Experience

Dakota Consulting Incorporated

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Depot Maintenance SME

  • Oct 2019 - Present



United States Air Force

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Assurance Manager

  • Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

• Squadron Superintendent

  • Nov 2014 - Feb 2019

  Key civilian leader of a squadron-level organization, managing 72 full-time federal employees and 90 Military Reservists in direct support of the Air Wing’s nine assigned C-17 military aircraft. Manage the infrastructure of seven facilities and associated personnel at Wright-Patterson. These consist of the scheduled maintenance/inspection dock and aircraft hangar, fuel systems maintenance hangar (Fuel Cell), fabrication branch (Sheet Metal Repair and Painting, Metals Technology, Non-Destructive Inspection Lab), Aircraft Accessories shops (Hydraulics and Electro-Environmental Systems), aerospace ground equipment (AGE) maintenance facility, Propulsion Flight, Ammunition build-up, and the support staff with associated facility. Responsible for the performance management of six civil service supervisors.

• Aircraft Maintenance Manager

  • Jun 2012 - Nov 2014

  Third-level supervisor. Plan immediate, quarterly, and long-term goals under direction of superintendent and direct usage of personnel and the associated resources among seven work centers. Each of the work centers supports aircraft ground handling, servicing, inspection, condition evaluation, test, and repair of assigned and transient aircraft in an integrated environment. Analyze processes for squadron superintendent and develop graphs, reports, and charts to document findings for ease of access. Translate high-value data into charts and graphs that can be shared with employees to highlight significant trends and visually demonstrate significant performance accomplishments. Function as a technical expert while exercising technical supervision over the two sections and eight subordinate supervisors. Oversee requests for Boeing Field Engineering Team (FETS) assistance to ensure all Air Force technical data and unit resources are exhausted first. Validate and perform quality checks on all 107 Engineering Assistance inputs. Explain work requirements, deadlines and specific operating instructions to eight subordinate supervisors to follow. Perform work planning, work direction and administrative responsibilities every day. Participate with three levels of supervision and senior employees involved in the maintenance production of a range of occupations.

• Aircraft Productioin Supervisor

  • Jan 2006 - Jun 2012

  Planned daily, weekly and quarterly the overall use of personnel and material resources within the aircraft maintenance and production flight to reach operational goals of maintaining the assigned military aircraft. Assign and explain work requirements and operating instructions to six subordinate supervisors, set deadlines and establish sequence of work operations for supervisors. Attend beginning of shift production meeting to translate work priorities into targets for all required career fields for that day, align time on the flight line with time required to be in office for supervision administration, coordinate face-to-face shift turnover at aircraft for complex troubleshooting problems, generate turnover details for other flight line Production Superintendents.

• Aircraft Avionics Mechanic

  • Apr 2000 - Jan 2006

  Responsible for ensuring the full-time maintainers and Reservists were adequately trained on most recent aircraft system upgrades. Performed over 600 flight hours in support of the newly installed Glass Cockpit, FMS/GPS, and Digital Autopilot/Flight Director systems. Assisted in verification of in-flight anomalies and captured data to aid in enhanced fault code generation via subsequent OFP upgrades. Significant experience interacting with host country services as well as US embassy agents while performing flight mechanic duties in numerous locations (including, but not limited to Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Iceland, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Azores, Italy, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and cool guys at McMurdo).

• Active Duty AF Avionics Technician and Lead Technician

  • Jul 1991 - Apr 2000