Chris Saunders, Mba, C.M. Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Monitors airline and airline-related tenants to ensure compliance with lease, permits, rules, and regulations.• Acts as a liaison between MNAA and airline real estate professionals, and other airline-related business partners such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Air Cargo, and Air Freight tenants.• Develops, analyzes, negotiates, implements, and monitors business plans, proposals, contracts, leases, and agreements with airlines.• Coordinates with finance for the calculation of annual airline rates, charges, and reconciliations.• Calculates and informs finance department of airline per use charges and concession revenue sharing per the airline agreement.• Works closely with various other departments in matters related to airline activities, including growth and new entrants, to help maintain smooth operations, including any potential impacts due to construction.• Directs staff procedures, preparation of various reports, financial analyses, and solicitation documents related to the management of airline agreements.• Coordinates with air service development to develop plans to attract new air service.• Establishes lease rates and implements lease rate adjustments.

Nashville, Tn

•Administers the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority’s Commercial Ground Transportation Policy as it relates to the operation of taxicabs, limousines, shuttles, Rideshare, and other ground transportation operators, including permit processing and enforcement of all rules and regulations.•Enforces rules, regulations, and provisions of contracts, management and lease agreements, which includes providing direction to the public parking operation and shuttle bus services.•Provides supervisory direction to the Ground Transportation Customer Service Office and other customer service functions of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. •Responsible for inventory oversight of landside operations to include ordering of uniforms, decals and necessary equipment repairs and/or replacement.•Prepares reports and collects data related to customer services and landside activities; including AVI monthly summaries of violations and inspections. •Responsible for oversight of reserved employee parking to include assignment of spaces, issuance of decals and routine semi-annual review. •Routinely inspects and monitors terminal landside activities, public and employee parking facilities and services; reports deficiencies to the appropriate agencies. Enforces rules and regulations, policies and procedures relative to operations involving landside facilities. When necessary immediately implements procedures to ensure landside safety during construction and other abnormal conditions.

Nashville International Airport

•Monitor access control system in the Airport Operations Center (AOC)•Receive emergency and non-emergency calls and dispatch appropriate law enforcement officers•Record all relevant information into a Computer Aided Dispatch program•Use National Crime Information Center to find various information on individuals, vehicles etc.•Receives all aircraft alert calls from the FAA Control Tower and notify appropriate units of emergency•Monitor the airport terminal, ramp, parking lot, and airfield cameras•Continually refresh personal knowledge of all computer systems, fire panels, and panic alarms•Developed algorithm in Microsoft Excel for completing the daily officer shift rosters more efficiently•Maintain and update the SharePoint website for the AOC•Communications Training Officer, responsible for new and recurrent training in AOC

•Planned and merchandised product for numerous customers on the eastern side of Nashville•Worked independently and report personal labor hours including miles traveled•Covered vacations for managers, which includes ordering product and delegating tasks to others•Collaborate with in-store personnel to affirm all product placement is accurate to their plans

•Performed daily self-inspections of the airfield including periodic perimeter checks•Ensured airport compliance with all 14 CFR Part 139 regulations•Instructed non-movement driver training and 14 CFR Part 139 airport employee training•Constructed Low-Cost Ground-Vehicle Driving Simulator using X-Plane software for the use of training movement area drivers•Prepared records for Certification Inspections with no discrepancies reported by the FAA•Monitored and updated the ACM, 14 CFR Part 139 training records, airfield vehicle passes and airfield driver training records•Issued, organized, and cancelled Notices to Airmen (NOTAM’s)•Responded to all alerts, emergencies and incidents providing firefighting and rescue services

- Sorted and sent all releases to crews while directly communicating all vital information between Global Operations Control and Fueling Operations for each flight - Received all domestic and worldwide flight records to ensure accurate information in FORTE system - Implemented two new flight systems: the Electronic Flight Release system and LIDO Route Manuals (which replaced the Jeppesen Airway Manuals) in all aircraft - Assisted in an operational emergency due to inclement weather - Honored with a Bravo Zulu Award

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S, Aerospace Administration

Activities and Societies: Sigma Nu Honor Fraternity - Active member from December 2002 to May 2007 - Assistant Treasurer in 2005.