John L. Southern
* *** *** **. ********, LA ***** 318-***-**** *************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE To obtain a position with a professional company
WORK Office Experience
EXPERIENCE ● Performing inventory & maintaining inventory control.
● Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable.
● Ordering & maintaining supplies & parts.
● General bookkeeping
● MS Office, Quickbooks, Autodata
● Meeting customers & maintaining customer accounts.
● Managed a crew of men as co-owner of a landscaping/lawn company
Construction Experience
● Performing inventory & maintaining inventory control.
● Building/Setting concrete driveways
● Building decks
● Building fences
● Building house pads
● Performing dirt work
● Job follow-up
Mechanical Experience
● Repairing & rebuilding small engines, gasoline & diesel engines, reciprocating air
compressors, rotary vane air compressors, rotary screw air compressors, rotary screw
vacuum pumps, and multi stage high pressure reciprocating compressors.
● Changing & replacing fuel pumps, oil pumps, water pumps, injector pumps, alternators,
radiators, and air/oil coolers.
● Replacing drive shafts, universal joints, drive couplings, clutch & throw out bearing, slave
cylinders, master cylinders, bearings, brakes, and rear ends.
Hydraulic Experience
● Replacing & rebuilding hydraulic pumps, gear boxes, & repacking cylinders.
● Replacing hoses & gauges.
● Experience with hydraulic conveyer systems.
Electrical Experience
● Replacing electric motors, contactors, capacitors, breakers, relays, auxiliary contacts,
overloads, transformers, transducers, solenoid valves, pressure switches, circuit boards,
& PLC’s.
● Troubleshooting electrical problems with engines & air compressors.
Plumbing Experience
Work
● Installing receiver tanks.
History
● Cutting & threading pipe, relief valves, regulators, gauges, and in line filters.
● Installing & servicing refrigerant & desiccant air dryers.
Rotary Screw & Reciprocating Air Compressor Specialist (Independent Contractor)
June 2008-Present Southern Pneumatics, Monroe, LA Self-employed
June 2005-June 2008 Hy-Air-Co, West Monroe, LA
Servicing rotary screw, reciprocating, and rotary vane air compressors and vacuum pumps
Installing new compressors, including electrical, plumbing, and receiver tanks
Troubleshooting & diagnosing problems with existing compressors. This includes electrical and
mechanical problems.
Replacing electric motors (includes all electrical components as well.)
Programming PLC’s
Rebuilding reciprocating compressors
Replacing drive couplings, pulleys, and gear drives.
Working on diesel and gas powered portable compressors
Ordering parts & maintaining working relationship with vendors
Setting appointments & maintaining working relationship with customers
Responsible for completing all paperwork for each job completed
Responsible for accounts receivable, and accounts payable
Driver & Service Technician
October 2003-June 2005 Ferrall Gas, West Monroe, LA
Delivered LPG (propane) to customers & collected payments
Installed tanks & necessary plumbing
Performed leak tests
Meeting customers and quoting jobs
Landscaping & Lawn Care
January 2001-June 2004 Southern Properties Landscaping, Monroe, LA
Owned & operated lawn & landscaping business
Made appointments & serviced accounts
Maintained equipment
Solicited new customers & billed customers
Meeting customers & quoting jobs
Managed crew of men
Surgical Technician
January 1999-September 2004 St. Francis Medical Center, Monroe, LA
Prepared the Operating Room for each surgical procedure
Assisted surgeons during surgery
Maintained a sterile field & cleaned room after surgery
Farm Manager
August 1995-August 1998 Monroe, LA
Operated a working thoroughbred broodmare horse farm
Responsible for feeding horses, administering vaccinations, doctoring, haying, and fencing
Assisted mares with delivering foals
CERTIFICATIO TWIC Card, Passport, Safegulf, BOSIET, and MMD/OS
NS
ULM & Delta Community College, Monroe, LA (30 hours college credit)
EDUCATION
I enjoy hunting, fishing, golf, and spending time with my family. I have a patent pending rice bran deer
feeder.
INTERESTS
REFERENCES Robert Sadler 318-***-****
Joey Scalia 318-***-****
Kerry McCoy 318-***-****