Ezra LeDee provides a summary of their career experience and skills, including over 30 years of experience as an independent brick masonry contractor completing over 3,300 residential and commercial projects. They also have 25 years of experience working in computer engineering, building and repairing computers, and designing websites. Additional experience includes work in daycare services, as a recreation center supervisor, bridge construction, and as a rural postal carrier.
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1. EZRA LEDEE
edledee@yahoo.com|324 Caroline St.,New Iberia,LA,70560|(337)256-8068
I am a career oriented, hard-working, dedicated and focused individual pursuing a
successful future resulting in positive role-modeling and constructive results due to
superior quality work and perseverance. I am willing to champion the company's
vision to be the leader in safety, quality, innovation, and efficiency by leading with my
example as a mentor and coach.
E D U C A T I O N
American Intercontinental University
2002 to 2003 · Computer Network Administration
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1993 to 1996 · Computer Engineering/Programming
Nanna's pre-K-North Lewis Elementary-N.I. Middle-N.I.Freshman High-New Iberia Senior High
Class of 1993 · New Iberia, Louisiana|High School Diploma
Accomplishments/Skills:
Gifted And Talented Program-3rd-12th grade.
Science and Social Studies Fairs-10+ Projects, 35+ Awards-Ribbons/Certificates.
Spelling Bee-10+Attendances, 3+ Awards-Ribbons/Certificates.
Private Art Lessons(1988-1989)- Paint, pastels, oils, charcoal, pencil.
Private Music Lessons(1983-1988 Mrs. Trosclair)- Piano- 5 years, including later practice with
wind instruments, singing, drums and guitars. 50+ Songs, 5+ Trophies/Certificates.
Boy/Cub Scouts of America- 100+ Projects, 35+ Awards including pinewood derby.
Writing- have been published for poetry "The Trip to the Year 5081." Mindscapes. 1985
Journals, diaries. Reports.
Presidential Physical Fitness Award.
Elocution (skill with reciting words.)- 5+ Awards from NLES
2. E X P E R I E N C E
Masonry
Ezra LeDee|324 Caroline St.,New Iberia,LA,70560|(337)256-8068 Currently hireable
1991-Present
Independent/Employed Brick Masonry Contractor
Residential/Commercial/Governmental/Industrial
Brick,Block,Stone,Glass,Concrete,Tile
15+ Historical restoration projects, 50+ churches renovated/improved, 30+ community
volunteer jobs, 2 multi-million dollar homes including a 5 story home. 10+ 1 million
dollar jobs. 3300+ homes: Walls and gables, 375+ mailboxes (circular and flat topped),
75+ floors (regular or circular edged- double basket weave, running, stack, 90 or 45
degree herringbone bonds), 160+ walkways, 95+ fireplaces, 20+ flowerbeds and
planters, 60+ concrete foundations/footings, 310+ fences with or without decorative
work including or not including columns. 75+ house and trailer skirting jobs. 400+
columns with or without decorative work. 250+ arches. 125+ demolition jobs. 50+ Bay
windows.
Have done work in the Subdivisions Le Triomphe in Broussard, LA, River Ranch in
Lafayette, LA, and Squirrel Run in New Iberia, LA. I have also done work for New Iberia
corporations CLECO, COX, LAWCO, Genesis Health Care Systems, Simoneaud's, Bi-LO,
ULL New Iberia Research Center, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital, Big Lots, and various
schools such as Westgate New Iberia, Daspit Elementary School in New Iberia,
Jeanerette High School, Assembly Christian Academy, and New Iberia Senior High. I have
done work at West End Park in New Iberia as well as Bank Avenue Park in New Iberia.
Non-profit organizations such as the New Iberia Humane Society. Historic sites such as
the Shadows-on-the-teche in New Iberia, and Chretien Point Plantation in Sunset, LA.
Churches such as St. Peter's Catholic Church, Trinity Baptist Church, and Assembly
Christian Academy in New Iberia. Volunteer block work done for Temple Baptist Church.
Responsibilities
Supervise workers. Retrieve, deliver, supply, and mix concrete, mortar, and
aggregate either by hand, electric or gasoline machines along with other needed
materials. Fix failed tools and machinery, provide food and water to employees or self
3. as needed. Ensure proper safety of employees, tools, and trailers. Ensure the safety
measures are adhered to. Pick up or bring home employees, train employees, provide
first aid or ambulatory service, prevent theft of all work supplies and materials, and
ensure adherence to building codes or laws. Set up small veneer frame and large scale
drop lock, slide lock, and screw type ladder frame and walk-through scaffolding, along
with roof scaffolding. Safe use of Gas or electric dry and wet diamond blade concrete or
masonry saws of the commercial, handheld, and table type to cut brick, block, tile and
stone.
