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Alexandria, La, United States

Alexandria, Louisiana Area

Ball Louisiana

Administer long-term project development, leading to best civil plan for the citizens of the Town of Ball. This included the Rapides Parish Belt-Way project.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Superintendent for the Business Transformation Office of a successful organization (42,000 people) in the United States Air Force at a corporate Headquarters. Facilitates Strategic Alignment and Deployment (SA&D) through Strategic Planning, Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), Project Management, and facilitates Change Management. Applies Lean, 6-Sigma, Business Process Reengineering and Theory of Constraints to solve complex organization issues. Analyzes improvement strategies and results (headquarters to operations) to provide decision-quality information in order to achieve organization’s requirements.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Performed instruction to 252 people in Lean classes increasing Quality capability >20%. Led a performance review and improvement strategy workshop for the Chief Operations Officer. Facilitated a cross-functional matrix organization’s operations exercise integration; led to operation instructions (Standard Work) and revolving 15-month calendar. Led Fair Share Rapid Improvement Event with 2 organizations; 43 position requirements eliminated. Facilitated and completed 16 of 22 organizational Objective Strategy Reviews. Led a cross-functional production capability improvement event; slashed aircraft down time by 504 hours per year.Managed organization’s Chief Executive Officers Lean Training and Black Belt, Green Belt and Yellow Belt Certification processes.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Orchestrated generation of 10 Presidential support missions, and 12 Operation Pacific Wave missions in less than 72 hours for Tsunami relief in American Samoa; 980,000 pounds of supplies and equipment delivered. Responsible for overall Maintenance direction of 203 active duty, civilian, and Hawaii Air National Guard technicians. Led and managed production efforts supporting worldwide airlift and sustainment of nine C-17 aircraft, valued at $1.8B. Reached new heights for organization by reducing delayed discrepancies 15% and delivered best maintenance indicators in 2 years. Led the delivery of 5 Operation Unified Response missions in support of Joint Task Force Haiti, after a devastating earthquake, delivering 132,000 pounds of relief cargo.

Raf Mildenhall, United Kingdom

Directly affected 11 deployments for Operation Enduring Freedom-TRANS SAHARA. Prepared aircraft to respond to Russian and Georgian conflict; launched aircraft in only 4 hours to meet real-world Special Operation Forces alert mission. Led review of fleet wide barrel-nut product improvement; changed new technology for whole community. Managed the quality assurance of aircraft maintenance with 273 technicians in 16 different career fields on 8 MC-130 aircraft. Oversaw the fleet’s aircraft Weight and Balance program, to verify the tracking and publishing of accurate data ensuring safety of flight. Liaison for all aircraft mishaps, providing analysis and technical advisement for the group safety office. Effort drove a 47% reduction in unit reportable safety mishaps. Administered an operational readiness exercise Control Center, issued 49 battle staff directives and provided key capability feedback to the on-scene Commander. Prepared aircraft for at-sea rescue mission off the Ireland coast enabling a crucial helicopter in-flight refuel that ultimately saved a life. Administered digital technical document setup, mitigating a two-year-long problem between 3 agencies.

Raf Mildenhall, United Kingdom

Supervised urgent repair of 3 helicopter infrared receivers for military operations in Beirut, Lebanon. Oversaw repair of a NASA aircraft conducting cosmic dust research in the United Kingdom. Reversed 33% drop in quality rates, achieving 100% pass rate on next 52 evaluations. Administered Customer College program in Keflavik, Iceland, training 94% of personnel. Directed maintenance for Danish aircraft; allowing North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medical evacuation mission. Rallied team to fix a United States Aircraft in only 45 minutes and performed alert against Russian Bomber Aircraft. Directed repair for Air National Guard aircraft, enabling critical Global War On Terrorism redeployment. Oversaw aircraft maintenance for critical Operations Iraqi Freedom mission and completed work in only 72 hours.

Arizona, Panama, Japan, Iceland

Global experience; flawlessly managed tanker aircraft maintenance as part of the Iceland Defense Force and performed maintenance enabling aircraft to complete a joint service exercise in Australia. Managed convergence of 21 people from 3 diverse functional backgrounds into a cohesive team. Handpicked for aircraft maintenance evaluation team to conduct an inspection in South Korea. Directly influenced organization’s success by providing vital logistical support and technical research during trip to Guam USA. Handpicked to manage Hillary Clinton’s aircraft during a visit to Panama, Central America. Selected as Lead for specialty, because of knowledge and professionalism. Efforts ensured 100% aircraft reliability rate used for restoring freedom of the American Embassy in Peru. Saved over 330,000 dollars after selection to represent the specialist unit in Two-Level Maintenance. Diverse background led to assignment as a security police deputy. Selected to cross-functional train, enabling the unit to generate over 4000 flights during worst manning shortages.

Master Of Aeronautical Science, Management

Researched Turbo Fan Engine Maintennace and Corrosion

Certification, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt) 2011, Process Quality

Bs, Professional Aeronautics

Graduated with honors.