George Novak

Customer service. Assist customers with their enquiry, match their needs to the right product.

Marketing, Mail chimp, Facebook feeds, designing fliers and price cards.

Phone enquiries. Downloading customer database and uploading it to Mailchimp, keeping record of it in Microsoft Excel.

Inwards goods, stock take, admin work, entering invoices and report to the accountant.

Forklift driving, delivering and picking up ride on movers from around Waikato.

Opening and closing down till, POS handling.

• Manufacturing olympic rowing boat using carbon fibre.
• Prepare mould for carbon fibre laminating.
• Multiple sanding and preparation till final paint application.
• Polishing final product

• Fabricating trailer for tiny homes from 6.2m to 11m rated up to three tonnes ready for WOF inspection.
• Read drawings and took measurements to plan layout and procedures.
• Set up equipment, cut and laid out, positioned, aligned and secured parts and assemblies with straight edges, squares and calipers.
• Welding parts - horizontal, vertical and overhead positions - using MIG welder and 0.9 wire and CO2 gas.
• Fabricating and welding axles according to specifications.
• Scraped off excess spatter using grinder and wire wheel.
• Drilled holes to the specified size and requirement for electrical fittings/wiring/riveting.
• Etch priming cleaned welded and drilled surfaces.
• Spray painting previously etch primed surfaces.
• Mounting and wiring electrical lights according to specifications.
• Mounting electrical or hydraulic breaking system according to specifications and requirements.
• Mounting wheels, final inspection, testing electrical connections.
• Spray painting tiny homes inside and out.
• Preparing all surfaces. Sanding outside surfaces. Filling up nail holes and gaps inside. masking doors, windows, flashing, electrical inside and out.
• Spray painting primer on inside walls. Sanding primed surfaces on inside walls. Mixing and pray painting specified color paint on outside surfaces, Mixing and spray painting required paint on inside walls and doors.
• Cleaning equipment, unmasking.

• Applied commercial grade solvent based antifouling paint using airless speargun on different length yachts and commercial fishing vessels.
• Masking ships prior to painting. Vapor blasting ships if needed using 80 grit garnet.
• Fixing damage hull on yachts, gringing out damaged material, applieg fillers and fibreglass cloth with epoxy resin.
• Finding and grinding out osmosis on fibreglass hulls, cutting out fibreglass canvas patches/mixing epoxy resin and applying it over osmosis patches.
• Gringing steel keel, mixing and applying filler all over the keel, applying fibreglass cloth or epoxy resin, applying antifoul.
• Fixing damaged fibreglass rudder, grinding, applying filler, fibreglass cloth and resin, priming and spraying antifoul.

I am a news photographer. My main duty is to follow tight deadlines and provide accurate information and digital images often sent from the field or moving aircraft. The main subject I shoot is general new, fatal crashes or accidents, sport. I also do video for certain new stories.

I owned a professional photo studio what I custom built. I was shooting cars inside the studio, portraits, family portraits, product photography. I also did picture framing.

Freelance photographer for New Zealand Geographic. My images were published in several editions, I cover the North Island. My specialty is macro photography and I had the privilege to capture some of New Zealand's heritage. I have been taking images of a head of a native ants, spiders, sand fly fish embryo and many more. I have had the opportunity to see and photograph back door collections at Te Papa museum of native orchids collected by Captain James Cook and his voyage. But I also work closely with some New Zealand universities and Land Care Research, Department of Conservation. I always have fun working for New Zealand Geographic, always something different but also responsibility to deliver on time and get the job done.

Garden Centre, work including: customer service, handling phone calls, forklift driving, check-out duties, cleaning work and general shop and garden centre. Ordering plants, inwards goods. I especially enjoyed this job because of the amount of people I met and helped with their request.