PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Highly qualified craftsman and maintenance technician with 9 years of leadership success in direct hands-on production work. Respected mechanic with critical problem solving skills and solution based thinking who works well within a group environment and can take on solo projects as needed. PROCESS MANAGEMENT * Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules * Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use * Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions. SAFETY AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL * Prepare hazardous material for removal or storage while complying with prescribed NAVOSH, OSHA and EPA laws regulating waste disposal methods. * Monitor facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety regulation compliance. * PROBLEM SOLVER - ON THE FLY * Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. * Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. * Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. * Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. MENTORSHIP * Identify the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. * Help set goals and work toward achieving them by educating four mentees about various resources available on campus, as the need arises * Serve as a positive social and academic role-model by supporting mentees with their involvement on campus * Provide an environment that supports constructive feedback on performance US NAVY APRIL 2007 - CURRENT MACHINIST MATE/SUPERVISOR/MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN * Identified 105 discrepancies within the Hazardous Material program ensuring full compliance with directives, directly contributed to a satisfactory during the 2012 Center for Naval Air Forces Aviation Maintenance Inspection. * Responsible for safely maintaining and operating 400,000 gallon-per-day distilling units and 284,000 shaft horse-power main propulsion engines. * Dismantled machines, equipment, or devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, or power tools in order to troubleshoot and provide a repair solution. * Performed inventory as liaison, of 10 maintenance shops to include ordering supplies and reporting monthly validations on time with 100% accountability to branch manager. * Promoted accurate use and disposal of Hazardous Material, Safety and Personal Protective Equipment guidelines to encompass lifting gear controls, harness utilization, respirator use for low ventilation spaces. * Conducted routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions, ultimately saving over $1M in future repair costs. * Determined the number of mechanics and parts required to maintain propulsion power transmission turbines, marine pumps, heat exchangers and package conveyors in safe operating order with zero customer complaints. * Coordinated and supervised over 4,000 preventive and corrective maintenance items on 13 marine pumps, 11 package conveyor units resulting in overall 98% readiness rating. * Advanced ability to interpret verbal and handwritten instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the job related functions, to include tech manuals, schematics and manufacture drawings. * Repaired, overhauled and hydrostatically tested over 300 valves and rebuilt 3 centrifugal pumps, increasing overall material condition and returning systems back to 100% capability. * Enforced lock-out/tag-out program to promote a safe and isolated work environment in order to conduct routine maintenance and repairs as well as providing training to 20 personnel in the correct steps and procedures of the program. * Conducted predictive, preventive and corrective maintenance within prescribed standards and limits on complex equipment related to large vertical or similar types of pumps, large diameter valves and pumping/generating plant equipment that are mechanical in nomenclature, including hydraulic and pneumatic control systems * Assisted with the planning and coordination of scheduled predictive, preventive and corrective as well as unplanned outages, shutdowns or other emergency situations to minimizing equipment downtime of interruption of service

Highlights:

• Coaching
• Complaints
• Compliance
• Control Systems
• Evaluate
• Heat Exchangers
• Information Technology
• Inventory
• Leadership
• Management