John Wilkens Email & Phone Number

Operates Boeing 777 during worldwide operations. User-level experience with FMS, EGPWS, ETOPS, EFB, EFIS.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Usability and Operational test concepts, planning and execution. Focus on night vision, data link, aircraft lighting, situational awareness enhancements. Test management from concept to fielding/implementation. User in-the-loop testing design, integrated test team manager, test director, engineering design and integration engineering. Piloting, flight operations and airlift subject matter expert.

Honolulu, Hi

Develops training policy/plan that provides command guidance on training priorities, tasks, and responsibilities. Provides assistance to JCS exercise program managers on budget, comptroller guidance, reporting instructions, and deployment transportation planning.

Advisor to Iraqi AF, Iraqi Air Ops Center

--Lead planner for AF participation in Joint Korean Exercises, Homeland Defense Exercises, Red Flag Alaska. Provides command-wide guidance on budget, planning milestones, deployment transportation plan, comptroller guidance, reporting instructions. Develops resource allocation plan/budget, allocates resources.--Combined Air Ops Center Experience: Senior Offensive Duty Officer Experience for Ops w/in southwest Asia.

Managed 8 instructors/12 US and foreign instructor candidates during USAF T-37 transition and instructor upgrade course (Pilot Instructor Training). Focus on aircraft transition and qualification training, instructor upgrade for basic flying (contact), instrument flying, low-level navigation, aerobatics and formation flying.

AF pilot flying world-wide missions in C-130/MC130H. T-37 instructor pilot, instructing US and foreign military students on basics of flying (contact), instrument flying, low-level navigation, aerobatics and formation flying. Flight safety program manager, aviation safety and mishap investigator. Crew resource management expert.

Bs, Physics

Grad Cert, Financial Management

Mas, Aeronautical Science