Ensure that the consistency of all mixes are maintained at the most efficient
level for speed and quality of work. Use of approx. 40 cubic ft mortar tubs and masonry
stands. Movement of material using a brick dolly. Maintaining a consistent, flush, and
even bond pattern. Gas powered pressure washing or scrubbing of veneer surfaces
utilizing water and/or muriatic acid. Maintain expertise with levels, trowel,
brickhammer, jointers, mortar mixer, brick tongs, and power drills. Use of leveling,
ranging, and plumbing equipment, such as string, levels, lasers, squares, and plumb
bobs. Use of various winches. Use of sealants and sealant equipment for windows, etc.
Safely loading, unloading and pulling of trailers. Reading of architectural plans. Some
stick welding. Use of acetylene torch for cutting metal. Traffic direction and signaling
duties.
Use of standard and metric wrenches and ratchets along with designated
equipment. Work with backhoe operator. Operation of gasoline Genie 4X4 60' boom
manlift. Operation of Genie electrical 4x4 scissor lift. Use of jackhammer. Maintain
expert use of various pulley systems to transport material from ground to heights of 60'
or more. Maintain expertise at building wall leads. Ensuring that wall ties are placed
correctly. Ensuring that weep holes and flashing of various types are formed and placed
correctly. Making sure that the brick structures are thoroughly swept and that all
concrete and ground surfaces are clean. Sealing veneer brick with weatherproof
sealants. Upon end of daily work, cleaning, shutting off, and placing all equipment and
tools in their proper and safe locations.
Ensuring that all hoses and valves are shut off to prevent extraneous loss of
resources and also to prevent temperature fluctuations from causing damage to
equipment. Ensure the correct placement of rebar in walls including drilling of holes in
concrete as well as proper placement of mesh in foundations. Completely filling all voids
and correctly placing ties in and around metal windows and doors for block walls.
Sorting stone on random pattern projects to enable expedient laying of stone. Use of air
compressor and pneumatic equipment for chiseling and demolition, etc.
Employers in the past in said career field above:
4. LeDee's Bricklaying Service 324 Caroline St., New Iberia, LA,70560-28 years
James Herman Bricklaying 718 Rue de Lannie, New Iberia, LA, 70560-7 years
Dautreuil Brick Block Stone 1029 Dautreuil Lane, Saint Martinville, LA 70582-2 years
Simien bricklaying and various other masonry employers other than above for under 3
months.
$7/hr.-Paid according to market value ($36 et al).
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Ezra LeDee|324 Caroline St.,New Iberia,LA,70560|Currently hire able
1984-2015
Computer Programmer, Technician, and Network Administrator
Designed and maintained 2 websites, one of with online merchant services.
Responsibilities:
Build and repair home computers/laptops and peripherals. Ensure current
hardware/firmware/software upgrades and virus/adware/malware protection are
maintained. Knowledge, removal, and installment of Intel and AMD ATX and Extended
ATX motherboards. Knowledge of BTX and MicroATX motherboards. Order parts for
laptops and desktops as well as replace cases. Ensure current software drivers are
installed for all peripherals and equipment. Advise customers on improvements. Reduce
electrical consumption of equipment. Removement and replacement of power supplies,
circuit boards, heat sinks, and CPU's.
Removal and replacement of internal and external hard and floppy drives.
Removal and replacement of internal and external CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, and
DVD-RW compact disk drives. Knowledge of flash drives, flash memory, and readers.
Knowledge of DRAM, SDRAM, SIMM, DIMM, DDR1, DDR2, DDR3, and DDR4 memory
modules, timing, parity, non-parity, and ECC (Error correction). Removal and
replacement of fans, lighting, and memory modules. Rewring of internal/external
cabling. Knowledge of hard drive bus types, RPM's, Mbps, interfaces such as SAS, SCSI,
parallel ATA/IDE, SATA, ATAPI protocol, and cabling. Knowledge of FAT (File Allocation
Table), NTFS (New Technology File System), sectors, etc. Knowledge of DIP switches.
Knowledge of SSD (Solid State Drives). Knowledge of ISA, PCI, PCIe (express), and VESA
local computer buses and slots. Use of touch screen monitor.
5. Knowledge of OCR software, voice recognition software, and text to speach
software. Knowledge of fiber optics and connectivity. Knowledge of S-video, USB up to
3.0, mini USB, HDMI, IEEE 1394, and Toslink connections. Programming of CMOS and
BIOS chipsets. Navigating internet large scale servers. Maintained a single WAN multiple
hard drive system. Familiarity with hard drive servers. Familiarity with hard drive Self-
Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART). Overclocking of internal cards
and motherboard. Some soldering and work with circuit boards, transistors, resistors,
capacitors, etc. Programming of processors from TI TMS9900, 3.0 Mhz, 16-bit, 64-pin
DIP and above. Building and repairing of 8088 systems and later.
