About Me

My name is Eddie Patin, and I have created this Heavy Equipment Operating site on EddiePatin.com to make myself more available to prospective employers.

I've been living back in wonderful Colorado Springs (where I've lived most of my life) since June 1st of 2008. For the last five years before that, I've lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. As you may see from the rest of EddiePatin.com, I am not only a heavy equipment operator, but also a writer, an artist, and a musician. I also offer personal training, as well as computer repair.

Why so many hats? And why heavy equipment operating?

Life and the world holds many interests for me, and I believe strongly in a good sense of versatility. I’ve taken many paths, and I always strive to master any skills I undertake.

Most of my time working has been in the field of customer service, sales, management, and various forms of person-to-person communication, be it teaching, selling, serving, or retail. I have seen many aspects of business in its relationship to the people it serves. The customer. The ultimate boss. So, I have grown to appreciate the satisfaction of a job well done, and the professionalism cultivated in seeing the bigger picture.

In time, my abilities in communication and dedication to excellence, along with a strong sense of organization, led me to retail management, and, eventually, to running my own business as a personal fitness trainer. I learned to work well on my own with no direction but my own vision, and I experienced many facets of enterprise as I did my own marketing, advertising, accounting, and other aspects of small business.

When times were lean as a trainer at a local, trainer-oversaturated gym, I took advantage of my computer abilities to make some extra money in computer repair. Once I decided to reduce my personal training to a part-time gig, no longer working directly for the gym, I generated whatever business I could while deciding upon a more stable career that could last a lifetime...

A long time ago, I worked as a carpenter. I framed residential houses, did some metal framing for office buildings, and a bit of landscaping. I liked working in the sun and working with my hands. As an artist, I like creating, and I felt the same kind of satisfaction with nails and sawdust. I appreciate construction, and, while contemplating my next move, I decided to look into the building trade once again. I wanted to do something productive. Something that would reflect my work efforts in a real, tangible way, while also contributing to an overall life-experience. Real skill.

That’s when I came across the Nevada School of Construction, and became hooked on those big, yellow machines.

I like heavy equipment operating because of the great efficiency—productivity—of the machines. In my training, I loved moving the earth around. Digging trenches and the great focus needed to keep a level bottom and clean edges. Wrestling with multi-ton boulders. Forming slopes and shaping pads as if I was moving my hand over a pile of sand. Feeling the jolting of the great, metal beast and making the arm of the excavator as an extension of my will. Doing the work of several man-hours with a few sweeps of a joystick...

My training also led me through loads of procedure, basic maintenance, safety, blueprint reading, rigging, grading, surveying, basic soil analysis, first aid and CPR, and more. I can use laser surveying equipment, tapes, and eye levels to set stakes and check elevations, and I can stake out a whole project from a blueprint, a benchmark, and a reference or two. I’ve learned about the mathematics of grades and ratio-slopes, and, very importantly, the prevention of machine-related (and trench-related) accidents.

Through the summer and fall of 2008, I've been working for Frontier Environmental Services, mostly as a Loader-hand. Our project is a 6-year contract, seasonal, of restoring and paving the famous Pikes Peak Highway. Working up at 14,000 feet has been an excellent and challenging experience, and my skill with all the machines I've operated has improved by leaps and bounds. See more details about this in my experience section.

After an exciting season with FESI, I signed on with a local company from Peyton, Leach & Sons Excavating, and worked various residential jobs in the Colorado Springs area until winter. Throughout the winter, I did snow removal at the Citadel mall with Leach & Sons, pushing massive plow-blades with Loaders and Backhoes and doing the more delicate work with a Skid. In the spring of 2009, we landed a contract with the the Pike & San Isabel Forest Service to build, maintain, and otherwise detail the roads, ditches, parking lots, trailheads, etc., of Pike National Forest, so I was working in the mountain air once again.

(You can see a list of the equipment with which I am familiar HERE.)

With a past of sales and service, organization and people-skills, I am certain that I would be an invaluable addition to your company, because I can communicate efficiently and effectively with supervisors, co-workers, and, if need-be, your clients. Because of my leadership experience and the personal empowerment demanded from running my own businesses, I can handle responsibility and make decisions. I can do what needs to be done to complete the job, and, in time, supervise.

I take pride in my work ethic, and the effort I put forth as a professional. My morals guide me to pursue excellence in all things I do, and to take my obligations seriously—a perspective that is quickly becoming endangered in today’s culture. I can guarantee my dependability, and, if you give me a chance, I’ll prove to you how valuable to your company I can really be.

Is there any way I can improve your crew? Any open positions?

I have the training. The experience. The ability. The mind. And the will to be the best I can be...

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Website last update 09/13/09

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