Maintenance Technician

CHRISTOPHER A SMITH

**** ****** ****** • Parma, OH 44129

******@******.*** • 440-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Skillful, passionate and dedicated Reliability Maintenance Planner/CMMIS DBM with over 12

years extensive experience in the management, coordination, planning, and support of reliability

maintenance and project management functions.

Demonstrated capacity to provide comprehensive maintenance management and support for

engineering and technical staff including scheduling, coordinating, problem solving, and

effectively managing all essential tasks.

Proven track record of accurately completing research, reviewing and quality control of

essential maintenance functions.

Adept at developing and maintaining detailed administrative and procedural processes that

reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency, and achieve organizational objectives.

Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations; able

to identify goals and priorities and resolve issues in initial stages.

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, DataStream 7i and Oracle E-

Business Suite, as well as, various other maintenance and reliability management systems.

Excel at directing a cohesive staff in the successful attainment of objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CHARTER STEEL – Cleveland, OH 2007 to Present

Reliability Maintenance Management/Planner and Scheduler

Provide high-level maintenance management support to engineering, technical and operational

staff of leading manufacturer of steel wire and rod with over $50 million in annual revenues.

• Increased equipment reliability by 15% by developing and implementing a thorough

reliability centered maintenance plan that included preventive, predictive and corrective

procedures using data collection and analysis.

• Developed, promoted and achieved a positive and productive team atmosphere within the

maintenance group while working closely with QA, Production, Engineering and Logistics

departments to establish common priorities, objectives and goals.

• Planned and scheduled all machine maintenance and generated follow-up work orders.

• Strategically reorganized the Preventive/Predictive Maintenance schedule to exceed ISO

Standards.

• Organized and led weekly maintenance planning, scheduling and training meetings.

• Served as maintenance engineer during major plant outages, ensuring that all scheduled work

was completed on time and within budget.

• Conducted Failure Mode and Root Cause Analysis in order to avoid future failures.

• Working knowledge of Statistical Process Control, Operational Equipment Efficiency, Life

Cycle Cost Analysis and Six Sigma.

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UNITED STATES NAVY – Norfolk, VA. 1994 to 2007

Electronic Warfare Technician - Departmental Maintenance Coordinator

Multifaceted, energetic and driven maintenance manager with strong leadership skills. Served as

Departmental Maintenance Coordinator/Manager for 6 Divisions, responsible for over 300

pieces of electronic equipment and over 75 personnel.

• Reviewed, verified and updated departmental maintenance database; resulting in a significant

increase in system reliability and obtaining a 98% accuracy rating during maintenance audits.

• Efficiently managed in excess of 75 maintenance team members including Divisional

Supervisors, Team Leaders, and Multi-skilled technicians.

• Mentored 10 junior technicians as Lead Technician, in conducting proper maintenance.

• Supervised contractors and divisional personnel during shipyard periods.

• Troubleshot and repaired electrical systems which led to unprecedented system reliability.

• Performed functional and continuity check with multimeter and other forms of test equipment

to isolate system malfunctions.

• Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on Combat Systems equipment.

• Experienced in reading electrical schematics, blueprints and technical manuals.

SELECTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

C ommended by Fleet Technical Support Command-Atlantic for expert grooming of

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Electronic Warfare system; resulting in the first “Fault Free” system seen in years.

A pplauded by Fleet Technical Support Command-Atlantic Senior Civilian Technical Staff

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for dedicated assistance during C5RA Technical Assists for 6 different ships; resulting in a

greater knowledge and efficiency throughout waterfront.

D eveloped new corrective maintenance procedure for AN/SLQ-32 Antenna fan unit

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casualty; which has been adopted and set as standard.

E ffectively and efficiently conducted troubleshooting and repair of a catastrophic High

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Voltage Power Supply failure, restoring system to 100% peak operational readiness;

resulting in being the first ship to receive a passing score at ULM-4 radar sensitivity range.

P ersonally coordinated shipboard alteration for installation of NULKA Active

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Countermeasures System onboard USS Mahan, to include updating of ship drawings,

combat systems manuals and ship-wide system integration.

D eveloped and implemented comprehensive ship-wide maintenance plan for Passive

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Countermeasure System (PCMS); resulting in one of the best PCMS evaluations on the

waterfront.

C ommended by Fleet Admiral for maintenance and troubleshooting support of 5 separate

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ships; increasing Battle Group Mission Readiness.

R ecognized by Battle Group Admiral for work conducted on the update and refurbishment

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of all Super Rapid Blooming Off-board Chaff Launchers and systems.

C ommended by Commanding Officer for diligent work on tracking down and repairing vital

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communication fault between NTDS and AN/SLQ-32.

R ecognized by Commanding Officer for 98% Accuracy rating during ship-wide

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Maintenance Audit.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Navy Basic Electronics and Electricity

• AN/SLQ-32(v)3 Maintenance Honor Graduate

• EW Support Systems

• EW Advanced Electronics

• FTSCLANT- Journeyman Technician

• Electronics Technician

• Fire Controlman

• Departmental Maintenance Manager

• Divisional Maintenance Supervisor

• Maintenance Work-Center Supervisor

• 9th House Team Leadership Training

Graduate of numerous management and leadership training programs.

AWARDS:

Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist

Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal – 3 Awards

Multiple Letters of Commendation from Admirals, Commanding Officers and Civilian Technical

Support Staff.

Education: Pursuing Electrician Certificate

Penn Foster College

Member: Association of Maintenance Professionals

G overnment TS/SCI : Granted 3/16/2005 (Inactive)

SYSTEMS AND SKILLS

Navy NEC: 1734-AN/SLQ-32(V) 3 Maintenance Technician

Leadership Management Maintenance Scheduling/Planning

Electrical Safety Hydraulics/Pneumatics Basic Pipefitting Motor Controllers

Overhead Cranes Troubleshooting Schematics AC/DC Circuits

AC/DC Motors 120/440/480VAC 3-Phase Electronics/Electrical

Logistics MRO Control Logistics Training

Forklift (Op) Man-Lift (Op) Front Loader (Op) Skid Steer (Op)

MIL-STD ORACLE CMMS/EAM Microsoft Project

MS Excel MS Word MS Access MECHREL/RAPTOR

Keywords: Maintenance Management, Maintenance Engineering, Reliability Engineering,

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Maintenance Technician, Electronics Technician,

Electrical Technician.

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