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Fleet Readiness Center Southeast. Jacksonville, Florida

Leads and directs 245 personnel through comprehensive inspection and repair of multiple type aircraft avionics, electrical, hydraulic, power plant, and related systems in support of 16 operational squadrons. • Aviation subject matter expert. Provides daily briefings and steering guidance regarding operations, safety, testing, compliance, and training to executive leadership for a 650 personnel aircraft repair facility. • Ensures full compliance with 42 specific aviation programs, to include local and federal industrial/hazardous waste use and disposal requirements with 100 percent operational effectiveness.• Continual Process Improvement department sponsor. Directed 7 Lean and Six Sigma events with a combined annual savings of more than $3,000,000 and a reduction of 2,200 worker hours, with a 13 percent throughput increase of critical flight components.• Performs Business Case Analysis and develops subsequent organic repair capability of top degrading aircraft components with an average annual cost savings of $2,200,000.

Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

Led 42 senior personnel through time critical modifications of unique “one off” aircraft in support of globally operating, multi service Presidential tasked assets. • Coordinated with multiple agencies and stakeholders to perform quick reaction aircraft configuration changes with an average 90 percent reduction in development and installation time, ensuring low density, high demand aircraft were available for limited window of opportunity missions.• Revamped small arms qualifications program, reducing certification time by 25 percent while increasing first pass yield rates by 35 percent, resulting in an annual savings of $65,000. • Developed and implemented a logistics plan to ensure just in time delivery of mission-critical weapons to multiple global deployment sites, reducing storage footprints by 20 percent and decreasing contract costs by $80,000 annually.

Navy Recruiting District Miami, Florida

Senior Department Head for 225 personnel and 7 Division Officers consistently exceeding national recruitment goals for Florida and the Caribbean. • Developed and implemented strategic goals to align with Chief of Naval Operations accession priorities and progressive programs implementation.• Monitored and adjusted accession pipeline throughput to ensure right-time delivery of personnel for initial training, reducing holding pool numbers by 13 percent.• Researched production shortfalls, developed and implemented solutions to meet production requirements, and briefed outcomes to national level executives.• Consistently implemented a $200,000 discretionary funds annual budget with an average surplus of 10 percent and no degradation of department performance.

Electronic Attack Squadron 132 Whidbey Island, Washington

Planned, coordinated, and executed aircraft maintenance workload, logistics, and training requirements for more than 300 technicians across 6 production divisions to support multiple deployment flight operations. • Flawlessly executed a $12,000,000 annual fuel and repair cost budget for a high tempo, dynamic fleet of aircraft.• Identified and developed innovative time saving ideas for periodic maintenance requirements on the EA-18G aircraft. Solutions were implemented throughout the F-18 community with an average savings of 12 man hours per inspection and subsequent cost savings of more than $1,500,000 annually.

Electronic Attack Squadron 132 Whidbey Island, Washington

Led 9 Quality Assurance personnel through compliance, auditing, and monitoring of all maintenance programs and procedures. • Ensured strict compliance with all requirements to successfully transition the EA-6B to the first EA-18G operational squadron, with a zero discrepancy Commander, Naval Air Forces’ Safe-to-Operate inspection and accolades as the “Benchmark Program Manager.”• Through tailored use of service schools and cost wise training opportunities, increased Quality Assurance qualifications by 45 percent, resulting in 4 additional squadron mission assignments.

Leading Chief Petty Officer, supervised and mentored 13 avionics technicians through research, development, and installation of prototype intelligence gathering systems on the EP-3E aircraft.• Established a weapons division from the ground up, resulting in a 200 percent increase in flight crew qualifications with a 40 percent increase in worldwide aircraft assignments for critical intelligence gathering operations. • Managed all logistics, flight clearances, training/certification requirements, and installation of 20 quick reaction systems in support of the Global War on Terror at multiple OCONUS deployment sites.

Naval Aviation Schools Command Pensacola,Florida

Forged a cadre of 17 senior instructors into a successful team while leading over 5,000 multinational students through a fast-paced and dynamic high-risk aviation physiology, land, and water survival curriculum.• Led multiple barrier removal teams to eliminate critical training bottlenecks. Successfully reduced time to train newly accessed Aircrewman and Rescue Swimmers by 20 percent while increasing first-pass yield rates by 15 percent. • Coordinated and executed evacuation, temporary housing, and subsequent repair of 80,000 square feet of living and administrative areas for 650 students through catastrophic destruction of Hurricane Ivan.

Various

In Flight Technician and Crew Chief on board multiple Naval aircraft including the Nuclear Command and Control, Looking Glass. Consistently set the operational readiness standard for control of the triad of United States Nuclear Forces.• Qualified on and performed full systems maintenance and quality assurance inspections on and flew as an Operational and Test and Evaluation Crew Chief while supervising and qualifying more than 600 technicians.• Provided project controls, cost estimation, process improvements, and other business support services to Technical Line Management.