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Healy, Fox, Kuparuk, Barrow, Girdwood, Wasilla, Anchorage, Alaska Area

Build, maintain and repair of all current types of utility service power lines. Read blueprints and other technical documentation, being able to quickly attribute a diagnosis and then resolve problems. Complete storm reconstruction. Make system upgrades. Work in rural, urban and city environments. Inventory apparatus required in completing R.E.A. construction specifications, prior to travelling to remotest places in Alaska. Drive pilings. Excavate foundations. Install anchors. Frame poles. Drive ground rods. Pull wire. Install or replace service metering, and switch-gear. Fix broken hardware and insulators. Sag wire. Load balancing. Configure transformers delta or wye, work substations, and route fiber-optics in S.C.A.D.A. communication. Efficiently troubleshoot system anomalies, and deal with customer outages. I've ran chainsaws for clearing new right-of-ways, to HYDRO-AX and Skytrim to maintain those pathways for power transmission lines. I've started at one power-plant, tied city-wide circuits together, then synchronized power-plants; and I've prevented electrical power outages. I've built capacitor banks and battery array. As a lineman, I exist in a versatile, difficult, dangerous work environment, providing seamless, often unseen customer service. My duties include tasks like climbing a cell phone tower, radio repeater, microwave site, fixing hundred year old wooden poles, and all manner of high-voltage structures; I worked under every condition of weather that can exist from one side of Alaska to the other. I've fixed it energized using rubber gloves and fiberglass hot-line tools. I've operated a lot of heavy equipment; from cranes, to bucket trucks, operated specialized open ditch trenching machinery, excavators, all ages of bulldozer, forklifts, loaders, especially backhoe, to dump trucks, and road-side diggers. I have also worked from the Hughes 500, Vertol 107, and Sikorsky S-64. And the best part of my resume, is that I still have all my fingers and toes.

Fairbanks, Alaska

My father brought me a computer when I was age eight. The interest grew from the KoalaPad and dot matrix printing to flatbed scanners, later to digital photography. This grew from more than a hobby with a single camera, with a palmtop, into the beginnings of a compelling occupation. All aspects of desktop publishing and being a road-warrior with the laptop in the scene. Basic client services like weddings, into interdisciplinary new media focus on digital culture in technology. Web footprint development from site design has spanned the internet from Ustream, to Viddler, and YouTube. I've engaged cloud-space storage, with redundant arrays of independent disks with large-scale servers. Currently working with a team on projects. White-boarding all-original broadcast quality content, scale-based advertising, and post-production features. I have published on-line eBooks and digital periodicals, helped to develop and enhance traffic to blogs and market offerings. Coded. Trapped errors. Work includes collaboration for re-formatting archives to digital, using virtual work-space environments. I'm currently involved in pod-casting, using internet radio and the interactive communication provides, for non-profits. I help clients, volunteers and my community in artistic research and development concepts. I build platforms for creative digital internet based production; I encourage knowledge sharing, an open-source exchange in this digital age, and I'm involved in promoting free education programs. I facilitate lectures, build special guest workshops, as a firm advocate of tinkering, multi-language programming experimentation, and cultural mediation through individual expression using new technologies. I also know how to optimize a search engine, make web pages, business eCards, do picture-framing, produce mat photography from digital images, with local support, for crowd-funding projects, CGI, library creation, single-board computers, robotics, and math-based computer modeling.

Fairabnks, Alaska

Framing walls, laying rafters and all the basics of building using balloon frame construction. Low cost to build and maintain, with an eye for net zero construction. Use of a variety of tools, air-driven nailers, staplers, and other power tools. From foundation and cement work to the shingles on the roof, tolerances of a newly built home, rivaling that of precision cabinetry. Seasonal position.

College, Alaska

The basics for keeping a historical landmark in the city open for business. Sweeping, dusting, mopping, and general daily cleaning. Maintaining a food-safe environment, disinfected bathrooms, to taking out the garbage. General duties included vacuuming the floors and wiping down all surfaces prior to portions of wood polish. Management cleaning supplies, sorting of the lost and found to replacing light bulbs on the deck.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Duties included topping trees which threatened homes and businesses, away from power and communication lines. Large branches shaved from old growth trees to disposal of that brush. Some cut down specifically for use as firewood, clearing land, for home and or business owners. Some trees were only pruned back and given fertilizer so as to promote healthy new growth, for integral components of the existing landscape. Seasonal position.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Intensive daily page making. Running the search results page according to relevance. Targeted searchs, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, even news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. Strategy for search engines made to work for what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines, applied to search engines preferred by a targeted audience.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Moving auctioned vehicles to a salvage yard where these vehicles were taken apart into their constituient components and sold for their parts. Wind shield removed, catalytic converters removed, etc. Some were piled to be sent to the crusher. All were recycled. Seasonal position.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Double trailers to Delta Junction IGA supermarket. Delivery of food to Eileson, Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright. Most difficult portion of the work, was using a sledge hammer to beat on the iced up braking system, to back semi-tractor up with doubles. Duties included keeping to routes seven days each week.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Construction of electrical power distribution circuits, included Delta Junction substation, BESS switching aparatus and fiberoptic communication lines between the largest battery in the world and the local SCADA headquarters at GVEA. NECA temp position.

