Resume: Michael J Swassing, ISA Certified Arborist
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1998-Present, Certified Arborist, International Society of Arboriculture. Providing tree health and hazard evaluations, and educational consultations, landscape design review consultations, forensic arboricultural investigations, and fine pruning services of small and medium sized landscape trees and shrubs, specimen trees, and fruit trees.
1995-Present, Owner, A Natural Gardener. Initiated business startup as a landscape service provider while still employed with King County Parks at Lake Wilderness in Maple Valley. Performed all tasks of marketing, bookkeeping, strategic planning, obtaining financing, and managing cash-flow while also performing all labor tasks of garden cleanups, lawn maintenance, and light-hauling. Initiated team building with employees and subcontractors. Self-studied for Arborist certification, and passed the exam in 1998. Continuing education to recertify during each 3 year term of certification. Earned fourth certificate in July of 2007. Specialized in fine pruning of specimen quality landscape trees and fruit trees, addressing tree health problems in the context of whole system ecological health, and consulting about tree health and hazard issues. Owned and operated John Deere 790 compact tractor with front loader and back hoe, BigTex hydraulic dumping trailer, and Chev three quarter ton truck for landscape contracting and light hauling. Also began nursery for salvaged plants, northwest native plants and field grown specimen trees. The nursery is located in my backyard, three quarters of an acre I've chosen to have designated as a Washington State Fish and Wildlife Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary. Member of: International Society of Arboriculture, Pacific Northwest Chapter. Editor of wikipedia, see wikipedia User:Michael J Swassing for autobiographical information.
2008-Present, Volunteer, Coalition of Organic Landscapers, Vice President. Worked collaboratively with the leadership team and provided individual iniative toward building a strategic plan for organizational revitalization and growth in the areas of future purpose and function of the organization, membership and volunteerism, fundraising, seeking grant opportunities, public relations, building consensus toward long-term goals and breaking down strategic vision into a defined series of tasks.
2006-Present, Volunteer, Wikipedia Project. Created articles, wrote content, cited sources, and edited content of existing articles for the free, online encyclopedia.
2009-Present, Volunteer, Rat City Rollergirls, Non-Skating Official. Worked as scorekeeper at RCRG bout, and line-up tracker at WFTDA sanctioned bout.
1995 Landscape Laborer, Thorsett's Landscape Nursery. Dug field grown trees for transplant (ball and burlap).
1994-1998 Park Aide, King County Parks, Lake Wilderness District. Cleaned and maintained county parks using tractor and dumptruck, chainsaws, pressurewashers...
1991-1994 BS in Environmental Science at WSU Pullman. Upper division coursework included Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Policy Law, Soil Microbial Ecology, Integrated Pest Management, Pesticides and the Environment, Hazardous Waste Management, Wildlife Toxicology, and Human Ecology. Graduate level coursework included Principles of Toxicology, and Civil Engineering: Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils. GPA: 3.35; GRE combined score 1960.
1991-1994 Various jobs while in college: Pizza driver, Mini-Market Cashier, Rural Delivery Route ...
1990-1991 Deck Crew, and Factory worker, aboard the Factory Trawler Snow King (pollack and cod), Dutch Harbor Alaska. Three contracts of sixty days each, working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.
1989-1990 Radium Removal Technician and Safety Inspector, Global Associates, Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. Removed low-level radioactive sources from decommissioned ships; mostly the electronic dials painted with radium paint.
1988-1989 Hazardous Waste Supervisor, United Airlines Services Corporation, Trident Submarine Base, Bangor, WA. Supervised hazardous waste management (non-nuclear wastes) facility team of nine personnel for Bangor Base and tenant commands.
1987-1988 Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Coordinator, Positive Incident Control, Stockton, CA. Established Stockton field office, provided chemical emergency response services as team leader.
1984-1987 Quality Assurance Laboratory Technician, FMC Corp Pesticide Formulation Plant, Fresno, CA. Performed routine quality assurance analysis of pesticide products by gas chromatography and atomic absorption spectroscopy. Team member on safety and first aid team; team leader on chemical emergency response team. Worked with environmental engineer to start a waste water treatment plant using biodegradation, flocculation, and reverse osmosis. Trained in chemical emergency response with the methyl-isocyanate transportation escort team in Middleport, NY and Charleston, WV following the incident at the Union Carbide facility in Bhopal, India; also trained at the University of California at Davis Hazardous Materials Management program.
1983-1984 Quality Assurance Laboratory Technician, Snow Commodities feed fat blending plant, Hanford, CA. Analyzed feed fats, tallow, oils, and soaps, for quality assurance
1980-1983 Chemistry Major, University of California at Santa Barbara. GPA 3.01
1976-1980 Hanford Union High School, Hanford, California. Member of the Science Club, and completed seven science classes and four years of honors math.
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