Victor A. Rodriguez

• Supervised daily operations to ensure adherence to safety protocols and efficiency standards.
• Mentored team members, fostering skill development and enhancing overall performance.
• Implemented process improvements that streamlined workflows and reduced operational delays.
• Coordinated project timelines and resources, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Conducted cross training within the AEP T-line crews that improved crews in the hot-stick and barehand method.
• Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
• Enhanced communication within the team by holding safety meetings and encouraging open dialogue among all employee's.
• Mentored staff members in their career development, sharing knowledge from years of experience in the field.
• Implemented safety protocols to minimize workplace accidents and maintain compliance with AEP standards.
• Facilitated seamless communication between crews on storm jobs, ensuring that all teams were aligned with to complete the job.
• Conducted thorough employee evaluations to identify areas for growth and development, leading to more skilled workforce.
• Boosted team morale and performance, organizing regular training sessions and motivational meetings.
• Implemented cost-saving measures, significantly reducing operational expenses.
• Maintained high safety standards to ensure secure workplace for all employees and visitors.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
• Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.
• Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced participation in exercises focused on developing key skills.
• Set aggressive targets for employees to drive company success and strengthen motivation.

• Maintained safety and high quality of workmanship by following company policies and procedures.
• Trained others with less experience supported and participated in growth of T-line Crew with AEP.
• Participated in company's Safety meetings and mandated training to learn different techniques that could alleviate accidents.
• Helped out by participating in extra shifts when emergencies or outages required additional assistance in adverse weather conditions.
• Prepared installations by analyzing Construction book and job sites, gathering required materials, equipment, and tools to complete job or task at hand.
• Established open communication between owners, engineers, subcontractors, and field crews.
• Worked extensively on 138Kv single conductor lines
• Maintenanced 69Kv to 138Kv Lines; energized and de-energized
• Sagged, resagged, deadened, and clipped 4/o, 336, 477, & 795 ACSR extensively

• Worked extensively on 138Kv single conductor lines
• Worked on 345Kv triple bundle lines
• Strung, sagged, deadended and clipped in 795 ACSR conductor
• Strung, sagged, deadended and clipped triple bundle 959 ACSS conductor
• Led crew through setting steel structures from pouring foundations to stacking and pressing sections on poles
• Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
• Coordinated and managed a 6-8 man crew

• Worked on 345Kv double circuit line
• Strung, sagged, deadended and clipped 1926 ACSR conductor
• Coordinated and managed 6 man crew

• Worked extensively on 138Kv single conductor lines
• Strung, sagged, deadended and clipped in 795 ACSR conductor
• Hot sticked 69kv and 138Kv operations
• Led crew through setting steel structures from pouring foundations to stacking and pressing sections on poles
• Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
• Coordinated and managed a 6-8 man crew

• Worked extensively on 138Kv vertical bundle line
• Strung, sagged, deadened and clipped double vertical bundle 959 ACSS conductor
• Led crew through setting steel structures from pouring and back filling foundations to stacking and pressing sections on poles
• Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
• Coordinated and managed a 6-8 man crew

• Worked extensively on 345Kv double bundle lines
• Strung, sagged, deadended and clipped in 1590 ACSR conductor

Equipment Operator

• Successfully qualified and certified to operate small to heavy equipment
• Aerial buckets, Digger derricks, skid steers, backhoes, dozers, 4x4 forklift, skytracks, IT's and Trackhoe, bulldozer
• Mobile cranes 20ton to 45 ton, crawler cranes 50 ton to 100ton
• Pulling equipment from regrove, 4 drum rope rig, single drum rope rig, fiber static tensioner, hardline puller, and wire/ conductor tensioner

Apprentice Lineman

• Operated overhead line equipment such as bucket and boom trucks with consistent safety.
• Maximized project success using technical abilities with various structure & conductor sizes by dead ending, stringing, sag, pulling, and clipping-in wire, setting poles, and other standard standard techniques in the field of transmission line practice.
• Improved competencies in operating heavy hydraulic equipment, including hydraulic steel pole assembly jacks, press motor and press head for compression dead end assembly, and hydraulic tamps
• Completed numerous certifications and credentialing programs, including climbing wood poles and steel structures.
• Supriored on rigging and sagging conductor
• Completed resagging on older or improperly installed lines.

• Worked with crew to install, maintain and operate overhead powerlines
• Framed poles crossarms dig holes and drive ground rods
• Understood the operations of a powerline
• Learned rigging value strength and proper use, as well as rope ratings and knots