Christopher P Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Minnesota, United States

Minnesota, United States

St Paul, MN

• Responsible for relationship management of internal Technology & Operations customers and their training needs.
• Manage training initiatives throughout the project lifecycle, including: conducting needs analysis, designing, and developing courseware that is creative, engaging, and meaningful to the target audience.
• Familiar with Adobe Creative Cloud platform (including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition, Dreamweaver), Adobe Captivate, Lectora Inspire, and Camtasia Studio.
• Experience with PeopleSoft ELM platform.

• Partnering with emergency management director, and managed the evaluation, enhancement, and ongoing execution of Steele County Emergency Management Programs.
• Collaborating with media agencies, developing/communicating weather, mass casualty, and all-hazard preparedness information, mitigating community risk, and increasing citizen safety and security.
• Managed response and recovery during multiple tornado and county-wide flooding events, activated incident command system, executed incident action plans, and minimized property damage and loss of life.
• Successfully prepared, submitted, and secured numerous state and federal grants, administered grant funding, and supported the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment, specialized labor, and supplies.
• Recruited, trained, and directed volunteer Skywarn and Community Emergency Respond Teams and expanded county emergency response preparedness.
• Recruited outsourced subject matter experts, organized, hosted, managed, and administered training exercises, and assured compliance with state and federal after-action reporting requirements.

• Managed the instructional development, implementation, rollout, and administration of a $750,000 learning/E-Learning Program, taught one to three training classes daily, and facilitated quality instructional delivery.
• Partnered with third-party vendor, served as subject matter expert, created system training scripts, collaborated on the development, review, and final approval of 17 learning modules, and extended.
• Championed/introduced a computer-generated virtual flight deck and training model, integrated complex procedural and protocol training components, reduced real flight simulator demands and training cycle time by 40%.
• Reengineered/redesigned a graduated and sequential training flow plan, optimized equipment utilization, and doubled training productivity and throughput.
• Created and implemented contingency training plans, facilitated a more efficient recovery process to accommodate student failure/validation issues, and reduced additional training demands.
• Championed the transition of hard-copy to tablet-driven training manuals, improved instructor informational accessibility and consistency, and increased training quality and integrity.

Eagan, MN

• Served as program instructor and trained, developed, and qualified hundreds of pilots on aircraft systems policies and procedures, and achieved pilot competency and safety performance objectives.
• Transitioned training models from 35 millimeter slides to PowerPoint to early computer-based-training modules, reduced training footprint and labor demands, and improved program quality.
• Conceptualized, designed, developed, and implemented system-specific training modules, reviewed training performance quality, implemented continuous program improvements, and optimized instructional delivery.
• Served on Merger Team, aligned the Northwest/Delta Airlines policy and procedural performance of 12,000 pilots, and managed a highly-efficient staff transition process.
• Led Train-the-Trainer initiative, mentored, trained, developed, and supported 20 to 25 program instructors, and optimized instructional delivery and student performance levels.

• Performed Functional Check, Post Maintenance, and In Flight check procedures, troubleshot/verified DC-9 aircraft operational issues, and assured aircraft flight worthiness and safety compliance.
• Partnered with Dispatch, Third Party Maintenance, and Pilot Teams, secured pilot crews, and oversaw aircraft testing, validation, and re-deployment.

Bs, Aviation Management/Flight Operations

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Honor SocietyClass Salutatorian Magna Cum Laude

High School