TY CURTIS

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Roy, Wa. *****

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ad3uyb@r.postjobfree.com

Objective I would like to obtain employment that is mutually beneficial for my employer and myself as well.

Work experience

09/2023-Present: Quality Inn Hotel

Tacoma, Wa.

Maintenance

My maintenance experience from the water company and my experience doing home remodels both proved invaluable at this job. I was hired over the phone and when I showed up at the hotel nobody was expecting me. With no greeting or orientation, I simply asked if someone could point me in the direction of the maintenance office that the lady manager had told me was in complete disarray. When I walked into the maintenance area I noticed that the door needed repaired. Also, the place was a disaster. I looked at the mess, took off my jacket and started cleaning. At one point I thought I had an office that was stacked literally to the ceiling with boxes of air filters and lightbulbs. When the manager text me to apologize for being over two hours late for our meeting in person I told her not to worry, that I was starting off with cleaning and inventory. And the inventory lead me to the most neglected areas of the hotel by the maintenance men before me because the boxes stacked in my "office" were dated back to 2020 and 2019, so some of the air filters hadn't been changed in over 4 years. Lights were failing, door jams kicked in, had to rebuild smart door locks and install security latches on the exterior doors, torch down roof repair where two rooms had been leaking, carpet removal because of pet odor and laminate flooring installation. That first day I cleaned all day and at one point I thought my "office" would be cleaned and ready for my start the next day. Once I got the level of stored goods down to ground level on one side I didnt think anything when I found a toilet sitting in the corner. I had found every other component in every room all over the whole larger maintenance area. It wasn't until I cleaned off my "desk" and found a sink in the middle and then noticed the hand soap dispenser on the wall that I realized that my "office" was a bathroom. With no door even thought there were three doors leaning against the wall in the bathroom. It was a difficult job because they wouldn't give me keys to the storage rooms, and I had two SUV loads of tools there for the various projects that we had going on, so it made it too challenging for me to store my tools properly and I got some tools stolen. Too many tools for me to haul around in my truck all the time. It wasnt bad when I found a larger ground floor room that never rented out to park my tool cart in at night that I could safely store my tools and also could access them at night or over a weekend if need be at home. It would have been a great job for me had the management understood the main objective of maintenance once preventative measures hadn't been taken properly. Especially when you are just one or two guys in a 100 hotel. When you fix things, you fix them so that you don't have to come back to them again. At one point the manager wanted me to install new fire door latches on an exterior door that was literally only hanging by its bottom hinge. The door was so butchered that there wasn't any flat spots left to move the hinges to, so I swapped the whole door out with one of the doors I found in the bathroom in maintenance. It was a metal exterior door the exact width of the door jam. I installed the door correctly so that I could mount the new fire door latch. The manager was beside herself. Carrying on about the fire marshal because she thought because the door was white that it wasn't the right kind of door, but it was. When her manager came to ask me why I had changed the whole door I explained that I couldn't install the latch properly with the door hinging askew. Another time this manager took me to a room that someone had kicked the door in and wanted me to repair the door jam that was completely splintered. It needed completely replaced, but under her orders I ended up predrilling the busted fragments of door frame and counter-sinking a half dozen three-inch screws through the door jam to make it at least solid again on the latch side. At the water company I learned the value of preventative maintenance. At Quality Inn it was basically putting out fires every day from the lack of preventative maintenance of the maintenance men before me. Nobody really liked me, but I could change a toilet in any room in either building inside of 45 minutes and I could wire up whole hallways of lights in a day by myself without a ladder. I am 6 foot 3 inches tall. I would have kept working there, but eventually I had to have it out with the lady that hired me because my instructions were getting obscured. They had me changing the same lights over and over again. The manager of my shift would get the installation instructions from the branch manager that hired me and then she would walk around the hotel and show me exactly where each of the fixtures went. Then a couple of days later they would have me taking them down and moving them somewhere else. The day manager had shown me the wrong locations for the different light styles. At one point I was counting fixtures to see which hallway had the same number as the lights I had in inventory. Her and I didn't see eye to eye over that. I put the lights exactly where the day manager showed me to put them, but when they had me moving them for the third time I wanted the branch manager to come and show me for herself where the lights were to go because I had put them everywhere the day manager asked and didn't want to be moving all of the same fixtures a fourth time.

