David Crowe, Gdba, B Of T, Pmp, Ame-E Email & Phone Number

Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Ca

Maxcraft Avionics Ltd is a long established and well-respected aircraft maintenance facility that specializes in complex avionics system upgrades. The company operates from a purpose-built hangar facility located at Pitt Meadows Airport near Vancouver BC; capable servicing of wide variety of aircraft types including light piston singles & twins, turboprops, helicopters and mid-size business jets.• Responsible for the daily and overall operation of all aircraft maintenance and upgrade activities, including schedules, budgets, personnel and quality.• Ensure all maintenance performed on aircraft, engines, avionics, and aircraft components meets Transport Canada regulations, as well as customer quality expectations• Determine staff training needs to maintain work force qualifications and productivity.• Develop new documented procedures to improve processes, efficiency and quality assurance.• Determine needs and assure proper tooling and equipment is available to support operational requirements and coordinate shared resources with other managers to optimize facility resources• Solicit feedback from staff for development of new concepts and actively support and integrate continuous improvement activities into program procedures and processes to attain Service Center margins and ensure that efficiency objectives and customer satisfaction goals are met• Collect and analyze production data to identify trends and ensure margin performance is achieved• Act as direct liaison between vendors, customers and Maxcraft production personnel.• Carry out feasibility and risk analysis for potential new projects.• Provide regular management updates on project progress – schedule, man-hours, and cost.

An AdvanTec Global group of companies member.·Responsibilities includes overseeing the Project Management/Project Coordinator team in Canada and the USA, plan for PM/PC team development including succession planning.·Responsibilities include on-sight client interface, PM/sales communication, contract/PO line items, reviewing estimates, scope and timeline. Set up and coordinate project plans, review progress to plan, through review on client specifications.·Facilitation high level complexity projects with high level client support required through the manufacturing facility. Projects include those with regulatory body requirements and/or specialty materials and testing.·Monitors the costs of the projects and relays cost overruns to the VP, Ops. Reporting at group level and included project at multiply factories.

An AdvanTec Global group of companies member.·Direct multiple teams of multidisciplinary stakeholders to build products from conceptual design through production, to inspection and commissioning with customer.·Spearheaded projects for the Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel Project, a National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) program, resulting in 3 million dollar in increased revenue.·Assembled team for the sole purpose of building specialized products. Products include new concepts and class rated projects that would follow the strict guidelines set out by the regulatory body. Project regularly required specialty materials and testing.

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Ca

An Advantec Global group of companies member.• Prepare complete project proposal documents; including full review of all project scope of work, specifications and drawings. Work included the breakdown of the project into a work breakdown structure and estimation required hours and material quantities from conceptual standard design drawings.• Provide project manager with historical review of the estimation process. Fully describe and layout proposed scope of work and a schedule of deliverables. Provide project team with project costs, estimated bill of materials, and quotations from sub-contractors and vendors.• Prepare scope table to allow project team members to reference scope of delivery and to manage and control project scope change.• Estimate cost and schedule impact of proposed changes to scope. Detail and document changes to scope of supply and detail these changes to client with cost and schedule impact in the form of change orders.• Implement new estimation software, Bid4Build. Implementation included process development, data gathering, and department training. Program is a fully customizable estimation building tool that searches data in a library for past or current costs.• Liaised with vendors to find cost effective alternatives products to support company profits and supply value added deliverables to the clients.• Interface with Visual™ ERP system as well as MS Project™ and MS Office suite.

Toronto, On, Ca

Responsiblities include:• Managing multiple projects for key customer accounts by facilitating, interfacing and communicating with the different departments within Vector and customers. Largest project to date was $3.0M. Customer included commercial and both foreign and domestic militaries.• Providing the customers with formal progress reports and provide a high level of technical support. I document and distribute work scopes to project leads and process the documents for any required change orders. I gather and inspect work packages to close a project, as well as process the information need to invoice the customer. • Collaborate with the sales group to provide potential customer with pricing, formal bids, contracts and proposals. In this process we identify and quantify risks and provide senior management with a risk report. I also build the statement of work through a process of engineering a concept from requirements provided by the customer. These requirements can be driven by specific specifications, functionality or operational necessities. I confirm with departmental management resource allocation and confirm all of the direct and indirect costs of a potential project are identified.• To use and have a strong working knowledge of MS Office, MS publisher and MS Project 2007/2010; Proficiency in Airsoft (ERP) and ACPAC (ERP) software.

Toronto, On, Ca

Responsiblities include:• Custom installation of state of the art glass cockpit flight systems, and GPS/Nav/Comm integration. I also have flight line testing and repair experience.• Complete aircraft rewiring including engines, transmissions, and fuel tanks on a number of different aircraft.• Disassembling, cleaning, inspecting, repairing, modifying, reassembling and test of parts, components and assemblies are also part of the job. • Ensuring compliance with regulations, company policies, operational procedures, manufactures approved and acceptable data, and customer’s requirements upon returning to service of an aeronautical product is also within my scope of responsibilities.

Surrey, Bc, Ca

Duties included:• Providing service to customers by providing hose and fittings to fit their application. • Provided telephone and e-mail support for customers regarding sales quotes, order status, and final invoicing using ACPAC software. • Using Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and Power Point to keep track of customer information, quotes, hose inventory, and product demos. • Keeping the warehouse organized and stocked displays; shipped and received all items in warehouse and entered information into a central computer database. • Building hose assemblies as per customer specifications, working pressures, environmental interaction, as well as material being conveyed.

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

Graduate Diploma In Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Technology Management

Certificate - Advanced Project Management, Project Management

Diploma Of Technical Studies, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Category E/B2

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