MICHAEL TUNSTALL
Red Bluff
Summary
Accomplished and energetic sales associate skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in furniture sales and furniture pickup and delivery. Service-oriented in-home care provider with 2 year background in special needs and disabilities. Core competencies include welding, logging and manual labor as well as excellent communication and time management skills. Handles tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
Adaptable Lead Sales Associate eagerly anticipating new challenges and opportunities for growth and contributions with dynamic sales team. Driven to go above and beyond to exceed team and corporate sales goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Sales Associate
Harbor Freight
Redding
01.2021 - 12.2024
- Sales
- Customer service
- Cleaning
- Stocking
- Returns
- Exchanges
Heavy labor and sales associate
Home Consignment Depot
Redding
12.2016 - 03.2018
- Collect delivery instructions from appropriate sources, verifying instructions and routes.
- Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.
- Inventory and inspect goods to be moved to determine quantities and conditions.
- Follow appropriate safety procedures for transporting dangerous goods.
- Read and interpret maps to determine vehicle routes.
- Check all load-related documentation to ensure that it is complete and accurate.
- Wrap goods using pads, packing paper, and containers, and secure loads to trailer walls, using straps.
- Receive and fill telephone orders for parts.
- Fill customer orders from stock.
- Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
- Mark and store parts in stockrooms according to prearranged systems.
- Place new merchandise on display.
- Repair parts or equipment.
- Confer with customers by telephone or in person to provide information about products or services, take or enter orders, cancel accounts, or obtain details of complaints.
- Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems.
- Determine charges for services requested, collect deposits or payments, or arrange for billing.
- Compare disputed merchandise with original requisitions and information from invoices and prepare invoices for returned goods.
- Recommend improvements in products, packaging, shipping, service, or billing methods and procedures to prevent future problems.
In-home care provider
Arcadia
Redding
10.2015 - 01.2016
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
- Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers.
- Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Care for children who are disabled or who have sick or disabled parents.
- Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
- Change dressings.
Handyman
Self-employed
Red Bluff
01.2013 - 09.2015
- Use tools ranging from common hand and power tools, such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, and wrenches, to precision measuring instruments and electrical and electronic testing devices.
- Perform routine preventive maintenance to ensure that machines continue to run smoothly, building systems operate efficiently, or the physical condition of buildings does not deteriorate.
- Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
- Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
- Assemble, install, or repair wiring, electrical or electronic components, pipe systems, plumbing, machinery, or equipment.
- Inspect drives, motors, and belts, check fluid levels, replace filters, or perform other maintenance actions, following checklists.
- Clean or lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, or other parts of machinery.
- Adjust functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges.
- Repair or replace defective equipment parts, using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment.
- Record type and cost of maintenance or repair work.
- Order parts, supplies, and equipment from catalogs and suppliers, or obtain them from storerooms.
- Maintain and repair specialized equipment and machinery found in cafeterias, laundries, hospitals, stores, offices, or factories.
- Dismantle devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools.
- Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts, jigs, fixtures, or tools.
- Operate cutting torches or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts.
- Align and balance new equipment after installation.
- Paint or repair roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, plaster, drywall, or other parts of building structures.
- Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, or other measuring instruments.
- Provide grounds keeping services, such as landscaping and snow removal.
- Perform general cleaning of buildings or properties.
- Train and manage maintenance personnel and subcontractors.
- Estimate repair costs.
- Fabricate or repair counters, benches, partitions, or other wooden structures, such as sheds or outbuildings.
- Grind and reseat valves, using valve-grinding machines.
- Lay brick to repair or maintain buildings, walls, arches, or other structures.
Logger
Self-employed
Forbestown
01.2004 - 08.2010
- Stop saw engines, pull cutting bars from cuts, and run to safety as tree falls.
- Appraise trees for certain characteristics, such as twist, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauge amount and direction of lean, in order to determine how to control the direction of a tree's fall with the least damage.
- Saw back-cuts, leaving sufficient sound wood to control direction of fall.
- Clear brush from work areas and escape routes, and cut saplings and other trees from direction of falls, using axes, chainsaws, or bulldozers.
- Assess logs after cutting to ensure that the quality and length are correct.
- Measure felled trees and cut them into specified log lengths, using chain saws and axes.
- Determine position, direction, and depth of cuts to be made, and placement of wedges or jacks.
- Control the direction of a tree's fall by scoring cutting lines with axes, sawing undercuts along scored lines with chainsaws, knocking slabs from cuts with single-bit axes, and driving wedges.
- Trim off the tops and limbs of trees, using chainsaws, delimbers, or axes.
- Select trees to be cut down, assessing factors such as site, terrain, and weather conditions before beginning work.
- Maintain and repair chainsaws and other equipment, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and sharpening equipment properly.
- Insert jacks or drive wedges behind saws to prevent binding of saws and to start trees falling.
- Tag unsafe trees with high-visibility ribbons.
- Secure steel cables or chains to logs for dragging by tractors or for pulling by cable yarding systems.
- Load logs or wood onto trucks, trailers, or railroad cars, by hand or using loaders or winches.
- Mark logs for identification.
- Work as a member of a team, rotating between chain saw operation and skidder operation.
- Place supporting limbs or poles under felled trees in order to avoid splitting undersides, and to prevent logs from rolling.
- Split logs, using axes, wedges, and mauls, and stack wood in ricks or cord lots.
- Attach identifying tags to containers or mark them with identifying information.
- Read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments or material or equipment needs.
- Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.
- Assemble product containers or crates, using hand tools and precut lumber.
- Move freight, stock, or other materials to and from storage or production areas, loading docks, delivery vehicles, ships, or containers, by hand or using trucks, tractors, or other equipment.
- Sort cargo before loading and unloading.
- Pack containers and re-pack damaged containers.
- Carry needed tools or supplies from storage or trucks and return them after use.
- Install protective devices, such as bracing, padding, or strapping, to prevent shifting or damage to items being transported.
- Maintain equipment storage areas to ensure that inventory is protected.
- Attach slings, hooks, or other devices to lift cargo and guide loads.
- Guide loads being lifted to prevent swinging.
- Adjust or replace equipment parts, such as rollers, belts, plugs, or caps, using hand tools.
- Stack cargo in locations such as transit sheds or in holds of ships as directed, using pallets or cargo boards.
- Bundle and band material such as fodder or tobacco leaves, using banding machines.
- Rig or dismantle props or equipment, such as frames, scaffolding, platforms, or backdrops, using hand tools.
- Wash out cargo containers or storage areas.
- Shovel material, such as gravel, ice, or spilled concrete, into containers or bins or onto conveyors.
- Erect tents or canopies to protect crews or equipment from weather.
Education
GED - Welding
Umpqua Community College
Roseburg, ORSkills
- English Language
- Active Listening
- Customer and Personal Service
- Speaking
- Time Management
- Administration and Management
- Mathematics
- Active Learning
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Complex Problem Solving
- Education and Training
- Negotiation
- Public Safety and Security
- Learning Strategies
- Production and Processing
- Sales and Marketing
- Mechanical
- Troubleshooting
- Building and Construction
- Repairing
- Equipment Maintenance
- Inventory management
- Sales strategy
- Customer relationship management
- Visual merchandising
- Product knowledge
Timeline
Lead Sales Associate
Harbor Freight
01.2021 - 12.2024
Heavy labor and sales associate
Home Consignment Depot
12.2016 - 03.2018
In-home care provider
Arcadia
10.2015 - 01.2016
Handyman
Self-employed
01.2013 - 09.2015
Logger
Self-employed
01.2004 - 08.2010
GED - Welding
Umpqua Community College