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Frisco, Texas, United States

Frisco, Texas, United States

Merchandising Opener for Flooring dept. Provide excellent customer service by preparing the Flooring and Decor department for the business day; daily duties including a detailed safety check to ensure customer and associate well-being, utilizing lift equipment in a dictated safe manner to stock shelves, move freight and load customers. Do projects related to merchandising and specialty department as assigned by management. Create quotes and customer orders when filling in the Specialist role. Will also cover other departments. such as working in Garden, Electrical, Lumber, Appliances and Merchandising Execution Team. Provide assistance to other associates and their customers by driving equipment such as the forklift, electric ladder, order picker and reach truck to get or load product.

Frisco, Texas, United States

Applied construction and electrician knowledge to be able to prove customer with consultative sales and provide phone sales service for runners picking up materials for jobs. Provide material orders in person and over the phone, setting up in person, will calls and deliveries for the customers. Drive sales for assigned customer accounts by providing them with sales information or looking at purchase history to get Home Depot more of the customer’s business.

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Applied knowledge of electrical engineering to classify pre-grant published patent applications by analysis of the engineering inventive concepts in Telecommunications Technology (telecommunications, optical communication, display devices, image analysis, television, graphics processing, audio processing, speech processing, printer data processing); Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security (data processing, graphical user interfaces, document presentation processing); and Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components (illumination, discharge devices and manufacturing). Research prior art patents and patent applications to find similar inventions or inventive ideas. Train and mentor newly hired classifiers providing quality control review of work.• Classified average of 150 applications per week with error rate of less than 5%, receiving lowest error rate recognition awards multiple times.• Recipient of multiple acknowledgement awards (financial bonus equal to 3% of salary) from project manager.• Prepare and present class specific training in Telecommunications Technology; Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security; and Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components, Television and Display Systems in one-on-one sessions or small classes of two to three persons. Project leader for multiple class specific training modules. • Member of team that developed training for transition from International Patent Classification Cooperative Patent Classification system.• Provided quality control for new hires training and live applications as well as daily quality checks of all classifiers in art unit.

Norfolk, Virginia

Rough wired and trimmed out senior officer government housing under direction of master electrician. Low voltage wiring for doorbells, ran and wired smoke detectors, learned to bend conduit with manual bender. Electrical inspection provided by the Army Corps of Engineers, followed safety protocols set out by contractors and OSHA. Trained as apprentice and was offered an apprenticeship, returned to college.

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Ran the gift shop, bait shop, and Laundromat, provided grounds keeping, structural and electrical maintenance to the lodge, cabins, stores and other building on the property. Helped with canoe outfitting and lodge reservations. Provided basic IT support for the lodge setting up phones, computers, printers and keeping them functioning.

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Helped build family home, general carpentry, grounds keeping, logging. Single handedly wired home electrical at age 17 with what was learned in high school electronics classes, wired and hooked up phones and cable/SAT TV, received extremely high praise from electrical inspector. Ran chain saw, industrial wood chipper, various power tools used in residential construction.

Sembach Afb, Sembach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

US Air Force summer hire program. Helped maintain base gym and outdoor field location on base took care of customer machine reservations, equipment maintenance, and tested new exercise machines, grounds keeping of the playing fields, cleaning of racket ball and basketball courts, grounds keeping around the gym and other buildings of responsibility.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians

Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians

School cut my major due to financial mismanagement.

Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians

Activities and Societies: Track and cross country, AFROTC