Dave Nielsen

Qualities

Visual:

Eye for design. Detail oriented. 20/20 vision.

Receptive:

Listens. Loves feedback. Empathizes with clients and employees.

Professional:

Look at that collared shirt. Competent, yet comfy.

Intelligent:

HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Adobe CS. Critical and creative brain. A zombie’s dream feast.

Communicative:

Great at conveying ideas. Can lead or be lead. Well groomed 'stache.

Compassionate:

Kind and easygoing. The true heart of a champion.

Work History

Ocean Park Mechanical

Plumbing Helper, 05/2023 to current

Joined UA Local 32 in order to establish plumbing as a long-term career path.

Currently working on a luxury high rise apartment in downtown Seattle. Also worked on large residential apartment complexes.

Quickly moved up the applicant list to #1 in line for their apprenticeship program, working towards a commercial plumber license.

Barney's Plumbing

Plumbing Apprentice, 9/2022 to 1/2023

Service, new construction, remodel plumbing in both residential and commercial applications.

Most of the clients and contractors we worked with were high-end custom projects with expensive fixtures where tolerances were tight and very small margins for error.

This was a great opportunity to learn and improve with more challenging custom high-end work.

Imlay Plumbing

Plumbing Apprentice, 10/2019 to 5/2022

Responsible for a wide range of plumbing skills and projects including residential service, new construction, remodels, and commercial.

Iron County

Web Developer & IT Technician, 6/2018 to 8/2019

Development and maintenance of all internal and external county websites and web applications.

IT technician troubleshooting for all IT systems at the county office building, including computers, hardware, networking, active directory management, and all other IT related systems managed by the county.

Advocating county commission for the dire need for IT and web development within the county, and assisting the IT director and systems administrator as needed.

Squava

Software Developer, 2/2017 to 5/2018

Front-end software design and development in Angular, including UI/UX. Expansive use of industry technologies including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Angular, PrimeNG, etc.

Set up local development environments including Gulp and Webpack. Managed npm packages and other basic dev ops tasks. Worked with legacy PHP/JQuery code, and refactored old parts of the app using Angular.

Refactored old CSS including old Bootstrap code. Restructured the project in Sass/SCSS. Planned, designed, prototyped new pages and features using Sketch and InVision.

Squava is a SaaS business management software including online time tracking, management, invoicing, accounting, and forecasting for professional service firms and small businesses.

Tonaquint Networks

Visual Designer, 7/2014 to 9/2016

Designed and produced all company marketing collateral from design to print, including fliers, billboards, booklets, t-shirts, banners, magazine ads, web ads, social media, and more.

Designed and built portions of Tonaquint sites in HTML/CSS/PHP/JS. Redesigned and rebuilt Stone Cliff WordPress sites. Performed updates and maintenance on web sites/servers.

Directed employees and partners in following brand identity guidelines. Planned print, digital, and social media marketing campaigns. Implemented analytics to gather campaign metrics.

Helped this Internet startup grow its customer base and sell (at profit) to a larger company.

BYU-Idaho

Content Designer, 9/2012 to 12/2013

Created (as part of a team) the Human Anatomy & Physiology course content for the university’s new Pathways program.

Education

Southwest Technical College

Plumbing Apprenticeship, In Progress

Brigham Young University - Idaho

B.S. Web Design & Development, 4/2016

Dixie State University

A.S. Computer Information Technology, 5/2011

Snow Canyon High School

Diploma, 5/2007

References

Matt Hamlin, CEO

Tonaquint Data Center

(435) 632-8286

Kolby Traveller, VP

Stone Cliff Properties

(435) 705-3816

Cameron Manwaring

Founder of Shareability

(435) 632-3236

Nate Williams

Attorney, Freelance Software Developer

(801) 735-5690