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OBJECTIVE

To show my skills, experience and qualifications.

SKILLS

Explain what you’re especially good at. What sets you apart? Use your own language—not jargon.

JAMES (JIM) HECKART

Experience: I started working at age 13 in 1959, for the Silverton Retirement Home) getting 75 cents an hour. My pay went toward my room and board. I cleaned the flower beds, mowed the lawn, shaved the old men and did some painting. In 1960 and 1961 I attended Laurelwood Academy where I worked to payoff my Room and board and my tuition. First job there was as a janitor, cleaning mopping, waxing and buffing hallways. I also cleaned the bathrooms. Next was the farm where I picked apples, pears, walnuts, filberts etc. I transferred to the Dairy where I cleaned stalls and the barn, (shoveled manure and spread lime) loaded the honey wagon and drove it to the fields and spread it.

Mainly I developed my work ethic. My dad taught me to follow through with what I started, and that I could accomplish what I wanted if I worked long enough and hard enough and did not give up.

When I turned 16, (April of 1960) I started working at Laurelcraft Industries, (A furniture factory) making $1.25 an hour. I worked on a line-rip, (off-loading the wood pieces and stacking them by shade on a cart). I also worked on the glue machine, (feeding and offloading), the planer (where excess glue was removed) and the sander machine. I worked there the remainder of my freshman year and again in my junior and senior year, and graduated in 1964.

That summer I went to Walla Walla College where I started work in the Book Bindery again at $1.25 an hour, packing books and acting as shipping clerk. I packed books at an $6.00 an hour rate and got a 6 cent raise to $1.31 an hour. I also worked as a janitor cleaning the classrooms at night.

In the summer of 65 I worked on a demolition crew tearing down houses, for a man named Eugene Alvacado (he had boxed under the name of Geno Blino). I started selling the scrap material. (boards, 2X4’s, bricks and giving him the money. I started at $1.50 an hour. In my 2nd week, on Wednesday, he gave me a raise to $1.65, on Thursday to $1.85 and on Friday to $2.00 an hour.

I had signed up for some training through the manpower training act and started that the school the following week.. Upon completion, I started as a Class “C” draftsman on the 737 for Boeing. I drew seating plans and worked with one engineer on the water system for the 737. He would give me the change orders and I would draw them up and send them down to mock-up. We would then go down to look at the changes and then make any adjustments.

In Jan of 1966 I was drafted. I had tried to join earlier but was turned down because of a cyst on my tailbone. They drafted me under an earlier physical before I developed the cyst.

I didn’t want to be a grunt, so I signed up for OCS (Officer Candidate school). Basic training was at Ft Leonard Wood Missouri and AIT (Advanced Individual Training) was OCS Prep at Fort Sill, where I learned to be a Forward Observer, including the math involved. In OCS the 1st 13 weeks was all infantry training where I learned the M14, AR 15, the M50 Machine Gun, the M79 Granade launcher, and the colt 45. I learned proper care and storage of all weapons. I learned tactics, (I got a 94/100 in the test). I learned how to take and give orders, how to handle men and run a company.

After graduating OCS, I was in class # 7 of the 13 classes sent to Germany. I was assigned to System Control where we controlled all the communications for all of 7th Army. We tracked all the communications outages on our shift and made a report that was sent up to the Full Bird Colonel.

I was transferred down to 97th Sig Battalion where I was platoon leader and ran a platoon of 30 men. We had the most efficient platoon in the company. We always had any assigned tasks completed first before the other platoons.

I was released Mar 29, 1969 and went back to work for Boeing, but for the SST plant in Seattle. I worked on the engine burst pattern to show where the alternate back- up systems needed to be in case an engine blew up. I also worked on the total configuration drawing of the SST. They transferred me to cost accounting where I worked with accountants and drew charts for them. They eliminated my position and was caught in the lay-off in 1971 where the had the Billboard on I-5 that said “The last person out of Seattle, shut off the lights”.

I went back to Oregon where I went to work for Gallankamp Shoes where I learned how to sell, be good with customers, control inventory, do the ordering and do the books. I became the assistant manager of the East Port Plaza store and then got my own store in Eugene, Oregon.

Focusing on the last 10 years. Since I had retired in August of 2011, I only did side jobs of painting and handyman work. In April of 2016 I started Handymanjim. Where I did remodel work. In one job, I moved a toilet along with the plumbing and the drain. I patched the concrete floor and built and installed the shower stall and tiled it. Installed a solid curtain rod from the ceiling and the plumbing for the shower. I removed paneling from the walls and replaced stud 2 x 4’s where needed. I moved and rewired for a new light and the switch for it. I hung the sheetrock and taped and textured and painted it. I finished by installing a Pergo floating floor over the concrete.

In January of 2017 I bought my Kia Soul and started driving for Uber. I had over 2500 trips without any incidents during that year. I continued with Handymanjim at the same time until March of 2018.

I next worked as an assembler in a metal fabrication shop for the state of Washington until I restarted school at Grey’s Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington.

Since then, I have worked through different temp staffing Companies. (Labor Systems where I worked in a steel fabrication plant as a machine operator and general labor). Labor Works where I worked for a construction Company as demolition and general labor clean-up. And lastly through South Sound Staffing as Security for different events such as the Mariners, Seahawks and the Huskies.

EDUCATION

SCHOOL – LAURELWOOD ACADEMY IN 1964

Studies included General Math and Algebra, English, and History, it also included Accounting and Wood Shop.

WALLA WALLA COLLEGE – Where I took modern math and English. Then switch over to a Electronics program. Did not complete the program due to lack of funds.

Attended Grey’s Harbor College for Business Administration for one year of a two year program. Did not complete, mostly theory, not a lot that could be used practically in real life.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE OR LEADERSHIP

I took leadership courses while in Officer Candidate School. I have owned or co-owned HECKMAR PAINTING, J & G building Maintenance, Impekkable Painting, and Handymanjim. I bid almost all the jobs and sold them. I did most of the planning and structure of the workflow. I did most of the estimating for material and labor needed for each job. I also handled the money collection and paid for the labor and materials used for each job.