Christopher Steffen Email & Phone Number

Preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance are major roles in the Coast Guard to keep units operational. Ensuring this is completed in a timely manner keeps the units assets efficiently running. The majority of my career has been focused on the maintenance process along with managing time and personnel for completing it. There have been a few projects that I managed and ran with an estimated lead time of about one month for completion from volunteering for it.I also had a part-time job working at a privately owned pet store selling and stocking merchandise and animals for your typical dogs and cats to exotic animals like iguanas and monitor lizards until the store went out of business. I have a huge passion for working and caring for animals and hold an immense passion for otters and would love to work with them some day.

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  Emc

  U.S. Coast Guard

  Jul 2005 - Present

  I joined the U.S. Coast Guard right after high school graduation in 2005. Once I joined, I was unaware of what I actually wanted to do, so I went out into the fleet to see what all the rates had to offer. In 2006, I attended EM A-School and graduated in 2007. I have attended multiple C-Schools: Advanced Digital and Analog Electronics, MK-27 Gyrocompass, PLC, Fiber Optics, Glide Slope Indicator, Aids to Navigation: Structure Climber and Rescue, Minor Aids and Advanced Minor Aids, Automated Lighthouse Technician. A couple other schools are Leadership and Management, Prospective Engineer Petty Officer (EPO) Afloat and factory training for the commissioning of a Fast Response Cutter: MTU (Basic electrical and mechanical), ZF, Hydraquip and Cummins Generator (electrical and mechanical).Having all this training, especially from the factory trainings, and knowledge as an Assistant EPO, has prepared me for my current EPO position, in which I assist six other EPO's when they need time off, troubleshooting to make effective repairs or for just an extra set of hands to complete tasking.