Gerald Miller
Grand Rapids, MI *****
***************@*****.***
616-***-**** (text)
Looking to combine my 20+ years of telecommunications skill and knowledge with the manufacturing skills I've learned since the 911 incident to help me do the best job I can in the future. Hopefully I'll learn more skills as I travel the last leg of my working life. Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Laborer
Spectrum Decorative Finish (Temp Ser. Job Post) - Grand Rapids, MI October 2020 to December 2020
Floater I was put where I was needed, but mostly sanded and inspected car parts prior to painting. Welder/Fabricator
Unicor Industries (F.C.I.) - Milan, MI
June 2019 to September 2020
Spot welded and inspect small parts to fit inside cabinets and sometime help build cabinet shell. Industrial Laborer
M.A.C.I. (thru temp ser.) - Parma, MI
January 2017 to January 2019
Mostly worked assembly in various dept.s building air compressors for vehicles. Also disassembled old compressors that were returned and salvaged usable parts. Merchandise Stocker
Menards - Livonia, MI
April 2016 to January 2017
Retrieve pallets of merchandise from storage area and take it out to the floor to stack in proper location. When done in my assigned dept. I went to other dept's to assist wit their stocking. OSP Engineer -Fiber Const. Insp. -Sen. Drafter
Various Telecom Consultants - All over the U.S.
November 1977 to September 2001
• OSP Eng.- Designed work orders for buried, underground, and aerial to fill the customers need: Visited cell tower locations to determine what was needed to serve the tower and where the service was coming from. Planned and plotted new subdivisions. Visited customers requiring new service to design the feed. Replace old facilities with new lines, peds, poles, etc. Take field notes for the drafter to create working print for const.
• Fiber Optics inspector - Watch over the assigned crew and document the number of men,and equipment on the job, work completed (as-built) station to station, enforce all safety standards, make contact with the proper people when another facility is hit and damaged, shut down job if required.
• Senior Drafter - Take field notes from eng. to draw work order for approval and construction, create route layouts for the planner, update records as jobs are completed, and assist eng in field taking notes and staking jobs
Education
High school diploma in Drafting
Guthrie Job Corps - Guthrie, OK
October 1976
Skills
• Assemblyu
• Construction
• Landscape Maintenance
• Blueprint Reading
• Following Instructions
• Dependable
• Drafting
• Telecommunication
• Cabling
• Welding
• Electrical Experience
• Fabrication
• CAD
Assessments
Mechanical knowledge — Highly Proficient
December 2020
Understanding and applying mechanical concepts and processes Full results: Highly Proficient
Attention to detail — Proficient
December 2020
Identifying differences in materials, following instructions, and detecting details among distracting information
Full results: Proficient
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