Aviation Teacher - Corpus Christi ISD - Corpus Christi
(2025-07)
Lead a comprehensive high school aviation program combining UAS operations, FAA Part 107 preparation, aircraft construction, aviation safety, and STEM education. Manage hands-on flight and technical training while developing curriculum, aviation workforce initiatives, and partnerships with government, industry, and educational organizations. Expanded program capabilities through development of $400,000 in FAA Aviation Workforce Development grant proposals.
- Lead aviation and UAS instruction for 100+ students covering flight operations, airspace, weather, regulations, aeronautical decision-making, and operational risk management.
- Manage hands-on UAS flight operations, including mission planning, preflight procedures, airspace considerations, hazard identification, and standardized operating procedures.
- Develop aviation curriculum integrating FAA requirements, aviation technology, flight operations, safety, and real-world applications.
- Lead a Sonex aircraft construction program integrating aircraft systems, maintenance, engineering, quality control, and project coordination.
- Developed program requirements, equipment plans, budgets, implementation strategies, and supporting documentation for two $200,000 FAA workforce-development proposals.
- Coordinate initiatives with school leadership, aviation organizations, educational institutions, government entities, and industry partners.
- Evaluate and integrate UAS, flight simulation, aircraft construction, and other aviation technologies into workforce-development programs.
CHIEF AVIONICS ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN | AVIATION PROGRAM & OPERATIONS LEADERSHIP - United States Coast Guard
(2005-01 - 2025-11)
Completed nearly 21 years of U.S.
Coast
Guard aviation service with progressively increasing responsibility in aviation operations, program management, aircraft maintenance, quality assurance, flight standardization, training, safety, and personnel leadership. Retired as a Chief Petty Officer after serving in technical, supervisory, and senior enlisted leadership positions supporting search and rescue, hurricane response, environmental protection, national security, and high-visibility Presidential support missions. Coordinated personnel, aircraft, resources, technical requirements, operational priorities, and risk across complex federal aviation operations.
- Led aviation programs and operational activities involving personnel, aircraft, maintenance, training, safety, scheduling, resource allocation, regulatory requirements, and mission execution.
- Supervised more than 250 personnel executing over 200,000 maintenance labor hours while coordinating workforce requirements, operational priorities, aircraft availability, and mission readiness.
- Managed readiness, configuration, maintenance, and accountability for up to 11 MH-65 helicopters and associated aviation equipment representing more than $200 million in federal assets.
- Directed maintenance-control operations and authorized aircraft maintenance releases, balancing airworthiness, operational requirements, personnel, resources, scheduling, and mission risk.
- Led aviation quality-assurance and safety programs, conducting inspections, audits, discrepancy analysis, trend identification, corrective-action management, and regulatory-compliance activities.
- Served as an aviation technical subject-matter expert, analyzing complex aircraft discrepancies, technical information, operational requirements, and maintenance data to develop safe and effective courses of action.
- Coordinated aviation activities across aircrews, maintenance personnel, operations leadership, technical specialists, government organizations, and external stakeholders in support of operational requirements.
- Applied federal aviation procedures, technical publications, operational policy, risk-management principles, and regulatory requirements to complex aviation operations.
- INTERAGENCY AVIATION OPERATIONS — Supported Coast Guard aviation missions requiring coordination across military, federal, state, local, and emergency-response organizations, including national-security, Presidential-support, disaster-response, search-and-rescue, and environmental-response operations.
- AVIATION COMMUNICATIONS & INTEROPERABILITY — Developed an MH-65 800 MHz radio configuration supporting interoperability between Coast Guard aircraft and local emergency services during complex response operations.
- Executed more than 1,200 military flight hours across operational missions, supporting 71 search-and-rescue cases and contributing to approximately 65 lives saved or assisted.
- Led night-shift maintenance operations for nine aircraft, directing personnel and resources to maintain 100% aircraft availability during critical operational periods.
- Coordinated Coast Guard aviation support for major interagency and national-security operations, including the 2017 United Nations General Assembly.
- Executed aviation support for Presidential security operations involving two U.S. Presidents and provided aviation communications support for a Presidential inauguration.
