My Work Experience

Staples - Corner Brook, NL

Technology Sales Associate – Summer 2021 – Summer 2023

• Communicated with customers to identify their needs;

• Provided solutions to customers needs, both in-store and over the phone, in order to convert the sale opportunity and leave the customer satisfied with their shopping experience;

• Maintained merchandising standards, including setting up shelves, changing price signage, and setting up displays.

JCL Investments Inc. - Corner Brook, NL

Material Handler – Summer 2021

• Operated various material handling equipment including forklifts, pallet jacks, two-wheeled dollies, and pickup trucks;

• Created and organized manifests for shipments to job sites;

• Picked up and delivered time sensitive orders from warehouse or various suppliers to job sites;

• Loaded trailers and secured loads for long distance journeys.

Royal Canadian Navy - Esquimalt, BC - 2012-2020

Scheduler – Naval Fleet School (Pacific)

• Created day-to-day training schedules for all courses under the seamanship division;

• Worked with multiple contacts to book transportation, rations, and training facilities required for training.

Naval Environment Training Program Instructor – Naval Fleet School (Pacific)

• Instructed groups of approximately twenty people on a variety of naval work-related topics including safety, seamanship, fall arrest protection, administration, force protection and weapons handling, sea survival, shipboard waste management, and history;

• External classroom instruction included proper weapons handling and supervision on a firing range, sea survival training in a practical setting such as pool/harbour, and managing reality-based force protection training scenarios in a simulated high stress environment;

• Provided students assistance with their administrative needs;

• Provided students a written report upon completion of the course outlining observed strengths and areas for improvement.

Boatswain – Her Majesty's Canadian Ship VANCOUVER

• Operated and maintained ships rescue boats, weapons, and demolitions;

• Served as Quartermaster on the ships bridge, which entailed:

  • Controlling ship’s movement controls at the direction of an officer;

  • Ensuring the junior members on the ships bridge were familiar and comfortable with their roles and duties, and provided assistance or training where needed;

  • Communicated orders from the officers to the junior members on the bridge;

  • Responded promptly to urgent or emergency situations such as a loss of steering, person(s) overboard, fire or flood.

• Maintained inventory, and procured when necessary, various consumable materials such as paint, rope, cleaning supplies;

• Acquired quotes from multiple suppliers to purchase equipment/supplies for lowest price;

• Accounted for materials upon delivery or pickup and ensured orders were correct.