Shuttle Bus Driver at ADCRR Visitation (2025-04 – 2025-12)
Provided professional shuttle bus driving services ensuring safety, reliability, and excellent customer service.
- Conducted daily pre- and post-trip inspections to ensure vehicle roadworthiness and 100% compliance with safety standards
- Navigated high-traffic routes and diverse weather conditions while maintaining a perfect, accident-free driving record
- Delivered professional assistance to staff and visitors, offering route information and boarding aid to ensure a positive experience
- Consistently met tight schedules and pickup windows through strategic route planning and proactive time management
Sawyer/Swamper at DFFM STATE FIRE TUCSON 1 type 2 I.A Hand Crew (ADCRR) (2023-12 – 2025-04)
Served as Lead Sawyer and Swamper for wildland firefighting operations, managing chainsaw operations, coordinating fireline tactics, and supervising crew safety.
- Familiar with 10's/18's shift schedules
- Ensured incident objectives and leaders' intent are met
- Used situational awareness to make informed decisions, take appropriate actions and determine appropriate fireline tactics
- Scouted line in critical areas and patrol fireline, coordinated and communicated issues with fireline supervisor and adjoining resources
- Clearly and accurately gave fire size up to Arizona dispatch
- Ensured all resources receive a complete debriefing
- Took and recorded weather observations during wildfires and RX burns using sling psychrometer and Kestrel
- Monitored weather conditions and used radio to communicate observations to crew, supervisors and adjoining forces
- Medical training including CPR, CCR, AED first aid blood born pathogens
- Scenario training using medical incident report and practice using traverse rescue stretcher
- Lead Sawyer responsible for leading chainsaw operations of squad
- Inspected and maintained Fireline tools
- Supervised and maintained inventory of STIHL 461/362/500 chainsaws and parts
- Ensured LCES is in place and known to all firefighters, lookouts, communication escape routes and safety zones
- Developed and implemented tactics based on fire behavior, weather and risk assessment
- Participated in the teaching of new wildland firefighters
- Constructed direct and indirect Fireline by scraping and digging to mineral soil using hand tools
- Proficient in mop up operations using hand tools and/or available water source to extinguish and remove burning material
- Used cold trailing method to locate residual heat
- Lined out in a systematic grid to cover large areas of the ground
- Positioned to hold line and monitor fire conditions and be on the lookout for embers and spot fires
- Used prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuel and used drip torches to ignite hand and machine piles
- Used fuses and other firing devises
- Practiced prevention and suppression of wildland fire including fuel mitigation, line construction, line preparation, holding, mop up and prescribed burning
- Used radio communication to direct pilots in bucket work and gave constructive feedback
- Maintained good physical health and participated in frequent physical training such as hiking, running and a variety of cardio and strength training
- Able to work in physically demanding environments for an extended period of time
- Obtained briefing from supervisors, briefed crew on assignment and objectives using IRPG briefing checklist
- Maintained situational awareness and adjust tactics as necessary
- Set up and broke down Mark 3 pump and connecting hose lay
- Operated nozzle for application of water from pump and supporting engines
Sawyer/Swamper at DFFM Forestry Fuels Crew (dept. of corrections) (2023-08 – 2023-12)
Performed forestry fuel management and timber operations including chainsaw work, brush chipping, and fire suppression support.
- Determined methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage
- Directed, and participated in, forest fire suppression
- Experienced with: Chainsaws, Brush chippers, Forestry axes, Backpack sprayers, Weed sprayers
- Regularly performed a high volume of work to meet deadlines
- Ensured proper refurbishing and resupply of tools, vehicles, food, water, and supplies
- Properly cleaned and maintained chainsaw, sharpen chains, and knowledge of basic troubleshooting
- Maintained good physical health and participated in frequent physical training such as hiking, running, and a variety of cardio and strength training
- Able to work in physically demanding environments for extended period of time
- Fuel mitigation
- Knowledge of safe and effective chipper use and preventative maintenance of VERMEER 1800
- Contributed in community betterment and clean up, thinning projects
- Safely operated STIHL 461/362/500 chainsaws
