Mark Pardue Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Florida, United States

United States

- Certified FAA Master Rigger on back and chest style parachutes.- 19.5 years’ experience assembling, inspecting, packing, and repairing Special Operation Vector, Sigma Tandem, RA-1, Butler Military Tethered Tandem Bundle, Javelin, Infiniti, MC1-1D, MC-6, MIRPS, T-11R, T-11R SP, T-10C, G-12, G-11, 15ft Extraction Chute, J-1 Spotter parachute systems, and ACES II.- 19.5 years’ experience inspecting, maintaining, and instructing personal oxygen systems which include PHANTOM oxygen masks, 10-Man pre-breather, and PHANTOM oxygen cylinder. - Build and assemble aerial delivery packages for global Pararescue operations and NASA human space flight mission.

United States

- Coordinate project requirements between leadership and team members by scheduling meetings, clear communication, and documentation.- Conduct meetings to establish projected milestones.- Establish deadlines and communicate to key personnel.- Oversee technical data management, quality assurance/control, and government purchasing.- Manage new equipment transition programs.- Scheduling staffing, supplies, and current operations to establish milestones to meet deadlines.- Ensure all requirements are met with documentation through software program databases.- Review purchase orders, perform logistics planning, and make government purchases to meet project milestones.

Various Locations

-Planned, developed, and implemented quality assurance management systems for a 4.5 million-dollar Pararescue parachute program.- Developed and implemented quality control processes for five hundred plus parachute systems ensuring all technical guidelines meet requirements.- Interfaced with clients and suppliers to analyze and audit various processes and procedures.- Identified process improvements and weekly Air Force maintenance guideline updates.- Engaged in collaboration with clients to ensure that equipment specifications and standards are fulfilled in support of global Pararescue operations.- Briefed quality assurance reports to leadership identifying discrepancies and corrective measures for continuous improvement.

Various Locations

- Maintain and validate logbook/digital records used by employees.- Take inventory of composite tool kits daily.- Record damaged, missing, broken, or required calibration for tools in software programs.- Create purchase requests for tool calibration, measuring devices, machine fixtures for oxygen equipment and parachute systems.- Establish composite tool kits for global aeronautical operations and Pararescue operations.- Clean, oil, and perform minor repairs on tools weekly.- Ensure measuring devices are calibrated periodically as required by manufacturer instructions.- Organize and track spare tool kit inventory and consumable items.

Patrick Afb, Florida, United States

- 19.5 years’ inspecting and maintaining oxygen breathing equipment, cylinders, pre-breathing consoles, harnesses, and self-locking hardware.- Maintained industrial hygiene operation for 300,000 square foot complex.- Conduct inspections to find root causes for safety incident reports.- Perform audits of squadron safety program.- Update material safety data sheets for hazardous materials.- Conduct weekly and monthly spot inspections.- Identify and correct safety violations.- Brief monthly safety brief to 150 personnel and leadership notifying any findings and corrections to improve workplace safety.- Report incidents or near misses for OSHA 300 recordkeeping.- Conduct initial training for job safety standards and PPE requirements to new personnel and contractors.- Review section safety documentation and training records for accuracy and interval training requirements.- Maintain workplace safety bulletin boards with required OSHA documentation.- Certified in CPR, First Aid, and AED usage.

Florida, United States

- Designed, fabricated, and rigged aerial delivery packages to meet dimension requirements for aerial delivery operations.- Developed a parachute inspection tracking system for thirty parachute systems and three aerial delivery packages. - Assembled, inspected, repacked thirty parachute systems and three aerial delivery packages in support of the Human Space Flight Program.