Don Tibbetts Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Led a team of engineers and technicians in design and development of a cockpit and cabin upgrade which incorporates modernized communication, navigation and safety equipment along with a fully integrated sensor suite with touchscreen control for UH-60L/HH-60L.• Responsible for multiple small-scale one-off or fleetwide modifications from start to finish resulting in AWR approval.• Completed rapid response design, build, integrate as part of a decentralized and multi-agency team working… Show more • Led a team of engineers and technicians in design and development of a cockpit and cabin upgrade which incorporates modernized communication, navigation and safety equipment along with a fully integrated sensor suite with touchscreen control for UH-60L/HH-60L.• Responsible for multiple small-scale one-off or fleetwide modifications from start to finish resulting in AWR approval.• Completed rapid response design, build, integrate as part of a decentralized and multi-agency team working with ever-changing requirements on an extremely aggressive schedule. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Team Leader and team member of multiple successful aircraft modifications of varying scope from individual system integration to new series designations.• Experience with multiple rotary wing and limited fixed wing aircraft while in this role.• Produced, contributed to or modified multiple technical data packages varying from preliminary/prototype up to and including production level.

Auburn, Alabama, United States

• Senior Enlisted Advisor to Detachment CDR• Responsible for all administrative functions, training & logistics• Counsel, train, mentor & supervise subordinate leaders and soldiers

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Infantry Platoon Sergeant in a Reconnaissance, Surveillance & Target Acquisition Company• Provided guidance and assistance to Platoon Leader• Train, mentor, counsel, supervise subordinate leaders• Responsible for administration, logistics, maintenance & security• Primary Weapons Instructor and Range OIC/Trainer• Performed a tour of duty in support of OIF/OND from January 2010 through January 2011.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Led 8-12 infantrymen in all aspects of preparation, training and conduct of operations.• Ensures technical and tactical proficiency of subordinate leaders and soldiers.• Directly responsible to platoon leadership for mission accomplishment and welfare of personnel.• Performed an OIF combat tour of duty from December 2002 through January 2004 as well as numerous stateside deployments for emergency response or natural disaster relief.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• First line, hands-on leader who hones each team member's individual skills and integrates them so that the team functions as a seamless whole.• Directly responsible for employment of organic fires, maneuver/emplacement of personnel and execution of battle drills• Constantly developing soldiers for positions of increasingly higher responsibility and leadership.

Panama City, Florida, United States

• Research and Development from Concept to working Prototype.• Shipborne and Airborne Systems, Autonomous and Towed Vehicles, Surface and Subsurface Craft

Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Served as a member of Ammunition Supply Section, Survey Section, Survey Section Chief, and Battery Commander's Driver. • Responsible for accountability, maintenance, repair and turn-in of equipment. • Deployed to the Former Yugoslavia from 12/95 through 05/96.