PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Address: ** ******** ****
Avondale Road
Kabega, PORT ELIZABETH
6025
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Cellphone number: 076-***-**** (SA phone)
076-***-**** (Karin’s phone)
E-mail address: *******************@*****.***
Birthday: 20 October 1982
ID Number:
Passport:
Social Security Number:
Languages: Afrikaans & English
Health: Excellent
Licence: code EC with PDP – SA Licence
EDUCATION:
High School: Hoërskool Despatch
Matriculated 2001
Subjects passed: Afrikaans
English
Biology
Woodwork
Business Economics
Geography
Computer Literacy: E-mail
Internet
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
EXPERIENCE:
I have worked on a casual basis, wherever I could find work, including running my own little handyman business to earn money.
In the USA this past three years, I gained experience with farming of the following:
-corn, soya, rice, derm, barley, canola, sunflowers, milo, using machinery for cutting grass, baling, cane (sugar), silage for baling
I learned to drive various semis, John Deere tractors as well as New Holland mower conditioner and worked with windrower.
My duties consisted of general work like putting/pulling flood gates, polypipe, bin sweep.
I worked and drove a fuel wagon to various points, I also drove trucks.
I am a hard worker and don’t shy away from doing what is necessary to get the job done.
I would like to better myself and secure a job where I can settle down and work towards my future.
I am reliable and trustworthy and will do my utmost for any future employer.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Company Anderson Farms, North Dakota
Year April 2023 – November 2023
Position Driver, General Worker
Company Beastrom Farms, South Dakota
Year May 2022 – end October 2022
Position Driver (tractor), Semi-driver, general worker and
Mower conditioner, Wind rower, baling
Company Severance Farms, North Dakota
Year June 2021 – October 2021
Position Driver, General Worker
Company Medford and Sons, Arkansas
Year March 2019 – November 2019
Position General worker
Company Loximode
Year June 2018 – March 2019
Position Driver
Company Car Towing Services Cape town
Year July 2015 – March 2016
Position Assistant on heavey duty breakdowns
Company Verndette Engineering
Year July 2011 – May 2013
Position Spray Painter / General Worker
EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCE:
Tractor: Operating of tractors – John Deere 8400, 8410, 8420, 7215R, 9530, 7280R, Versatile 485 4wd & 365
Trucks: Peter Bult, Freightliner, Kenworth
Truck Driver: 10 spd Fuller Box, 13 spd Fuller box, 15 Over Fuller box, 18spd Fuller box, Automatic trucks
Experience in:
Cleaning grain bins
Lifting requirements 90lbs
Maintaining and servicing farm equipment
Welding and maintenance on cattle pens
Operating loader and excavator
Cattle feeding
Feeding Wagon
Straw bales for bedding
Alfalfa bales for feeding
Fencing
Poly Pipe
Cultivating disc
Chisel plow
Tender Truck semi
Wind Rower
Baling
General farm duties
New Holland 1475 HS Haybine (mower conditioner)
Vermeer hay rake (wind rower)
John Deere 569 Megawideplus baling
Grain auger – setting up to fill bins with grain
Curriculum Vitae of
THOMAS WILLIAM FERREIRA