Carpenter/Construction Worker
Resume:
Stephen Kriss
West Palm Beach, FL *****
*********@*****.***
All round skilled carpenter and construction worker with experience in commercial, residential, industrial, school and other government settings.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Carpenter
Northco Staffing - West Palm Beach, FL
May 2023 to Present
Various assignments, longest 2 month project at Big Dog Ranch Rescue, Loxahatchee, Fl. Creation and setting up dog pens and living quarters, including fencing, gates, trim, and perimeters for 3 main exercise and training areas. Estimation of construction materials needed, measuring, cutting, fastening, installing. Project finished 11/08/2023.
Marine Carpenter
Linden Construction - Stuart, FL
October 2022 to March 2023
Marine Carpenter- setting pilings, pulling and extracting pilings, installing and extracting boatlifts, building docks and seawalls.
Form and Frame Carpenter/Job Coordinator - for multiple government projects.
Walker Design and Construction
Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Crestwood School, Indian River College October 2021 to September 2022
Carpenter: Form and Frame, Concrete, Wood, Structural Steel, all thicknesses, I Beams, purloin angles, bracing, guy wires, pivots. Job Coordinator: Itemized materials, sorted, inventories and categorized. Installation of panelled material, underlayment., screws, bolts, sheet metal tracks, roofing, arches, breezeways, concrete anchors (embedded in steel forms and rebar), poured and finished. Inventorialist in charge of all materials and construction of all the company brought in to be assembled. Operated forklift, highlift, mobile canopies, controlled lifts, cutting and prepping of materials and installation, including measuring and mathematical calculating.
Carpenter
Roy Jandreau Carpentry Inc. - North Palm Beach, FL May 2021 to June 2021
Carpenter renovating senior condo complex until finished - demolition and replacement of old wood, building porches, until all units in need were done. Carpenter
R Builders - Jupiter, FL
April 2021 to May 2021
Carpenter: framing, remodeling, for home builder, remodelling ranch house in Palm Beach Gardens until done.
Carpenter
Stant Construction - Vero Beach, FL
September 2020 to October 2020
Renovation Carpenter rebuilding 1920's 4,500 sq ft mansion in Stuart. Rebuilding flooring, constructing partition walls, blocking, bracing, bridging, installing trusses for gable ends, t and g roofing boards, rakes, soffits, fascia fronts.
Carpenter
Lead Staffing for Rybovich - West Palm Beach, FL
August 2020 to August 2020
Temp job building floating docks for Jovanovich Boat Yard, project done but on call to come back as more docks need to be built.
Form and Frame Carpenter
Black & Veatch/Overland Contracting, North Carolina - Dania Beach, FL June 2020 to August 2020
Form and Frame Carpenter working on team to build new FPL powerplant. Installing bridges, excavating bridge abutments, clearing debris, demolishing walls, timbers, steel fixtures by crane. Also clearing out corridors and passages to make way for new bridge, formed and poured walls to create water testing station, formed and installed handrails enclosing whole area to confine space only allowing OC personnel to enter.
Form Carpenter
Weiss Construction - Wellington, FL
January 2019 to September 2019
Renovation; rebuilding slabs for machinery, pipes, additions, electrical and plumbing. Then installed rebar to build 1700 sq ft addition to 11,000 sq ft Ft. Lauderdale home, finished 10/2019, for Merton Construction. Form Carpenter
Awesome Construction - Coral Springs, FL
October 2018 to January 2019
Carpenter restructuring CVS stores, Vero Beach. On call basis for retail build-outs; each takes about two weeks, then down time until next is needed.
Carpenter
Reiter Bunsic Contractors (RBC) - Riviera Beach, FL September 2018 to October 2018
Form Carpenter under Katerra, for 4 story restaurant in downtown West Palm Beach, restructuring floors to be poured, shoring up for post beams, main scaffolding 12-14 ft. up, finished 10/8/2018. Carpenter
Robert Barbosa Trim, Inc - Wellington City, Wellington July 2018 to August 2018
Installing trim wood, 1/2"x4"x16' tongue and groove boards for ceilings inside equestrian center barns, Wellington, 8-1200 sq. ft., setting up and working on scaffolding 12-20 ft. Project finished 8/31/2018 HAZMAT Tech/Carpenter
United Water Restoration Group - Hutchinson Island, FL May 2018 to June 2018
HAZMAT and Demolition to restore fire and storm damaged condo complex on Hutchinson Island, Stuart, through Renovator Staffing. Extraction of wet sheetrock, disposal, and spraying, job was finished 6/22/2018.
Carpenter
Tradesmen International - West Palm Beach, FL
March 2018 to May 2018
Industrial/Commercial and renovations: shell work consisting of rough carpentry, including shoring, concrete work, form work, using lasers for setting steel (rebar), wire mesh, Bis quick plastic sheeting, mats. All phases up to inspection.
