Senior Test Pilot
Oct 2012 to
Current
Airbus Helicopters Inc -
Grand Prairie,
Texas
Provide maintenance flight testing on new and customer owned Airbus aircraft. Travel to domestic and Canadian offsite locations to assist customers with maintenance flight testing. Provide training to customers in the area of maintenance flight procedures as well as Airbus initial and recurrent flight training. Provide flight demonstration to potential customers in support of sales and marketing.
Senior Instructor Pilot
Apr 2002 to
Oct 2012
American Eurocopter Corp. -
Grand Prairie,
Texas
Provide initial and recurrent flight training for American Eurocopter customers at the Grand Prairie facility. Traveled to offsite customer locations to provide initial as well as recurrent flight training. Provide aircraft demonstration flights in support of the sales and marketing department. Assisted new helicopter completions and the maintenance and repair department with maintenance flight testing.
Technical Representative
Jan 1992 to
Apr 2002
Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp. / American Eurocopter Corp. -
Grand Prairie,
Texas
Provide internal technical support to customers as well as regional technical representatives. Traveled to customer locations to assist with and resolve technical issues. Provided technical support to sales and marketing during demonstration flight tours.
Marketing Support Engineer
Aug 1997 to
Jan 2000
American Eurocopter Corp. -
Grand Prairie,
Texas
Provide aircraft performance analysis of Eurocopter aircraft compared to other helicopter manufacturers to support the sales and marketing department. Evaluated and estimated aircraft weight for new aircraft completions. Developed estimated direct operating cost to regional marketing managers for comparison to other aircraft manufacturers.