02/2022-09/2023 Self Employed

During this period of time, I had been restoring an old motorcycle on my long weekends away from the gravel plant, and when it was finished, I sold it for a pretty hefty profit, so I kept rolling the money over and bought two more motorcycles and another lift with the profits from the first sale and did that until I had 4 lifts and was selling a bike a month. Sales however diminish in the winter months, and I had to sit on most of my inventory until the following spring. My grandmother told me that if I enjoyed what I did for a living that I would never work a day in my life. Unfortunately turning something that you enjoy into a job can also have the opposite effect on your hobby. So, then what do you do in your spare time? I am too old to start a rock band.

08/2020-02/2022 Pacific Northwest Pavers Inc.

Loader Operator

At this small 8-man company I was the front-end loader operator for a gravel plant in Black Diamond Washington. I was responsible for excavating the material and sifting through it to sort out large boulders before feeding it into the hopper that fed the plants rock crushing machinery. The laborers would almost look offended if I came down out of my front-end loader to help clean up or do repairs when the plant was stopped for maintenance or repairs, but I explained to them that I must keep busy, or my day will drag on forever. I am not the type of person that finds any type of work beneath me. I would get to work a half hour to 45 minutes before the plant fired up every day to do my preventative maintenance and have my loader prepped, warmed up and ready when the plant fired up. It was straight forward job. I would dig up the material and move it to a pile closer to the hopper, and then I could get a look at each scoops contents as I dumped it onto my feed pile, pick out any rocks larger than 2-foot diameter, and keep the hopper full so that the plant had a constant feed of clean material to make gravel out of. 10 hours a day, 4 days a week. I really enjoyed this job, but eventually we cleared the whole 10-acre plot that we had the rights to and lowered it’s elevation by 25 feet. The rest of the company came from Forks Washington and traveled with the company to various sites that the company had the mineral rights to while I stayed behind since the rest of the sites were too far away for me to commute to.

11/2018 - 07/2020 Lead Point Industries

Leadpoint Business Services,

Spanaway, WA

Mid-shift Loader Operator

I started out running the Harris and American Balers. baling the recycled materials that the system separated. Then they had a shortage of forklift drivers, so I was cleared to drive a forklift. I explained to the manager that I had previously been a heavy equipment operator for several companies and when he asked if I knew how to drive a loader, I explained that I could drive everything that they had for equipment. (Genie lift, Pettibone, skid steer loader, clamp forklift, yard dog.) and I was immediately offered the job of mid-shift loader operator. I then drove a 930k front end loader for loading trucks and pushing material onto conveyor belts to be baled. I also pushed and stacked recyclable materials that were dumped by a never-ending parade of garbage trucks that I had to guide and watch like a hawk or they would dump their stuff anywhere and take off. After the trucks dumped, I would push the material forward so that it would be readily available to be loaded onto the walking floor that fed the system that separates most of the materials so that they can be baled. I also learned a lot of other people's jobs due to broken down equipment. I would find things to keep myself busy no matter how menial the job might seem. Nobody ever had to find me anything to do. I would clean the machines that were broken down and then grab a broom and shovel and circle the plant cleaning. Eventually I got to the point where I was covering people for their breaks for the whole second half of my day and basically performing all the duties of a supervisor without the title or the pay. I called in just after covid 19 hit the states and was told to stay home for two weeks or go get tested for covid. I wanted the time off as I had been working 60+ hours a week for well over a year straight with no vacation. When I came back to work all the supervisors had quit and all the new supervisors were people that I had helped train, and I even told the manager in his office that I didn't think that there was any way for me to advance above where I was at because they didn't save a supervisor position for me. From that point on I had to coach the new supervisors the order that we had to do things and why because the system produces different materials at different rates of speed. So as not to let any of the bunkers overfill and back up into the system. I had worked 12hour days almost every day 6 days a week prior to my two weeks off. I was there and hour before everybody else and I was often the last one to leave as there wasn't anybody who knew how to run the balers and nobody wanted to learn. It was a nasty job and I feel as though management took advantage of me by promoting people that I had trained to positions above me several times because nobody else could keep the balers running like I could. I learned a lot of Spanish as most of the workers spoke Spanish only. I really liked the people. Especially the immigrants.

