WALTER SIZEMORE
**** ******* ****** **. ******* TN.
731-***-****/*******@*****.***
EDUCATION
Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg Il.
*Working on getting associates in science. Goal is to get by 2012.
SUMMARY
*Six years experience lab and wastewater treatment operations
*Comfortable handling hazardous chemicals
*Scored 94 percent on Illinois industrial class k wastewater exam
*Skilled in many different wastewater process, and troubleshooting problems
*Having management experience
*Six years electroplating and metal finishing experience
*Experience in electrocoatings and powder coating
*Have takin some college math and chemistry
*Attended the AESF education course for electroplating and surface finishing
*Worked at three different metal finishing shops
WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATOR/LAB TECHNICIAN EXPERIENCE
*Ran wastewater treatment and electroplating departments and head lab technician
*Do titration on many different cleaners, phosphates and plating baths (including copper, brass, bronze,alkaline and chloride zinc, nickel, and tin baths.)
*Can troubleshoot plating problems that may occur chemically or mechanically
*Familiar dealing with many different waterwater streams (including cyanide bearing waste streams and nickel, zinc and copper waste streams.)
*Use mathematical skills to make correct chemicals additions to plating and cleaner tanks
*Experience in safely handling very hazardous chemicals (including: cyanides, acids, and many more very dangerous chemicals)
*Daily use and calibration of ORP, PH, and conductivity meters
*Directly involed in weekly preventive maintenance of wastewater treatment clarifiers, holding tanks, plating tanks and rinses
*Test outgoing water in wastewater treatment on AA machine
*Manage a small group of people and setting up daily work schedule
*Worked with barrel and rack plating lines
*Producing quality plating hardware with minimal scrap and waste
*Run Hull Cells on plating baths
WORK HISTORY
METAL FINISHER/LAB TECHNICIAN, Dewayne's Quality Metal, Lexington TN. March 2010-present
WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATOR/LAB TECHNICIAN, Metokote Corporation,Moline IL. December 2009-March 2010
WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATOR/LAB TECHNICIAN/METAL FINISHER, Dixline Corporation,Galva IL. April 2004-December 2009