William A. Merola

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Farmingdale, NY ***35

516-***-**** - adv874@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary-

Dedicated 4 years as a leader among peers, supervisor of training, motivating subordinates, fellow leaders, and higher ups in the most demanding environments. Further qualifications includes:

• Secret level security clearance

• Train others

• Counsel subordinates

• Confront difficult issues

• Evaluate programs and students

• Create thorough training programs

Experience-

NYS EMT- March 02, 2022- Present

NYS EMT ID number: NYE504348

Army National Guard- May 22, 2019- Present

Re-enlisted in the New York National Guard 1/69th Infantry Regiment, HHC, Scout Plt., Sniper Section. Active duty orders from March 18, 2020- July 15, 2021 for COVID-19 Mission response. My unit and I assisted setting up five COVID-19 testing sites in three weeks in the Five Burroughs, NYC food distribution program, A/C call center, NYC riots, LGA NYS travel health forms, and Jones Beach Vaccine Site.

Licensed unarmed security guard (March 2019- Present) Contemporary Services Corporation, Melville, NY

Worked at the PGA Championship at the Player’s Clubhouse ensuring the safety of the competitors, family’s, their trainers and sponsors all competition. United States Marine Corps-

Rifleman, UDP with 3D BN 2D Marines Lima Co., 3rd Plt. Okinawa, Japan (Aug 2018-February 2019)

• Training and advising junior Marines for future leadership billets Camp Fuji, Japan, training, advising, and mentoring junior Marine’s in temporary leadership billets

Fire Team Leader, U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, NC (Aug 2018-Feb 2017)

• Mid level supervisor, Fire Team leader to 3 junior Marine’s. Responsible for training, mentoring and counseling to ensure unit readiness for upcoming deployment. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Quick Reaction Force unit drill. Includes day and night close quarter shooting drills tables 3-4, fire team ranges utilizing employments of M4, M27/IAR infantry automatic rifle, M203 grenade launcher, M67 grenades. Trained and advised Naval Officer Cadets on infantry squad organic weapons. Instructed and mentored at Stone Bay, NC, rifle range coaching shooters on the M4, M16, and M27/IAR to create more accurate lethal shooters.

• Performed at Bridgeport, CA, Mountain Warfare Training Center including repelling, hiking mountainous terrain, cold weather survival skills such as SERE, survival evasion resistance and escape classes for cold mountainous conditions. Casualty evacuations, tactically and proficiently performed infantry tactics utilizing terrain to allied forces advantages. Bilateral training was conducted with Royal Canadian Mountain Division.

• Executed team leader billet at 29 Palms, CA, Integrated Training Exercise (ITX). Combined arms live fire attacks ranging from fire team attacks to battalion level urban operations with tanks, ranges utilizing helicopter air strikes and artillery. U.S Marine Corps, Okinawa, Japan (Aug 2016-Feb 2017)

• Infantry Automatic Rifleman, UDP with 3D BN 2D Marines Lima Co., 3rd plt. Advised and evaluated during the Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP), lived in Republic of Korea Marine Corps quarters. Trained bilaterally in basic skills, tactics, and urban combat operations. Used live-fire training 120mm mortar systems to encourage the sale of the mortar systems to the South Korean military, Pohang, South Korea.

• Collaborated training with U.S. Army helicopter pilots conducting in precise air strikes, Camp Rodriguez, South Korea.

U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, NC (Oct 2015-Aug 2016)

• Conducted training at 29 Palms, CA, Integrated Training Exercise (ITX). Combined arms live fire attacks ranging from fire team attacks to battalion level urban operations with tanks, ranges utilizing helicopter air strikes and artillery.

• Infantry Automatic Rifleman, Camp Lejeune, NC, 3D BN 2D Marines Lima Co., 3rd plt. Entry level job, U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Geiger, NC (Aug 2015-Oct 2015)

• Successfully performed at Infantry training battalion (ITB). Basic infantry knowledge 03xx, basic rifleman knowledge, 0311.

U.S Marine Corps, Parris Island, SC (May 2015-July 2015)

• Completed boot camp, recruit training 13 weeks.

Education-

Farmingdale Senior High School (2011-2015)

• Granted special permission by the school superintendent to graduate high school two months early to ship out to boot camp on May 03, 2015. Training-

Corporals course

Basic water survival course

Anti-terrorism level 1 training

Use of force online class (Aug 2016)

Stop and frisk online class (Aug 2016)

Crowd control online class (Aug 2016)

Leadership classes level 1-3 (Aug 2016)

Weapons handling safety rules (Sept 2016)

Introduction to non-lethal weapons (Aug 2016)

Lcpl. leadership and ethics seminar (Jan 2017-Jan 2017) Law enforcement history- lessons learned (March 2018) SERE level 100.1, Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (Dec 2015) Certificates/ Licenses-

• Green belt, 3rd degree in MCMAP, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program

• 0933, Combat Marksmanship Coach administer training with service rifles M4, M16, M27, and service pistol M9

• Non-lethal course level 1; authorized to carry and firing 12-Gauge Mossberg 500A2/590 shotgun, 12-gauge nonlethal projectile munitions. Administer OC Spray (oleoresin capsicum) and HEMI/LESD/ X-26E taser user course (April 2016-April 2016)

• NYS CPR and NARCAN certified. NYS mandated reporter (02/22/2022)

• FEMA training courses: IS-5A, IS-100-B, IS-200-B, IS-700-A, IS-800, and active shooter

• NYSDOH Covid-19 vaccine vaccinator course

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