Ordinary Seaman

Objective:

Supervises preventive maintenance, inspects, classifies, and determines repair-ability of equipment with hands on experience in monitoring and maintaining marine ships and vessels. Seeking the opportunity to work as a merchant marine in a challenging environment.

Summary of Qualifications:

Exhibits competence in shipboard operations including stevedoring and maintenance; operates and maintains small boats, deck equipment, and machinery; demonstrates knowledge of rigging, ships security, deck seamanship, navigation, and piloting; understands limitations of equipment in rough weather, low visibility, and capacity;  interpret rules of the road regarding crossing and overtaking situations and avoiding collisions.

Professional Experience:

Supervisor   February 2007 – September 2014

US Army, Fort Lewis, WA/ Schofield Barracks, HI

• Maintained 100% of equipment readiness valued at over $1,000,000 for over 21,000 personnel
• Supervised 40+ personnel to maintain, repair, and inspect equipment with 100% efficiency
• Supervised of loading and unloading cargo on various types of military vehicles, and cargo ships.
• Supervised and performed securing cargo using cargo nets, synthetic and wire ropes.
• Communicates effectively using hand/eye signals and with the use of other mediums to correspond movement while equipment is mobile.
• Inspected and maintained records and inventory of equipment to ensure the 100% safety of rigs and cargo.
• Conducted and supervised safety and training programs resulting in 0 accidents.

Seaman/ Boatswain   September 1997 – September 2006

US Navy, Norfolk, VA/ La Maddalena, Italy 

• Supervised and performed rigging for towing, and being towed, using the astern, constant-tension, and span wire.
• Supervised over 20 personnel performing work details, deck functions, general upkeep of the ship, maintenance, repair of deck equipment, and maintains discipline.
• Performed all basic seamanship functions aboard ship that involve line or wire and rigging used to secure the ship to a pier, mooring, or anchor.
• Knowledge of preparing and maintaining hull records, painting records, and inventories of equipment, tools, and paint.
• Knowledge of uses, maintains, repairs, overhauls blocks, tackles, anchors, chains, cables, connecting links, and shipboard riggings.
• Knowledge of preparing metal and wood surfaces for primer and paints.
• Knowledge of the nomenclature of decks, superstructures, and parts of the hull.
• Performed maintenance duties such as rig cargo handling equipment, splicing synthetic, and wire ropes.
• Performed duties as helmsman, able to identify functions of navigation by using several types of compasses, keep records or degrees or points.
• Knowledge of navigational aids, nautical rules of the road, and the buoys of inland waters of the US.
• Performed duties as coxswain, inspects, maintains, and understands the limitations of lifeboats, life rafts, survival equipment, and ships small craft.
• Performed duties as a crane operator for lowering and raising ship’s small craft, lifesaving equipment, and transfer of cargo.
• Performed duties using hand and eye signal during crane, winch, and anchoring operations.
• Knowledge of first aid and the first aid treatments for electrical shock, simple compound fractures, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and burns.
• Knowledge on how to determine the classes of fire hoses and how to use carbon dioxide, dry chemical, and water portable fire extinguishers.
• Knowledge of the typical fire main system, fixed carbon dioxide system, water wash down system, and magazine sprinkling system.
• Knowledge in knowing the difference between flooding and progressive flooding and the danger involved.
• Performed duties as master-at-arms.

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

MMC                                           Expires: 23-Oct-2020

TWIC                                           Expires: 25-Aug-2020

STCW                                          Expires: 23-Oct-2017

Medical Certificate                     Expires: 23-Oct-2017

First Aid & CPR                          Expires: 06-Sep-2017

High School Diploma                 May 1995

Westville High School                  Westville, OK