Objective
My overall goal is to find a steady job on a boat that will allow me to continue my career in the maritime community. It is my intention is to become a ships captain at some point in the future I would ideally prefer to be underway as much as possible even though I do have a family with children. I am not afraid of hard work, in fact I thrive on adversity and challenge.
Experience
Jan-1-1999 Boat maintenance Assistant at Jupiter inlet Yacht
Feb-15-2000 Which entailed a wide variety of duties such as General and specific boat maintenance/upkeep.
Oct-21-2001 United States Coast Guard
Oct-22-2006 Active Duty of 5 Yrs. completed and Resigned to seek out other opportunities. My job started as a lot of training with schools such as advanced shipboard firefighting at tra-cen Yorktown in VA. Which entailed firefighting, shoring, repair of watertight closures, and general knowledge and procedures. My first ship was a 175' buoy tender which I lived on for 2 Yrs. I was fully qualified to be a Buoy Rigger, Lookout, Firefighting team leader, Watchmen, Buoy lantern technician, Underway Officer of the day, and Quarter master of the watch. All that I mentioned had to be acheived by an oral board consisting of multiple qualified personnel.
I then transferred to Station Portsmouth on the Chesapeake Bay to then shift all my knowledge to Maritime law enforcement and Boating safety. I then recieved my qualifications in Watchstander which entails keeping specific documentations/Logs of all ship movements pertaining to the station and keeping live comms Via radio with all underway ships/boats in our Area of responsibility while maintaining all logs and records. I then went to Coxswain 'C' school and Qualified in my "Nav rules" and became Coxswain Qualified for which I headed up many underway patrols and public safety interventions. My final qualifications were 'Boarding team member'(BTM) and Boarding Officer which gave me the authority to Arrest and Detain on a Federal level. During all I have mentioned I was also head of multiple departments such as: Master at arms, Charts and Pubs maintenance which entailed double checking waypoints and navigational hazards on updated charts and making corrctions for our Area of resonsibility, Boatkeeper of a multitude of different boats which entailed maintenance/upkeep/Re-order and replace key components of all our stations Vessels. I had allmost finished Deck Watch Officer which is a more scenario based Rules of the road.
May-2008 Network Analyst/Administrator in Costa Rica
-Now
Education
Started my MCSE at ECPI in Virginia but was only able to get funding for part due to the explanation by the CG that it was not job related.
Certification
A+ certification for Computers
Skils
Navigation
Firefighting
Boat handling
ships Maintenance
Lookout