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Jay C. White Cloud

(802) 727-0102
QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Design and fabricate all aspects of traditional timber frame structures.  Specializes in vernacular, folk architecture in timber, stone and earth of the Americas, Middle East and Asia. Produce and source all major components from raw materials. Complete finish carpentry and guild crafts (e.g. blacksmithing, textiles, ceramics, etc.).  Committed to predominantly working in green design.  Supervise-facilitate building teams and apprentices.
  • Operate, condition and maintain specialty hand and power tools, sawmills, heavy equipment, and rigging.
  • Design and build complex high- and low- element ropes or challenge courses for outdoor personal development and team building.  Also, have designed and construct indoor climbing walls.
  • Work as a master rigger (e.g. steeplejack, arborist, and construction rigger.) Facilitate and execute all aspects of high-angle activities (e.g. rock climbing, challenge course, rescue, confined space and tactical.)
  • Manage, supervise and facilitate contracts, projects, work teams, logistics, and departments for timber frame businesses, pest/wildlife control companies, situational security initiatives, youth detention and rehabilitation centers, and wilderness experiential programs.
  • Guide individuals and groups in wilderness experiences with an emphasis in indigenous life skills, wildlife ecology, and navigation, in both dry and wet environs. Experience ensuring multiple tiers of safety, awareness, and core facilitation of internalized cognition.
  • Advance experience and certifications in wilderness medicine.
  • Guide, direct and educate young adults facing significant life, legal, and developmental challenges.
  • Facilitate historical and natural history programs.
  • Competent in computer aided design (CAD) and drafting.
  • Recognized as Artisan in textiles, ceramics, illustration, metalwork,glass, wood and stone.
  • Experience in exotic animal husbandry, maintenance, and enclosure design.
  • Experience in home inspection, general and commercial pest control.
  • Experience in security operations and safe crisis management.


ACHIEVEMENTS:


  • Accepted appointed positions for the town of Thetford, VT (e.g. Animal Control Officer, Tree Warden).
  • Served as liaison to Dartmouth College’s Native Americans at Dartmouth program.
  • Elected for three-years as chairman of Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve in Orrtanna, PA e.g. directed the implementation of operational and human resources policies and procedures; governance of investment of a $600,000 endowment that grew to over one million during tenure; increased land holdings to over 600 acres; and, constructed a pavilion.
  • Received multiple employment and leadership awards of recognitions from Cornell Corrections Company, and its Abraxas Leadership Development Program, and within the Association of Experiential Education.
  • Received honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corp. and was approved for various levels of security clearances.
  • As a young adult, designed enclosures for a natural history center (780 sq. ft.) and facilitated programs at Fox Ridge State Park, Charleston, IL.
  • Apprenticed with traditional Amish barn wrights from 1975 – 1983.
  • Substitute taught middle school and high school Biology, Physical Science, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Art.  Both public and private schools.
  • Mentored by a Choctaw and Seminole elder through a traditional, solo vision quest at the age of thirteen for sixty-seven days within the Black Water Bayou, Santa Rosa County, FL.
  • Follow core principles and traditions of my native culture.


WORK HISTORY:

1993-Present Tosa Tomo Designs, Thetford, VT-Timber Wright-Designer
1980-Present Tosa Tomo Guiding, Various Locales-Wilderness Education Guide
1993-2002-Abraxas L.D.P., S. Mountain, PS-Wilderness Education Director
1992-1993-Second Nature Tree Care, Stanford, CT-Senior-Climber-Rigger
1991-ZFQ Climbing Walls, Ridgefield, CT-Designer/Fabricator
1987-1991-Bio-Tech Inc., Brookfield, CT- Nuisance Wildlife Control Agent
1987-1991 CT State Licensed Supervisor in General and Commercial Pest Control.

1983-1987-United States Marine Corps Marine.
1981-1983-Midwest Animal Importers, Inc., Manager-Handler, Fort Wayne, IN-Zookeeper
1980-1981-Fox Ridge State Park, Charleston, IL-Park Naturalist
1976-1980 (fall-summer)-Lincoln Log Cabin State Park, Lerna, IL-Historical Interpreter

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS:

1983-present (intermittent)- Member of Timber Framers Guild.
2000-2004   Member of American Mountain Guides Association-Group Rock Site Manager.
1993-2001   Member of Association of Experiential Education.
1995-2003   Certified as Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician.