Use of electronic BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). Creation and design of internet
websites. Build, maintain and repair local and external home network services, devices,
and cabling such as LAN's (Local Area Networks), WAN's (Wide Area Networks), WiFi
(WLAN), ethernet, CAT-5(e), routers, printers and/or scanners, facsimile internal cards or
machines, nodes, and modems. Knowledge of IEEE 802.11 n, a ,b and g types of high
frequency MAC (media access control). Knowledge of gateway support nodes.
Knowledge of MAC addresses and IP network access points. Knowledge of the DNS
(Domain Name System), TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP (User Datagram
Protocol), IPv4, and IPv6. Use of WEP, WPA/WPA2 encryption methods. Knowledge of
dial-up, wireless, mobile, hotspots, broadband, DSL, cable and satellite internet
connectivity types.
Knowledge of ATI and Nvidea (10 years) graphics cards technology. Knowledge of
tweaking internal and integrated graphics cards. Knowledge of Direct X, and SLI
(Scalable Link Interface). Knowledge and use of graphics file extensions .gif. .tif, .jpg,
.thm, .pic, .pcs, .ico, .bix, .mjpg, .png, and .pix. Data compression extensions such as .tor,
.bz2, .lha, .cab, .zip, .rar, and .arc. Image compression extensions .img. Some CAD
(Computer Aided Drafting). Install and repair external camera equipment. Set-up, install
and operate sound enhancement internal cards, software, and equipment including
mono to 8.1 channel complete home theatre surround sound systems and software.
Use of music file extensions .mid, .wav, mp3, .vox, .raw, mp4, and codecs such as
ADPCM.
Software familiarity:
Word processing: Microsoft Word, WordPad, WordPerfect, StarOffice,
OpenOffice, Works, etc. Spreadsheets- Excel, etc. Image Editing: Alchemy Mindworks
Graphics Workshop, Adobe Photoshop, etc. Network Software: Pure Networks Network
Magic line of products, Network Monitor, Xirrus Wi-Fi, etc. Configuration/Diagnostic
Software: Sisoftware Sandra, SIW, System Mechanic, etc. Presentation Software:
6. Powerpoint, Media Center. Antivirus software: Kaspersky, Norton utilities, Mcafee, and
freeware such as AVG, Bitdefender, etc. Music software: Creative Labs MediaSource,
Cakewalk etc. Disk defragmentation software: Norton SpeedDisk, Scandisk. Compression
software: 7-zip, winRAR, PKZIP. CAD software: AutoCAD. Tax Software: Intuit TurboTax,
H&R Block, IRS internet website, TaxACT. Registry cleaners: CCleaner
Social Media: Facebook, Myspace, AOL, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Youtube
Languages: Basic- 15 years, Pascal-2 months, Fortran-2 months, Visual Basic-2 months,
C,+,++ - 5 months.
Operating Systems: MS-DOS (and PC-DOS)-30 years, Unix-1 year, Linux-1 month,
Windows (1.0-Windows 7)-25 years, Windows NT-2 months.
$20/hr. or Paid according to market value.
DAYCARE SERVICES
Heather and Ezra LeDee|1509 Montagne St., New Iberia, LA 70560|Business closed
2011-2013
Assistant Manager
Governmental and Private
1-6+ Children ages 3 months to 15 years.
Responsibilities
In-home. Ensure for the care and feeding of children according to governmental
nutritional and behavioral guidelines during daytime as well as nighttime hours in
accordance with frequent governmental inspections as well as adhering to proper fire
code regulations during said care. Maintain Heimlich maneuver/CPR/First Aid training.
Adhering to fire regulations and keeping apartment or home up to code. Transporting
children to and from appropriate parental homes. Responding immediately to on call
requests by parents 24 hours a day. Maintaining infant, toddler, and youth playtime and
feeding equipment and housewares. Installing and removing child vehicle seats. Solving
conflicts between the youth according to age by separating them into different areas.
Supervise financial matters concerning the care of previously mentioned children. Bottle
feeding children. Putting children to bed and establishing sleeping and feeding times.
Washing and sorting children's clothing. Advertising to establish clientele. Adhering to a
set menu beneficial to the health of the cared for children which was prepared by the
7. state of Louisiana.
Approx. $300/month or according to market value~loss of clients.
