John Thornton, Asa Email & Phone Number

Lee's Summit, MO, US

Shawnee, KS

- Builds and maintains relationships with aircraft broker/dealers, financiers, tax authorities, manufacturers and other organizational sources to update and expand our database of aircraft valuation resources.- Partners with the product team during the formulation, testing/validation and creation of predictive models and reporting tool product offerings..

Overland Park, KS

• Manage several project for the United States Airforce with values over $40 Million.
• Oversee financial management and administrative activities, such as budgeting, financial reporting, and manpower and resource planning.
• Coordinated with departmental heads to streamline processes and make improvements in tracking costs and reporting income.
• Develop and enforce work standards, provides quality assurance and configuration management, review work quality, assign subcontractor schedules, and communicate goals, objectives, and policies of the organization to.
• Ensure achievement of the contractual and financial objectives on all assigned programs.
• Coordinate activities with all sub-contractors, vendors and suppliers to improve spending strategies to reduce cost.

Broomfield, CO

• Plan, organized and managed the work of flight operations staff to ensure that the work was accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
• Collaborated with other managers and staff members to formulate and implement policies, procedures, goals, or objectives.
• Directed daily activities related to dispatching, crew assignments and tracking fleet aircraft in compliance with FAA Regulations.

Englewood, CO

• Supervise and manage operations team of nine employees, including scheduling, training and development maintenance documentation.
• Maintain ISO (International Standard Organization) compliance including improvement opportunities and documentation maintenance.
• Develop reports for executive team on operation’s projects and goals.
• Review and analyze expenditures, financial, and operations reports to determine needs for budgets, expansion of existing schedules, or expansions of projects.
• Provide support for all field operations, including traveling to international projects as needed.
• Designated ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) representative for company compliance and representative to United States State Department.

Englewood, CO

• Developed and maintained the tactical flight planning department with three employees.
• Ensure efficient and effective mission / flight plans were produced on a daily basis.
• Extensive weather planning and forecasting for operational efficiency.
• Coordinated with local and foreign Air Traffic Control authorities to ensure smooth operations within their area.
• Assisted in selection of aircraft Base of Operations when moving to new acquisition areas.

Englewood, CO

• Maintained daily flight schedules and crew schedule in compliance with FAA regulations.
• Participating member of company safety committee overseeing all safety regulations.
• Coordinated logistics for all flight crew and customers, including overseeing costs and invoicing.
• Dispatched Flight for Life Air medical fixed wing flights on a daily basis.

Wichita, KS

• Supervised and trained company operations personnel.
• Departmental budgets and costs.
• Maintained daily flight schedules in accordance to FAR 135 & 91 operations.
• Coordinated with maintenance concerning the availability and dispatch ability of aircraft.
• Monitored daily report to comply with FAA regulations.
• Six Sigma Specialist

Wichita, KS

• Maintained budgets and effectively cut cost by negotiating vendor contracts.
• Oversaw applications for all international permits.
• Supervise and train employees.
• Successfully negotiated International handling fees in order to cut cost up to 15%.
• Generated daily report for executive team on the international operations of aircraft and crews.
• Coordinated paperwork for all international flight crews.

Certificate Of Completion, Machinery And Technical Specialties - Aircraft Appraisal Program

Bs, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business

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