01/2013 - 10/2018 Greenhawk Construction

Graham, WA

Project Manager/Foreman

My brother and I started Greenhawk Construction so that we could do remodel work in the Pierce County area because we didn't like driving up north to do jobs for Curtis Custom Construction. Right away we contracted a full remodel for a rental company named Invitation Homes. Invitation Homes would buy houses and remodel them and rent them out nationwide, so my brother and I had more than enough work for just the two of us and we both had to hire a couple of helpers. The houses ranged in condition from just needing paint and a few minor repairs to being waste deep in garbage. We also got a contract from a homeowner’s association to side condominiums, but their funding was limited so we sided what we could each year on the $1.2 million in repairs that they needed until their funding would need to be replenished. We also picked up a lot of jobs from the owners of the condos who wanted upgrades to the insides of their condos. Everything was going great until my brother married. Then all the sudden he had trouble making payroll every Friday and our helpers always got paid first because we needed them back on Monday, and my brother and I were financially able to skip a payday here and there because we had recently received an inheritance from our father. But it wasn't very long until I determined what was going on when my brother's inheritance was also gone, and I had to pay for materials out of my own pocket to finish my jobs. my brother's new bride had spent his inheritance and since they were married, she also had access to the company account and had been spending from it freely as well. I finished the jobs that I had obligated myself to and quietly declined any more jobs through this company unless my brother removed his wife from having access. Although I enjoy the work, I do not enjoy it enough to pay to do it. I may get a business license and do this again as I still have all the tools necessary and really do enjoy the diversity of the individual job scopes. My brother and I still aren't talking over my refusing to work for that company, and I don't think the company has done very well without me as he and his bride now live in our mother's driveway.

06/2006 - 08/2011 AERO CONSTRUCTION

Snohomish, WA

Heavy Equipment Operator

The second time I worked at Aero was pretty much just like the first except that the crew was a lot larger and so was the plat that we were developing. This was where I got a lot of experience driving a diversity of things like rollers and graders. I even drove a dump truck from Snohomish to Renton to deliver a load of gravel and had to tell them that I didn't have an endorsement because they wanted me to drive this piece of junk that felt like it had no power steering back and forth all day long. Again, I missed my family and friends in Pierce County, so my other brother and I started a General Contracting company called Greenhawk Construction.

06/2002 - 08/2006 Curtis Custom Construction

Snohomish, WA

General Contractor

This was my first adventure into contracting remodels and where I learned a lot of the don'ts in contracting. Like don't make addendums to contracts on a handshake. Put everything in writing. I have done just about every job required to build both residential and commercial buildings. I had started out building pole buildings when I was 17 and building was always something that I loved because you got to say, "I did that" and point at the finished product for years and years to come. I have built roughly about 50 buildings all around the Puget Sound area. Stick framing and pole buildings. Ranging in size from 24x24 to 120x160. My brother had been do9ng remodels for a General Contracting friend of his and he and I decided to take a leap and go into business. We survived and did make a little money, but ultimately this company ended up just being a learning experience for both of us because although we both knew how to do the work the contracting side of it, we weren't so good at. This company is why I chose Business Management when I started college in 2012. While I had written several contracts out for pole buildings over the years, I had no experience in writing remodel contracts and my brother tended to bid jobs way too low with no cushion for materials or labor. Finally, we did our first full remodel in Renton Washington and my brother made a deal with the homeowner when their $20k budget ran out that we would reinvest the $20k into the property for some more improvements that would up the resale value of the house from their target value of $130k. We reinvested $15k and worked on that house for 3 months instead of just 1 and ultimately the house sold for $175k. We would have just broken even on our investment, but we were hoping to start a partnership with an investor to start flipping houses with. The people took the $175k and didn't pay us again after that because my brother didn't write up an addendum to the original contract and we did the 2 more months’ worth of work and paid for all the materials ourselves ultimately getting stiffed for around $55k. Discouraged my brother went back to work for his former boss and I went back into dirt work.

