David L. Brock

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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-***-****

SKILLS

Electro-Mechanical Assembly

Reading Assembly Diagrams

Wire Harness Assembly

Wire Soldering and Brazing

Shipping/Receiving

Inventory Control

Construction

Data/File Management

Spreadsheet Analysis: Excel

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr. Citizen Aide & Handyman, (part-time, self-employed), Pittsburgh, PA.

5/92 - Present.

Assist Sr. Citizens and disabled persons in their home by performing various tasks such as bookkeeping, check-writing, driving to appointments, cleaning, outdoor landscaping, furniture moving.

Construction Worker, Premium Rentals, Pittsburgh, PA.

5/13 – 9/13.

Worked as a subcontractor for Premium Rentals to erecting outdoor addition to top floor of apartment building. Used various hand tools, including hammer, wrench, powered hand-held wood saw & metal cutter, circular wood saw, etc.

Document Coder/Prepper/Scanner (via Kelly Services), Pittsburgh, PA

9/12 – 3/13.

Coded, prepped, and scanned into Bank data-base customers’ private estate documents held in trust by Bank.

Mechanical Assembler, Zoll, Inc - Life Vest Division (via TOPS Staffing), RIDC Park, Blawnox, PA.

4/11-8/12.

Performed all stages of assembly for Therapy Electrode portion of “The Life Vest,” an external vest-like medical device worn by patients to prevent sudden-death from cardiac arrhythmia. (Laid off.)

Electro-Mechanical Assembler/Inventory Control Manager, Aethon Corp. (via JH Technical Services.), Robinson Twp., PA.

1/10-11/10.

Performed Electro-mechanical assembly as needed for a robotic transport manufacturer. Re-wrote poorly-worded assembly instructions that accompanied diagrams; received incoming parts and shipped finished products; stocked shelves; controlled inventory by tracking movement of parts from stockroom to completed products; devised new parts-locating system to greatly reduce part-access time. (Laid off due to severe decline in business.)

Mechanical Assembler, Medrad, Inc. (via Carol Harris Staffing), Blawnox, PA.

8/09-12/09.

Wired and assembled medical equipment subsystems. (Assignment completed.)

Assistant Manager (Seasonal, Full- and Part-time), Premium Rentals, Pittsburgh, PA.

7/07-3/11.

Managed all facets of rental operations: showed apartments, wrote and signed leases, assembled furniture, scheduled sub-contractors, purchased materials, made repairs, resolved tenant disputes, maintained buildings, kept records via computer.

Research Assistant/Copy Editor (Student Employment), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

1/87-10/89: Edited and proofread articles for the Pitt News.

2/86-11/86: Developed and assembled radon detection devices for the Radon Research Project, directed by Dr. Bernard Cohen, Dept. of Physics.

1/85-1/86: Hand-measured original patient exhalation graphs to extract respiration parameters for a national lung function study, directed by Dr. Mary Townsend, Dept. of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health.

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bachelor of Arts, Physics with Applied Mathematics

Minors: Computer Science, English

INTERESTS

Assemble (with soldering) electronic stereo amplifiers from kits according to written instructions and related diagrams.

ADDENDUM

Have relied heavily on Staffing Agencies, since applying directly to local companies for permanent employment has been largely unproductive.

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