Portfolio - Chris Campbell

Christopher Campbell

United States Navy Veteran.
Studying Cybersecurity
Self-motivated, reliable, and punctual

Current Certificate: Google Cybersecurity Career Certificate
Future Certificate: Taking Comptia Sec+ in August 2023
Current Licensure: 1st class A Boiler Engineer

Experience

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Essentia Health

, Duluth, MN — Boiler Operator

June 2022–Present

  • Maintain and operate high pressure boilers at multiples Essentia health buildings, including, St. Mary's hospital, 1st street clinic building, and the new Vision Northland hospital in Duluth Minnesota. This includes associated sub systems such as steam, feed, condensate, makeup water, and domestic hot/cold water.

  • Conduct daily water tests on all eight high pressure boilers on the Duluth campuses, analyzing total dissolved solids (TDS), P and M alkalinity, polymer, and sulfites. Expertly balance boiler chemistry to prevent damage to water tube side, ensuring optimal performance.

  • Respond to phone calls for hospital maintenance requests, prioritizing issues and dispatching appropriate personnel to resolve urgent matters. Effectively balance the importance of the issue and available resources to ensure prompt and efficient service.

  • Collaborate with a team to design, manufacture, and assemble signs for all Essentia campuses spanning over 30 cities in Minnesota and North Dakota.

  • Utilize Gravotech software to create designs and send the data from the desktop to a rotary engraving machine, calibrating the machine on the x, y, and z axes. Work with acrylic, aluminum, and plastic sheets to engrave and paint signs, ensuring precise and professional results.

  • Manage the alarms and programming for the building automation system across multiple hospitals, utilizing Niagara for monitoring and adjusting remote operation of air-handlers, pumps, and solenoids.

Sprung Services

, New Brighton, MN — Relief Boiler Operator

December 2020–Present

  • Obtained my Minnesota 1st class 'A' boilers license allowing me to operate high- and low-pressure boilers with associated engines and turbines of any horsepower. I can personally be in charge of boilers up to 500 horsepower.

  • This job operates off of a job board. When a company is in need of a relief operator the reach to Sprung Services. Sprung then lists the jobs for any available operator to pick up.

  • As a relief boiler operator for Sprung Services, my responsibility is to operate and safeguard high and low pressure boilers unique to each job site with their associated turbine, feed, steam, chemical, and condensate systems.

  • This job also includes operational and preventative maintenance items including, but not limited to, performing water samples to test plant chemistry, blowing down steam traps, performing lube oil inspections, ensuring proper operation of outdoor components, and checking/validating safety equipment.

Best Buy

, Grand Forks, ND — Product Flow

October 2021–March 2022

  • This was a part time job I worked while attending school in person at UND. The job responsibilities included shipping and receiving goods to include washers, dryers, refrigerators, televisions, computers, laptops, monitors, and a plethora of other tech products. I also ensured the sales floor was porperly stocked at all times.

  • In addition to product flow, I also worked customer service when the need arose. This required the prioritization of empathy in helping customers manage whatever needs they may have while shopping with us at Best Buy.

  • I also obtained experience working at the Geek Squad precinct. At the precinct, we would assist customers in troubleshooting and repair of desktops, laptops, TVs, phones, and tablets.

United States Navy

, Norfolk, VA — Nuclear Machinist Mate

Jan 2014–Jan 2020

  • Professional Summary: I served for six years as a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the United States Navy, maintaining reactor room facilities and equipment onboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. I received a secret security clearance and filled positions as operator and maintenance technician. While onboard I qualified chief reactor watch, a senior supervisory watch station in the reactor room. I obtained skills with the operation and maintenance of mechanical systems to include primary coolant systems, reactor safeguard systems, steam plant systems, hydraulic plant systems, high and low-pressure air, sea and fresh water, and piping/electrical system diagrams.

  • Qualified Chief Reactor Watch, QA, Craftsman, and Damage Control team leader.

  • Routinely performed maintenance on all propulsion related nuclear and non-nuclear mechanical systems. This included preventative maintenance items requiring complete disassembly, greasing, and reassembly of a 4160-volt turbine attached lube oil pump. complete disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly of our plants Delaval lube oil purifier. I also as participated in semi-annual reactor fill testing, ensuring proper operations of the reactor safeguard system.

  • While in the shipyard, I was a member of the work controls team. Our responsibility was to verify all shipyard maintenance documents and ensure their accuracy with our current shipboard rules and regulations. We were also responsible for verifying all on ship's company maintenance for reactor mechanical division to ensure that workstations/controls weren’t overlapping between reactor mechanical division and shipyard contractors.

Carondelet Village

, St. Paul, MN — Food Service Assistant

Full Time–June 2012-June 2014

  • This was my first full time job prior to joining the Navy. My primary responsibility was to serve food in a kindly fassion to the elderly who lived in the retirement home.

  • In addition, I was responsible for cleaning all dishes, maintaining general cleanliness of my workstation, and weekly deep cleaning of the kitchen and cooking exhaust baffles.

Education and Training

University of North Dakota

  • Masters Degree (Estimated graduation Summer 2025)
    I will be starting this program in the Fall of 2023.

University of North Dakota

  • Bachelors Degree, Bachelor of Arts degree in General Studies with a Minor in Computer Science.
    (With my previous Naval nuclear power training and Mechanical Engineering course work, the majority of my formal education has been in math and science)

Centruy College

  • Associate of Arts Degree, Dean's list (2021)

United States Navy

  • Nuclear Prototype Training Unit, Ballston Spa, NY (2015)
  • Naval Nuclear Power School, Goose Creek, SC (2015)
  • Naval Nuclear “A” School, Goose Creek, SC (2014)

About This Resume

Special thanks to Jeffrey Mendez (a11ywatch) in helping me develop/navigate some of the more technical hang ups with this portfolio. This is a next.js project. A next.js webserver running on Vercel generates this resume.

This is a portfolio project and this resume is public on GitHub.

I spent six years in naval nuclear power and it was an honor to be able to serve my country and learn a valuable trade at the same time. However, nuclear power was never something I was passionate about. While studying mechanical engineering at the University of North Dakota, I was reminded of my love for computers and programming during a computer application in engineering course. In this course we learned how to code using C++. Although this class was not simple, it reawakened a passion within myself. I am now excited and engaged on this new life path of computer science.

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