Phil Derner, C.M. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Riverside County, CA (home office)

• Leads advocacy efforts and member relationships in 7 western states for a national non-profit trade association that represents over 11,000 member businesses. Excels in communication, relationship building, and team.
• Maintains comprehensive awareness of all organizational departments and initiatives, ensuring full representation of the association's interests on the frontlines.
• Speaks regularly at conferences and conventions, delivering industry updates, legislative pitches, and motivational speeches to diverse audiences.
• Handles news media responses for regional and national industry challenges, legislative developments, and emergency events.
• Develops and maintains relationships with elected officials at local, state, and federal levels to advocate for the business aviation industry.
• Contributes to the drafting, development, and advocacy of local and state-level legislation.

Irvine, California

• Managing all aspects of JetSuite Inc. (FAR Part 135) and JetSuiteX (FAR Part 380) network operations, its teams, and company-related projects and initiatives.
• Commanded, supervised, and lead representatives from 6 departments in Mission Control on the live, day-to-day performance of their duties to maintain a safe, efficient, and successful daily operation.
• Interviewed, hired, developed, motivated, and retained highly effective crewmembers in Mission Control functions, continuously empowering talent to enable improved results and career growth.
• Led daily and weekly presentations to company management and executive team to review the operational status of the fleet and irregular operation recovery as well as threat analysis, while also providing advisories and.
• Built and maintained a cohesive and purposeful relationship with pilot and cabin crew groups, as well as other departments, to provide a widespread feeling of teamwork, understanding, and solidarity in driving the.
• Established metrics to measure on-time performance, completion factor, and decision-making values based on client disruption, client experience, schedule disruption costs, and departmental accountability and successes.

New York, NY

• Creator of top-rated airline news and consulting organization catering to the news media, aviation enthusiasts, and industry professionals worldwide.
• Managed team of 7 staffers and 45+ contributors, providing services that deliver news coverage, consulting services, and aviation enthusiast resources to the aviation industry, news outlets, enthusiasts, and traveling.
• Performed as an on-air analyst and subject matter expert in hundreds of annual appearances on a vast majority of local and national news outlets in the United States for news event coverage, industry analysis.
• Assisted local and national news outlets, digital publication, and television documentary production in sourcing ideas for content, fact-checking, and construction of coverage and segments.
• Coordinated team of editors, news writers, and bloggers who deliver content that both educates and entertains hundreds of thousands of people monthly.
• Provided contract writing, research, and industry material to clients in all forms: print, digital, and video.

Long Island City, NY

• Dispatcher providing flight planning and monitoring for major U.S. international airline.
• Collected, monitored, interpreted, disseminated, and applied weather and aeronautical information to the planning and conduct of each flight to ensure safety, legality, efficiency, and usefulness, in that order.
• Performed full flight plan preparation duties including the study of airport, airspace, and weather conditions to make decisions that pertain to routings, fuel loads, aircraft performance, crew legality, and more, to.
• Monitored airborne flights’ progress, up to 25 at one time, keeping flight crews abreast of constantly changing conditions such as route guidance during thunderstorm development, sudden runway/airport closures, or any.
• Provided support during inflight emergencies, including communication relay with medical personnel and emergency services, running emergency or mechanical checklists with flight crews, and guiding flights for possible.
• Authored materials such as significant sections of International Operations Manual, and educational articles in a Flight Operations newsletter.

Since 1977, WAHS has served the aviation community by sharing historic knowledge and enthusiasm with many, including the annual "Airliners International" convention that takes place each Summer in a different U.S. city, where thousands of aviation enthusiasts come to interact, learn and purchase aviation memorabilia.

JFK Intl Airport

• Headquarter-based operations member and traveling loadmaster for Department of Defense-contracted flights at ETOPS-rated military charter airline.
• Gathered, analyzed, and employed weather and aeronautical information for the safe planning and conduct of U.S military troop transport missions.
• Provided operational information to flight crews relating to ATC facilities, airfield serviceability, meteorological conditions, communications facilities, aircraft performance, operational data, to keep crews aware of.
• Coordinated with ATC facilities for transit through hostile nations.
• Liaised with the United States Air Force 618th Air Operations Center, through constant communication, on the behaviors and actions of all contracted U.S. military flight operations.
• Determined solutions for all aspects of operational issues system-wide in 72-hour scope, and coordinating their implementation with internal departments, contracted vendors, clients, and governmental agencies to.