the application of waxes, seals, cleaners, disinfectants, detergents, soaps, and insecticides.
• Knowledge of the care and cleaning of asphalt tile, vinyl tile, rubber tile, terrazzo, concrete, marble, ceramic tile, quarry tile, wood floors, various metals and carpets.
• Knowledge of effective and efficient housekeeping techniques.
• Ability to manage multiple indoor and outdoor projects simultaneously setting priorities, budgets, deadlines, and goals.

Custodial Maintenance/ Labor Skills

• Provided general maintenance and custodial services to indoor and outdoor facilities throughout various New York City locations, including courthouses, office buildings, nonprofits, schools, and community colleges.
• Performed thorough cleaning of rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, and locker rooms.
• Cleaned building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming.
• Swept, mopped scrubbed, polished, and waxed floors, using industrial chemicals, traditional equipment as well as scrubbing and buffing machinery.
• Made minor repairs to facilities, such as wall repair, lighting fixtures, and plumbing repairs.
• Moved and arranged heavy furniture, equipment, and supplies for various events and office remodeling projects.
• Executed landscaping duties outdoors, including lawn mowing, leaf raking, and hedge trimming.

Counselor/ Afterschool Coordinator

• Tutored grades 6-8 by reviewing class materials, discussing assignments and texts, and working out solutions to problems as a positive mentor.
• Monitored student performance and assisted students in academic environments, such as classrooms, laboratories, and community centers.
• Provided feedback to students using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, and build confidence in students.
• Assigned supplemental work to enhance student skills.
• Led teamwork building activities and organized student cultural field trips to museums, national parks and other destinations.

Childcare

• Maintained a safe and clean learning and play environment, observed and monitored children’s play activities.
• Communicated with children’s parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Supported children’s emotional and social development by encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Identified signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and brought them to parents or guardians attention.
• Instructed children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.