Michael Benavides Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

United States

Highly motivated sales professional with 10+ years of commercial, retail and real estate sales team lead experience. Top ranked regional sales associate with an emphasis on customer service and doing things the right way. Focused on personal and professional growth.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• Uses tech manuals to troubleshoot, operate and maintain Armament systems Equipment
• Maintains training proficiency on vast equipment set, responds to equipment anomalies and conducts thorough repair cycle repairs
• Selected to build two new courses from the ground up, assisted in identifying employee training gaps, developed curriculum, implemented/taught new training course, briefed leadership of training results
• Sent off site on multiple occasions to teach/train new work centers on company policies, training management control and new employee training gaps identification

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Provides top level security and deterrence operations in the realm of executive protection and asset / site security.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• As Executive Protection Services Agent I am responsible for high profile client, covert and overt operations, high value asset protection and assisting security staff from multiple high profile businesses /casinos.
• Graduated/Received certificate for Protective Services Operator Course, September 2008
• Picked to serve as lead agent on high profile business client events; securing assets and performing investigative reconnaissance and threat analysis in covert and overt functions
• Versed in security site survey’s, threat assessment and prevention.
• Trained and fully practiced in covert and overt investigations and surveillance, data gathering, counter Intel, threat analysis

• I was selected to lead a diverse team of Aviation Maintenance Instructors. I was in charge of the full spectrum of training curriculum, employee schedules, training plan, customer needs analysis and total training.
• Interacting with an International customer/Military has further built upon my customer training needs analysis experience and given me a firm understanding in curriculum development for foreign customers. Most.
• I have an initial cadre of 19 instructors that I manage, thru analyzing customer course demands and projected student throughput I will be potentially growing my team to 60, this has furthered my experience in training.
• My current duties have also expanded my experience in curriculum development, working closely with students that have a limited English Language base as many have just graduated from the Defense Language Institute, I.

Misawa AB Japan

• As Detachment Chief, I led 28 instructors from different maintenance on and off equipment job specialties. While providing formal aircraft maintenance training for over 400 personnel annually. Oversaw 31 detachment.
• Solely in charge of Instructional Systems Design (ISD)/ADDIE process: curriculum development, final approval of all training materials and customer training needs analysis
• Continual contact with senior ranking leadership on all aspects of maintenance training and instructional methods of his cadre of instructors related to unit's mission. Provided detailed assessments to leadership with.
• Managed full course set for instructors, validated teaching proficiency and managed all instructor schedules, student attendance and annual course reviews requiring full spectrum of course reviews and incorporation of.
• Final approving authority for mobile training team mission, curriculum, length of stay and instructor personnel/students ratio. Mobilized 7 diverse teams to conduct training and meet geographically separated customers.

Nellis AFB Las Vegas NV Afotec Det 6

• Supervised/conducted operational test and evaluations on, F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP), F-22A and Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhanced (ATP SE) programs valued at $35 billion for Test and Evaluation.
• Performed multiple studies in supply chain management and Performance Based Logistics (PBL) to determine maintenance man hour per flight hour and mean time between parts failure analysis to dictate supply levels of.
• Duty demanded multi faceted leadership/multi tasking, and ability to identify priorities and areas of focus extract, analyze and disseminate pertinent information in a fast paced performance based environment.
• Tasked as the singular logistics point of contact on a 4.2 Billion Dollar acquisition project, using direct experience and knowledge in PBL authored a 30 yr Life Cycle management plan to define initial and sustainment.
• Diverse stakeholder and program organization required adept knowledge and leadership of all contributors and differing working relationships across a broad scale of Government employees Systems Program Office (SPO).
• Used proficiency in office products, word, power point and excel to author full Maintenance/Logistics report, encompassing two year test planning and subsequent test. Briefed results to the Defense Acquisition.

Nellis AFB NV

• As F-15 weapons expediter/lead technician I was responsible for being the singular focus for troubleshooting and repairing aircraft systems anomalies. Also served as expediter leading a shift of 22 assigned personnel.
• NCO in charge of Maintenance, responsible for tracking, inventory, storage, location and inspection of over 800 pieces of equipment and test equipment while collaborating workloads, schedules and parts and munitions.
• Further expanded vast weapons system knowledge to include Technical Order Data (TOD), common maintenance anomalies and unscheduled and scheduled maintenance

Nellis AFB Las Vegas NV

• Trained students in maintenance theory and hands on courses.
• Qualified for "Master Instructor" title for weapons SME and course development experience-fewer than 30% of Air Force instructors qualify for title.
• Pioneered courseware development, authored first F-22 courses, performed multiple rewrites and verification/validation on F-22 emerging technology courses.
• Appointed as lead training curriculum manager for Detachment, managed largest course load (138) in the 82nd training wing, duties included technical reviews, customer needs analysis and formal course reviews /updates.
• Conducted numerous in depth customer training needs analysis involving maintenance trends and platform performance. Verified validated and made appropriate changes to full spectrum of curriculum courses while adhering.
• Amassed over 3500 hrs. of Instructional time, teaching in both classroom and hands on environments

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• I was responsible for consumer electronics sales and my department achieving pre determined lofty corporate set sales goals. Thru effective leadership techniques I inspired my team of sales associates to provide.
• I Assisted store director with monitoring department performance and attaining daily/quarterly sales goals
• Responsible for off-site competitor “shops” to ensure company price point was fair and remained market competitive
• Monitored, enforced and participated in associate training and qualification on in depth product knowledge and how to properly convey that to the customer while maintaining top notch sales performance #1 in the.
• With continued, consistent top performance I was selected to participate in the store manager in training leadership/management program and continued to progress my retail management experience.

Instructor Of Military Science, Educational/Instructional Technology, 3.75

Protective Services Operator Course, Security, Law Enforcement And Related Executive Protection Services, Certificate Of Graduation

I was classroom and live scenario based trained in Executive Protection Operations. Security site survey's, threat analysis and risk.

Weapons/Armament Systems, Aviation Maintenance Technology/Technician

Occupational Instructor Certification, Curriculum Development And Instructional Design

Certificate: Protective Services Operator Course Psoc, Security And Loss Prevention Services

Industry leading training in executive protection, security, threat mitigation and deterence, counter intelligence and overall security.