Eric Walker Email & Phone Number

Phenix City, Al, Us

Petaluma, Ca, United States

• Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on 3 air vehicles flying 900+ hours per month.• Completed depot level maintenance and modifications on air vehicles, as well as secondary and tertiary equipment, maintaining continuous operations without interruptions due to maintenance.• Extensive experience installing, modifying, and maintaining various SIGINT payloads on the Jump 20.• Performed over 900 launches and landings of the Jump 20 UAV, all without incident due to manned error.

Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area

• Served as Training and Development Specialist II from 06/2018 to 05/21• Performs Aviation Unit Maintenance and Aviation intermediate Maintenance on Unmanned Aircraft Systems and subsystems assigned to support the Program of Instruction for the U.S. Army UAS Operator and Maintainer Course.• Instructed Initial Entry Training students how to properly identify, use, and store calibrated items including torque wrenches, multi-meters, dial calipers, airspeed testers, surface alignment tools, and digital inclinometers.• Perform alignment; repair; troubleshooting; adjustment; testing and modification of the UAS and associated ground support equipment.• Determine type and location of malfunctions and performs necessary repairs to correct the problem. Maintains, aligns and calibrates equipment in the integrated system.• Performs UAS daily; preflight; and post flight inspections to include UAS fueling and de-fueling.• Notes and records maintenance to be performed and evaluates operational readiness of the air vehicle and subsystems utilizing ACN networks.• Provide oversight for maintenance students during the launch and recovery phase of training.

Afghanistan

• Performed over 800 launch and recoveries, 10,000 maintenance man hours, and 7,000 technical inspector hours on RQ-7B (V1 and V2).• Responsible for managing over 100 calibrated items, coordinated scheduling for calibration, shipping and receiving, storage, and accountability of all said calibrated items in an austere environment. • Utilized TMDE daily during maintenance procedures to ensure all maintenance performed was in compliance with applicable Army Regulations, Policies, and Procedures in accordance with the applicable Technical Manuals.• Removed, replaced, adjusted malfunctioning engines, components or assemblies in accordance with manufacturer's manuals, service bulletins and technical field notices while using hand tools, precision measurement tools and power tools. • Coordinated inventory of aircraft, equipment and calibrated measurement tools monthly. • Responsible for reviewing, maintaining, and updating all UASI/ ACN computers to ensure accuracy and completeness of all maintenance.• Lead Technical Inspector responsible to select, train, test, and certify all junior technical inspectors.• Aided in the revision of presentation processes to training development and implement improved practices leading to increased situational awareness and efficiency • Supervised aircraft, aeronautical equipment and ground support equipment repairs and services as a Technical Inspector.• Managed and maintained 100% accountability of more than $70 million in ground support equipment without incident or loss.• Oversaw the company Safety program as the Safety Officer conducting weekly and monthly inspections.• Directed the daily task management and ongoing professional development of 10 employees impacting UAS operations

• Conducted Occupational Safety and Health Administration monthly inspections of aviation work areas, facilities, and flight lines.• Ensured compliance of personnel on safety of aircraft maintenance, equipment and procedures. • Developed training programs and operational procedures for standard aviation maintenance and inspection procedures.• Conducted initial training to new personnel, established HAZMAT, Foreign Object Damage and Tool Control programs. • Ensured all maintenance performed, faults discovered, flight records, and historical records were properly entered in the UASI network.• Conducted Launch and recovery operations of aircraft, assembly, emplacement, disassembly, displacement of Ground Control Stations and its support equipment. • Unit TMDE representative responsible for issuing, storage, tracking, and reporting of all calibrated tools in the unit. • Troubleshoot complex problems on the Ground Control Station, aircraft and its electrical components using calibrated test equipment including multi-meters, electronic test sets, programming test sets, and torque wrenches. • Maintained in excess of $35 million of aircraft, ground control equipment, ground support equipment and tools to ensure serviceability.