New Iberia Parks & Recreation
Mr. Migues|300 Parkview Avenue, New Iberia, LA 70560|Found a better paying job
2007
Supervisor
Responsibilities: Securing recreation center during closing hours. Distributing and
accounting for sports equipment used by the public during sporting events. Custodial
duties throughout the recreation center. Observing the public for signs of danger and
remaining prepared to report suspicious activity to the proper authorities. Preparing for
and participating in city-wide social gatherings and events held in the recreation center
and other city buildings in New Iberia. Serve as a host at the New Iberia main street
theater during play performances.
BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Bridge built between parallel roads Par Rd 802 and Par Rd. 304 off of Loreauville Rd, New
Iberia, LA 70563|Job finished
Commercial-for Parish(County) government
2006-2007
Heavy Construction Carpenter
Responsibilities
Constructing a bridge. Use of 200 cfm air compressor and pneumatic equipment.
Crane signaling and manipulation of heavy loads for placement, storage, or installation.
Safety meetings and safety maintenance for entire site. Traffic direction and signaling
duties. Use of a transit and transit equipment for surveying and leveling of ground/dirt.
Aid in placement of wood pylons for initial bridge support. Concrete form building and
filling. Gas powered concrete vibrator use. Gas powered compacter use to pack soil. Use
of a transit and transit equipment. Use of jackhammer.
$15/hr.~Bridge was complete, could not relocate.
8. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Mr. Sherman|817 E. Dale St., New Iberia, LA, 70560|(337)364-6972
2005-2006
Rural Carrier
Governmental
Responsibilities
Deliver and sort certified, registered, and insured packages, envelopes, and
letters to assigned destinations in strict accordance to governmental handling and traffic
laws. Driving, fueling and maintaining a contracted vehicle. Ensuring that delivered
goods are placed in a safe retrievable location regardless of weather conditions,
obstructions, or natural disasters.
$11.35/hr.~relocation, lack of vehicle.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
2002-2004-soldier 2004-Present-civilian
SatCom Technician
Responsibilities
Initialize, maintain, program, repair, and secure large and small scale satellite
communications equipment. Run, splice, connect and terminate cabling. Maintain CPR
and First Aid training. Maintain expertise with single fire, semi automatic, and automatic
weapons with live and bulletless practice ammunition including target practice. Lead a
detachment or smaller group by teaching cadences and leading marches. Participate in a
stringent exercise plan by 5AM and continue to do rigorous exercises during various
times of the day. Complete 17km hike while carrying an approx. 80-100 lb. rucksack.
Paid according to pay grade(E3)/Negotiable as U.S. citizen.
REPUBLIC FINANCE
Mr. Pisani|S. Lewis St., New Iberia, LA, 70560|Business closed
1994
9. Custodian Supervisor
Responsibilities- Maintain facility cleanliness. Prepare office for office workers (prepare
water, coffee machines). Mopping, dusting. Ensure building security; as in lock doors
upon completion of work.
$7/hr~Lack of hours.
HANCOCK FABRICS
E. Admiral Doyle Dr, New Iberia, LA, 70560|Business closed
1993-1994
Custodian/Stocker
Responsibilities- Maintain facility cleanliness. Organize and replace company products
on display floor. Maintain organization of warehouse and warehouse inventory. Greet
customers.
$6/hr~lack of hours
PIZZA HUT
Miss/Mrs. Charlene|635 E Admiral Doyle Dr, New Iberia LA, 70560|(337)364-1176
1994-1995
Cook
Responsibilities-Prepare and cook/heat various menu items for customers. Maintain
cleanliness of restaurant. Perform morning and evening open and closing duties. Wash
dishes via commercial assembly line automatic dishwasher. Mopping floors. Distributing
food items in designated food preparation workstation to prepare pizzas for cooking.
Filling and unloading various containers with packaging and food contents for storage
and later use. Unloading delivery trucks.
$5.50/hr.~lack of hours.
ARBY'S
5725 Johnston St, Lafayette, LA 70503|Business closed
1993-1994
10. Cook
Responsibilities-Prepare and cook/heat various menu items for customers.
Operate/maintain commercial meat slicer. Maintain cleanliness of restaurant. Perform
morning and evening open and closing duties.
$5.50/hr.~moved to another city.
PELTIER'S CATERING SERVICE
Mr. Peltier|113 E. Main St., New Iberia, LA, 70560|337-367-7283
1992
Banquet Staff Member
Responsibilities- Entertaining and dressing formally for clients. Preparing and serving
dishes and beverages to large gatherings of guests in the catering hall, formal dining
room, and various other rooms.
