Skilled aviation professional with 14 years of experience, seeking an opportunity with an established company.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS:
• Airframe and PowerPlant Certificate, Federal Aviation Administration (#3460654).
• Documented knowledge of manufacturing skills, basic shop skills, and usage of measuring tools, and safety/OSHA standards.
• Remarkable knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications.
• Strong ability to perform routine maintenance and assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional talent in reading and interpreting full range of blueprint drawings.
• Accomplished in operating self-propelled transporting equipment (forklifts, overhead cranes, marine lift).

RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Sheet Metal/Welding
• Converting blueprints into shop drawings for construction/assembly of sheet metal products.
• Development and layout of patterns to use materials most efficiently.
• Experienced with drill press/hole punch in metal, for screws, bolts, and rivets.
• Fabrication or alteration of parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, and drills.
• Fastening seams and joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, and bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
• Application of paint, stain, varnish, enamel, and other finishes to equipment, buildings, bridges, and/or other structures, using brushes, spray guns, or rollers.

Quality Inspection
• Aircraft systems expert; performed aircraft pre/post-flight, final visual inspections, non-scheduled aircraft maintenance, and maintained forms and records during mission flights.
• Maintained all electrical, communication, navigation, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems relating to aircraft systems by interpreting diagrams, schematics, and flight manuals.
• Computed/recorded aircraft performance and system status of engine fuel consumption using airspeed, atmospheric data, charts, computer, or electronic calculator.
• Resolved technical problems; communicated status adequacy of equipment and aircraft.

Mechanical
• Able to inspect individual parts, assemblies, and installations for conformance to specifications using instruments such as calipers, scales, and micrometers.
• Maintain repair logs, documenting all preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance
• Conduct routine and special inspections as required by regulations.
• Examine and inspect aircraft components, including landing gear, hydraulic systems, and de-icers to locate cracks, breaks, leaks, or other problem.
• Replace/repaired worn, defective/damaged components, using hand tools, gauges, testing equip.
• Inspect completed work to certify that maintenance meets standards and that aircraft are ready for operation.

WORK HISTORY:
2009-Present Operations Manager Amen Antenna
2007-2010 Cook/Dishwasher Home Town Buffet
2002-2007 General Labor/Warehouse Kansas Department of Corrections
1998-2002 Owner/Manager Flying Hammer Construction
1985-2000 Honorably Discharged Flight Engineer/Crew Chief United States Air Force

EDUCATION/CERTIFIED TRAINING:
August 2010 Wichita Area Technical College Airframe & Power Plant Certification
December 2007 Cowley Community College Manufacturing Skills & AeroStructures Technician