WELDING TEACHER at PROGRESO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTICT (2024-01 – Present)
Facilitating Texas Education Agency (TEA) curriculum standards and part of Career and Technical Education Program (CTE), teaching essential metalworking, fabrication, and safety skills to prepare them for immediate careers or post-secondary apprenticeships.
- Safety Protocols -proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), ventilation, and fire prevention in a shop environment.
- Core Welding Processes-Hands on training in Shield Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) or Stick, Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW or MIG) and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) or TIG.
- Metal Cutting- Operating oxy-fuel torches, plasma cutters, and air carbon arc gouging equipment
- Blueprint Reading-Understanding technical drawings, welding symbols, and industry standards.
- Fabrication and Metallurgy-How metals react to heat, along with measuring, layout, cutting, and assembling metal projects
- Career Readiness- Preparing students to pass the American Welding Society (AWS) certification exams
- While building soft skills like a strong ethic.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT/WELDER OPERATOR DOOSAN DL 250-RUBBER TIRE LOADER at HIDALGO COUNTY (2021-03 – 2023-12)
- Set up all reflective and safety road signs.
- Use motor grater to Cut V-bottom and flat bottom ditches to elevation to channel
- water: We utilize motor graders to keep standing water from penetrating under base material and asphalt.
- Asphalt: We utilize motor graders for molding roadways and byways to use laydown asphalt machines, Bomag sheep foot compactors, steel wheel rollers and pneumatic rollers.
WELDER/FITTER/FABRICATOR at MELHART INDUSTRIES (2020-05 – 2021-03)
- Outside Shop Foreman
- Platform Welder Fabricator
- Weld to fabricate platforms from isometric drawings from Melhart Industries office engineers and designers
- Calculate platform levels and dimensions for amount of materials needed to order from Alamo Iron Works
- supporting welding operators by having strong focus on quality and details
- working to meet build dates with crew essential team members
WELDER/PIPEFITTER INSTRUCTOR at MCI/MCALLEN CAREERS INSTITUTE (2018-09 – 2020-03)
Teach students in classrooms on welding procedures from syllabus and manuals and basic pipefitting math level II...Give students lectures on various types of on welding procedures using the correct welding rods, weld gases and filler metals for specific weld processes and procedures, utilizing TIG, MIG, and STICK Welding.
- teach correct welding and angle and position for speed of travel, four-I F, 2 F, 3 F, 4 F as well as 1G, 2G, 5G and 6G pipe welding procedures, shop and construction site safety hazards, barricade warnings, trench and retainer walls. Confined space permits and fire watch.
- Fabrications: Welding shop task consists of applying what each student has retained from classroom hypotheses on the science and research done by A.W.S.-American Welding Society and NCCER, the national center for construction and educational research and take that learned knowledge to the welding lab for welding practices.
- Welding: Each student is supplied with all necessary P.P.E. and is assigned to a welding booth. Each student is given welding instructor visual weld demonstrations, utilizing various steps in welding rod angle positioning and speed of travel.
- Also taught classes in Harlingen, Hidalgo, Rio Grande, La Grulla, Progreso and McAllen High Schools.
FIELD AND SHOP WELDING at WILBER-ELLIS CO. (2012-03 – 2018-03)
Field and shop welding and repairs of agricultural implements and heavy farm equipment repairs.
- In house and field repair: welding on chemical tank, stand tanks, and farm stand chemical tanks.
- Maintenance rebuild or replace and installation of corrosive chemical grade engine driven chemical trans-port pumps and plumbing, repair or replace trailer axles, electric or hydraulic brakes, spindles and bearing such as seals, valves, shafts impellers and wear plates, hoses utilizing chemical grade banjo brand parts and materials and complete rebuild construction of farm trailers, utility trailers and equipment.
- I H harvesters and a wide variety of farm repairs of stainless steel cast iron and other metals
- Maintenance consisted of complete rebuild of all types of crop production or harvesting equipment, accelerated detrition of implements due to extreme acidic corrosive and oxidizing material.
WELDER/MACHINIST/TOOL AND DIE MAKER at TEXAS TOOL (2005-02 – 2011-10)
- Welding shop Forman. Welder/Machinist
- Heavy equipment repair
- Complete machine shop repairs and fabrications.
- Oilfield welding and shop repairs
- Welding of hard surfacing, welds for wear and longevity of loader and excavator blades teeths, bucket pins and bushing removal replacements.
- Pre maintenance on excavator tracks, bearings, final drive replacements, buckets replacements, track adjustments, front end loader maintenance and operation, backhoe maintenance, repairs and operation, fork lift mast bearing repairs and operate., compactor and piston, water pumps rebuild repairs.
- Machinist: utilizing lubricating equipment machine using milling machines lathes shapers, surface grinders metal brakes, and roller machines to fabricate one of a kind or hard to find replacement parts made of industrial metal, brass, aluminum, stainless steel.
- Cut and machine splines, gears, rack and pinions, power takeoff (P.T.O.) shafts, axles, heavy equipment, clutches, face plates, industrial repairs and fabrications.
SAN ANTONIO CONSTRUCTORS (2003-04 – 2005-01)
- Emphasizing on safety, reflective roadside signs, flashing signs, flaggers, traffic control personnel.
- Worked on new road construction and as recaps and repairs
- Worked on I-10 on Medical Drive, Loop 13 also known as military highway, highway 90, Saint Mary's Rd. among others.
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR at H.B. ZACHARY (2001-06 – 2003-04)
- Laying new and recaps on Loop 635 Dallas TX., Beltline Drive
- Laid highway at Tyler TX., Loop 323, I-20
- Highway 110, planted sod on edge of highways to regrow grass
