Hal Schmitt Email & Phone Number

California

F-35 Contract Instructor Pilot

California

Training, Tactics, Weapons, and LVC

Templeton, Ca

Winemaker / Owner at Volatus Wine, a micro-boutique, Paso Robles based winery crafting 1,300 cases each vintage.

Worldwide

Lead instructor at LIGHT Photographic Workshops, a California based photography and digital imaging training group. Leads photo tours worldwide although specializing in Alaska, instructs medium and large groups at conventions/festivals, and offers personalized individual instruction to motivated photographers, Photoshop users, and digital printers.

Vacaville, Ca

Los Osos, Ca

Coordinate and manage all aspects of operating a high-end digital photography and digital imaging school.Generated gross sales increase from $120,000/year to over $500,000/year in the first nine months of business control.

Identified and evaluated critical components of flight execution; authored new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) to prevent hardware and personnel loss; directed a 20 person and six month tactical development and evaluation resulting in implementation of the TTP.Orchestrated worldwide efforts to disseminate mission essential information; delivered highly effective instruction to over 600 aircrew.Conducted situation, strategic, and tactical analysis to assess viability of future operations; communicated expert analysis and opinion to major staff, planning, and operational organizations resulting in adoption of new contingency plans and training.2002-2004 STRIKE FIGHTER SQUADRON FOURTEEN (VFA-14

Delivered seventeen hours of classroom instruction and over 200 man hours of brief, flight, and debrief per eight-week class; trained and qualified over sixty-five Strike Fighter Tactics Instructors; sufficient to staff all squadrons for three years.Directed a 30 person staff analysis of unit training efficiency; resulted in a new course structure increasing production by 15% while reducing fleet support requirements by over 200 personnel a year.

Managed and efficiently scheduled over 20 squadron officers and 12 $50M aircraft for all training and combat operations; resulted in the highest training evaluation scores in over five years and a 98% sortie completion rate.Led and motivated a multi-cultural, economically and educationally stratified group of over 35 junior enlisted personnel; resulted in the division meeting all maintenance requirements without accident or injury for over seven months.

Education record

Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Graduate

Bachelor Of Arts, Russian