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Minimum Pay: Negotiable per year

106 Rosewood Dr.
Guyton, Georgia 31312
Day #: (912) 225-1703
Willing To Relocate: Possible
Evening #: (912) 225-1703
Preferred: Georgia
Years Experience: 20+
Willing To Travel: 50% - 75%
Currently Employed: No
Updated: 1/20/2010
Objective:
Seeking employment as a Paint Operations Manager, Supervisor or Lead with compan
y that can offer opportunities for advancement and stability.
Experience:
Over 26 years of aircraft/aviation painting experience on missiles, military, ge
neral aviation, commercial and corporate aircraft. Principle strengths include s
trong paint troubleshooting skills with extensive involvement in procedural deve
lopment, testing and training. A supervisor with over 17 years of leadership exp
erience including, departmental/shop management, staffing, scheduling, budgeting
, evaluating, training and motivating personnel. Strong focus on safety, quality
and corrosion preventative processes as well as cosmetic aesthetics.
Strong motivator and trainer. Responsible for significantly reducing the volunta
ry employee turnover each consecutive year as Gulfstream Paint Operation Manager
. Belief in employees desire to be successful in their chosen career and in prov
iding an atmosphere of self worth and pride in workmanship.
Extensive involvement in procedural development, testing and training, to includ
e complete rewrite of Gulfstream Aerospace Quality Control Paint Traveler, paint
preparation section Gulfstream paint shop OJT training manual.
01/2009 to 01/2010
Dassault Falcon Jet
Wilmington, DE
Paint Supervisor - Responsible for supervising all paint shop activities, quotin
g and daily scheduling of paint work.
11/03 to 01/09
Savannah Air Center
Savannah, GA
Paint Supervisor - Responsible for all aspects of day to day operations in premi
er corporate aircraft painting shop including, but not limited to, scheduling an
d planning, crew assignments, personnel reviews, paint mixing and stripe layout,
shop safety, EPA compliance and VOC reporting. I am a very creative scheduler r
esponsible for making the impossible happen. Also very skilled stripe layout man
.
05/94 to 04/03
Gulfstream Aerospace
Savannah, GA
Paint Operations Manager - Managed Gulfstream's Savannah paint operations develo
ping paint processes and procedures, which resulted in attaining the industry le
ading status in corporate aircraft painting.
* Initiated process improvements reducing cycle time by 33% while improving over
all paint quality.
* Conducted extensive testing and evaluating of paint procedures and products to
resolve paint related problems and improve overall paint efficiency without sac
rificing cosmetic quality.
* Designed, developed and installed state of the art, explosion proof man lifts
in the Savannah paint hangars which were the first of their kind in the industry
and continue to be the only non-pneumatic explosion proof man lifts in the indu
stry.
* Executed all paint shop budgets at or below targets, including financial and h
eadcount. Maintained an overall rework at or below 5%.
* Met or exceeded all paint schedules, enabling Completion Operations to deliver
aircraft on schedule.
* Completely rewrote and continually updated Gulfstream's Quality Control Paint
Traveler, this document is the basis for all approved paint work on Gulstream GI
V and GV aircraft.
05/93 to 05/94
Aircraft Contract Painter
Various
Aircraft Painter - Performed all tasks included in the stripping, prepping and p
ainting of various types of aircraft, including advanced cruise missiles, commer
cial aircraft, general aviation aircraft and corporate aircraft. Responsible for
catching up and completing the painting project for the McDonnell Douglas Helic
opter Company's Advanced Cruise Missile project, resulting in on time project co
mpletion. Position required secret security clearance.
Model Exp:
F-111, A-10, Challenger-all models, Global Express, Lear 30 -60 series, Falcon,
Hawker, GI, GII, GIII, GIV, GV, G100, G200, G300, G400, G500, G550, Dash-8, B737
, L1011, B727, DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, MD-11, MD-80, GLCM - Ground Launch Cruise miss
ile, ACM - Advanced Cruise Missile + others
Education:
1984 - 1990
Community College of the Air Force
RAF Greenham, UK
Technical Metals Technology
Education:
1981 - 1983
Pima Community College
Tucson, AZ
Technical Metals Technology
Other Education:
Gulfstream Aerospace - Numerous management training.