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Novi, Michigan, United States

Construction Technician with a focus on Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Civil Works and Utilities Construction and Inspection. Spalding DeDecker is a Civil Engineering and Surveying firm providing services to the lower Michigan region, with branch locations in metro Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids areas.

Livonia, Michigan, United States

• Deployed overseas as FCCME Civil and Environmental Officer responsible for providing expertise in vertical and horizontal construction, including civil design, project management with construction management in support.
• Performed 120 days of technical design development in austere environments across four separate locations, in an active combat zone.
• During a 9 month deployment developed 10 design packets, taking projects from initial request to solicitation and one to full completion.
• Served as subject matter expert in developing standardized Statements of Work, Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans, and Technical Specifications. Creating templates utilized on all 45 projects developed by FEST-A team.
• Conducted cost estimating, totaling $4.5MIL in construction costs, resulting in successful contract solicitation and award.
• Completed a procurement project to enable unit comradery; creating a logo, conducting market research, soliciting and awarding a contract to a printing company resulting in over 100 shirts for the FEST-A and family.

• Military Officer responsible for leading and training of enlisted Soldiers, planning missions, maintaining Government property and ensuring the health, welfare and morale of Soldiers under my command.
• Management responsibility for groups of Soldiers ranging in size from 32 to 155 personnel and equipment with values in excess of $15 million.
• Routinely placed in low performing units to increase their metrics to acceptable levels, resulting in low performing units achieving qualified or excellent ratings.
• Subject matter expert on earthwork calculations, often sought to provide guidance on large scale high dollar projects.

Lansing, Michigan, United States

• Team member responsible for conducing quality assurance checks, managing performance tests, and providing field and customer services on industrial chillers from 1/3 to 500 ton capacity.
• Responsible for providing new hire training on chiller components and systems and developing cross-training program for existing employees.
• Developed procedures and built a standard functions testing station for the “OMAX” line of chillers, reducing the testing process by 50%.
• Trained with certified HVAC Engineer to become subject matter expert on multiple chiller systems.
• Properly charged and evacuated chiller refrigerant systems in accordance with OSHA and EPA policies and considerations, including turn-in of used refrigerant for recycling.
• Developed improved quality assurance procedures resulting in notable reduction in warranty work.

Southfield, MI

• GS-09 level Federal Government employee responsible for overseeing and managing the unit facilities and fulltime staff at the company level.
• Developed and implemented an improvement plan that successfully brought unit from a rating of unqualified to fully qualified in 11 months.
• Established, trained, and published over 25 policies and procedures for the unit’s daily functions; resulting in a common mission and focus for every member of the unit.
• Improved mission capable equipment levels from 5% to 70% meeting requirements for unit to be considered properly equipped for upcoming deployment.
• Filled unit’s staff, hiring and training 10 mid-level management staff positions in 4 months.
• Developed logistical plan for movement of heavy equipment over 1,500 miles from Battalion headquarters to unit motor pool, allowing all equipment to be transferred without incident.

Lansing, Michigan, United States

• Specialist responsible for shipping and receiving of chiller units and components for freight or flatbed shipping from manufacturing plant.
• Developed standard sizing and assembly requirements for in-house custom palletization and crating processes, reducing crating time by 50% during the shipping process.
• Ensured adequate stocks of lumber, cardboard, shrink-wrap, heat-shrink, and applicable fasteners were maintained and projected out monthly to ensure no delays in shipping.
• Maintained a weekly tracker of chillers and warranty components to be crated and shipped, updated daily and communicated any issues encountered to the shipping supervisor.
• OSHA certified forklift operator, successfully loading and unloading over 10,000 freight items without incident over a 2 year period.
• After 6 months; trained co-workers and new hires on safe forklift operation, resulting in over 6 successful OHSA certifications for the company during my tenure.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Deployed overseas as FCCME Civil and Public Works Officer responsible for providing facilities engineer support to the Department of Public Works (DPW) and administering and coordinating engineer construction contracts.
• Served as the New Projects Officer-in-Charge successfully processing 140 new project requests through the basing approval process.
• Created and published an informative process flowchart for the lifecycle of contingency contracted projects, capturing the major milestones, approval gateways, and documents required, resulting in enhanced knowledge of.
• Created design packets for 160 approved new projects.
• Performed as Project Manager for 80 projects from concept to customer acceptance of final product.
• Oversaw procurement process ensuring purchases followed government process and procedures. Successfully allowing the purchase of over 600 pieces of office furniture procured.

Franklin, Indiana, United States

• Deployed overseas as Platoon Leader responsible for the health, welfare, and training for 41 Soldiers as well as heavy engineer equipment and hauling assets in excess of $7 million. Additional duties as the.
• In 11 months; successfully completed 58 earthwork construction projects that were spread across 2 separate countries in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Army Central Command.
• In Bagram, Afghanistan completed a 2 month project in just 60% of estimated time, saving an estimated $1.3MIL in contracting costs.
• Utilized effective project management skills to finish 5 projects ahead of schedule by approximately 30%, allowing for quicker utilization by US Troops.
• Maintained positive work environment by investigating and correcting all formal HR issues by issuing appropriate corrective actions, resulting in zero repeated incidents.

Marion, Indiana

• Specialist responsible for inventory and stock management at the 15,000 square foot Corporate Office and Warehouse.
• Achieved superior marks across all 8 performance measures in first 3 months, resulting in a pay raise of 20%.
• Implemented changes on the second shift, resulting in 25% increase in productivity for second shift and resulting in an additional 20% pay raise.
• OSHA certified equipment operator; successfully loading and unloading over 6,000 freight items and packaging over 3,000 individual purchase orders without incident over a 1.5 year period.
• Achieved Chauffer’s License endorsement; delivered university textbook shipments to over 10 separate campus locations across the Midwest region of the US without incident.

Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States

• Temporary Active Guard-Reserve (AGR) position serving as the lead recruiter for prospective ROTC cadets at the high school and collegiate levels.
• In 4 months; successfully recruited 38 prospective cadet candidates to the ROTC battalion, including 17 who earned a 4-year scholarship.
• In 328 total classroom hours; provided formal military education to 38 freshman cadets, on basic military rank structure, drill and ceremony movements, and tactical formations.
• Planned and executed a public relations event, which included training the University Treasurer in basic parachutist safety, and culminating in successfully skydiving with the Army Black Knights.

Mason, Michigan

Certified through the American Red Cross in Lifeguarding, CPR and First Aid, and operating an AED.

Engineer Captains Career Course Certification, Engineering

Activities and Societies: United States Army Corps of Engineers Reserve Component Program consisting of 4 online and resident phases.

Engineer Basic Officer Leadership Course Certification, Engineering

Activities and Societies: United States Corps of Engineers 4.5 month resident course; covering Basic level Military Doctrine, Offensive.

Bachelor'S Degree, History

Activities and Societies: Army ROTC

High School

Activities and Societies: Varsity Swim Team, Varsity Cross Country Team