Todd Baird

Experience

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  United States Department of Defense

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2013

  Avionics Manager

  • Oversaw the work of 5 full-time civil service, 7 active duty members, and 15 part-time traditional reservist employees. • Performance surveillance and evaluated activities to ensure that all maintenance actions and personnel followed and adhered to proper technical orders and directives. • Correctly evaluated personnel skills and knowledge using Personal Evaluations (PE), over-the-shoulder evaluations, and Quality Verification Inspections (QVI) on completed work. • Utilized the Maintenance Standardization Evaluation Program (MSEP) to evaluate personnel performance and maintenance processes. • Recommended, prepared, and evaluated one-time inspections on assigned aircraft and consolidated relevant performance data from government, customers, and suppliers, making changes to the routine inspection list that addressed maintenance process proofing and audits.• Provided technical oversight on aircraft maintenance activities during the inspecting, testing, troubleshooting, repairing, aligning, modifying, calibrating, and certifying avionics equipment while automating test equipment.Electronics Warfare Technician/Supervisor, (2004 – 2012)• Managed 2 civilian Air Reserve Technicians and 15 traditional Air Force Reserve members while maintaining the radar warning, missile warning, chaff & flare, and infrared countermeasure of the c130 aircraft.• Installed electronic systems, components, or subassemblies in aircraft and performed pretest, operational, and final testing of electronic systems. • Correctly troubleshot electronic systems, components, and subassemblies to determine the nature of the malfunction and correction action needed and complex electronic equipment to determine the extent of the repair required.• Served as a Quality Assurance Avionics Systems Inspector, performing quality assurance inspections overall assigned avionics personnel. Show less

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  Alcoa

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2016

  Maintenance Supervisor

  • Managed 28 direct and indirect maintenance technicians and contractors across multiple business units, working to increase maintenance effectiveness while reducing overall costs.• Determined work priorities, setting schedules of reports accordingly in addition to performing in-process and completed repair inspections for the quality of repair and compliance with strict standards and regulatory requirements.• Implemented lean maintenance principles, maintained an effective spare parts program, and provided technical direction for a wide variety of maintenance projects.• Worked in collaboration with the engineering team on maintenance problem areas to continuously improve equipment reliability. Show less

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  DCMA

  Apr 2016 - now

  Quality Assurance Specialist

  • Support the United State Air Force Launch Enterprise Space and Missile Command and NASA contracts for work performed at the prime contractor and supplier locations for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles rocket program. • Lead statistical analyses of contractor supplier’s performances of manufacturing products through customer, government, and contractor data. • Issue and manage delegations to government entities located at numerous subcontractor manufacturing facilities for contract surveillance.• Utilize government and contractor software systems and Excel/Access to perform pivot tables, quad charts and queries to identify trends to determine risk, communicated to both Air Force and NASA customers. • Conduct contract risk-based audit surveillance by leading Process Reviews and Quality Management Systems audits in line with AS91000 and Government Contract Quality Assurance plans to determine contract compliance. • Issue corrective action requests due to non-compliances and conduct follow-up as needed. Notable achievements while in the position have included:- Recipient of an “Outstanding” performance ratings and award 3 performance awards. Show less