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Chicago, Illinois, United States

First Officer Boeing 747

Grand Ledge, Mi

Management duties include oversight of other insurance agency account managers and office staff, assigning client accounts to account managers, and implementing procedure and changes as necessary to improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of the insurance renewal process. Oversight of office staff including monitoring and assisting staff with agency licensing in Michigan and in over thirty states. Responsible to lead weekly staff meetings in order to monitor client satisfaction, identify problem accounts, and to present topics to train staff in changes to policy forms, interpretation of policy language, and changes to the regulatory environment that effect policy coverage. Extensive and proficient use of all Microsoft Office products. Programming experience includes use of Structured Query Language to manipulate database information. Used company owned aircraft for incidental travel in order to maintain client relationships with face-to-face contact.

Rochester Hills, Mi

Served as a flight crew-member on a family owned corporate jet. Qualified as Pilot in Command under CFR 14 Part 91 in a Beech Jet 400A, Citation Sovereign Jet, and a Learjet 60. Assisted with aircraft management duties. Primary focus of management duties were regulatory compliance and record keeping but also included assistance with flight planning and logistics planning.

Brighton, Mi

Duties included diagnosis and repair of welding equipment, integration of welding power sources with industrial robots, and provided technical support for customers and in house sales staff. Also responsible to provide training to end users, dealer sales staff, and dealer service departments on the used and repair of Fronius welding equipment. Responsible for compliance with OSHA and DOT regulations as they applied to hazardous materials sold by Fronius welding equipment. Regular and proficient use of Microsoft Office products as well as many other software packages designed to provide a user interface with various automated welding equipment and robots. Responsibilities included development of sales and training presentations and the tracking of manufacturing production data in order to facilitate statistical analysis.

Waterford, Mi

Qualified under CFR 14 Part 135 as Pilot in Command of a Beechjet 400A. Assigned primarily to Beechjets owned by the K-mart Corporation and managed by Aerodynamics, Inc.

Jackson, Michigan Area

Served as Pilot in Command under CFR Part 91 on a Mitsubishi Diamond Jet and as Flight Department Manager for Patrick Properties. Responsibilities included all flight planning and logistics, aircraft maintenance scheduling, and hangar property management.

Waterford, Mi

Charter pilot qualified under CFR 14 Part 135 as Pilot in COmmand of a King Air B200.

Lansing, Michigan Area

Qualified as Chief Pilot under CFR Title 14 Federal Aviation Regulation Part 135 Air Taxi On Demand Air Carrier. Served as Pilot in Command of Mitsubishi Diamond Jet, King Air 200 turboprop, and a Piper Navajo Chieftain. In addition to an aircraft maintenance shop and flight school, AeroGenesis Aviation operated two jet aircraft, four turboprops, and three piston powered passenger carrying aircraft used for on demand passenger air charter. Duties included supervision of line pilots, flight dispatchers, company check airmen, and of daily flight operations. Served as company flight and ground instructor. Ground training duties included conducting basic indoctrination class to educate new pilots and recurrent classes to line pilots on aircraft systems and company procedures. Also developed and presented the initial and recurrent training course required by CFR Title 49 Part 175 Hazardous Materials Regulations Carriage by Aircraft.

Detroit, Mi

Responsibilities included on site supervision of the startup and debugging robotic spot welding and industrial laser systems built by Detroit Center Tool. The systems were installed in Chrysler and General Motors final assembly plants. Hands on experience included robot and programmable logic controller programming and debugging as well as troubleshooting and repair of industrial electrical, hydraulic, and machine tool mechanical systems. One such truck underbody system included over 150 robotic spot welders, numerous material handling systems, and automated laser measurement stations. Responsible for supervision of company technicians' onsite for support during production shifts and supervision of numerous contract technicians deployed during plant holiday and weekend shut downs. Served as the onsite representative for the company as the main point of contact to the plant manager and plant engineering staff. Regular and proficient use of many software packages designed to provide a user interface with various robots and machine tool programmable logic controllers.

Bachelor’S Degree, Organizational Administration, Honors

Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Administration.

Associate’S Degree, Aviation Flight Technology