Michael Stewart

Currently enrolled full time to obtain my bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Science with a minor in Aircraft Safety, as well as obtaining my A&P Certification through the FAA.

• Conducts classroom lecture and hands-on instruction, supervision and indoctrination of Active Duty, ANG, US Reserve and Royal Saudi Air Force students to facilitate learning of maintenance procedures at basic or advanced levels
• Studies course objectives, technical orders, and other materials to prepare for assigned days of instruction
• Evaluates students’ knowledge and performance progress
• Determines advancement to the next level of training
• Develops and revises lesson plans and training materials and serves as the subject matter expert in the development and revision of training materials such as study guides, workbooks, written tests, progress checks, etc
• Performs counseling of students on strengths, weaknesses, failures, and personal problems
• Recommends and initiates actions for proficiency advancement, wash-back and elimination from training
• Provides special assistance to marginal performers
• Input data into the Technical Training Management System (TTMS)
• Performs individual study and attends continuation training courses to maintain technical and instructional proficiency
• Reports on factors that impacted students’ welfare, safety, and morale
• Garnered over 7,000 teaching hours qualifying hundreds of United States Air Force and Royal Saudi Air Force trainees.

• Responsible for completing all conditional inspections, servicing tasks, and scheduled/unscheduled maintenance on T-38 aircraft at Sheppard Airforce Base, Texas
• Ensures aircraft forms are promptly and accurately documented and that the automated records are maintained accurately and with precision
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of aircraft schematics and operational systems
• Troubleshoots aircraft malfunctions and promptly coordinates repairs
• Performed ground movement operations of aircraft and demonstrated knowledge of correct airfield driving procedures/operations.

• Conducts classroom, lab and simulated flightline type of instruction, supervision, safety, and indoctrination of active duty, Air National Guard, US Reserve and Royal Saudi Air Force students to facilitate learning of aircraft maintenance procedures
• Evaluates students’ knowledge and performance progress
• Determines advancement to the next level of training
• Key involvement in the units’ specific projects such as the validation of new and revised F-15/F-16 and related course materials
• Conducts student counseling on strengths, weaknesses, failures, and personal problems
• Recommends and initiates actions for proficiency advancement, remedial study, wash-back and elimination from training
• Provides special individualized assistance to marginal performers
• Performs individual study and attends continuation training courses to maintain technical and instructional proficiency
• Reports on factors that impacted students’ welfare, safety, and morale
• Provided 1048 Technical Training hours qualifying 18 U.S
• And Royal Saudi Airforce trainees.

• Hand Selected by Squadron leadership to oversee the units Cannibalization Program
• Improved the quality of documentation, reduced the overage of aircraft nonflying status hours, improved the process of the program, and overall product, returning the respective aircraft to the maintenance unit
• Proposed and implemented an organization process, eliminating the loss of aircraft parts, missing documentation, parts not being ordered, and stopped all unapproved cannibalization actions
• This resulted in far less aircraft losing flying hours
• Coordinates, plans, tracks, and briefs Leadership on aircraft status, available of aircraft parts on hand, parts awaiting maintenance, location of requested items, parts on order/tracking location, and clearly support evidence on feasibility of a cannibalization requests to the aircraft maintenance units, lead production superintendents, aircraft inspection sections, supply personnel, and also to mission operation control on aircraft status
• Ensures aerospace equipment forms and maintenance information system documentation are accomplished accurately with precision
• Orders, tracks, installs, and operationally checks items that had been removed from the aircraft for cannibalization purposes
• Services and maintains sound operation of aircraft hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and environmental systems.

• Responsible for completing periodic and hourly post-flight inspections on 54 F-15C/D aircraft valued at $2.1B
• Services and maintains sound operation of aircraft hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and environmental systems
• Completes predetermined F-15 Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTOs), time change items and delayed discrepancies
• Ensures aerospace equipment forms and maintenance information system documentation are accomplished accurately with precision
• Proven leader and example among a shift of 20 peers and airman with the intent to instill the proper work ethic and values required for continued career success
• Strong desire to strive for an ever-growing knowledge of the F-15 aircraft, systems, theory of operation, and phase flow process
• Impeccable multi-tasking and managerial skillset undertook the task of Phase Dock Chief, Floor supervisor, aircraft maintainer, and trainer to all airman in the section
• Clear indication of desire for continued military growth and job knowledge, constant strive for understanding and implementing new requirements and processes made the phase flow seamless, cutting the aircraft down time by 20 percent, which substantially raised the sections effectiveness
• Sought additional training in other Air Force Specialties that were in high demand, which made the stressful environment into one of prosperity, highly trained and motivated airman, increased morale, and excellent aircraft turnaround rate
• Noticeable and lauded dedication to the military and excellence proven not only at Kadena AB, but also during one Middle East deployment in which the co-partnership with RAF Lakenheath provided the opportunity to continuously teach and be taught
• As result of expertise and ability to think rationally and quickly when there was no time for mistake, the partnership between Kadena AB and RAF Lakenheath rendered the opportunity to take charge and display through action and dedication a new and improved flow requirement and shift tasking which proved to increase productivity and quality of the aircraft that were being returned to their respective units
• This paved the way for current and future aircraft mechanics to strive for excellence, reliability, dependability, and trustworthiness.

• Manages and directs maintenance on a $25 million F-16 aircraft
• Maintains aircraft for no-notice worldwide operations
• Ensures aircraft status is accurately reflected in the aircraft forms as well as in the Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS)
• Performs servicing, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, prefight’s, thru-flights, post-flight, quick turn, end of runway and periodic phase inspections
• Accomplishes basic and alert aircraft launch, recovery procedures, component removal, replacement, and full operational checks of systems accurately and precisely to ensure aircraft is fully mission capable
• Remarkably motivated on all accounts, consistently showed the will and desire to further knowledge of aircraft systems, whether it was related to the crew chief’s job description and training criteria or not
• When the circumstance arose to learn/assist or trouble shoot any aircraft system malfunction that happened, the opportunity was always taken advantage of to gain further insight into aviation on all fronts in the efforts to be able to one day pass that acquired knowledge to later peers and subordinates
• Proven credible dedication and ability to go above and beyond in less than desirable work environments, during two Middle East deployments
• Volunteerism and genuine care for others’ wellbeing was essential, as indicated by the many volunteer hours given to the hospital critical care section while deployed to the Middle East.