Working in the maintenance technicion field at the Emporia,KS Tyson Foods my primary roles include maintaining a multitude of equipment. There I worked with detection systems such as Safeline metal detectors and Xray machines. There are a number of printers I work with such as thermal transfer, Inkjet and melted wax types. Alongside the printers we also maintain labelers for Multivacs and weigh-price labeling systems such as Bizerba scale/labeler and SATO labelers. I also work with various equipment such as motor drives, PLCs, HMIs, Networking and Phone systems and just about any other electrical problem they want to throw at us. Some of the PLC software we use is Unity Pro, and Vijeo for HMI's.

More recently I have moved into the Kansas City area for a similar position. This location is a warehouse and as such does not have production equipment. I mainly have been working on warehouse related equipment such as Wrap Machines, Inverters and Forklifts. While the facility may be smaller, I am kept busy as the Lead for Maintenance. This has given me quite a bit of experience managing, planning, budgeting, project tracking etc. I have maintained my Kansas State Scale License Certification through both of these positions as a Scale Technicion.

This position was for a refrigerated trailer mechanic at Tyson Foods. My primary roles here included doing preventative maintenance on the trailers. As well as repairing wall damage to the interior and doing tire changes and brake repair. I also worked on the refrigeration systems with the other mechanics. Unfortunately I was not there long enough to get my refrigeration license before I moved up into my current position.

While in college I worked with the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism. This was multiple times through part-time positions to do specific tasks. The first time I worked with them I was tasked with minor updates to an Access database they were using. The second time I was tasked with basically building an entirely new database system for them to run more advanced queries through. This was also designed through Access, lots of VBS and SQL. This system was to work with their existing Access database and then allow them to run multiple types of queries for many of the qualities they wanted to check. The system was primarily for the fishing regulations department. and checking the populations of each species by locations, dates and or sizes or any other field. They have also asked me to do a few other minor changes to their databases at other times, the specifics of which I cannot remember now.