LARRY FIRESTONE
**** * ***** **. ? Spokane, WA **205
509-***-**** ? abkimo@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position as a Dock Worker planning, inspecting, shipping,
purchasing, receiving parts or structures, offering five years of drafting
experience in addition to four years of quality control experience.
EDUCATION
ITT Technical Institute Spokane
Valley, WA March 2002-March 2004
A.A.S. Computer Drafting & Design
Graduate: March 2004
Cumulative Academic GPA 3.68
Highest Honors in all semesters
March 2002-March 2004
National Honor Society
March 2004-to present
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
Shipping/Receiving
1. Certified Forklift operator
2. Facilitate daily walk around inspections to ensure proper operation of
equipment
3. Manage loading and unloading of all equipment and tools with no
incidents
4. Maintain safe and clean working environment resulting in 100 percent
customer satisfaction and approval
5. Package and wrap all items to be shipped with no damage to parts or
tools
6. Created packing slips so all information was clear to vendor receiving
parts or tools
7. Organized and schedule pickups so all parts and tools arrive on schedule
Purchasing
8. Communicate with vendors and receive all parts on schedule allowing for
successful completion of aircraft
9. Create aircraft part flow charts to track and deliver all parts to
personnel
10. Attend management morning meetings resulting in parts needed to be
expedited and received in accordance with maintenance schedule
11. Inventory all parts allowing for flow and issue to personnel to be
monitored and coordinated
12. Review any discrepancies with vendors improving customer relations
13. Maintain schedule of project complying with customer changes and
requests
Quality Control
. FAA certified quality assurance inspector
14. Effectively improved the quality control department by having no non-
compliances written by the FAA in time of employment
15. Efficiently wrote purchase orders to vendors supplying the parts needed
for conversion
16. Oversaw and instructed machinists and fabricators to alleviate any
errors improving equipment quality
17. Managed and maintained QA by reviewing with other inspectors all areas
regarding quality
18. Oversaw all aspects of quality in the manufacturing and distribution of
aircraft parts
19. Motivate employees to work well as a team to accomplish daily goals and
task
Communication
20. Read and apply the skills out of the Operating Procedures handbooks to
eliminate errors
21. Create and improve customer relation skills to promote the company
LARRY FIRESTONE
5427 N Elgin St. ? Spokane WA 99205
509-***-**** ? abkimo@r.postjobfree.com
Bookkeeping
. Established written procedures involved in checking in aircraft for
conversions
. Reviewed all logs associated with the owners of aircraft saving hours on
the airframe time
. Ensured that all books and items from aircraft were accounted for upon
time of arrival
. Wrote entries in log books leading to the correct maintaining of all
accomplishments done by the company
. Organized a completion package approved by FAA regulations which caused
excellent customer morale during time of aircraft delivery
Computer Drafting & Design
22. Software: AutoCAD 2000i, AutoCAD architectural 2000i, AutoCAD2004i,
AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD architectural 2008, Mechanical Desktop 5, Inventor,
Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
23. Designed parts that resulted in the successful completion of aircraft
conversions
24. Measured and calculated the correct design data off of aircraft to
ensure reproduction of parts
25. Assisted in the completion of structural tests designed to test the
integrity of aircraft
26. Maintained a balanced work environment with co-workers resulting in the
assigned tasks to be completed
27. Worked with the engineering, fabrication, welding, painting, and
electrical personnel to establish correct drawings in which all related
personnel would be able to read and apply
Planner
28. Organize and review packages for the aircraft conversions and
maintenance to ensure no errors
29. Establish the amount of man-hours needed to complete the project
ensuring appropriate delivery date
30. Read and analyze all information in customer packages to create
excellent communication between managers and customer
31. Maintain communication with customers representatives to conduct and
facilitate any changes to the customers product
32. Attend management meetings to ensure all aspects of conversion and
maintenance are on schedule
OTHER EMPLOYMENT.
Rocket Engineering Corporation Spokane, WA
March 2004-December 2008
Draftsman/Quality Control Manager
Draft and design aircraft parts for Piper Malibu and Mirages, Beechcraft
Duke B-36's and the
Beechcraft P-Baron
Inspect dimensions on parts with one hundred percent precision; send parts
to be powder-coated,
bead blasted, zinc chromated, anodized, epoxy primed, black t coated
and zinc plated
Organize material review board for parts that do not conform
Submit additional information to FAA documents 337 and 8130-3
Check dates for tool recalibration
Cascade Aerospace USA Spokane, WA
April 2009-April 2010
Forklift operator/Draftsman/Planner/Receiver/Purchaser
. Draft and Design parts for private 757 aircraft
. Plan out all phases of maintenance for aircraft
. Receive all parts and tools check for any discrepancies
. Purchase all parts needed to complete aircraft
LARRY FIRESTONE
5427 N Elgin St. ? Spokane, WA 99205
509-***-**** ? abkimo@r.postjobfree.com
MILITARY HISTORY
United States Navy
Worldwide September 1997-September 2000
Plane Captain - E3
Honorable Discharge
. Examine and evaluate the integrity of aircraft by applying attention to
detail skills, maintaining safe flying conditions for the pilot
33. Coordinate aircraft servicing to render hydraulic fluids and oil within
normal operating levels
34. Demonstrated initiative by ensuring aircraft were cleaned, serviced and
prepared for launch for every scheduled flight
35. Contributed Significantly to maintaining an extremely high state of
operational readiness in support of Operation Southern Watch
36. Managed as work center Hazmat Petty Officer resulting in zero hazmat
discrepancies
37. Trained personnel to assume a level of integrity needed when working
around the aircraft
38. Initiated correct and clear hand signals during launch resulting in
excellent communication with the pilot
39. Safely inspected launched and recovered all aircraft in accordance with
Naval regulations
* "Good Conduct" Award - Three Years
COMMUNITY SERVICE
. Serving meals to the homeless
. Provide Christmas gifts to less fortunate
. Counsel inmates at Spokane County jail
INTERESTS
Fishing, hunting, dirt-biking, camping, martial arts, weight training, and
pencil sketching.