David Gray
3885 17 Ave SW
Naples, Fl  34117
Work (239) 348-0822
Cellular (239) 465-9043
Afishionado@aol.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE
 
  IDEALLY TO PLACE  IN OR CREATE A NEW POSITION WHICH WOULD ENVELOP AND GALVINIZE THE CORNICOPIA OF FINE SKILLS I HAVE DEVELOPED AND POLISHED OVER MY WORKING CAREER WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING MY EMPLOYER WITH THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER AND INDISPENSABLE  QUALITY EMPLOYEE!!!
 
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
 
I have been affililiated with the pet/aquarium industry since 1978 and had been a devout aquarium hobbiest since 1972. By 1976 I was already fabricating my own pumps using scrap acrylic and discarded turntable motors which the later Supreme/Danner power box filter emulated! The trailer in which I lived experienced warped I-beams do to the fact that every horizontal surface housed an aquarium!
 In 1976 I moved to Florida to find a job in the fish hatcheries however the rural road system prevented me from finding the hatcheries so I took a job fabricating acrylic furniture for a stop gap measure for the seemingly incredible starting pay of six dollars an hour. The fish farms paid minimum wage$3.35/Hr! (plastic fabrication as art and industrial project had been a High School hobby of mine). 
  In 1979 I got married and co-managed the largest aquarium/petstore in Florida.(Naples,Fl.)
  In 1981 I returned to Indiana to enroll in technical school to learn industrial materials and processes to the end of becoming a furniture designer/fabricator as I had become enamored with wood as a  building material. The recession of Carter's/Reagan's administrations precluded my placing in my field in Indiana and my divorce prompted me to return to Florida in 1983.
  1983-1984 Drafted elevator cabs and entrances as elevators frequently have luxurious interiors especially in Naples. It required a lot of critical thinking out of the box and "pulling things out of thin air"
  Computor fabrication programs and the merger of two companies eliminated my job description, however I had started cleaning and maintaining aquariums for friends for the then great fee of $25/hr.
  From there it catapulted to an $250,000 year installation/maintenance company servicing four counties with a one hundred twenty mile radius!
  Compitition with superstores and fly -by -nighters rendered the business enviroment unfit /unprofitable/unenjoyable to a quality installer. The last five years I have won less bids and spent more time correcting the mistakes of the installers who won the first bid! This does not provide a rewarding experience to someone of my skill and integrity therefore I have come to a sort of impasse.  I now wish to integrate a "DESIGN DREAM TEAM"  to design/develop new products for the pond/aquarium industry.Do to my experience and                                                                                                                                                             intense interest in the industry I already have ideas and or designs ready for the following areas:
   1) homeopathic fish/reptile/pond foods
   2)fiber optic end units for lights and fountains
   3)pond pump prefilters with incredible efficiency and ease of use/service
   4) settling tanks
   5)new cover tops for pura-falls type filters(sure to be a big hit!!!)
   6)music driven ripple tank applications
   7)900# consultation/design/troubleshooting/product recommendation line
   8)wind and water mills
   9)glockenspiels
 10)polarized light fountains
 11)pressure valve filter bypasses
 12)revolutionary undergravel filter plates w/ settling chambers to avoid costly/labor
       intensive pond teardowns 
 13)multistage canister filters designed by someone who has cleaned every conceivable
       type over the last twenty years
 14)automatic fish feeders which can be initiated by computer, phone, keychain remote,
       light switch and/or LUTRON lite-touch type house wiring systems
 15)UNCOMMON SENSOR(tm) brand contractor grade electrical panels/sensing units
 16)skimmer and waterfall filters for concrete, fiberglass and vynl liner ponds with incredible cleaning capacity,   
       ease of use and biofilter/oxigenating properties.
  17) multi-tier lilly planter light/filter
   
some of my favorite projects

18,000 Saltwater Lagoon
  Inherited this project from a builder/developer in an 17 millon dollar house. Original installer couldn't keep a thing alive in lagoon; had installed an ozone system with pvc discharge which rendered effluent water toxic. After remedying situation was able to keep schools of yellow and achilles tangs, queen angels and queen triggers as well as five foot leopard and nurse sharks.
 
