WELDING PROFESSIONAL PROFILES
 | Carissa Love 2009 Professional WeldersCompetition First Place W Texas State Technical College Waco, TX
| Category: Welding Technician Vist Company Website
| Carissa made history by becoming the first woman to win the American Welding Society's Professional Welders Competition in November, 2009. Carissa plans to use her $2500 first place prize towards her education. She has one semester remaining and will complete her associate in applied science degree. Carissa is involved in campus activities, serving as the secretary of the AWS Student Chapter.
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 | Dan Turner Associate Professor of Welding Yuba College Marysville,, CA
| Category: Welding Educator | I teach students a skill that will improve their lives. I get time to do research and advance my own knowledge, plus I get to work in a modern shop and keep up with current trends.
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 | Jordan Kay Welding Technician City of Minot Minot, ND
| Category: Welding Technician | I've been in a wheelchair since I was six years old. I first tried welding when I was a kid. I liked the fire and using my hands to make things.
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 | Caleb Hastings Robotics Welder The Shaw Group Cliffside, NC
| Category: Robotic Welding Technician | Right now I'm working at the site of a powerplant addition in North Carolina. I'm doing orbital welding using robotics.
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 | Paul Edwards Research Engineer Boeing Seattle, WA
| Category: Researcher/Test/Engineering | My focus is friction-stir welding of titanium parts. Friction-stir welding is a solid-state joining process that softens rather than melts metals.
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 | Guillermo Gallardo President Complete Welding & Cutting Supplies Pomona, CA
| Category: Owner/Entrepreneur | But entrepreneurship is in my genes. At 28, I opened my own store using $50,000 from a loan against my house. It was just a small shop, but within a few years I could afford to open two more. Five years after I went out on my own, I bought the company I started at, after my old boss died.
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 | Tiffany Dunlap Pipe Welder The Shaw Group Aquasco, MD
| Category: Pipe/Hull/Structural Welder | It was my grandmother's idea. She read about the increased demand for welders. At first I dismissed the idea, but I was working in a clothing store then, and I knew I didn't want to do that forever. So I tried a welding class.
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 | Justin Stambaugh Mechanic Richard Childress Racing Welcome, NC
| Category: Mechanic | I work in the shop during the week, but on weekends I'm one of seven people on a nationwide pit crew on the NASCAR circuit.
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 | Sara Bingham Hull Technician U.S. Navy Great Lakes, IL
| Category: Pipe/Hull/Structural Welder | My dad has a metal recycling business. I've been working for him since I was eight years old doing scrap-yard stuff. That experience led me to take welding in high school.
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 | Wesley Guntharp Diver/ Underwater Welder Miami Diver Inc. Miami, FL
| Category: Underwater Welder | An article on underwater welding sounded interesting. I had never touched a welding machine in my life until I went to technical college, but it turns out I was good at it.
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