SHANE VANKEUREN
Wylie,USA
Summary
Professional leader with strong emphasis on team collaboration and results-driven management. Adept at overseeing operations, optimizing processes, and ensuring adherence to high standards. Reliable and adaptable, skilled in conflict resolution, strategic planning, and fostering productive work environment. Enthusiastic about driving performance and contributing to organizational success.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Maintenance Sr. Supervisor, Aircraft Modifications
L3-Harris Technologies
2025 - Current
- Senior Supervisor of maintenance control responsible for a team of 65 aircraft maintenance technicians performing major airframe, avionics, and ISR modifications across multiple military aircraft programs.
- Ensured all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities were executed on 8 DoD aircraft, including support of test flights, mission system checks, customer acceptance, and final delivery.
- Served as the primary customer interface, ensuring program milestones and daily production schedules were met on time and within budget, while identifying and escalating technical or operational risks.
- Providing recommendations to L3 and customer leadership in process improvement, engineering change requirements, technical publication changes and training program objectives.
- Provided strategic recommendations to L3 and customer leadership on process improvements, engineering change requirements, technical publication updates, and maintenance training objectives.
Security Manager / Contractor Program Security Officer (Special Access Programs)
Raytheon Technologies
- Security Manager responsible for the handling, processing and safeguarding of classified program information to support DoD strategic efforts. Managing assigned security resources to ensure program security objectives meet all security directives, instructions and customer guidance through scheduled and unscheduled auditing and review procedures. Conduct final review to ensure all deficiencies have been corrected.
- Manager of SAP security programs in support of highly classified DoD Special Access Program efforts. Ensuring implementation of local Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Operations Security (OPSEC) Plans and COMSEC procedures resulted in a 100% DoD compliant Special Access Programs graded "Outstanding" on the most recent 2023 DCSA inspection.
- Lead a team of 11 Special Accessed employees in the planning, development, and execution in standing up 3 additional SAP Facilities (SAPFs) from concept to full accreditation in minimal time.
- Manages all required NISPOM programs of personnel security, security education & training, physical security, incident reporting and handling, and security compliance.
Various Locations
United States Navy
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Provided the quality assurance and government oversight in the of day-to-day aircraft maintenance and flight operations conducted for Naval Test Wing, Pacific Region. Providing real-time status to the customer of essential information impacting the operational schedule, planned and unplanned maintenance actions and proposed courses of action in risk management.
- Oversaw the maintenance operations contract comprised of over 400 maintenance managers, leads and technicians providing test flight support across 8 naval aircraft platforms for Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) missions.
- Supervised and coordinated the contractor's auditing requirements to include scheduled, unscheduled and event driven audits on 42 programs, 15 work centers and 3 special qualification areas to ensure full compliance is maintained at all times.
- Led training events to ensure Government and maintenance Contractors are performing duties in accordance with the most current DoD, Federal and local regulations. Verification that all standard operating procedures are kept current as directed by higher authority issuances, messages and notices to aviation maintenance activities.
Maintenance Control Supervisor, Aviation Department
01.2013 - 01.2017
- Led, mentored, and trained over 350 personnel in skills training, equipment training, and operational readiness.
- Directed 46 employees in the 1st Navy led, $45M Radar Sensor System (RSS) radar modification of a P-8Boeing aircraft while implementing detailed instructions and manuals for future modifications; resulted insaving the Navy $18M in subcontracting costs.
- Executed production and logistics efforts of 180-member team in the completion of more than 65,000maintenance actions supporting the preparation of 15 aircraft for 3 war-time deployments.
- Designed an aircraft maintenance safety plan to prevention of mishaps, increased employee efficiency and stringent inspection requirements leading over 4,700 flight hours, 65 major maintenance evolutions with zero accidents and a 90% increase in mission ready aircraft.
Quality Assurance Manager
US Navy
01.2006 - 01.2010
- Inspected and maintained all aspects of inspections, training, administration, and certifications to ensure state and federal regulations were met.
- Initiated a team of 8 QA Evaluators who performed 570+ technical inspections encompassing correct aircraft maintenance and detailed program assessments to verify all components exceeded QA requirements, which led to the organizational award for safety professional achievement FY09 & FY10.
- Hand selected to organize a compliance inspection team; devised a program review strategy for 48inspection areas and 16 maintenance shops resulting in an organizational achievement of an "Outstanding"rating during a major command evaluation.
- Prepared and implemented departmental Safety Programs, including work practices, incident response and recourse management while monitoring new processes to ensure progress and consistently meeting time line milestones and budget goals.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Chapman University
01.2009
Skills
- Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Operating Systems: Mac / Microsoft Windows
- Training coordinator
- Willingness to travel
Certification
- AST - Advanced Service Technician
- Aircraft Maintenance Journeyman license
- Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt
Timeline
Various Locations
United States Navy
01.2017 - 01.2021
Maintenance Control Supervisor, Aviation Department
01.2013 - 01.2017
Quality Assurance Manager
US Navy
01.2006 - 01.2010
Security Manager / Contractor Program Security Officer (Special Access Programs)
Raytheon Technologies
Maintenance Sr. Supervisor, Aircraft Modifications
L3-Harris Technologies
2025 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Chapman University