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Harold Swiger
CAREER Former Navy Pump Operator with an honorable discharge from the US Navy seeking full time
OJBECTIVE position as a Pump Operator. Possesses commercial truck driving license with no restrictions,
spotless driving record, and extensive experience handling multi-million dollar vehicles.

QUALIFICATION My experience and expertise covers:

SUMMARY • Cleaning, lubricating, and repairing pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
• Connecting hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer.
• Monitoring gauges and flowmeters and inspecting equipment to ensure that tank levels,
temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting
abnormalities as necessary.
• Planning movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units,
utilizing knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds,
pumps, and tankage.
• Reading operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders, in order to determine
amounts to be pumped.
• Recording operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging
results, and operating times.

PROFESSIONAL US Navy - USS George Washington

EXPERIENCE Aviation Boatswain's Mate - Fuels ABF, 2000 – 2008; Honorable Discharge
• Specialized in launching and recovering aircraft on the flight deck of the USS George
Washington, assisting in the delivery of 24+ million gallons of jet fuel in the 4 years of
service, with 16,934 mishap free sorties.
• Operated, maintained and performed organizational maintenance on aviation fueling and
lubricating oil systems on CVs, CVNs, LPHS and LPDS.
• Responsible for the integrity and safety of over 24 flightdeck and belowdeck jet fueling
stations, including roving and validating in writing each station on their condition status.
• Observed and enforced handling safety precautions and maintained fuel quality
surveillance and control in aviation fuel systems.
• Supervised the operation and servicing of fuel farms and equipment associated with the
fueling and defueling of aircraft ashore and afloat.
• Worked with fire fighting crews, fire rescue teams, and damage control parties in
assigned fuel and lubricating oil spaces.
• Provided upkeep maintenance of transfer fuel pumps that pump jet fuel to the flightdeck
from the bottom on the ship.

DHL, Wilmington, DE
Sorter, May 2000 – 2004
• Sorted and routed freight, including lifting boxes and bags into and out of containers and
off and on moving belts.

EDUCATION Naval Air Technical Training, Pensacola, FL

Airman Apprentice Training Course, 2005

Wilmington Community College, Wilmington, DE

Associate of Business Administration, 1997

AWARDS AND • Good Conduct Award • Expeditionary Award

DISTINCTIONS • Global War on Terrorist Award • Sea Service Award
• National Defense Award