Form Carpenter
Wharton Smith Construction Co
July 2017 to September 2017
Form Carpenter for concrete, building water plant installation in Riviera Beach, at standstill due to Hurricane Irma. Through Ace Staffing.
Carpenter
Palm Beach Trailer Park - Palm Springs, CA
May 2017 to July 2017
Renovator for mobile home village - demolition, rebuilding of structures to bring up to code for resale, through People Ready Agency, project completed. Also, mold removal and demolition work, Hampton Hotel, Ft. Lauderdale, 9/17, under People Ready.
Form Carpenter
Keller Construction, Stuart - Stuart, FL
March 2017 to May 2017
Form Carpenter building apartment complex in Port Salerno - trusses, sheathing, fascia, strapping, anchors, windows, doors, sliders, partitions.
Form Carpenter
Quality Construction Concrete//Class Act Concrete - West Palm Beach, FL September 2016 to March 2017
Form Carpenter building Parkland Heritage apartment complexes in Vero Beach, Hutchison Island, Boca Raton, until complex finished.
Carpenter
Manpower Temporary Agency - West Palm Beach, FL
January 2012 to March 2017
Commercial and residential rough/form/frame for stores, restaurants, churches, clubhouses. Form Carpenter
Lagala Construction, Sarasota - Delray Beach, FL
August 2016 to September 2016
Form Carpenter building reveals, windows, doors, forming, framing, cutting. Construction of apartment complex in Delray Beach, finished end of 9/2016.
Form Carpenter
Concrete Block & Rebar LLC
June 2016 to August 2016
Form Carpenter/Builder of columns, scaffolding, forming, framing, cutting. Construction of solid waste recycling plant for FPL.
Concrete Block & Rebar LLC, working with Land South Construction, Delray Beach Constructing new apartment buildings, rough/form carpentry; 11/2015-01/2016. Carpenter
Xtreme Construction, Pompano Beach - Pompano Beach, FL June 2015 to October 2015
Form Carpenter building two split level homes on the Intracoastal, from bases up. Project finished end of 10/2015. Then built pool for Reliable Pools, finished 11/2015. Form Carpenter
Carpenter Contractors of America - Jupiter, FL
July 2014 to March 2015
Concrete Form Carpenter, constructing condominiums and commercial buildings. Form Carpenter
Scammell Constructors - Palm City, FL
August 2013 to October 2013
Form carpenter: concrete, steel, rebar, for Solid Waste Authority's sanitation plant, West Palm Beach Lead Staffing
Form Carpenter - Mulberry, FL
July 2013 to August 2013
CCC Group Industrial Construction, new FPL Siemens-Martin plant, Indiantown. Form Carpenter: estimation, set-up, forming, framing, cutting, tying, stripping, working with a crew of carpenters and carpenters' helpers. First phase of plant, stages will continue periodically. Carpenter/Construction Laborer
Manpower Temporary Agency
December 2012 to January 2013
working on sites such as Palm Beach Mall stores, Jovanovich Marina, West Palm Beach, WH Bass Developers/ Chick-fil-A, Lantana, American Engineering Development Corp./Ruth ell's Electric (new Publix in Boynton Beach). Butler Construction; 12/12 - 1/13: Rough framing, finish carpentry, gazebo, trusses for new church in Jupiter Farms. 06/11 to 08/11 I worked a customer referral job for Bruce Vi dome, West Palm Beach, totally remodeling a 1930's home to become an entertainment center/Internet café, including design and construction of bar, room additions, roof, electrical, irrigation repairs, window and skylight installation. Prior to that I performed carpentry, construction repairs and moving jobs for prior clients and referral customers while seeking permanent employment. Carpenter
Tradesmen International - Deerfield Beach, FL
June 2012 to July 2012
Construction and Carpentry for Scammed Constructors for new clubhouse, Admiral's Cove, Jupiter. Construction of windows, archways, doorways; shoring/flooring, scaffolding, overall frame/form carpentry. Assignments will continue periodically. Marine Carpenter
Construction Technologies - West Palm Beach, FL
December 2007 to May 2009
Demolition work, docks, sea walls, aluminum panels jetted in to form walkways, caps sealed on top; pilings to be loaded on a barge plus machinery to be used for installation: cranes, generators, pumps, shovels, bobcats. Commercial and residential; projects ranged from 3 months to 1+ years, until layoff 5/09.
Remodeling Projects for General Contractor and Realtor Ameritech Construction - Boca Raton, FL
April 2002 to May 2009
including: remodeled entire 1200 sq ft cottage, installed windows, created laundry room, closet, shed. Performed rough framing, finishing, trim, fiberglass, sheetrock, taping, painting, carpentry, tile, landscaping. Performed same duties on other properties prior to sale; replaced plumbing, roofing, flooring, sub-flooring, tile, basic electrical. Remodeled bathroom to become handicap accessible for elderly post-CVA patient. Performed caretaker and property management duties for owner. Installed decks, framing, plumbing, footings, sheetrock and basic electrical work. Carpenter
Tilt-Con Construction - Boca Raton, FL
March 2007 to August 2007
Form work: commercial buildings and shopping centers; layoff due to end of projects, was at Construction Technologies when called back.
