Education:
Philadelphia University
Masters of Science in Sustainable Design, Current.
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, June 2005.


Work Experience:

Triton Water Rescue website: tritonwaterrescue.com
Lieutenant of Lifeguards
May 2010 – Present (3 years)
• Oversees and maintains a collective of 100 lifeguards from various backgrounds as employees in different geographic locations.
• Meets with race directors to schedule timing of heats/waves of competitors during event.
• Coordinates the number of athletes and participants with the number of required lifeguards to ensure adequate coverage of the event.
• Coordinates with Fire Rescue and Dive Rescue to ensure a safety plan is established for swimmers who need to be removed from races.
• Maintains communications with all lifeguards in the water during event.
• Responsible for handling payments of services beween race director and subordinate lifeguards.
• Maintain and upkeep various equipment, training and rescue techniques, and necessary certifications.

Toms River Regional Schools – Toms River High School East
Swim Coach
November 2009 – March 2012 (4 seasons)
• Coaching 20-30 athletes on proper stroke and technique for all competitive swimming styles.
• Oversight of day to day workouts consisting of various sets over the span of a 2 hour practince time.
• Make sure that swimmers appear for competative swim meets on time and that they are present at the starting block for their races.
• Work individually with struggling, beginner swimmers to correct their technique when needed.

Midway Beach Ocean Rescue
Lieutenant of Lifeguards
March 2006 – September 2011 (6 years)
• Scheduled subordinate lifeguards throughout the summer months to ensure adequate beach coverage for 1000-3000 beach patrons on any given day.
• Reponsible for specificying, ordering, and implementing appropriate lifesaving equipment on a year-to-year basis.
• Oversight of payment schedule from week to week to make sure hours worked by guards mirrored times submitted to payroll.
• Met with principal homeowners on committee to ensure beach opening and closing went as smooth as possible in pre and post–season.
• General oversight of beach operations on a daily basis.
• Responsible for watching for distressed swimmers in tidal waters on a quarter mile streatch of beach 6 days a week.
• Take command of emergency situations to ensure appropriate and adequate care is given to victim on and off the beachfront for any serious or non-life threatening injury or illness.

Midway Beach Ocean Rescue
Senior Lifeguard
March 2002 – September 2005 (4 years)
• Responsible for watching for distressed swimmers in tidal waters on a quarter mile streatch of beach 6 days a week.
• Take command of emergency situations to ensure appropriate and adequate care is given to victim on and off the beachfront for any serious or non-life threatening injury or illness.
• Trained Rookie Lifeguards in dailty beach operations, proper rescue techniques, and signs and signals to look for in a distressed swimmer.
• Set up lifeguard stand and rescue equipment, secured a safetey zone to ensure beach goers did not encroach on lfeguard on a daily basis.
• Continued to have a posotive repore with beach patrons on entire beach.

Midway Beach Ocean Rescue
Lifeguard
March 1998 – September 2001 (4 years)
• Responsible for watching for distressed swimmers in tidal waters on a quarter mile streatch of beach 5 days a week.
• Learning the dailty beach operations, proper rescue techniques, and signs and signals to look for in a distressed swimmer from an assigned Senior Guard.
• Set up lifeguard stand and rescue equipment, secured a safetey zone to ensure beach goers did not encroach on lfeguard on a daily basis.

Archer Pool Management
Lifeguard
June 1996 – September 1997 (2 years)
• Oversighe of small community pools and riverfront beaches.
• Responsible for cleaning and maintaining chemistry of pools in various locations.
• Setup and Breakdown of lifesaving equipment.


Professional Certifications:
Red Cross: Professional CPR, Lifeguarding, AED, Oxygen Administration, First Aid for the Professional Rescuer, Water Safety Instructor (WSI).
American Heart Assoc.: Professional CPR, Lifeguarding, AED, Oxygen Administration, First Aid for the Professional Rescuer.
Certified United States Lifesaving Association (USLA), Northeast Chapter.

Interests:
Open-water swimming, competitive swimming, scuba diving, surfing, paddle boarding, kayaking, running, Cross-Fit.

Awards:
• Lifeguard of the Month – July 1999, August 2000, August 2001, July 2004.
• Captain’s Award of Excellence – 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010.
• Tournament MVP – 2002
• Rookie of the Year Award - 1998