Lenny Alava

Director of Aviation Dept.: Managed aircraft's day to day operations, cost, charter sales, and liaison between operation's and the Chief Financial Officer.

Chief Pilot Duties: for Domestic and International flight operations under Part 91/ 135 for Blumenfeld Development Group's Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft for the last 13 years, crew scheduling, assignments, manage owner approvals, cost

structures/expenditures and profit and loss analysis reports, charter sales, broker, maintenance oversight and day to day operations/logistics between ownership and management company. Farmingdale and Islip airport based.

• Successfully worked in Charter sales and promoted fleet of private jets based in Farmingdale and Islip, NY.
• Responsible for quoting, customer servicing, and the scheduling of private jets.
• Brokered out private jets when the fleet aircraft were not available.
• Strengthened company's business by building a strong client base.

Conduct Part 91/ 135 Domestic and International flight operations on an Embraer Legacy 600 (SN- 1034 ). Manage day to day operations, scheduling of flight crew, crew assingments on Legacy 600 for Blumenfeld Development Group, Ltd. Syosset, NY

Farmingdale and Islip airport based.

Vice President of Operations, Chief Pilot, and International Gulfstream Captain; set up all vendor contracts and agreements, liaison between accounting and operations department for PNL, budget and expense reporting, conducted worldwide operations as a Gulfstream IV, Embraer Legacy, Hawker 4000 and Hawker 800 Captain for over 10 years with the company.

Chief Pilot Duties included scheduling/conducting Part 135 flight department training activities, management, hiring and oversight of over 80 company pilots and flight attendants.

• Applied excellent problem-solving, process development and strategic implementation skills to lead and support all areas of operations.
• Established and administered annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives. Farmingdale based.

Conducted PIC Duties on a Hawker 800 under Part 91/135 Domestic and International flight operations. Bermuda and Farmingdale based operation.

Conducted PIC Duties on Hawker 800 under Part 91/135 Domestic and International flight operations. Aircraft owner changed management company to Executive Jet Management (Teterboro) in 2004 during job transition. Bermuda and Farmingdale based operation.

Conducted PIC Duties on Hawker 800XP's for Atlantic aviation and Verizon Telecommunications Corp. under Part 91/135 Domestic and International flight operations. Teterboro based.

Conducted SIC/ PIC Duties on Hawker 800 under Part 91/135 Domestic and International flight operations. Majority of flying was between NY and Europe under Part 91 operations. Farmingdale based.

Conducted PIC Duties on Cessna 421, C414 and Beech Baron 55 and 58 under Part 91 Domestic flight operations. Transported President, Vice President and architects to various job sites throughout the east coast.

Accounting assistant

• Required to travel to office in NYC to assist accounting department during non flying days with reconciling.
• Reconciled all company accounts, including credit cards, employee expenses and commissions.

Performed all necessary flight instructor duties for Multi Engine, Instrument, and Single Engine Land Ratings under Part 141 flight instruction curriculum.