Real Estate Construction
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Paul B. Gantt
Irvington, Al. 36544
Cell 770-***-****
Home 251-***-****
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Most recently:
February 12, 2008 to February 24, 2010
Most recently 1st class shipfitter (on my tools) but prior to November of
2009 as Craft Supervisor of Shipfitters and Welders with Atlantic Marine,
Inc. Pinto Island, Alabama (Mobile, Al)
Responsibilities included: Schedule projects, responsible for making budget
and production on panel line in the assembly of 650' Chemical Tankers for
SHELL/AHL. Personally supervised (with the aid of 2 technicians) up to 20
ship-fitters and 12 welders, arranged for the final lifting (Install lift
and turn Lugs per Alion Drawings), and the transporting of units to other
work stations. Unit weights were upwards of 40 tons. Responsibilities also
include budget, planning and review and changes to drawings and work
packages. Arrange and met with ABS and Owner Reps', Lloyds of London and
USCG inspectors for assembly inspections.
Manage timesheets for all crafts, order material and consumables. Oversee
the operation of the One Sided welding (OSW) apparatus, Lincoln. Oversee
automated stiffener welder, 8 heads capacity, 2 each 20 ton over-head
cranes in 12,800 sq 'shop. I personally perform day to night shift
work/project turnovers to insure quality communication between the 2
shifts.
Experience: I am Familiar with all types of steel fabrication, (boats,
drill rigs, pipe laying barges, tanks etc.) bows, sterns, engine rooms,
inner-bottoms, anchor chutes, bulwarks, decks, rigging, tanks, stairways,
handrails, etc... Familiar with pre-fabrication and major unit
fitting/pulling together of 1,200' ocean going vessels, LNG Tankers (Liquid
Nitrogen Gas), Nuclear Submarines... also construction of oil, well
drilling and pipe laying barges, tanks, and major and minor assemblies.
Also, as a 1st. class ship-fitter I built 75' to 225' oil supply boats,
shrimp boats and scallop dredgers, barges, tugboats etc... while employed
with Eastern Marine of Panama City, Fl.
I have pulled plate, side-shells, bottom shell, and main deck plates, set
Focsle decks and Focsle and Pilot Houses etc... I have installed and
aligned engines, propellers, propeller shafts, rudders, flanking rudders,
cort nozzles and bow thrusters on small and large boats and ships, and
built handrails and stairways.
July 1975 to June 1993
Highly skilled and highly trained in lay-out work, swing arcs, radiuses'
and angles. Verify layouts with Diagonal checks, Parabolas and Matrix
check. I am proficient in frame building, read blueprints very well and
able to mentally transfer to the upside-down or sideways construction of
steel hull ship/units.
1st class Master ship-fitter designation given by General Dynamics of
Quincy, Mass. in 1985. Know and use the 3,4,5 (or whatever multiples of
same) method of squaring large units and welmonts or layout for cutting and
squaring large plates, units etc. I am familiar with Transit and/or
waterline leveling. Have built small tugboats and fishing vessels as well
as large ships and barges etc...
Crane operator of overhead cranes requiring manned cock-pit or hand-held
and/or cherry picker types with extending boom (up to 4o ton capacity).
Also am familiar with tank testing.
March 1993 to March 2003
President and owner of Gantt Trucking, Inc. 9.5 Years
Owned and dispatched 10 eighteen-wheelers in transporting freight (dry and
refrigerated) across the lower 48 states and Canada.
Prior to starting company I personally logged over 1.25 million (accident
free) miles across the United States and Canada.
March 2003 to December 2006 = 3.75 years:
Real estate agent in Florida, Panama City area.
Coldwell Banker Carroll Realty, Inc. of Panama City, Fl.
Received the Diamond Award for 2004 placing in the Top 16% of Coldwell
Banker agents, Nationwide. Self-Marketed, self motivated.
Skilled in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Publisher.
Excellent verbal skills, good phone manner, personable
and have a hard work ethic.
August 2007 to December 21, 2007:
1st. class Welder/Fabricator employed by Porter Steel in Lilburn, Ga.
fabricating various structural beams, stairways and handrails for steel
building construction. Performed the fitting and welding of pipe, square
tubing, channel iron, angle and I-beams etc. with mig-gun flux core and non-
flux core .30 and .35 wire, and involved in all aspects of fabrication from
the reading of prints to the construction, then to shipping of product.
Porter Steel in Lilburn, Ga.
You may contact my Supervisor: Darryl Porter and/or Lowe Porter at
Coldwell Banker Carroll Realty, Inc. in Panama City, Fl.
You may contact my supervisor: Larry Carroll at 850-***-****.
Personal references:
Charlie Corley of Mobile, Al. 251-***-**** known 22 months
Vincent Price of Panama City, Fl. 850-***-**** known 4 years
Ronnie Posey of Panama City, Fl. 850-***-**** known 25 years
Susan Morrison of Panama City, Fl. 850-***-**** known 4 years
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