09/1997 - 10/2001 Aero Construction

Snohomish, WA

Heavy Equipment Operator

Aero was just the opposite of the water company at the water company I was responsible for everything on the street side of the water meter. working for Aero at a plat construction sit I was responsible for anything at the plat that required the moving of earth. I was responsible for everything from shooting grade with a laser transom to digging in foundations.

10/1992 - 07/1997 Summit Water and Supply Co.

Tacoma, WA

Water Distribution Specialist 1

I started out at the water company as the groundskeeper. When I first started there the road into one 15-acre property was little more than a rabbit trail. The manager gave me a charge card for McClendon’s hardware and told me to buy whatever I needed, so I drove my John Deere Lawnmowing tractor up there and I not only bought everything that I could possibly need I bought the best gear that they had to the tune of about $2000. The largest weed eater that they had was like $350 I think at the time, and I was glad that I had not spared the expense because I would spend whole days weed eating sometimes for a whole week straight. Summit had 6 active well yards that needed to be maintained. Duties After about the second year I had all the well yards looking like little parks. I

was even mowing diamond patterns into the grass. That was just about the time that the Waller Road experience began, and it was all hands-on deck keeping those people in water while Tucci and Sons ripped out multiple blocks of water main every day. So, I was brought out into the field and taught how to do everything that the regular certified employees were expected to do. Installation and maintenance of everything from residential services to fire hydrants and even one well was put back together from my memory because there were no blueprints of the mess of pipes, pressure tanks and crude sand traps. I was still lowest man on the totem pole so I would get down into the holes and the old guys would tell me what to do. All in all, I think a terrific way to learn anything. I learned everything from how to safely remove old asbestos water pipe to taking water samples daily at the well yards. I still had all my responsibilities as groundskeeper. Board members lived in the district, and they wouldn’t have been happy if those well yards were to slip back into the jungles that they were when I started there. Although I had become a pretty darn good ditch man and often approached the holes with a shovel in each hand and would tell everybody to stand back. I had not gotten much opportunity to operate any heavy equipment besides my little industrial sized riding lawnmower until the guys started parking their equipment at my well yards for the night around my second year. I had keys to everything because I was #2 in maintenance. Of 2, but still, it sounds impressive.

So, at those well yards are where I got my first taste of running heavy equipment. I became pretty good on a backhoe and the excavator took me longer to figure out how to release the safety than it did figure out how to operate it proficiently. The only thing I did not take to easily was the dozer. I had wanted to make another road at one wellsite for a long time when the guys finally left a dozer at that yard. It was not about 45 minutes, and I had a gigantic mess with the dozer nose diving into a mudhole. I had to call the senior operator and get him to come by the wellsite to help me get it out. Then I cleaned the whole mess up by hand and haven’t driven a dozer since.

Also, during my tenure at Summit Water and Supply Co. I received certifications in more things than I think I even remember. There was HAZMAT, Confined Spaces, Fall Restraint, Ditch Safety, Emergency Medical Treatment, Flagging, and Water Distribution. I believe that all the certifications were through Green River Community College. All the water companies in the area pooled their money and would hire the instructors to come to us and teach us. Duty #11 was "Other duties as required." Which pretty much covered anything.

09/1988 - 09/1992

Livingston Boat Inc.

Auburn, Washington

Trim Lead/Floater

At Livingston I would receive the boats from the lamination process still in the mold. We would pop the boats from their molds and cut the gunnels all uniform. We would then sand the inside to get rid of all the burrs and then paint and web them. After lunch the boats would be dry and we would proceed to install the oarlocks, clam drains, and the trim around the gunnel. When I became the lead of the trim area at 18 years old, I discovered ways of doing the job more efficiently. like instead of dipping your brush in the paint over and over to paint you just walked along dumping the paint down the inside of the boat and then you came back with your brush and just smoothed and spread it around. little tricks like that and I was able to almost double boat production from 8 daily to 14. As far as I

know those little tricks are still in use to this day. Once I had trained my predecessor I was moved from area to area where each supervisor or lead would teach me how to do their job and then I would show them any ways that I could make it more efficient. And that is how I became a floater that covered for people who were absent because I could do every job in the plant as well as or better than the people who did it every day.

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