Chase Blackman

United States Coast Guard | 06/2006 – 07/2026 Flight

• Airstation Sacramento, CA (June 2021-2026) Chief of Maintenance, Airworthiness Release.
  
• Sector Humboldt Bay, CA (July,2016-2021) Day and Night shift Supervisor, Primary QA.
  
• Airstation Los Angeles, CA (June, 2011-2016) Shift Supervisor
  
• Airstation Humboldt Bay, CA (June, 2006-2011) Maintenance Technician
  
• Fleet Readiness: Directed enterprise-level maintenance planning, asset scheduling, and workforce allocation for a complex fixed-wing fleet, maximizing operational readiness for high-tempo flight missions.
• High-Tempo Execution: Managed operational execution across dynamic environments by synchronizing fleet maintenance, aircrew availability, and scheduled inspections to achieve long-term strategic objectives.
• Mission Planning: Coordinated workload prioritization and technical production supporting over 20,000 flight hours, 1,000+ training sorties, and hundreds of real-world operational deployments.
• Resource Optimization: Balanced competing operational demands, limited budgets, and personnel constraints to optimize multi-department resource utilization without sacrificing safety.
• Risk Mitigation: Spearheaded aviation safety programs, quality assurance protocols, and strict regulatory compliance initiatives to mitigate operational risk during critical flight operations.
• Risk-Based Decision Making: Applied rigorous risk-based decision-making frameworks to balance operational urgency, personnel safety, and long-term fleet sustainability.
• Strategic Advisement: Served as principal technical and operational advisor to command leadership regarding personnel management, aviation risk, fleet readiness, and safety culture.
• Check-Ride Evaluation: Served as Flight Examining Board Chair, acting as the principal evaluator certifying the technical proficiency, operational judgment, and safety compliance of flight personnel.
• SOP & Curriculum Development: Designed, authored, and updated standardized flight training curricula, qualification syllabi, lesson plans, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) adopted organization-wide.
• Talent Pipeline Management: Mentored and developed junior leaders, supervisors, and technical experts, establishing sustainable leadership and operational pipelines.
• Instructional Leadership: Selected as a primary instructor and examiner for half of a 20-year career based on outstanding technical expertise, standardizations enforcement, and dedication to regulatory compliance.
• Avionics & Systems Troubleshooting: Led complex, root-cause troubleshooting of advanced avionics, navigation, and electrical systems, drastically reducing asset downtime.
• Cost-Saving Maintenance: Identified innovative maintenance and engineering solutions that avoided unnecessary component replacement, saving millions of dollars in government logistics resources.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Built collaborative operational relationships across engineering commands, depot-level maintenance facilities, and external support organizations to resolve complex technical challenges.