MICHAEL JOHNSTON
*** *. ******* **. ******* MO. *3601
573-***-**** ********@*****.***
Work History
Jim West Excavating Inc. 573-***-**** 3345 SW. Blvd.Poplar Bluff .MO. 63901
Heavy Equipment Operator/Foreman/Safety Coordinator 02/12/18 to 11/04/22
Coordinating company day to day operation’s of quarry site and construction projects.
Operating Front End loaders both wheel and Track Loading trucks Screeners and stackers
Operating Excavators Loading trucks Screeners and stackers Operating forklifts of all sizes
Operating Skid Stirs Leveling grades Loading trucks repairing holes in road.
Maintaining Heavy equipment and servicing on a daily basis and rock Quarry work.
Handling lots of different material rock Gravel sand Topsoil and wood chips
Lead remediation work removing topsoil from residential and commercial property's.
Company site Safety Coordinator for Company employees and contractors.
Bilfinger Industrial Services Inc. 573-***-**** P.O. Box 798 Cape Girardeau MO. 63702
Electrician /Millwright/Pipe fitter/ware house worker/Safety Coordinator 1/5/15 to 02/10/18
Installs, dismantles, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories.
Installs, assembles, fabricates, maintains and repairs mechanical piping systems.
Specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, stationary machines. and related equipment.
Picking up work materials job supplies for different companies and suppliers and Delivering
Them to the work site or warehouse driving a 26 foot Box truck or Cargo van and operating forklifts
Company site Safety Coordinator for Company employees and contractors
Jackson & Southern Railroad company 573-***-**** 410 Adams St. Jackson MO.63755
Conductor/Engineer/Track Maintainer 1/11/15 to 4/25/18
Operating Railroad trains and performing Track inspections and maintenance as needed.
Running railroad engines, Switching railroad cars. Operating maintenance Equipment
Backhoes, skid stirs, and Hi rails. fork lifts, front end loaders.
Jim West Excavating Inc. 573-***-**** 3345 SW. Blvd.Poplar Bluff .MO. 63901
Heavy Equipment Operator 4/20/09 to 12/05/14
Excavating new home sites, Subdivisions, road building, infrastructure projects,
Operating Bulldozers, Backhoes, skid stirs, front end loaders, Rock Trucks,
Zoellinger Construction 573-***-**** 875 PCR.500 Perryville MO. 63675
Project Manager 3/04/07 to 4/10/09
In charge of Metal building division and day to day operations of building and constuction of
Sand Fracking plant, Duties also includes Delivering parts and materials to work locations
Operating Bulldozers, Backhoes, skid stirs, front end loaders, Rock Trucks, Forklifts,
welding and carpentry work. Unloading Heavy Euipment and building materials.
Lixx Development Corp. 573-***-**** 323 Christina St, Cape Girardeau MO. 63702
Carpenter/landscaper 9/11/06 to 3/02/07
Framing carpenter and landscaper /dirt work. Building new subdivision and excavating new home
sites. Duties also includes Excavating new home sites, Subdivisions Framing Carpentry and elctrical
work. Operating Bulldozers, Backhoes, skid stirs, front end loaders and forklifts
Wilkinson wireless group ***-**-**** 2 2813 Westwood Business Park Ellisville Mo.63011
Foreman/Euipment Operator 04/2003 to 08/2006
In Charge of Four man crew doing under ground Telephone cable/fiber construction work.
Work consisting of digging Spice pits by hand and Mini Excavator installing splice boxs pulling
in new cables doing Emergency Dig ups and Back filling pits and trenchs by hand and skidsteer
Midwest Delivery Co Inc 314-***-**** Treton Ave. ST.louis Mo.63132
Delivery Driver 05/2000/to 03/2003
Running routes in St.louis East central Mo. And South east Mo. And Southern Ill.
Loading trucks by hand Pallet jack and fork lift Driving 26foot box truck and vans
Have a Class E lic. Wish Dot physical
Diversified Cable 314-***-**** 11374 Dorsett Rd. St.Louis MO._63043
Supervisor 03/1998 to 04/2000
In charge of southwestern Bell Home Entertainment (Direct TV) in the St.Louis Region.
Duties also includes Assigning Daily work orders for service to employees and contractors.
QC ing work preformed by employees and contractors.
Prime Star home services 314-***-**** S.Towne SQ. St.Louis MO. 63123
Lead installer/warehouse manger 08/1997 to 01/1998
Training of new installers..QC..Safety inspections of all subcontractors. Accounting and
ordering of supply’s equipment and tools for day to day operations.
