Jason Figley
Coraopolis,PA
Summary
Results-driven professional prepared to lead and inspire teams towards achieving organizational goals and visions. Extensive experience in developing and executing strategic initiatives that drive growth and operational excellence. Strong focus on team collaboration and goal achievement, adaptable to changing business needs. Skilled in strategic planning and financial management.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
171 Maintenance Group Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
Coraopolis, PA, USA
04.2020 - Current
- Commander of the largest ANG KC-135 MX Group, responsible for the mentorship, administration, management, and supervision of 386 personnel across 12 AFSCs, ensuring the operational readiness of 16 KC-135 aircraft and $912M in equipment. Led with a focus on providing safe, reliable aircraft and personnel to meet worldwide mobility taskings, enforcing high maintenance discipline standards.
- Additionally, served as Chair of the ANG KC135 MX Council for over 2 years, coordinating with 18 Wings across the country to amplify the maintenance perspective and drive improvements in KC-135 effectiveness and readiness.
- Understands and is familiar with financial management/working capital funds, supply chain management, depot maintenance/workload/sustainment, PPBES/programming, life cycle logistics, joint logistics planning, and nuclear enterprise logistics.
- Reviews logistics requirements for specific objectives and priorities of command mission. Directs preparation of plans for logistics support of tactical, strategic, and defense missions. Plans, directs, monitors, and establishes logistics programs, policies and procedures including aircraft and munitions maintenance, supply, transportation, and procurement.
- Monitors logistics activities, analyzes logistics requirements and estimates capabilities of organization to accomplish assigned missions. Directs operation of maintenance and supply organizations.
- Coordinates logistics programs, advises commanders on status of logistics programs and ability to meet current and projected requirements. Coordinates with civil engineering personnel, operations directors, and comptrollers in preparation of master command plan and in outlining areas of responsibility to avoid duplication of functions.
USAF (PA ANG) KC-135 R/T Aircraft Commander (Instructor 2016)
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
Coraopolis, PA, USA
12.2003 - Current
- As a pilot, able to maintain composure and multitask under pressure of time, complex mission requirements, and safety of lives making immediate, but correct decisions to mitigate risk, complete the mission, and keep crew members and a $57 million aircraft safe to execute their assigned mission.
Manager of Gas and Pipeline Control/Manager of NE SCADA and Communications
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
Southpointe, PA, USA
07.2015 - 06.2024
- Led a team of controllers responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the Markwest pipeline, compression, and processing systems in the Northeast. Performs all work in compliance with company standards, procedures, and governmental (PHMSA 192/195) requirements.
- Manage a team of contractors, integrators, and I/E technicians to implement, maintain, and standardize the Markwest SCADA system. This includes remote operation and monitoring of the system, measurement, and field technologies, communications, programming, and leak detection.
- Managed and directed the creation of a new primary control center and hot-backup control center along with a new SCADA system (hardware and software) for gas and liquids in accordance with federal, state, and corporate regulations and policies.
- Created and maintained training for the controllers to stay operationally qualified on systems.
- Prepared, updated, and implemented corporate control room management for federal audits.
- Constantly monitored and analyzed logistic programs and activities to meet customer gas nominations.
- Created and executed the control room and communication budget of over $2MM to keep assets trained, updated, effective, and operating to meet the company's needs.
171 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Commander/Communication Flight Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
Coraopolis, PA, USA
04.2017 - 04.2020
- Directs the planning and scheduling of aircraft maintenance for 16 KC-135T model aircraft, at a value of approximately $912MM. Makes command decisions based on the status of logistics programs and functional capabilities to support current and projected operational training and mission requirements totaling 5000-7000 flight hours annually.
- Enforces controls, policies, and maintenance discipline to follow regulations and T.O. data ensuring safe and mission capable aircraft while making safety and training a number one priority. Leads the maintenance efforts of the Air National Guard's largest tanker Wing accomplishing over 1000 sorties and offloading 10MM pounds of fuel to numerous NATO and US aircraft.
- Budgets money and manpower for the squadron to execute the Wing's missions. Takes great pride in mentoring at all levels of command, supervision, and followers while balancing followership and servant leadership.
- Provided communication and IT leadership while tasked as the acting communications flight commander and the AMXS commander. Solved years' worth of ongoing personnel and equipment issues in Comm, to the sum of $386,000 dollars with unfunded requests to the National Guard Bureau in the short two years while in command. Made customer service a number one priority in Comm, solving a deficit of time compliance network orders that could have shut down the base NIPR and SIPR networks; Also, rectified a 2 ½ year backlog of base trouble tickets making all IT functions of the base more efficient.
- Constantly keeps command abreast of squadron and group situation with regards to personnel, training, equipment, aircraft, and mission capability. Recommends a corrective course of action while providing multiple paths for success within resource limitations.
