Electric Boat Resume
Michael Kolson
PO Box 42514
Flinton Pa.16640
Home phone. 814-***-****
Cell phone. 814-***-****
Schools
From 1973-1976
Greater Johnstown Vo-Tech graduated 05/20/1976. Diploma
(3 years)
Electrical Technology Diploma. Day school 3 years
Welding Technology. Certificates (Nite School for 3 years)
Greater Johnstown Vo tech 1980-1981
Tool and Die machining. Did not finish I was hired by electric boat
College. New England Technology Building Construction (associate degree)
1982-1986
College. ITT Monroeville Pa. Computer Electronics Engineering Technology
1997 - 1999. Didn’t finish because of divorce and
children
Class A Millwright Welder apprenticeship at Bethlehem Steel Johnstown works
1991-1994. 3 years graduated certificate
Class A Boilermaker apprenticeship at Voithe Hydro Power Generation York Pa. Graduated certificate
Class A Mechanic apprenticeship 3 years @Norfolk Southern Railroad Altoona Pa.
Military schooling :
Hull Maintenance Technician
Phase 1 at San Francisco California
04/1977 Fire Fighting
Damage control graduated
Phase 2 at SanDiego ca. 06/1977 welding
Pipefitting pipe
Welding Brazing graduated
Portsmouth Naval Sipyard in Va. 49-55
welding code
Pipe and Plate by x-ray
06/1980 graduated
With codes
Us Army. Small Arms Repair schooling in
Indiantown Gap
Graduated in 1980
Employment history:
US Navy. 1977-1981. Rate HT-2 2 nd
class petty officer on
Board USS Piedmont AD-17 stationed at
Norfolk Va.
4 years stationed onboard in
maintenance shop
Structural Welding. Pipe Brazing
Grades 3-6
US Navy Groton Connecticut
submarine base
Ship fitting in yard
Berwind Coal Company 1980 1983
Windber pa.
Welder fitter using torch Electrode
welding of
Heavy Mining Equipment Mass
layoffs
Thiele Truck bodies 1982welding
fitting of truck
Bodies steel and aluminum bodies
all positions
Left for job at Electric Boat in
09/1983
General Dynamics Electric Boat
Quonset Point
1983-1987 welder of submarines. I
worked on VLS
Sturns and bows and a nuclear
reactor hull from
Groton
Stick 110-18 all post x-ray
Short arc all post
Pulse arc all post
Spray arc horizon and flat
Submerged arc
Left in 1987 before the major layoff
to go to work for
Bethlehem Steel Johnstown works FCD
As a all post welder by X-ray of
railroad cars also 3 year
Also as a millwright Rigger
Left when company was sold went to
work for
Pennex Aluminum Blast Furnace works
in
Wellsville pa. As welder pipe
welder millwright on
Blast furnaces 1998-1999 left for
job at Voithe siemmon
Power generation as Class A
Boilermaker on hydro
Electric Turbines using Flux core
308 and 316 stainless
1999-2000 Enron scandle caused
Mass layoff
Norfolk Southern RR in Altoona Pa.
as class A machinist
Millwright on Locomotives
rebuilding locomotives
From 2000-2005 left after being
fired supposedly for
Refusing to work while I was sick.
I was carried for almost
3 years on sickness insurance.
This was related to my
Military Disability
Period of sickness
Huntington Ingallis Amsec Division
as a
Technical Subject Matter Expert of
Welding Shipfitting
Millwright of Electronic Warefare
up grades on Aircraft
Troop carriers submarines fast
attack and trident
Left there after ankle injury
which since
has totally recovered with no
limitations last worked
On the Bonhomme Richards in San
Diego shipyard
In September of 2019