Electronics Technician - USCG Reserves - Portsmouth, VA
(2006-01 - 2014-12)
Completion of Coast Guard ET A School (2006). Perform PMS on various radios, radars, antennae, SINS packages and other ATON or communications equipment used within the Coast Guard. Substantial training and experience in differential broadcast site receivers (high power DGPS receiver) and many various ATON and Communications Equipment.
Installation Technician - Gately Communications
(2010-07 - 2014-02)
Installation of Motorola radios within emergency vehicles such as police cars, ambulances, utility trucks, and many other city service vehicles. Repair and maintain Motorola radios.
- Maintenance of in-car camera system
- Installation of on-site radios and multidirectional antennas on commercial buildings x31 Deck Electrician - Huntington Ingalls (Newport News Shipyard)
(2014-02 - 2016-02)
SMOF (Submarine Modular Outfitting Facility). Install cables in proper wire ways in accordance with drawings and schematics.
- Layoff (Studs and wireways), install and hook up various types of equipment (transformer banks, switches, power panels, MBT boxes, junction boxes, switch boards)
- Cut in cables to connect proper cable plugs for equipment connection
- Perform Absence of Voltage (AOV) checks
- Trace cables to locate problems for repair
- Perform duties according to work permits, plans, drawings, and inspection reports
Master Tradesperson 4 (Electrician) - AMSEC LLC (HII – TSD – FSG) (now Huntington Ingalls Mission Technologies)
(2016-02 - 2022-02)
Elevator Support Unit (ESU). Perform duties according to work permits, plans, drawings, inspection reports, and compartment completions. Installs, operates, maintains, repairs and modifies equipment.
- Performs a variety of maintenance and technical support on products such as shipboard systems, integrated systems and related equipment/software at company, customer and/or field locations
- Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problems in minimum time
- Applies comprehensive understanding of production and processes toward completion of assignments
- Responsible for interfacing with customers, managing subcontractors and ability to provide work direction to others
- Performs a variety of complicated and non-routine tasks
- Develops and uses technical documents including controlled work packages, formal work processes and procedures, test documents, reports and task or trip reports
- Schedules, reports and briefs customers and senior management
- Performs duties outside of specialty to complete installation or work assignment, including but not limited to, any mechanical repairs or maintenance (wire rope, rollers, Over Speed Governors, Platform Under Car Linkages, Knurled Rollers etc.)
Team Lead (Electrician) - AMSEC LLC (HII – TSD – FSG) (now Huntington Ingalls Mission Technologies)
(2022-02 - 2024-01)
Leads technical teams for installations and repairs, within or across technical trades specialty. Ability to manage, oversee, schedule, and assign tasks to one or more multiple jobs.
- Maintained all WPC's, open and closes WAF's and system tag outs
- Installs, operates, maintains, repairs and modifies equipment
- Performs a variety of maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations
- Analyzes and evaluates products and related performance
- Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problem in minimum time
- Installs, upgrades, and removes products ensuring coordinative engineering field change
- Maintains effective customer communications and relations
- Provides onsite training of customer support personnel
- Develops and uses technical documents including controlled work packages, formal work processes and procedures, test documents, reports and task or trip reports
- Perform cargo/weapons elevators, personnel elevators, and medivac S.O.T III's and repairs as necessary such as: roller repairs, safety linkage repairs, troubleshooting many electrical issues, replacing directional control valves, replacing hydraulic lines, adjusting and repairing overspeed governors, etc.
- Accomplished SCDs including but not limited to, HMI installs for many LPD's. Full HMI and proximity switch install/upgrade on CG's involving the Fwd/Aft Elevators and the torpedo strikedown lift systems. The proximity switch upgrades on LHD 2 and LHD 4. Handled the testing and troubleshooting implementing these upgrades/modifications
- Read and interpret electrical drawings to perform various jobs, such as repairs on weapons elevators (programmable logic controllers, human machine interfaces, Motor controllers, elevator brake cabling, relay panels etc..)
- Perform installs/upgrades of ammo elevators, torpedo strikedowns, Sound powered phones, etc... aboard navy vessels
Electronics Mechanic (Shop 67 Bldg 510) - Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)
(2024-01)
- CVN 77 Bush – Utilized the Field fox and TDR to test the transmission line of the ATG (performed VSWR, Insertion Loss, and verified integrity of the cable). Removed failed Heliax cable and installed a new cable
