Carpenter / Handyman / General Construction
Resume:
Christopher Rollins
Town of Babylon, Long Island, New York
**********@*******.***
Carpenter by trade with 25,000+ hours experience in the field.
• 17+ years experience working in construction.
- Formerly specializing in tile setting, mainly residential construction.
- Currently specializing in interior and core & shell carpentry, mainly commercial construction.
• 13+ years experience working as a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
- Proud member of the NYC District Council of Carpenters' Queens Local 45 (all 5 boros)
- Formerly a member of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters' Long Island Local 290.
- 11+ years working seasonally as a trade show carpenter at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Work Experience:
I always had a job since 14-15 years old, those jobs included cashier at a pharmacy, cashier at stop and shop, i worked for a landscaping business doing fall clean ups and cutting lawns. Up until this day I have helped when I am available and when my friend is busy who owns and operates a fiber optic cabling business so I would run the wires and do a lot of work for him similar to carpentry. I also helped out many different friends and acquaintances who were contractors or who knew and/or worked for contractors. At some point in my senior year in High School I was working as a telemarketer for South Shore Mortgage (Lindenhurst NY) and training to become a loan officer. I worked at south shore mortgage up until a year or so after high school.. At this time was the beginning of the housing market crisis. So although I had some very good months for a 19 year old, I didn't like being paid monthly and only paid commission and being required to give my manager a percent every time I closed a deal. That is when I decided to work where I get paid by the hour and work manual labor.
• Granite shop worker/Tile setter's helper
2006-2007
Procida Tile
430 Commack Rd. Deer Park, NY
• I was hired to work in the granite shop where the granite countertops and saddles and other custom made items were fabricated. Some days were spent in the shop helping with the fabricating and sanding of items, some days I was out in the field installing granite counter tops, and other pre fabricated items, and some days when it got slow I would go out with tile setters and helped them like an apprentice would. I mixed mud to float and level the floors and prepped for any other work that was being done, such as putting down the wire lath and tar paper, leveling out any walls, mixing thinset, helping with the tile installations, measuring and cutting tiles, and grouting were some of the jobs they tasked me with.
This was my introduction to tiling and the granite shop was closing so I got a job with my friends Dad, who had his own tile business, as a helper.
•Tile setter's helper
2007-2009
Frank Corrado Tile
West Babylon, NY
• I performed a lot of the same tasks with Frank Corrado that I did working at Procida. I mixed mud to float and level the floors, prepped for any other work that was being done, such as putting down the wire lath and tar paper, leveling out any walls, mixing thinset, helping with the tile installations, measuring and cutting tiles, and grouting.
I left to work with someone else who I had met in the field because he offered me more money.
•Tile setter apprentice / Tile Setter
2009-2017
JB Tile
Massapequa, NY
James Birkert 516-***-****
• With JB Tile, I did all the same work I did with Frank Corrado but it was more of an apprenticeship then just being a helper. I was taught a lot more and given the opportunities to do the work myself rather then just help someone else. Mainly bathroom and kitchen renovations, Ceramic, porcelain, marble tile installations, mixing mud, grouting, and also some carpentry like sheet rocking or re framing l a bathroom or kitchen. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy hit, we were working 7 days a week and it was too much work to handle so I was given a lot of work to do myself so I was in the process of starting my own tile business. For a couple years up to this point I had taken every NYC, NYS, and Labor Union exam I could find, so one day I was in a dealership lot looking at work trucks for my tile business and I got a phone call informing me I was accepted into the carpenters union apprenticeship.
prenticeship, Since I was taking a big pay cut by switching jobs, I was doing tile work on the side while I worked as an apprentice with the Carpenters union.
•Carpenter Apprentice
2013-2017
Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters’ Local 290
270 Motor Pkwy. Hauppauge, NY
As an apprentice
• Journeyman Carpenter / Shop Steward
2017-Present
New York City District Council of Carpenters
395 Hudson St. New York, NY
Local 45
114 Jericho Toke. Suite 3, Floral Park, NY
• Carpenter I have led crews and been a part of crews that worked on projects all over NYC like Moynihan Station, Penn Station, Hudson yards, Javits Center (expansion project), World Trade
• Center, The Occulus, Lincoln Center, Coney Island Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center, JFK Airport, just to name a few. I am familiar with, and well versed in interior, core & shell, safety protection, office furniture, and all other facets of carpentry work. Some of my responsibilities have been framing, sheetrocking, core board, cutting and installing all different types of materials and any other tasks necessary to get the job done.
• As a shop steward (2024-present) I have held the responsibility of being the liaison for the Union on job sites, the District Council's eyes and ears on the job to make sure workers are taken care of by the contractor that is employing them and I have dealt with supervisors for the general contractors and for other sub contractors, inspectors, architects, project managers, foremen, workers, safety guys and any and everyone else in between to make sure everyone we are on the same page and help make sure everyone working is being taken care of and treated fairly and equally and everyone goes home safe. I am still a proud member of the carpenters union but it is very slow and I have spent more time unemployed and looking for work in the last 2 years than I have in my previous 10 years in the union. That is not an exaggeration. The amount of hours of work I was able to get through the carpenters union in 2023 & 2024 combined were less than any other previous year. So I am looking to see what else is available because I need something more steady and if I can find a better deal elsewhere I would have to switch career paths and do what is best for me.
•Trade show Carpenter
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 W 34th St. New York, NY
• I have been, and presently am, employed by the Javits center since 2014 where I worked seasonally for the many different contractors in the building as well as working directly for the Convention center. Work includes Assemble and disassemble booths for the vendors who are working at the trade shows, that the javits center hosts. Assemble booths, signs, build structures for vendors for all the trade shows that the javits center hosts. Set up everything in time for the show and then take apart and move out the show to make way for the next one. Many times it included staying late into the night and/or starting very early in the morning.
Certifications:
• OSHA 30
• SST 40
Education:
Class of 2005 Graduate West Babylon High School
2001 -2005
Suffolk County Community College
2005 - 2006
• After graduating high school I was enrolled at Suffolk Community College taking classes for an Engineering degree. I did good my first semester but in my second semester I got into a car accident that I was not at fault for but totaled my car and I missed some classes which led to me falling behind and I was unable to make up for it. Because of this, and also because at that time in my life I really had no interest in school.
4 Year Apprenticeship
UBC Local 290
2013-2017
Other Activities:
• For over 20 years I have been weight training and belonged to a gym because of the benefits it gives you in day to day life but also because it makes working in construction easier when your body is in good shape, it is your #1 tool, without a healthy, strong body no work is going to be done
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