Marine Carpenter
Florida Marine - Riviera Beach, FL
March 2004 to December 2006
Marine Carpenter:All phases of marine construction, pile driving, casts, forms and docks. On team building The Moorings of Lake Worth: apartment and retail complex on the water. Rebuilding of 120 ft. yacht
"My Ivana" and 127 ft. dock on Fanjul property, Palm Beach, post hurricane damage: rails, floors, built- ins, bedrooms and living areas, plus total rebuilding of the dock: base, pilings set and bulkheads built, concrete forms set up for pour. Company moved to the Bahamas. Performed on-call repairs for past clients for several years.
Pool Builder
P & S Construction, Boca Raton - Boca Raton, FL
July 2001 to April 2002
Builder of swimming pools: footings, framings, pouring, cutting of joints, repair of equipment, transportation and supervision of crews, customer interaction, for 7 different pool companies with job sites from Daytona to southern Miami
Import/Export/Receiver, Forklift Operator
EMO Trans - Granby, CT
April 1997 to June 2001
for international freight forwarder. Nightly inventory, delivery of evening mail, interaction with customs officials. Worked Curbell days, EMO Trans evenings right after Curbell duties done for day. Professional Machinist/Class 1 Tow
Curbell Plastics, Inc - Granby, CT
April 1997 to January 2001
Motor Operator: Cutting of plastic on Homag CNC programmed panel saw, with extensive use of algebra/ geometry for figuring of dimensions and estimation of materials needed for each order. Daily inventory of materials, daily maintenance and trouble-shooting of CNC saw, polishing and packing of orders, building maintenance, supervision of four other employees.
Roofer
Silver Eagle Builders - Bloomfield, CT
January 1989 to December 1997
Residential and commercial roofing: installation, repair, skylights Warehouse Manager/Shipping & Receiving Manager, Forklift Operator, Professional Machinist. Supervised
Commercial Plastics & Supply - Bloomfield, CT
January 1986 to December 1996
4+ employees. Responsible for general warehouse operation of local branch of international plastics distributor. Utilized extensive knowledge of shipping routes and cargo handling, responsible for coordinating, directing, and actual cutting of each order, responsible for choosing the most rapid/ economical ground and air carriers for each shipment. Responsible for writing and quality control of bills of lading and packing slips. Maintained inventory control of materials, with knowledge of properties and uses. Extensive mathematical figuring, cut sheet and roll stock material on ESCMI CNC panel saw; maintenance/trouble-shooting of same. Resolved customers' concerns, personally produced exterior panels of the Phoenix Building, Hartford, CT.
Mill Operator, Forklift Operator, Bagger, Line Mechanic, Grass Seed Mixer, Foreman/Forklift Operator
Pepsi Cola, Inc - East Granby, CT
January 1981 to June 1996
Supervised 4 employees, worked as line production employee, advanced to Tow Motor Operator, Mechanic/Foreman in eight months.
Warehouse Manager/Shipping & Receiving Manager, Forklift Operator, And Payloader Operator
Old Fox Fertilizer - Enfield, CT
January 1977 to December 1981
Supervisor, forklift operator, grass seed mixer, mill operator, payloader operator Farmer
Kriss Family Farm - Bloomfield, CT
January 1976 to December 1977
Sold and cared for livestock, milked cows, picked up feed route, operated farm machinery, ran milk route. Also rebuilt family home after fire, worked in home construction for local builder. Education
Bloomfield High School and AI Prince Technical Schools September 1972 to May 1976
Skills
• Manufacturing
• Roofing
• Irrigation
• Trim Carpentry
• Frame Carpentry
• Carpentry
• Drywall
• Electrical Experience
• Siding
• Construction Laborer
• Plumbing
• Algebra
• Algebra
• Glass Installation
• Carpentry
• Mold Remediation
• Facilities Maintenance
• Remodeling
• Geometry
• Mowing
• Inventory control
• Form Carpentry
• Materials handling
• Forklift
• Lawn Care
• Construction
• Skilled
• Irrigation
• Construction
• Restoration Industry Experience
• Water Damage Restoration
• Mechanical Knowledge
• Handyman
• Door Hanging
• Automotive Repair
• Driving
• Warehouse experience
• Framing
• Trim Carpentry
• CNC
• Pallet jack
• Drywall
• Geometry
• Forklift
• Carpentry
• Forklift
• Construction
• Plumbing
• Water damage restoration
• Freight
• Property management
• Analysis skills
Certifications and Licenses
Forklift Certification
Summit Systems Forklift Certification
1986 to 2001
Would be happy to recertify- was certified at Commercial Plastics and also at EMO Trans, before moving to Florida.
Driver's License State of FL
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