Kyle Petty
Vail,AZ
Summary
Seasoned aviation maintenance leader with over 20 years of U.S. Coast Guard experience, transitioning to a corporate role in aviation operations management. Proven expert in overseeing complex aircraft maintenance, ensuring 100% compliance with federal aviation standards, and managing vendor/stakeholder relationships to meet safety and quality targets. Seeking to apply a career's worth of experience in process improvement, quality assurance, and operational excellence to drive efficiency in a new challenge.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager, Aviation Maintenance
United States Coast Guard
Kapolei, Hawaii
07.2024 - Current
- Acts as a primary liaison between maintenance teams, senior leadership, and other operational departments, ensuring clear communication and proactive problem-solving to meet organizational goals.
- Ensures the compliance of maintenance and safety protocols across multiple aviation departments, enhancing quality assurance programs, and ensuring 100% compliance with federal and military aviation standards.
- Manages the career development for over 120 aviation technicians, including performance management, succession planning, and skills development to ensure a high-performing workforce.
- Acts as the primary Career Counselor for all transferring personnel; coached employees on career progression, identified special assignment opportunities, and served as an advocate for families with special needs, to ensure equitable and successful relocations.
- Developed and implemented over 20 standardized work processes and policies, enhancing quality and consistency in a multi-department operation, directly aligning with the need to manage performance and to set standards.
- Increased the productivity of the annual aircrew qualification rate by 23% by designing and implementing a new standardized procedure for integrating trainees into the daily flight schedule.
Maintenance & Avionics Manager
United States Coast Guard
San Francisco, California
07.2020 - 07.2024
- Responsible for performance assessment, work assignments, and recognition for a high-performing unit of over 75 aviation technicians, overseeing performance evaluations, career development, skills training, and conflict resolution to ensure maximum team cohesion and mission readiness.
- Developed and implemented a tracking system to enhance visibility into personnel and equipment readiness, demonstrating proficiency with maintenance tracking software and reporting systems.
- Managed and controlled a $250K inventory of specialized equipment and was responsible for sourcing all required parts and tooling, preventing operational delays.
- Established clear performance objectives for a 7-helicopter maintenance unit through comprehensive task analysis, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and enhancing operational readiness.
- Reviewed service instructions and safety policies to identify performance requirements, deficiencies, updates, and revisions with the Commanding Officer and Senior Enlisted Advisors.
- Routinely conducted public speaking engagements and presentations for senior organizational leadership, and a multitude of outside entities.
Aviation Maintenance Technician School Instructor
United States Coast Guard
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
07.2016 - 07.2020
- Delivered comprehensive initial training for every Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician, which included programs combining classroom instruction, hands-on practice, and simulation exercises.
- Developed curricula for all USCG aviation ratings to use both inside and outside classroom settings, PowerPoint course design, and class lectures.
- Tracked the educational training and development of the Aviation Maintenance Technician student body during a robust 20-week program.
- Selected to lead a deployed maintenance team in response to a natural disaster, directed a 7-member team through a high-pressure repair project, reducing standard completion time by 70% and returning a vital rescue helicopter to service.
- Worked closely with senior members of the USCG aviation to develop course material that matched the skills required by the Coast Guard to become an aviation technician.
- Crew/Maintenance Resource Management Instructor; skillfully conducted initial training on aviation hazard and risk management to all enlisted members of USGC aviation ensuring the safest methods are applied while conducting both maintenance and aircrew duties.
Aviation Maintenance Technician / Flight Examiner
United States Coast Guard
Los Angeles, California
07.2012 - 07.2016
- Supervised aviation duty crews, including crews assigned to U.S. presidential rotary wing air intercept missions, ensuring that various mission needs were met with standard crew and assets.
- Trained and prepared air station aviators for annual flight standardization checks, being recognized as the most outstanding unit in all facets of standardization in the Coast Guard in 2014.
- Lead shop training regarding supply tracking, aircraft maintenance logging, and personnel flight-required training to ensure those facets of a USCG air station were being conducted as efficiently as possible.
- Active member of the unit's Flight Examining Board; reviewed training, and performed in-flight evaluations of 70 flight mechanics and 28 pilots, both quarterly and semiannually.
- Member of the MH-65 Flight Safety Board, Enlisted Flight Examination Board, and Flight Instructor.
Misc. U.S. Coast Guard units:
United States Coast Guard
09.2003 - 07.2012
- 2009–2012, Coast Guard Air Station, Atlantic City, NJ.
- 2005-2009, Coast Guard Air Station, North Bend, OR.
- 2003–2005 Coast Guard Cutter Active.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Operations Management
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH10-2025
Skills
- Active Secret Security Clearance
- Talent management
- Operations management
- Project management
- Team leadership and coaching
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Employee relations
- Quality & Safety Compliance
- Performance evaluation
Certification
Project Management Professional candidate (expected March 2026)
Timeline
Senior Manager, Aviation Maintenance
United States Coast Guard
07.2024 - Current
Maintenance & Avionics Manager
United States Coast Guard
07.2020 - 07.2024
Aviation Maintenance Technician School Instructor
United States Coast Guard
07.2016 - 07.2020
Aviation Maintenance Technician / Flight Examiner
United States Coast Guard
07.2012 - 07.2016
Misc. U.S. Coast Guard units:
United States Coast Guard
09.2003 - 07.2012
Bachelor of Science - Operations Management
Southern New Hampshire University