Zackary Michael-Dell Wohlart
Pleasant lake,Michigan
Summary
With experience as a school director at a local flight school, I have gained valuable knowledge and expertise in overseeing and collaborating with various departments. My career goal of becoming an airline pilot shifted due to multiple back surgeries, but it opened doors for me to explore new opportunities and learn from different experiences. Alongside my day job, I also run my own small business. What started as washing planes twice a month has now expanded to include cleaning cars, jets, yachts, remodeling residential housing, and more. This journey has allowed me to fly on my own terms and for enjoyment. Working in operations has honed my skills in effectively managing multiple variables and consistently achieving positive results. With problem-solving abilities and a commitment to your goals and vision, I am confident in the valuable contributions I can bring to your business or team.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
School Director
Flight School Jackson
12.2024 - Current
- Operational Leadership
- Manage daily operations to ensure smooth, efficient, and effective delivery of flight training courses
- Coordinate flight schedules, classroom sessions, and simulator time to optimize resource use
- Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure all operations meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other relevant aviation regulatory requirements
- Oversee the maintenance of records for compliance audits, including student progress, instructor certifications, and aircraft airworthiness
- Staff Supervision
- Recruit, train, and manage a team of flight instructors, administrative personnel, and maintenance staff
- Conduct performance reviews, provide professional development opportunities, and foster a culture of safety and continuous improvement
- Financial oversight of budgets, monitor expenditures, and ensure financial sustainability of the schools operations
- Manage tuition and fees, invoicing, financial aid processes for students
- Student and customer relations
- Address student inquiries, concerns and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction
- Implement programs to enhance student retention and success rates
- Student training Program oversight of curriculum for all programs, ensuring they meet or exceed certifications standards
- Coordinate with instructors to tailor training to meet individual students needs while maintaining program integrity
- Monitor student progress, manage assessments, and ensure timely completion of training courses
- Work closely with marketing to promote the school, attract new students, and manage enrollment campaigns
- Collaborate on the development of marketing materials and participate in recruitment events
- Facility and fleet management ensuring that all training resources are maintained to the highest safety standard
- Oversee aircraft scheduling, maintenance, and ensure availability for training purposes
- Lead comprehensive flight training operations, ensuring regulatory compliance while optimizing resource allocation across aircraft fleet, instructors, and facilities
Owner/Manager
A2Z Made EZ
10.2022 - 12.2025
- Personal company I created to wash and detail private aircraft
- Wash and detail customer vehicles/private jets/yachts
- General contract work for other small airport associations
- Residential demolition and remodeling
- Towing and transportation of large trailers/yachts
- Grass cutting service
- Pressure washing/cleaning services
Ground Operations Manager
Epic Flight Academy
06.2022 - 08.2024
- Safely and efficiently lead a team of roughly 20-25 dispatchers and Line personnel, Transportation drivers, and Pilot shop attendants
- Monitoring students and instructors for signs of unsafe practices in effort to keep the airport as safe as possible
- Responsibilities include, ensuring ramp safety, scheduling employees, making sure students know available resources to them, doing recurrent training & evaluations
- Ensuring all 150+ activities (Flights, Oral tests, and Simulators) every day are ramped in and out properly
- Ensuring all of our students' debit accounts are up to date and they are available for activity scheduling
- Ensuring pilot shops are adequately stocked with food and other pilot supplies they may need
- Ensuring all 20+ of our aircraft are fueled and cleaned so they are ready for every customer that comes through
- Eliminating aircraft down time whether it's for maintenance, washing, fueling, or students not getting to the aircraft on time
- Making sure every decision my team and other departments make is a safety based decision
- Providing recurrent training with my Dispatch and Line departments ensuring all practices are safe and efficient
- Ensure all safety measures are complied with at all times
- Production of official school documents (safety manual/procedures,etc..)
Parts & Purchasing Associate
Epic Flight Academy
10.2021 - 07.2022
- Management of shipping and receiving inventory for airplane repairs
- Management of legal certificates for inventory
- Communication with different part vendors and maintaining a good relationship
- Providing GPS updates on aircraft to ensure legality
- Ensuring we have adequate stock of all parts, resources and all other inventory items at all times
- Complete quarterly inventory checks to assess losses
Ground Support Specialist
Epic Flight Academy
11.2020 - 07.2021
- Maintenance of school grounds, including maintaining sanitary COVID-19 protocol, maintaining a clean environment
- General upkeep on outdoor and indoor grounds, and securing airport property
- Preventive maintenance on planes, fueling and washing planes (dispensing roughly 1500 gallons of General Aviation fuel per shift)
- Marshaling incoming and outgoing traffic
- Ensuring ramp safety is the number 1 priority for everybody using the ramp
- Filling out safety reports as needed
- Ensuring aircraft are always secure
- Fill up jets with Jet A
- Responded to customer inquiries and resolved complaints to establish trust and increase satisfaction.
- Managed high-priority tickets with professionalism, ensuring timely resolutions while maintaining excellent rapport with clients.
General Maintenance
Jackson County Parks
05.2019 - 06.2020
- Maintained 18 county parks: including providing safe and clean conditions, basic electrical/plumbing, lawn care, and general upkeep of parks
- Maintained over a dozen lakes: including legal swimming areas, boat lanes, and buoy install/removal
- Maintained good relations with the public while they were using the grounds my crew is working on or near
Campground Attendant
Pleasant Lake Campground
05.2018 - 09.2018
- Maintained cleanliness of grounds, provided campground maintenance
- Provided excellent customer service to customers
- Managed front desk (reservations, questions, sales, cleaning facilities, etc..)
- Basic plumbing work
- Ensured all safety measures are complied with
Team Leader
Henrietta Transfer Station
01.2015 - 09.2018
- Properly dispose of industrial waste, compacted scrap metal, and recycled materials properly
- Safely lead a team of 2-3 people
- Total up revenue for the day, secure the revenue, and make bank drop offs as requested
- Organizing tasks to team members to get things done as efficiently and safely as possible
Education
High School Diploma -
North West High School
Jackson, MI06.2017
Associate of Arts - Graphic Design
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI05.2019
Commercial Pilot & Flight Instructor -
Epic Flight Academy
New Smyrna Beach, Florida03.2023
Skills
- Strategic Issue Identification
- Relationship Building
- Communication
- Teamwork Skills
- Punctual
- Customer Service Skills
- People management
- Microsoft excel proficient
- Operational leadership
- Regulatory compliance
- Curriculum oversight
- Budget management
- Safety management
- Facility operations
Certification
Private Pilot license
Instrument rating
Commercial single
Commercial multi
Certified Flight instructor
Timeline
School Director
Flight School Jackson
12.2024 - Current
Owner/Manager
A2Z Made EZ
10.2022 - 12.2025
Ground Operations Manager
Epic Flight Academy
06.2022 - 08.2024
Parts & Purchasing Associate
Epic Flight Academy
10.2021 - 07.2022
Ground Support Specialist
Epic Flight Academy
11.2020 - 07.2021
General Maintenance
Jackson County Parks
05.2019 - 06.2020
Campground Attendant
Pleasant Lake Campground
05.2018 - 09.2018
Team Leader
Henrietta Transfer Station
01.2015 - 09.2018
High School Diploma -
North West High School
Associate of Arts - Graphic Design
Northern Michigan University
Commercial Pilot & Flight Instructor -
Epic Flight Academy
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