Wayne Brekke has over 20 years of experience in various roles including direct service professional, teacher, contractor, driver, and counselor. His resume highlights employment history in healthcare, education, construction, transportation, and chemical dependency counseling. He holds a Master's degree and is seeking a new position as a direct service professional.

1. WAYNE A BREKKE
344 Main Street, Good Thunder, MN 56037
(507) 351-4401
iowntheball@gmail.com
Objective: Seeking Employment as a Direct Service Professional.
Employment History
Direct Service Professional 9/2013 - 1/2015 Habilitative Services Inc., Mankato, MN
• Med-Certified Direct Service Professional for a four person adult care foster home.
• CPR and life-saving training.
Special Education Paraprofessional 9/2013 – 6/2014 ISD 77 – Mankato School District
• Assisted high school special education students and teachers to complete graduation requirements.
Driver/ Sales Associate 9/2011 - 7/2013 Minnesota Valley Action Council, Mankato MN
• Drove straight truck to pick up donations for the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.
• Repaired and cleaned donations for display.
• Performed cashier duties to sell items.
• Responsibilities range from on floor sales and customer service to driver on pickup orders for donations.
We are a home improvement discount store and the goods and sales are used to help provide support for
new homes in the community. I do intake for donations, clean and mark sales prices, place the product on
the floor, greet customers and help them with locating product, run cash register, the and help customers
load goods in their vehicles, all with a smile!
OTR Truck Driver 10/2010 – 9/2011 Aero-Transport, Le Sueur, MN
• Drove Hydraulic-Walking-Floor Trailer to Shoreview, MN to pick up burnable garbage to deliver to Xcel
Energy Plants in Mankato, Red Wing and Elk River, MN.
Residential Building Contractor
Wayne Brekke & Brekke Construction 1995 – 2008 St Peter, MN
Built 30 homes in St Peter worked on and remolded countless more. As a State of MN Licensed Residential
Contractor from 1995 till 2008 I hired and subcontracted various skilled persons in the St Peter Community. I also
checked on their performance and standard of compliance to assure sound workmanship. I have taken all the
course work for a State Building Inspector LTD., at Inver Hills Community College and the test, but am no longer
currently certified.
Art Teacher 2004 – 2005 Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, Bena, MN
In the 2004-2005 school years I had the privilege of teaching at Bena, MN for the Cass Lake Band of Ojibwa in the
Elementary art program, I had five classes plus one outside pre of preschool art. This program was heavily
constructed around Native Art, design and Ojibwa language based orientation. I shall always cherish this as one of
the most rewarding opportunities of my life. OTR semi truck driver
OTR Tanker Truck Driver 2003 – 2004 Forst Transfer, New Ulm, MN
I drove tankers, usually 60,000 lbs of soy oil to 5 states on average 2,500 miles or less per week. I have also
worked of various grain haulers and construction outfits driving everything from end dump belly and side dump. I
worked on Highway 52 in Rochester, MN and the new expansion to the Minneapolis Airport. 05/25/2012 Federal
Grant administrator in 1991 I worked as the lead developer with a ground breaking $ 257,000 per year five year
grant on the Devils Lake Sioux Indian reservation. This was a grass roots cradle to grave OSAP, Office of
'Substance abuse and Grant. I worked with inter school development of articulate Agreements with Native college
programs, Minot State University and the U of ND Grand Forks. I also worked with the State Capital Bureau of
Indian Affairs in Bismarck, and with Federal grant regulation teams based in Washington, DC. Teaching as

2. adjunct faculty with Minot State University and while also drafting articulate agreements with NDSU, Grand Forks
ND. I also formerly held a MN Life and Health Insurance license. I was a Special Ed Paraprofessional at Mankato
East High School this 2012-2013 Scholl year. I am also working part time every other weekend and nights as a
Direct Support Professional with Habilitative Services Inc.
Carpentry Instructor 2001 - 2002 Summit Academy OIC, Minneapolis
Pre union certified, on the job training skills in residential and commercial construction. Many of these students we
poverty stricken and some came to class under the Huber law and returned to the jail each night. We tried to help
fill the 30% minority jobs bill with hammer and saw ready personnel.
Chemical Dependency Counselor 1991 – 1992 House of Hope, Mankato MN
1) assessment 2) charting 3) prognosis 4) individual counseling 5) small group counseling
6) interagency coordination, county, state, and federal
Chemical Dependency Instructor/Federal Grants Administrator
Little Hoop Community College 1991 – 1992 Fort Totten, ND
Administered $257,000 per year Federal Office and Substance Abuse Grant for the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe. 2 set
up articulate agreements with State Universities for a four year BA program in CD 3 Build a curriculum for the
program for the first 5 Native Americans with a CD License 4 Set up a cradle to grave prevention program and
grass roots reservation policy, working with all State BIA and Federal grant approval agencies.
Education
Masters Degree Major: Community Health and CD
MN State Mankato, MN
GPA: 3.675
Courses: Masters in Community Health Science with Chemical Dependency, completed 2000 hours internship at
Johnson Hall St Peter, Rule 25
Major: Teacher Education Art, Health and Physical Education
Minor: Biology
Gustavus Adolphus College, MN
GPA: 3.6