Dave Tarr
Address: 3301 N. Park Dr. #3414
City: Sacramento
State: CA
Zip: 95835
Country: United States
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I am a trained dental technician seeking employment in the dental service field. I have 10 years of experience and can offer great customer service and repair experience. If given an opportunity with your company I am sure my training and personal care of customers with benefit your service team. I have been certified with Gendex, Adec, Sirona, Planmeca, and have experience working with old and new equipment, installs or repair.
Work Experience
Service Technician (08/15/1996 – 12/06/2010)
Experience in installation and repair of all major dental equipment, maintaining inventory of parts and tools, and direct customer support to ensure a timely repair.
Last Employer: Burkhart Dental Supply
Contact Person: Dylan Efimoff
Responsibilities: My responsibilities were to repair and install new and old dental equipment, order parts when needed and enter work orders on my laptop in a timely manner.
Accomplishments: Received training with Gendex, Planmeca, and was instrumental in opening 5 new accounts with service.
Service Technician (09/10/2005 – 07/15/2006)
Serviced and installed new and used equipment, over saw new construction of dental offices and worked directly with equipment managers to ensure construction was done correctly and timely. Ordered parts and maintained inventory of tools and parts on service vehicle.
Last Employer: Patterson Dental Supply
Contact Person: Tom Kramer
Responsibilities: Over see new construction of dental offices, act as lead technician on such jobs during installation of equipment. Repair equipment and complete work orders after job was completed.
Accomplishments: Accomplishments during my tenure with Patterson was completing many new offices from start to finish and watching a building become a flourishing dental office.
Service Technician (05/20/2004 – 09/09/2005)
Repairing and installing dental equipment. working directly with the customer to understand their needs and explain the best course of action to resolve their needs. Worked with contractors during construction of new offices to ensure proper placement of air and vac lines as well as other electrical and plumbing supplies.
Last Employer: Accubite Dental Supply
Contact Person: N/A
Responsibilities: I was responsible for repair and installation of all dental equipment from large to small. Serviced equipment and performed preventive services to help prevent more costly repairs.
Accomplishments: Accomplishments I had was helping a new company to the west coast become profitable and marketable in the Sacramento area.
Service Technician (07/02/2001 – 10/08/2004)
I primarily worked on shop repairs and with clinics. I trained with small equipment to learn troubleshooting skills and repair. I learned customer service experience while working with clinics.
Last Employer: JB Dental Supply
Contact Person: Kevin Schmidt
Responsibilities: My responsibility was to work directly with Western Dentals and Access Dentals to solve their dental equipment problems fast and keep them running smoothly. Complete shop repairs and help were needed.
Accomplishments: Attended Adec training were I learned valuable troubleshooting skills that I quickly applied in the field. Sharpened my skills as a technician working side by side with more experienced technicians.
Education
Establishment: Oakmont High School. Roseville, CA.
Degree: High School graduate
Education Period: 09/14/1992 - 08/09/1996
Average Grade: 3.0
Details: Studied science, english, arts, math and history. enjoyed all subjects and excelled in most.
Establishment: U.S. ARMY
Degree: Armor crewman, Command dignitary driver.
Education Period: 08/15/1996 - 08/15/2000
Speciality: Army good conduct medal, overseas ribbon, army commendation medal, expert marksman medal.
Average Grade: Completed Enlistment Honorably
Details: Completed M1A1 crewman training and was active on a Abrams tank, I served as driver and gunner. Became a command driver of a Humvee for a commissioned officer of the battalion I served in.
Skills
Skills I have to offer are great customer service skills, patients with others, 10 years dental service experience and great team leadership skills. I can act as a lead tech or follow a lead technician and complete the job quickly
Computer Skills: I have worked with many computer platforms. I have trained with 3M and the Lava oral scanner. loaded planmeca digital software, VixWin, Eaglesoft, and troubleshooted digital software issues for pano and intra oral xray systems.
Interests
My interests include fishing, riding mountain bikes, computer games, and most importantly spending time with my wife and daughter. I enjoy working on projects around the house and finding new solutions to problems. I feel working in the dental field allows me to do what I love and thats find answers to puzzles not yet found. I enjoy the satisfaction of taking something broken and repairing it, seeing the look of relief on a doctors face that he can get back to his passion as well.