- Phone: +1 702 612 5964
- Email: averagejoey2000@gmail.com
- Location: Vallejo, CA
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- Aug. 2020 to May 2024
- GPA: 3.7/3.9 (Transcript)
- Coursework: Navigation, Ship Business and Management, Ship Stability, Ship Safety, Survival, Minor of Business Administration.
- Aug. 2017 to May 2024
- Coursework: Intro to Business, Accounting and Economics, General Education
- June 2024
- Oct. 2021 to May 2024
- CA, USA
- Helped hundreds of students learn advanced skills in various subjects by leveraging different learning styles and emotional communication to guide them through difficult and confusing techniques, leading to improved academic outcomes.
- Created resources for the tutoring center, including detailed instructional material unpacked from a very dense and obscure topic, and developed tools for checking work.
- Identified Areas for Improvement in student papers, considered their feelings and experiences, and guided them in crafting statements which more accurately and professionally represented their ideas to their target audiences.
- Assisted students with creative and technical writing as an English tutor, encouraged them to organize their thoughts meaningfully, research thoroughly, cite correctly, make effective use of rhetoric, and express complex ideas and emotions.
- May 2023 to July 2023
- Cabo, MX; Apia, Samoa; Hilo, HI; Astoria, OR
- Won Grand Prize for Celestial Navigation
- Oversaw multi-day work projects and managed the work and safety of underclass cadets for manual labor
- Assisted Chief Mate Doug Nagy with stability calculation and ballast operations
- Simulation Training
- Fast Rescue Boat Training
- Stood Satisfactory Bridge Watches, including in Pilotage and Traffic Scenarios
- July 2022 to Aug. 2022
- Honolulu, San Francisco, San Diego, Vallejo
- Stood Mirrored Watches for pilotage and ocean passage. During simulated GPS failure lasting 20 days, demonstrated excellence in celestial and terrestrial navigation. Instructed cohorts and underclassmen from different institutions on technique.
- Performed preventative maintenance and inspection on mission critical equipment, shadowed managers for labor projects while continuing to participate.
- May 2022 to June 2022
- Port Arthur, TX
- Stood 12 hour navigation watches, including hand steering with z-drives up the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
- Experience with DP systems including station keeping and DP Autopilot.
- Assimilated with international crew from the Philippines.
- Performed 12 hours of Day Work daily, including removal of saturation diving system.
- July 2021 to Aug. 2021
- HNL, VJO
- Stood Mirrored Watches as a helmsman, lookout, messenger, and roving security.
- Firefighting Training.
- Assisted with Day Work
- Tied for 1st at Knot Tying Contest
- Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2020
- Las Vegas, NV
- Obtained Red Cross Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Instructor Certification.
- Promoted to management inside 1 year.
- Worked opening shifts at indoor and outdoor pool.
- Maintained sanitary conditions.
- Performed first aid, taught skill refreshers, conducted safety audits.
- United States Coast Guard Licensed Merchant Mariner: Unlimited Tonnage Third Officer upon Oceans.
- 2024
- Developed detailed documents with examples in understandable language specifically crafted for the cadets embarking on Senior Bear Cruise. Made a collaborative repository for those cadets to contribute corrections and additions.
- Used GitHub and aTeX
- 2023
- Recorded a collection of meaningful sea songs in various costumes aboard the former U.S. Army Survey Corps Ship Sacajawea and wrote about their connection to the cultural experience of Mariners, Filipinos, and LGBT people; particularly how they resonate with me as the intersection of those three groups.
- Video
- Taught young children nautical skills including shipboard vocabulary and knot tying.
- Performed in singing and acting routines with improvised and memorized segments on and off stage several times daily.