AMY SMITH
123 Main Street • Atlanta, Georgia • 30339
Home: (555) 555-1234, Cell: (555) 555-1235
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Seek the Challenging Position of Paperhanger
A highly talented Paperhanger with huge experience in covering interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, attaching advertising posters on surfaces, such as walls and billboards; and removing old materials from surface to be papered.
Summary of Qualifications
More than eight years experience.
Excellent knowledge of house-construction materials, methods, and the tools.
Proven ability to figure out the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Extensive ability to be flexible, i.e., bend, stretch, twist, or reach with the body, arms, and legs.
Great ability to cleverly manipulate and use the hand.
Excellent ability to coordinate two or more limbs while sitting, standing, or lying down.
Profound organizational and interpersonal skills.
Professional Experience
Renovate Inc., Tarrytown, NY 2001 - Present
Paperhanger
Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brush, roller, or pasting machine.
Measure and cut strips from roll of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razor.
Mix paste, using paste-powder and water, and brush paste onto surface.
Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedge and trimming knife.
Align and place strips or poster sections of billboard on surface to match adjacent edges.
Smooth strips or poster sections with brush or roller to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
Trim excess material at ceiling or baseboard, using knife.
Mark vertical guideline on wall to align first strip, using plumb bob and chalk line.
Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, or poles.
Measure walls and ceiling to compute number and length of strips required to cover surface.
Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
Fill holes and cracks with plaster, using trowel.
Remove old paper, using water, steam machine, or chemical remover and scraper.
Remove paint, varnish, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solution.
Erect and work from scaffold
Renovate Inc., Tarrytown, NY 1997 - 2001
Paperhanger Apprentice (under the supervision of experienced Paperhanger)
Tended machine that combines paper and plaster to form continuous ribbon of wallboard (plasterboard).
Inserted shaft through paper roll, placed plates and collars over ends of shaft, and secured collars with wrench.
Mounted and aligned rolls of paper in machine racks, using hoist.
Thread paper through guides with unsized surface next to plaster.
Started and monitored machine for alignment and defective paper, such as pinholes, rough surface, mill splices, and soiled areas.
Stopped machine to cut defective paper from roll and spliced ends by overlapping them and to splice exhausted paper to new roll.
Recorded identifying number, weight, and amount of paper wasted for each roll.
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