171st Air Refueling Wing Executive Officer to the Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
Coraopolis, PA, USA
03.2015 - 07.2015
- Served as chief liaison to the Wing Commander regarding combat readiness and health and welfare of the Wing.
- Managed, supervised and coordinated activities of 171st ARW Command Section staff ensuring proper development, implementation and execution of policy and programs.
- Established procedures for execution of command decisions and ensures that HQ policies are staffed, documented, and implemented.
- Prepared executive correspondence, identifies discrepancies, ensures corrections and reviews staff documents prepared for the Commander's to ensure compliance with established procedures.
- Performed executive duties augmenting Vice Commander's role, managing Headquarters' personnel, financial, and administrative issues for Wing Command Post, Finance, Safety, Chaplains, Public Affairs and Military Equal Opportunity Office.
Senior Communications Specialist
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
Houston, PA, USA
11.2013 - 07.2015
- SCADA system implementation, integration, operation, support and maintenance that includes data analysis, screen development, database updates, point to point checkout and documentation.
- Updating and maintaining polling engines and SCADA screens to support on-going operations. Not only measurement data but communication infrastructure and circuit reliability data.
- Understand and accurately map all existing and new data registers associated with any existing or new RTU, including interpreting application-level packet data.
- Lead team efforts to configure, test and support a proprietary software package for a Leak Detection system.
- Work with field technicians, analysts, and engineers to solve problems related to instrumentation, RTU's, PLC's, computers, human machine interface, communication equipment, and software related to the IT/SCADA system.
- Excellent at identifying, analyzing and implementing process improvement opportunities.
- Comply with PHMSA 192 and 195 DOT Regulatory requirements.
- Assist with measurement equipment (totalflow, GC, ROC800), CFX creation, and data gathering for local and corporate measurement department.
IT Field Network Administrator
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
Southpointe, PA, USA
03.2012 - 11.2013
- Provided local IT support for Markwest Liberty (PA, WV) and Utica (OH) locations, resolving complex network/server/client related communication issues. Served as liaison between Markwest field staff and tier 3 IT support and IT Management.
- Identified and resolved user problems and concerns associated with all IT hardware and software. Served as 2nd level support for Service Desk requests/incidents with emphasis on medium to difficult issues. Helped create and maintain network documentation and diagrams for all responsible locations and served as an escalation and knowledge point for the other Service Desk/IT personnel.
Education
Industrial Robots - Funuc, Cobotics, and Industrial Device Control with PLCs
Robert Morris University
Moon Twp, PA11-2024
SDE - Air War College
USAF Air University (AETC)
Maxwell AFB, AL06-2021
Master of Military Operational Art and Science - concentration in Joint Warfare JPME I
USAF Air University (AETC)
Maxwell AFB, AL10-2019
Bachelor of Science - in Human Resources
Geneva College
Beaver Falls, PA04-2002
Studies in Aviation Management - undefined
CC of Beaver County
Monaca, PA12-1999
Studies in Management Sciences and Information Systems - MSIS
Penn State University
State College, PA12-1997
Skills
- Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- KC135 Instructor Pilot: Commercial Instrument single/multi-engine
- Lean Six Sigma - Yellow/Green Belt
- Certified Fiber Technician
- Certified CompTIA Network
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Radio, Cellular, Satellite, RS232/485, and Microwave technologies
- PLC: ROC800/107
- ClearSCADA
- MS Server, Operating Systems, SCCM, Exchange, and Office
- Cisco switch/router administration
- Nortel switch/router administration
- Secure wireless LANs,
- Antivirus, Proxy, Firewall, Virtual servers
- Host Intrusion Detection/Prevention
- Robotics, Hydraulics, and Pneumatic Certifications
Timeline
171 Maintenance Group Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
04.2020 - Current
171 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Commander/Communication Flight Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
04.2017 - 04.2020
Manager of Gas and Pipeline Control/Manager of NE SCADA and Communications
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
07.2015 - 06.2024
171st Air Refueling Wing Executive Officer to the Commander
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
03.2015 - 07.2015
Senior Communications Specialist
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
11.2013 - 07.2015
IT Field Network Administrator
Markwest Energy Partners L.P.
03.2012 - 11.2013
USAF (PA ANG) KC-135 R/T Aircraft Commander (Instructor 2016)
171st ARW - PA Air National Guard
12.2003 - Current
SDE - Air War College
USAF Air University (AETC)
Master of Military Operational Art and Science - concentration in Joint Warfare JPME I
USAF Air University (AETC)
Bachelor of Science - in Human Resources
Geneva College
Studies in Aviation Management - undefined
CC of Beaver County
Studies in Management Sciences and Information Systems - MSIS
Penn State University
Industrial Robots - Funuc, Cobotics, and Industrial Device Control with PLCs
Robert Morris University