Objective
BE-IN CHARGE
Experience
Troy Townsend
1306 N.W. 11CT.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Phone: (954)865-0817
Objective: To secure a mechanic position where I can use and further develop existing civilian and naval rigging skills.
Work History: Boatswain Mate
October 1984-October 2004
UNITED STATES NAVY
Colonna’s shipyard
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Zieger crane
Highlights of Qualifications
• Over 15 years of effective experience as a United States Naval rigger
• Over 3 years as a civilian rigger
• Qualified signalman for 12 tons drydock wall cranes, 60 ton mobile cranes, and gantry cranes
• Proven ability to rig and move pumps, generators, forklifts, shafts, propellers, valves, delicate electronic equipment in confined and open space
• Success in learning and utilizing new systems and methods
• Reliable, detail oriented team player
• Professional integrity, strong morals, courage and honesty
• Professional integrity, strong morals, courage and honesty
• Adapt immediately to constantly changing circumstances
• Honorable Discharge DD -214
Education: High School Graduate
1980-1984 Hamilton County High, Jasper Florida
Employment:
USS San Diego AFS-6
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia
USS Shenandoah AD-44
USS Mount Whitney LCC-20
Nuclear Power School, Charlestown, South Carolina
Sima repair facility, Norfolk, Virginia
USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76
North Anna power station, Mineral, Virginia
Experience:
• Reviewed and tracked formal; and informal work package procedures requiring rigging to ensure that all recommended rigging requests were safe and within specifications
• Tested weight handling gear for strength by conducting vertical and horizontal pull tests at 100%- 125% of safe working load
• Experienced in determining the weight of a load by utilizing a dynameter
• Developed and planned rigging path for pumps, main sea water pumps, motors, and butterfly valves by determining size, shape, and location these objects
• Rigged and moved generators, cooling cores, reboilers, engines, and drill press machines with beam clamps, sub clamps, chain hoist falls, with single ply nylon, and triple ply nylon straps
• Installed rigging (dragline) to move cargo from storage place to hatch by fairland a wire pendant through snatch block
• Rigged a 15 ton forklift, JLG, utilizing bridle legs
• Ensured personnel rigging aloft wore safety harness with dyna-brake assemblies
• Applied basic knots such as a hitch used on logs, spars, and planks, bowline to put an eye in the center of a line, barrel hitch, clove hitch bowline on the bite of line, square knot to hoist and lower bulky objects
• Operated and signaled mobile cranes and overhead cranes
• Spliced Kevlar, double braided line, and three strand nylon
• Lockout/Tagout qualified
• Supervisor desk qualified-kept time for department or 50 personnel for the United States Navy
• Line Supervisor
• Fall Prevention/Fall Protection trained
Education
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
Certification
SAFETY
Skils
SHIPBOARD RIGGER