Educational Accomplishments
DeSoto Pubic High School 731 Amvets Dr, De Soto, MO.63020 636-***-****
General education Graduated in 1982 Diploma
St.Louis University 100 N. Grand Blvd. St.Louis MO. 63108 314-***-****
Earth and atmospheric sciences (Meteorology) The study of weather
Graduated in 1989 5 Year B.S./M.S Degree
Interned last year at the st louis national weather service office St.Peters MO.
Continuing education. Elite Spotters Training workshop Advanced.Certificate 2015
National weather service damage assessment training work shop. Certificate 1995
Licenses/Certifications
Security Officers Training Certification St.louis Co Police 05/95
.Fiber optic cable installation fundamentals1 Certification SBC 07/03
. Railroad Conductor/Engineer Certification St.Louis Iron Mountain and Southern R.R. 06/04
.SBCA Satellite Fundamentals Certificate Dish network 4/07
. Safety Coordinator Training Certification Northcentral University 2/17
. Missouri Deptment of Transportation Flaggers Training Certification 3/17
.Backhoe/frontend loader/SkidSteer/Operators Certification Inspector Jeff Daniels 8/19
.Forklift Operators Certification. Inspector Jeff Daniels 8/19
. First Aid/CPR AED Training Certification Instructor Anita Kuchar 8/19
. OSHA 10 Safety Training . Instructor Andrea Foster Mack Training Certificate 2/21
. Hazwoper 40hr Certification Instructor NEI online Selfstudy Training sevices. 3/21
.MSHA Certification Last updated 07/26/2021
.Class E Missouri Driver’s license Commercial Issued 01/2001
. Class B CDL Missouri Driver’s license Commercial Issued 02/2021
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Obtained skills
. Heavy Equipment Operator
. Backhoe's John Deere 310/410 Series 4 Years
. Excavator Cat 351 and 303 mini 2 Year
.Backhoe Cat 420 D 2 Years
.Frontend loader John Deere 600 Series 4 Years
.Frontend loader Cat 950/980 Series 3 Years
.Frontend loader Track John Deere 600 Series 4 Years
.Takeuchi Skid Steer TL240 TL12 4 Years
. Bobcat Skid Steer T 190 2 Years
.John Deere Rock/haul Truck 400 2 Years
.Construction forklift Lull and Regular forklifts 5 Years
.BullDozer John Deere 750 4 Years
Railroad Engineer Diesel electric locomotive 6 Years
Railroad Track maintenance (Short line) 2.5 Years
Box Truck Commercial Delivery St.Louis Area 2 Years
Carpenter Rough end Framing remodeling and Trim 4 Years
Mig Welding Fabrication work and repair 2 Years
Structural Steel Welding Mig 2 Years
Computer Literate windows 95 to 10 and Microsoft office 8 Years
Electrician Commercial, Industrial, Residential 2 Years
Severe weather forecasting Midwest 6 Years
Severe weather safety Trainer for Public Service agencies 2 Years
CPR and First Aid Certification 199*-****-**** 2015
Civic duty volunteer work
Trained mobile weather spotter
National weather service office St.Louis MO.& Paducah KY. 1990 to 2017
The SpotterNetwork brings storm spotters, storm chasers, coordinators and public servants together in a seamless network of information. It provides accurate position data of spotters and chasers for coordination/reporting and provides ground truth to public servants engaged in the protection of life and property.
Civil Air Patrol UAS Division SEMO
Civil Air Patrol UAS Pilot 2013 to 2017
A congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF) CAP is a volunteer organization with an aviation-minded membership that includes people from all backgrounds, lifestyles, and occupations. It performs three congressionally assigned key missions: emergency services, which includes search and rescue (by air and ground) and disaster relief operations; aerospace education for youth and the general public.
ST.louis Whirly Birds ST.Louis MO.
RC Helicopter/UAS Basic flight Instructor 2015 to 2017
Training is focused on building solid skills not just a few uneventful flights that might give you a false sense of confidence. Many R/C helicopter pilots never develop good emergency skills. The result is when they become visually disoriented they lack the skill/ability to get the helicopter back under control and avoid crashing.
Hobbies
RC Scale Aircraft. Model railroading. Exploring the Country. Storm chasing.
Wood working, Rock Collecting, Geological,
Personal and work references
Bill Stewart 2682 Ruddy Ridge Dr High Ridge, MO 63049 314-***-****
Becs technology St louis Mo. 40 years
Jarit Keith 602 Godwin Dr. Jackson Mo.63755 573-***-****
Retired Railroad worker 35 years