1987-1991   CT State Licensed Supervisor in General and Commercial Pest Control.
1983-1987-Served in United States Marine Corps with special training e.g. Emergency 
Medical, Administration, Water Safety, Counseling, Public Relations, Crisis Management Identification and Personnel Management, and Special Combat Arms training.
1980-1981-Enrolled in Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; Life Sciences, Field Research Assistant in B.A./M.A. Program.
1979-1980-Completed (two summers) college credits in Ecology and Natural History at Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL.)
1976-1980-Earned H.S. Diploma, Charleston Senior High School, Charleston, IL.

EXAMPLES OF DESIGN AND TIMBER FRAME PROJECTS

2005-Present White Cloud (Homeowner Builder), Green Halo Project, Thetford, VT
69% complete Design, site preparation and new construction of Asian-style farmhouse, timber frame house (3,500 sq. ft.) Green Halo Project Photos
2011-Longo Project, Thetford, VT
New construction of timber frame horse barn (1,530 sq. ft.)
2010-Mexico Project, NY
New construction of timber frame house (1,200 sq. ft.)
2009-Present Arcolio Project, Orford, NH
New construction of “Green and Green,” style timber frame
house (4,200/1,200 sq. ft.)
2008-Chesterfield Project, Chesterfield, MO
Barn relocation and restoration
2007-Little Campton Project, RI
Barn to home conversion, restoration, and relocation Profiled in “Architectural Digest,” June
2006-Truro Project, Cape Cod, MA

Barn to home conversion, restoration, and relocation

2005-Monroe Project, Monroe, CT

Barn restoration, and relocation

2005-Cappy Island Project, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Barn to home conversion, restoration, and relocation

2004-Present Luikart Project, Thetford, VT

New construction of timber frame cottage (1,400 sq. ft.)
2004-2005-White Cloud Project, Thetford, VT
Site development, pre-landscaping, tree maintenance, road development, pond restoration, construction of foundation for mother-in-law dwelling (1,700 sq. ft.), and home construction project’s profile development with architectural drawings/plans.
2002-2003-Church Road Project, Orrtanna, PA
Remodel of house and oversight sale (1,400 sq. ft.)
2003-Russel-Colbath Project, Kancamagus Highway, Woodstock, NH
Timber Framers Guild new construction of timber frame visitor’s center
1998-1999-Strawberry Hill Project, Orrtanna, PA
New construction of timber frame hybrid Pavilion and flight cage
1996-1999-Shank Project, Orrtanna, PA
New construction of timber frame hybrid house (3,000 sq. ft.)
1993-Abraxas LDP Project, South Mountain, PA
Design-build of a comprehensive high angle challenge course (at time of completion was one of the largest on the East Coast) Also Wilderness Education Director for 10 years.
1987-1992-Sun Set Construction, Sandy Hook, CT
Gironomo Design and Furniture, Stamford, CT
Sub Contractor: general carpentry, restoration, timber framing
1979-1983-Snake Trail Rd. Project, Charleston, IL
New construction of timber frame cabin (576 sq. ft.)
1978-1979 Jackson Ave. Project, Charleston, IL,
Remodel and restoration of house (1,200 sq. ft.)

REFERENCES FOR DESIGN AND TIMBER FRAME PROJECTS

David Markwood:
Little Flock Lumber Company, Randolph, VT
Little Flock Timber Frames (no website)
Contact Information: 802-728-6346
email: littleflocklumber@gmail.com 

Ed Levin: 
Timmerhus Inc.East, East Coast Office
338 S. 19th St.Philadelphia, PA 19103-6623
603-340-0304 (cell); 215-839-9304 (work)
http://www.timmerhusinc.com/about-us/

In 1969, Boston native Ed Levin graduated from Dartmouth College and got his start in timber framing dismantling an early 19th Century barn in Norwich, Vermont. He raised his first new frame in 1971 and for the next decade and a half operated a small timber frame business based in Canaan, New Hampshire, before embarking on his present career as a frame designer. Ed is a contributing editor of the journal Timber Framing, has written extensively on joinery and engineering, participated in many Guild projects, and done pioneering work in historic reproduction, and on curved framing and compound joinery. In addition to residential construction, Ed frequently works on public spaces including school buildings, theatres, women’s shelters, ski lodges and covered bridges.   Ed’s work can be found throughout North America and beyond. He is proud to be a founder and loyal member of the Timber Framers Guild. He and his family make their home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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