Kyle Haines

Experience

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  Haines Lawn Services

  Mar 2004 - Nov 2008

  Self Employed - Lawn Care Management

  Independent lawn care management business with 10-12 clients providing services spring through fall. Services included mowing, trimming, small landscaping jobs, and fall cleanup services with a keen attention to detail. All clients provided different levels of expectations, frequencies of services, and attention to detail that I managed throughout most of high school, the early part of college, and while working at Lake of the Woods golf course. While demanding at times, I developed an early appreciation and value of effective communication, developing personal relationships, making a schedule/time management, financial management skills, and hard work that I'm confident now lays the footprint for my work ethic and character of who I am today. Show less

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  Lake of the Woods Golf Course

  Mar 2005 - Aug 2008

  Golf Course Maintenance Laborer

  • All-encompassing communication and one-on-one training with superintendent and assistant learning about the industry and golf course management practices over four seasons.• Student internship in 2008

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  River Forest Country Club

  May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Golf Course Maintenance Laborer/Student Intern

  • Developed hand-watering practices on greens, tees, and fairways• Extensive use and experience applying chemicals and fertilizers on fairways, tees, and rough with Toro 5600 sprayer• Experience with tournament settings, managing small crews, and optimum daily playing conditions• Bentgrass sodding for minor Pythium outbreak on three tees

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  Onwentsia Club

  May 2010 - Mar 2019

  Assistant Golf Course Superintendent

  • Selective hand-watering and overhead irrigation practices on 21 bent/poa greens (4 acres) with turf diagnostic tools to provide firm and fast playing conditions• Complete greens collection bentgrass conversion on all 18 holes. Completed in-house and phased out over five years adding approximately 2 acres of bentgrass playing surfaces• Considerable tee renovation and construction experience including building 12 new tees, regrassing existing tees, releveling uneven or poorly draining tees, and amending poor soil profile conditions• Extensive fairway and approach expansion work through flipping existing bentgrass and blue grass, sodding, and scalping down contaminated rough to fairway height for bentgrass conversion wherever possible. Completed in-house and continuing to revisit. Added approximately 3 acres of new playing surfaces• Converted approximately 1 acre of large native areas of Big Blue Stem, Indiangrass, and Switchgrass to areas of low-growing and playable fescue-blended areas on three sites• Comprehensive work and communication with golf course architect during many course visits implementing and discussing course improvements within Master Plan• Bunker construction and restoration work including installation of three new bunkers with drainage, rip-edging every bunker on the course to reclaim lost features due to encroachment, adding fingers in bunkers or material that was previously lost to recapture lost characteristics, and introduction of various new bunker face grasses• Experienced in most aspects of irrigation implementation and servicing• Responsible for creating and assigning daily job assignments and ensuring daily progress of an 18-man Hispanic grounds staff• Considerable experience of chemical and fertilizer applications and calibrations with a Toro 300 gal sprayer and various hand and electric pump sprayers; including detailed record keeping• Substantial one-on-one work and training experience with student interns and staff Show less

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  Crab Orchard Golf Club

  Aug 2010 - May 2011

  Golf Course Maintenance Laborer

  • Obtained considerable golf course maintenance experience and best management practices maintaining both cool season and warm season grasses in the challenging transition zone of southern Illinois that varies completely to the cooler Chicago area, with similarities to St. Louis, MO and Lincoln, NE.• Practiced selective hand-watering practices for bent/poa greens and zoysiagrass fairways and tees in the transition zone• Complete site-prep and seeding practices in converting native, woody zoned lots to tall fescue for urban development• Oversaw complete grow-in agronomic practices on one practice green and overseeding practices on rest of golf course greens during fall aeration• Assisted with replacing large section of rusted steel overflow drain tile of a large pond to more suitable black plastic pipe. Finished by packing the new tile in with clay, capped with topsoil, and regrassed surrounding area Show less

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  Twin Orchard Country Club

  Mar 2019 - Nov 2020

  Golf Course Superintendent; Red Course

  • Golf course superintendent on championship Red Course overseeing management of all agronomic maintenance operations, decision-making processes, and within a close working relationship and reporting to Director of Agronomics.• Work closely with White Course superintendent sharing crews, equipment, and best management practices revolving around different event calendars and needs ensuring both courses and Club are at peak-performance.• Extensive experience utilizing best agronomic management practices for predominately bentgrass playing surfaces for greens, tees, and fairways for firm and fast playing conditions.• Responsible for creating and assigning daily job assignments and ensuring daily progress of a 15- man (peak season) Hispanic & Caucasian grounds staff. However, often shuffle staff amongst 30+ in season with other Superintendent.• Selective hand-watering and overhead irrigation practices on 19 bentgrass (~10% poa) greens (3.5 acres) with turf diagnostic tools to provide firm and fast playing conditions• Extensive exposure and experience with Toro and Turflux GPS sprayer systems• Involvement in co-op purchasing program for chemical and fertilizer needs, in addition to in-season needs among other non-co-op sales reps and distributors.• Large annual flower design and installation each year• Extensive record keeping data collection with day-to-day labor logs and chemical application records Show less

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  Lake Forest Academy

  Nov 2020 - now

  Grounds and Sports Turf Manager

  • Responsible for the conditioning, upkeep, aesthetics, and decision-making processes of all agronomic and grounds maintenance operations throughout our entire 150-acre campus.• Extensively prepare and condition the following surfaces within a sound chemical and fertilizer program, mowing and cultural practices program, careful watering practices through underground and above ground irrigation system, and timely line-painting (athletics):• 20 acres of sports turf playing fields - three soccer fields, one baseball field, one quad/utility field, a 1.1-mile cross country course, five asphalt tennis courts, outdoor basketball court, and a four-acre synthetic turf field throughout spring and fall sports and high-end summer camps (Chicago Cubs, Chicago Fire, and Northwestern University youth camps on our fields).• 27 acres of core campus grounds – I proactively took on this acreage to improve the campus grounds experiences that was previously never in place beyond just weekly mowing.• 1.5 acre outdoor wedding space that sees over 75 weddings/year on average.• 2+ acres of landscape beds that see annual flowers and other established perennial beds.• 20 acres of other campus grounds spaces around 37 academic and residential buildings• Design, install, and diligently maintain our $14,500 summer annual flowers and $4,500 fall annual flowers landscaping throughout campus and wedding site• Work collaboratively with my facilities manager and the other facility department managers and their teams including a maintenance manager, housekeeping manager, catering/food manager, and ice rink manager to ensure all goals are met within the school.• Close working relationships with chemical and fertilizer sales reps within distribution companies, including area sales managers, to assist in my programming and stay current on what other locations of seeing in our area.• Successfully design and execute our intense snow removal and salting operations around our active campus. Show less