Daminus Willis
Sugarland, Texas 77478
Phone: 281-***-**** Cell: 409-***-****
Email: *************@*****.***
Objective
Seeking a welding position with a company or organization that will allow for career advancement and growth.
Summary
• Work effectively individually and as a team member
• Maintain a positive and professional attitude dealing with customers
• Outstanding ability to initiate action, make decisions and solve problems
• Highly motivated to accept responsibility and work without supervision
• Open to learning, adapt well to challenging and continually changing situations
• Successfully prioritize daily routine, continuously upgrading skills and qualifications
Professional Experiences
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operate manual and semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metals arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
• Monitor the fitting, burning and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, setup, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Lay out position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
Professional Work History
ISC Welder Beaumont, TX
From: 06/10 To: 06/10
Baker Energy Welder/Operator Lafayette, LA
From: 06/08 To: 07/09
Matte Services Welder Sabine Pass, TX
From: 05/02 To: 06/08
Education
• M. Weeks Welding Laboratory Testing and School Nederland, TX
Shielded Metal Arc (Certification)
Gas Tungsten Arc (Certification)
• Thomas Jefferson High School Port Arthur, TX