$5.00/hr~found higher pay elsewhere
PRESSURE WASHING SERVICE
Ezra LeDee|Various locations |(337)256-8068
1991-Present
Skilled Laborer
500+ Clients Serviced
Responsibilities-Utilize a Gas powered pressure washing machine or preexisting
plumbing pressure to remove debris and/or stains from residential, commercial, or
governmental buildings, floors, walkways, veneer walls and various other structures to
reveal their natural beauty or cleanliness.
$7/hr-Paid according to market value.
CANAL VILLERE
1991-1993
Cashier/Warehouse/Dairy/Stocker
11. Responsibilities-Maintain surplus inventory of shelves, negotiate purchases, maintain
cleanliness of the building, retrieve shopping carts belonging to the company. Waxing,
sweeping, mopping and buffing floors. Use of pallet jack to move pallets of inventory in
and out of warehouse and for placement of pallets on main area of department store.
Loading and unloading of delivery trailers for loading and unloading of warehouse
goods. Aiding security personnel prevent criminal activity.
$4.25-$4.75/hr~Business closed.
Skills/Hobbies
*Languages-English, Spanish, Latin, some French.
*Fitness, sports and health food- (holistic, diuretic, natural/synthetic, pharmaceutical
etc.), training, some management, workout sessions including most knowledge of
equipment [free weights (dumbbells, barbells)], machines (stationary cycle, bench), etc.-
17 years. Baseball, softball, football, table football, basketball, slingshots, archery,
golf/miniature golf, skateboarding, tennis, bowling, CO2 and pump air pistols and rifles,
ping pong/table tennis, canoeing, fishing (100+ trips), badminton, air hockey, swimming
(5 years of training), volleyball, flying disc sports, ice skating, boomerang, hackey sack,
tether ball, horseshoes, croquet, backpacking (wilderness-up to and including 17km with
80-100 lb. rucksack), soccer, arm wrestling, tug-o-war (1-10+ participants), parkour,
target shooting, racquetball, knife throwing, orienteering, kite sports, laser tag, roller
skating, street hockey, skee ball, knife throwing, shuriken throwing, water skiing, lawn
and board darts, billiards/pool, marbles, chess, checkers, off/on road BMX (7 miles), and
mountain biking (7+ miles), track- cross country (7+ miles) and sprinting. I have walked a
total of 3.5+ times around the globe. Use of javelin, shot put. Hiking trails.
*Astronomy/cosmology-the study of celestial objects (such as stars, galaxies, planets,
moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae), the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such
objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including
supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation.
A related but distinct subject, physical cosmology, is concerned with studying the
universe as a whole.
*Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, or quantum theory)-is a
fundamental branch of physics which describes physical phenomena at scales typical of
the quantum realm of atomic and subatomic length scales, where the action is on the
order of the Planck constant. At these scales, many everyday concepts concerning
physical objects and energy (including the photons making up visible light) are believed
12. to behave and interact extremely differently than is usually seen in daily life.
*Fishing/Trolling-Salt, brackish and fresh water. Live baits such as worms, hoppers,
shrimp, minnows. Shrimping and other mass fishing. Spincast, baitcast, and reelless.
Cleaning of and storage of catches. Synthetic baits such as jigs, spoons, soft plastic,
plugs, and spinnerbaits.
*Carpentry-Wood drilling, molding, finishing, varnishing, staining, templates, supporting
structure installation, everyday circular/reciprocating/jig/table saw use-10 years.
*Gardening-Hoeing, planting, transplanting, pruning, observing seasonal changes,
following the farmer's almanac, and the use of stakes, etc. for vine type vegetation.
Accomplished a 10 row garden with 6 fruits and vegetables.
*Yard work/Lawn care-3300 homes, small-medium trunk (4' trunk) pick-up and
removal, unwanted debris/trash removal utilizing wheelbarrows/dumpsters from 0-175
pounds. Plant care/protection/maintenance/planting/shaping. For around 25 years.
*Plumbing- installing, repairing and maintaining pipes, fixtures and other plumbing used
for water distribution and waste water disposal in residential, commercial,
governmental and industrial facilities. Use of pipe snakes.
*Genealogy- Research at homes, churches, government courthouses, and via internet
sources to discover one's family history, archeological facts, and various other
background information.-5 years.
*Some car, truck, lawnmower, motorcycle, and handheld gasoline power tool and
engine repair skills.
*Residential construction painting (water and oil based)-3 years.
*R/C (radio controlled) electronic devices and vehicles.
*Vinyl residential siding installation-1 home.
*Some telemarketing skill-5 years.
*Some interior design skill.
*Welding and soldering.
*Some drywall skill.
*Type 85+ wpm