•	BUBBLE ROOM- Sanibel Island,Fl 1988                           Fifty four foot long tank which wrapped around the second floor window of Nemo Room such that wherever you looked out any window you viewed the continous aquarium feeling that you were in submarine!
•	STONEY'S CRAB HOUSE- Ft. Myers,Fl 1990                    Five aquariums totaling 3500 gallons of saltwater; one of which was a 1500 gallon custom fabricated tank twenty feet long. It housed fish the size of dinner platters and a lionfish the size of a football. Also had all custom designed wet/dry filters.
•	RESIDENCE- Naples,Fl 1990                                          2500 square foot pond paridise containing six concrete truck loads; a fifty foot waterfall with four other falls; boardwalk, gazebo and picnic table all suspended over the water on pilings shaped as old cypress stumps. 600 watt underwater lighting system, 700watt stereo with ROC-KOUSTICS speakers, screen enclosure, isolated bog planter areas and 12 foot of 12 inch square glass blocks in the front wall complete the effect!
•	RESIDENCE- Naples,Fl. 1995                                        $105,000 fish pond complex with wet/dry filtration, isolation chambers for sick fish and to facilitate draining and cleaning. Attached to 14 million dollar old style european mansion as a moat.
•	MAURER RESIDENCE-Naples,Fl.                                   Indoor/Outdoor fishpond consisting of inside two-tiered waterfall, river running(cutting) through natural african slate floor through a glass block wall to a  waterfall beside  the front door sidewalk.
•	SOUTH BAY BISTRO- Naples,Fl. 1999                             1000 gallon aquarium housing five foot acrylic coral formations, tiered subscaping and close to $5,000 worth of saltfish.
    BOUCEK RESIDENCE-Naples,Fl. 1998                           4' by 8' glass block wall facing interior of game room
     forming wall itself; pond then flows over split waterfalls flanking the flight of front stairs to join a common
     pond in front of stairs.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
 
OUTSIDE/INSIDE AQUARIUM & POND, Naples,Fl
OWNER, 1984 - Present
AQUARIUM AND POND INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE;ALSO REPAIR AND LYMNOLOGY CONSULTATION.
 
WEST COAST ELEVATOR, Naples,Fl
Head Draftsman, 1982 - 1983
Receive design concepts for elevator cabs and entrances then conceive,integrate,conceptualize and graphically represent those concepts in complete and articulate fashion to facilitate their fabrication from my prints and the companies raw materials.
 
Attended Technical School, Bloomington IN
1980 - 1982
 
PETS AND PISCES (the first "pet superstore" in Florida), Naples,Fl
Fishroom manager , 1978 - 1979
Manager of largest fishroom in Florida replete with all the attendant responsibilities thereof concerning disease, tank maintenance, compatibility etc. and of coarse human resources and customer satisfaction.
 
PLASTIC SPECIALITIES OF FLORIDA, Naples,Fl
acrylic fabricator, 1977 - 1978
Fabricator of custom applications dictated by walk in customers and also in manufactor of our line of acrylic, polycarbonite and polystyrene products in routing, panelsaw, bonding and vacuumform applications.
 I consider the moldmaking and vacuumform knowledge I aquired invaluable though I have not had the opportunity to implement it for a while.
 
ALL PLASTICS, Ft. Lauderdale,Fl
fabricator of acrylic furniture, 1976 - 1977
custom design house for on demand services of individual customer applications for furniture, casting keepsakes and signs. Moved to Naples Florida to be near fiancee.
 
EDUCATION
 
Greencastle High School, Greencastle In.
H.S. Diploma, Minor: communication, 1976
GPA: 3.5, Major GPA: 3.84. MAJORS: MATH, SCIENCE,INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS AND MANIPULATIONS(INCLUDING WOODWORKING, STONECUTTING,POLYSTYRENE CASTING,EPOXY/FIBERGLASSING AND EXTENSIVE ACRYLIC EXPERIENCE)                  ART(INCLUDING LAPIDARY, CEREMICS AND SILVERSMITHING)
  SCORED FOURTH HIGHEST EVER ON SAT FOR MY SCHOOL.
  ON COLLEGE CHESS TEAM IN HIGH SCHOOL.
  ATHLETIC INTEREST: TENNIS
  HOBBIES: CHESS, CEREMICS, ACRYLIC CASTING, ELECTRONICS AND HI FI SYSTEMS.
 
INDIANA TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Bloomington,IN.
B.A., Graphic Illustration, Minor: Math, 1979
GPA: 4.0, Major GPA: 4.0. No extracurricular activities offered at technical college.
 However became reinterested in geodesics and architecture and built an enviromentally sound geodesic greenhouse and sunroom which was written up in the Indiana University newspaper.