MARVIN P HARPER
San Antonio, TX 78253
*********@*****.***
Objective: Seeking a position as a MIG Welder
Summary of Qualifications: Certified Welder; Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance; Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
Relevant Experience:
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers .
Education:
Baytown Community College
Education Level: 1year college, technical or vocational school Graduated: No
Harry A Burke High School
Education Level: High School Diploma/GED Graduated: Yes
Current State of Texas Driver’s License Class C
Basic Computer Skills
Marvin Harper
13014 Cipresso Palco
San Antonio,tx 78253
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Objective Seeking a position as a Welder where I can utilize my skills and experience to exceed company goals. Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
Experience
July 2012 –November 2012
Burke & Co.
Welder, fabrication
March 2012-June 2012
Meadow-Burke Products
Welder, robot operator
Feb 2011-March 2012
U-HAUL MOVING & STORAGE
Ass. General Manager
Rent, repair trucks and trailers, supervise customer service employees, accounting, receive stock, do inventory, and set up work schedules.
March 2010– February 2011
Aerotek - Texas
inspector
Quality inspections on production line; discard or reject products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications. Analyze and interpret blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment and certification methods, formulas, and measuring instruments required. Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, and work for conformance to specifications. Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assist in identifying and correcting these problems
July 1998 - December 2008
Marvin P Harper - San Antonio, Texas
Owner, OTR long-haul trucking
June 1994 - February 1997
Mass. Trans. construction - Norfolk, Massachusetts
Welder
February 1991 - April 1994
Triple E Transportation - New Orleans, Louisiana
OTR truck driver
truck driver, pick up, deliver freight
August 1987 - December 01, 1991
Essmuiler inc - Laurel, Mississippi
welder
weld steel, stainless steel, galvanized steel to spec per blueprints
October 1985 - June 1987
House implements - Laurel, Mississippi
welder
weld steel to spec per blueprints
July 1978 - May 1987
brown & root - Galvisten, Texas
welder, screw pipe fitter
weld and fit screw pipe/pipe as per spec with blueprints
Education
Baytown Community College
Education Level: 1 year college, technical or vocational school
Graduated: No
Harry A Burke High School
Education Level: High School Diploma/GED
Graduated: Yes
Certifications
Massachusetts highway department - Boston, Massachusetts
welder
Certification
Issued: Feb 11, 1998