Barrow, Alaska

Line maintainence from rolligon throughout natural gas fields and local homes which needed distribution upgrades. Fields were upgraded to Y2K standards. Finished the last upgrade on time and on budget.

Healy, Alaska

Construction of Hughes towers from helicopter, and tracked nodwell to connect the powergrids of Anchorage to Fairbanks in the mountains. NECA temp position.

Pouring quickly mixed concrete into forms pumped from mobile mixing platform dropped off by Vertol or Chinook in the mountain range from one anchor point to anchor point, from Healy toward Nenana. Project completed in September.

Anchorage, Kuparuk, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Distribution Upgrade to amour-jacketed cable, for the airport and powerplant. Project completed in March.

Fort Wainwright, Clear Afb, Alaska

Removal of overhead powergrid to an underground expanded system to support the newly upgraded solid state phased array radar platform for NORAD and DOD. Phase one of project complete in November of 2001. NECA temp position.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Holiday inventory control of a large warehouse, tracking parts which needed to be discounted in price for immediate sale or shipped back to corporate.

Construction of parts for the assembly of a metal building. Use of heli-arc, dual-shield, ironworking tools, press, drill punch, tracked gas cutting table, plasma cutting and intimate familiarity with blue prints. Part of the project involved building a spiral staircase from scrap metal pieced togther. Also made custom tool racks for vehicles and other custom automotive fabrication.

Valdez, Alaska

Dispatched to work outside of my classification made me rather unpopular. At berth four, the same place the Exxon Valdez had docked prior to the accident, my job was to follow the plans to upgrade the berth to the new Y2K standard. This involved being suspended by a harness over the rather cold ocean, welding cable racks for new control lines which ran throughout the complex. The day was spent between working in the fabrication shop up on the hill and being out on the berth itself. Welding stainless steel to the cable racks and carbon steel to the girder work within the complex was no small task. Eventually I was put in charge of my own crew on the night shift. After fifty nine miles of welds, and twenty odd X-ray tests, my work spoke for itself. The joint venture with Houston contractors was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. Project completed in August. NECA temp position.

Pulling vehicles out of the ditch, and towing them back to be fixed at the shop. On call 24/7

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Mid-winter trenching operation to replace faulty sections on the distribution grid. Cable termination and hi-pot testing during phase III conditions. Powerplant upgrades. Survived long enough to reconductor the city and go project complete two weeks ahead of schedule.

Detect. Identify. Kill bugs. Repeat.

Best way to learn every nook and cranny of Anchorage, Alaska is to have a couple piping hot pies in a bag in the backseat waiting to find their way to the dinner table or cheering college kids watching the game. Great job to have while attending college.

Trapper Creek, Houston, Palmer, Wasilla, Alaska

Construction and maintenance of electric power substations. Building new subdivisions throughout the Mat-Su valley. Involved trouble-shooting street lights and traffic signals, to relocating underground distribution class transformers to better locations. Seasonal position.

Elmendorf Afb, Eagle River, Alaska

Lay fiberoptic cable and new three phase power lines into underground utility easements along zero-lot line subdivisions to feed new circuits being constructed along the river. Trenching and directional boring operation, involved all the utilities for each subdivision, including MTA (telephone), MEA (power), and natural gas installation in the same trench.

Eklutna, Gakona, Anchorage Alaska

Directional boring operator, loading steel onto the deck during twelve hour shifts.

Anchorage, Alaska

Hot food delivered quick from my Jeep CJ7, trying to save money while going to college.

Well Street Warehouse, Fairbanks, Alaska

Full scale inventory of all items stored in the telecommunications warehouse, from fiber optic reels in the yard, to decommissioned telephone booths and microwave antenna. Duties included driving a load of billing paper to downtown center with forklift and moving items from powerplant to the MUS central storage area at the warehouse.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Clean, count and computerize an inventory of all aparatus and tools owned by the utility company. Included moving part of warehouse into new building, now still being used.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Worked in the floral department, shortly before taking over sporting goods.

Start time was four am. Cleaning the trays and racks which made every doughnut for every store without a bakery in the greater city of Fairbanks.

Fairbanks, Alaska

The basics of complete disassembly of a chainsaw and other small engines, fixing and reassembly of these tools in a small shop located just off of Phillips Field Road. Duties included sharpening blades, changing oils, and keeping inventory of stock on hand.

Fairbanks Alaska

Family owned and operated business. Clearing parking lots of debris on a bi-weekly basis, including snow removal during winter months. Basics of year-around street cleaning. Supported a client list of over five hundred individual home owners and business properties throughout the city of Fairbanks.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Gifted and Talented Program

Education record

Activities and Societies: Fairbanks Youth Symphony

Certified Electronics Technician, Rf Communications

Activities and Societies: Yearbook Committee

Applied Science

Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chess Club

Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Creative Anachronisms