I'd like to meet with you regarding any project or position available at your Landscaping / grading company, nursery business.   No job or position is too small.  Also yard clean up / house clean up/ hauling trash to the dump.  You can see below that I've got heavy experience with landscaping / dirt grading / plant & gardening propagation.  I am one of the hardest workers you will ever meet.  Here is my resume

Today I am providing:

Mesa Garden Installations

Apache Junction Garden Soil Dirt Hauling & Install

Chandler Plant Propagation services.

 Regards-  Tim  480-415-9222


 

You Can see below that my gardens look professional and grow very well once installed.

 

Tim Short  Resume

480-415-9222


EXPERIENCE:

2008 - Present

Tim’s Garden & Landscaping Services Gilbert, AZ

Landscaping / Gardening Consultant

  • Provided expert garden installation / soil consulting services to satisfied customers throughout the greater Phoenix Area. (References and photos available)

  • Successfully installed over 80 productive residential vegetable gardens valley wide during the ’08 - ’09 growing seasons. Worked with each customer carefully to evaluate their existing soil and design their custom garden to best meet their size requirements, depth of soil, and their target budget.

  • Developed a blending process to provide customers with premium lawn & garden soils that yielded unprecedented results in people’s yards.

  • Personally provided delivery services with truck and trailer to all customers in the Phoenix area. Services included the unloading & placement of the soil into raised wood gardens, raised block gardens, & yard level gardens.

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    2002 -2006

    Alexis Gardens Queen Creek, AZ

    Sr. Manger

  • Successfully designed, built, and managed a wholesale nursery grossing over $600k over a four year period.

  • Oversaw the construction of the pads, irrigation, green house structures, drainage ponds, fertilized soils, and propagation.

  • Developed and trained propagation techniques that resulted in the distribution of over 250,000 container plants to major customers such as retail nurseries and landscaping companies.

  • Successfully designed & implemented automated watering system to deliver exact amounts of moisture to young plant cuttings and liners.

  • Co-invented new type of cotton seed oil based pond liner 90% cheaper than the existing pond liners on the market. This was later used on man made ski lakes, golf courses, & other nurseries.

  • 1990 - 2006

    Short’s Grading & Disposal Inc. Chandler, AZ

    Manager

  • Developed a thriving business providing services to the valley’s premier and residential and commercial builder’s with annual gross receipts totaling over $4M.

  • Over saw the bidding, planning, and completion of finishing grading for over 200 development communities throughout the greater Phoenix area totaling over 57,000 new homes. Customers included, Pulte Homes Corp, Fulton Homes, Del Webb, Continental Homes, Beazer Home Builders, Mark Taylor Development, Trammell Crowe, and more.

  • Developed a skilled workforce of over 130 employees. Conducted employee safety training & implemented / enforced strict company wide safety guidelines.

  • Awarded state fund workman’s comp annual safety recognition 8 consecutive years.

  • Successfully provided grading / construction disposal, street sweeping for Bank One Ballpark.

  • Oversaw the acquisition and maintenance of a fleet of over 30 pieces of heavy equipment including dump trucks, grading tractors, street sweepers, roll off trucks, front load trucks, excavators, and bobcats.

  • Provided disposal services for the City of Chandler of over 400 pickup points over a seven year period.

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    SKILLS 

  • Expert in bobcat excavating / operation & heavy equipment operation, plant propagation cuttings & starts, blending soil, calculating land grading & drainage parameters, landscape design, tractor grading.

  • Demonstrated hard work ethic and leadership strengths

  • Excellent problem solving skills, self starter – very motivated worker.

  • Team player eager to make success happen.

  • INTERESTS Family, gardening, plant propagation, home improvement.


    REFERENCES: Available upon request

     

     

     

    z Simple Plant Propagation Techniques  101 - no root hormones chemicals needed if you don't want to use chemicals

    DIY Video Movie Lessons Training for Do It Yourself Plant Propagation Cloning From Clippings and Cuttings

    If you have a pair of scissors, a plastic water bottle, and a plant to start with you may want to try the plant propagation / clipping cutting technique shown in this video clip.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    THIS IS DEEP!

    Watch this 23 Minute video if you want to know theory around  the biology / horticultural aspects of propagating cloning cuttings.   Dr. Fred Davis of Texas A&M really knows his stuff!

    I thought Texas A&M is lucky to have a program that offers education down to the cellular plant level so people can understand exactly what is going on when cloning propagation with cuttings clippings takes place.

     

    Principles of Propagation by Cuttings

     

     
     

     

     

    Need Help? For Plant Propagation / gardening / greenhouse services in the Apache Junction Phoenix Scottsdale Gilbert Mesa Chandler Area call 480-415-9222