James R. Little
(Jimmy Little)
Snyder, Texas, **549, Cell: 318-***-****
ac7hyg@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
I am looking for a full-time, permanent job in the survey construction field.
RELATED SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Familiar with the construction of roads, bridges, dams, pipelines, oil and gas drill pad and lease roads, airports, golf courses, residential developments, state parks, power plants (coal, gas, and nuclear), ethanol plants, gas plants, overland conveyors, chemical factories and sawmills.
Can read maps, construction prints and shop drawings of all types.
Completed all kinds of land surveys in several states including: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
Quality control on nearly every job that I have worked on to some degree.
Equipment used include: Topcon, Sokia, Lietz, David White, Pentax, gps (Trimble,Epoch and Topcon), sdr 33, Tds Survey Pro, Rams Partychief, and HP 20 -200. Many more.
Instruments and software programs used in survey fields include: Autocad, Carlson survey, TDS Foresight, Trimble Site controller, and word processing software’s.
Equipment used include: dozers, blades, track hoes, rubber-tired hoes, loaders, rollers, forklifts, frontend loaders, and asphalt lay down machines of all different sizes.
Managerial experience in that I have also been a Foreman, General Foreman and Superintendant over many trades.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
10/2018_present T&L
Equipment operator, work in West Texas Oil Field and Gas field
08/2017 _ 09/2017 Areotek[1]
Survey Party Chief
07/2015 _ 06/2017 Blackjack Energy
Survey Party Chief / Superintendent
Working Oil and Gas industries as well as TXDOT
07/2014 – 02/2015 Land Point Inc
Survey Party Chief
Working in the oil and gas field in Northwestern Louisiana
11/2013 – 7/2014 Renzenberger
Drive transport van for BNSF crews
01/2012 – 10/2013 Self-employed
07/2011 – 12/2011 ICM
Quality Control personal and survey
Shot all stock piles
Ran aggregate tests
Helped maintain densities on asphalt jobs.
Loader operator
02/2008 – 07/2011 Self-employed
Owner / Operator
Grill
Cattle ranch
Subcontractor for survey companies
04/2007- 02/2008 T.I.C. (THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY), Gillette, WY
Survey party chief, General Foreman, Civil Foreman
Responsible for all layouts of location and elevation for civil, iron and mechanical at an ethanol plant in Nebraska.
Civil foreman on a 2 mile overland conveyor at Black Thunder coal mine in Wright,WY.
10/2003 - 03/2007 A LITTLE SURVEY COMPANY, Tyler, TX
Owner / Operator
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries and quality control for entire job.
Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes for a rework on a golf course and new residential area adjoining the course.
07/2002 - 09/2003 DDM SURVEY, Henderson, TX
Chief of Parties
Make exact field measurements and determine property boundaries.
Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes for TX dot.
09/1999 - 07/2002 T.I.C. (THE INDUSTRIAL CO.) Franklin, GA and San Marcos TX
Survey, General Foreman (Civil, Millwrights and Cranes)
Take field measurements and determine proper layout for power plants. Provide data relevant to location and elevation for proper installment and for construction, and other purposes, such as quality control.
Responsible for all location and elevation as head of survey with 5 crews.
Hung out all filter houses and all heavy iron on overhead cranes.
11/1998 - 09/1999 WRIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND EXCAVATION, Longview, TX
Surveyor and operator
Determine elevations and location for extending runway for an emergency shuttle landing strip at Gregg County airport and reclamation of old runways.
Operate dozers and blades
04/1998 -11/1998 A.K. GILLIS, Henderson, TX
Surveyor and operator
Determine location and elevation for Gilmer Lake project and second part of Loop 323 around Henderson, Texas
Determined haul routes to speed up haul loads and Work with quality control for aggregate used on projects.
Operated track hoes, dozers, blades, and scrapers
06/1993 -04/1998 SOUTHERN STATES EQUIPMENT, Henderson, TX
Surveyor and operator
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries.
Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
Took survey measurements for a variety of projects including roads, lakes, state parks, airports, dams, bridges, quantities of stock piles and overburdens. Quality control for all aspects of the job.
Reclamation of several different projects such as railroads, highways, dams, lakes, open-pit mines, and others.
Operate track hoes, dozers, blades, rollers, and lay down machines
05/1987 -09/1991 SUNLAND CONSTRUCTION, Yantis, LA
Surveyor/Equipment Operator
Layout of pipeline
Operate track hoes, dozers, blades and side booms
EDUCATION HISTORY
2009 University of Wyoming – Survey class Vocational
1991 Kilgore College –Vocational and basics
1986 Henderson High School – High School Diploma
REFERENCES
Ricky Crank, Project Manager, Land Point Inc.
Business known for 6 year(s)
Mark Tooke, PLS, Land Point Inc.
Business known for 6 year(s)
Jessy Spielman, Civil Superintendant, T.I.C
1714 Ohara Drive
Gillette, WY 82716
Business reference known for 11 year(s).
Tommy Erikson, tool man
2305 Eagles nest
Gillette, WY 82716
Personal reference known for 10 year(s)
Jeff Miller, Foreman and Blademan
Big Spring, Texas
Business and Personal reference for 5 year(s)
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