Cynthia Chase has over 30 years of experience in pool installation and design. She is skilled in vinyl liner installation, plumbing with PVC and copper piping, basic electrical work, and concrete pool construction. As partner-owner of Imperial Pools of St. Louis since 1981, she has installed thousands of in-ground pools and provided design services to customers across North America. Chase aims to leverage her expertise in pool construction and strong customer focus to benefit Quaker Windows & Doors.
1. CYNTHIA CHASE
4115 County Road 1
Courtois, MO 65565
573-244-3132
i.love2swim@yahoo.com
Objective
To become an employee for Quaker Windows & Doors and to make significant contributions that will lead to company
profitability and personal career growth by using my fashioned skills and attributes.
Qualifications
• 30+ compiled years of advertising relating to specific business; fostering to 21st Century
• Excellent feedback from past customers. References available upon request.
• Knowledgeable of all types design focusing on hand drawn layouts from customer idea to CAD from manufacture.
• Experienced in mentoring OJT of unskilled labor to skilled by teaching necessary etiquette to working with the
public residential sector plus teaching basic construction actions.
• Skilled at working smarter and not harder; this is a learned behavior by augmenting correct tools for targeted
construction process.
• Familiar with best practices in cleanliness, workplace safety, eye & hearing protection, clearing pathways &
formalized fall & safety prevention protocol.
• Have common SAE & metric tools, business specific tools & compiled all necessary equipment for difficult jobs.
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record; can travel accurately to job sites.
• Validating my nursing degree; integrating science to technical fields using detail oriented procedures.
• Reinforced the KISS method of purchasing, marketing and design maintaining awareness of customer needs
versus wants.
Skills & Attributes
In Ground Pools U.S.A. made polymer & galvanized steel wall pool kits, vinyl liners, lighting, equipment & accessories
Business: Imperial Pools of St. Louis(1981), www.800pooltogo.com, web site design 1999 to present, BBB arbitrator
1988-1991, BBB A+ MIP program since 2004, selling pools kits to DIY's 1995; developed customer base for repeat
business, clarifying trust with clients by validating & praising their contributions to their work, saved the client 1/3 cost of
contracting, selling custom liners & pool kits across North America, maintaining low overhead by keeping our workforce to
summer temp work, interns & partners were paid by the customer directly; avoiding all taxes demanded by IRS, we fall
under 'the safe harbor' law-do not have to file est. taxes 1/4ly, PC & Apple efficient; worked with 'PC's from 1993 to 2011
switched over to Apple bc of virus free products, compiled taxes every year since 1982 as a partnership without audit
(KISS method).
Plumbing: PVC sch. 40 rigid with deep well sockets proficient, copper pipe, iron pipe & Flex pipe. Plumbing is a puzzle;
coordinate plan, assemble needed fittings & lengths of pipe, dry fit around all shapes; oval, round, lazy ell, true L, rect.,
Grecian, pond shapes. Our pools have all PVC sch. 40 rigid pipe, not flex. Transferred copper over to PVC, iron pipe for
gas lines above ground; expertise in PVC, novice in copper & iron.
Electrical: Wired replacement motors, replaced seals, impellers, diffusers, onoff switches, panels, digital panels, fished
ground, single & stranded wired through electrical conduit-novice.
Other: Hand finished 'PoolKrete' large, small, difficult shape pool floors. Laid out floor with masonry line & rebar,
envisioned with plans, mixed proper 'cookie dough' textured poolkrete, enhanced several methods of mixing to decrease
down time. Measured local in ground pools for liners & covers within 1/8", instructed out of state customers the 'how to's'
on liner measurements, installed 1000's beaded liners, renovated old concrete pools to liner pools, revised home-made
pools to new liner pools, removed old liner pools to install new polymer wall pools & worked with all types of wall
systems, help locate underground leaks, leaksholes in liners; patched under water, worked with manufacture on all
aspects; CAD to skimmerlight & return locations to manufacture defects and warranty situations. Though there is no pool
building degree that can be achieved in a University, I believe having skills of these types provides me with enough
knowledge for a doctorate in vinyl liner in ground pools installation & service with great customer relationships!
2. Employment History
Imperial Pools of St. Louis home based 1981 to Present
800pooltogo.com
See above & for other employment history, please refer to other resumes
Partner-owner
Education
Delavan IL High School 1979
High School Diploma
Excelsior College, Albany NY 1992-1995
Associates in Science-Nursing RN see other resumes for continuing education