aircraft painter

Brian Scott Baldwin

**** *. ********** **.

Gilbert, AZ 85297

Cell : 309-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS: 27 yrs. In the aviation business painting and refurbishing airplanes and helicopters.

Over the years I have painted an est. 700 planes in the general and commercial aviation, and

have helped in more than a 1000, including various helicopters for commercial and military use.

From experimental home-built to Citation III’s and King Air 300’s.

I started at the beginning disassembling and stripping and learned all the phases through painting and layout/designing.

Then after 10 yrs. Of working and learning the operations I bought the business , then

owned and operated it for the next 12 yrs. I took the business from 6 employees to 20. From 5-6 airplanes at a time to 20 an average between 50-70 per year .I have painted various types of materials including epoxies, chromates, enamels, and urethanes. single stage and 2 stage paints.

I’ve learned payroll, filing of monthly and quarterly tax returns, epa reports, sales marketing, customer service, supply ordering ,accounts payable and receivables. I have also painted cars, trucks, motor homes.

EDUCATION

1979 graduate of Garden City East High, Garden City, Mi.

1984 private pilots ground school Glendale comm. Col. Glendale, Az.

EMPLOYMENT

12-03-2007 to 7-24-2008 Aerotek

Sr. Painter (POC) point of contact. prep skins for prime and paint requiring mil specs, paint mixing, seam sealing, masking prep for overall prime and basecoat. Layout trim colors, finish and detail, placards, boot dressing, wetsand and buffing. touch up, spot in repairs and blending, log finished parts into router system.

8-30-06 to 11-26-07Elliott Aviation

liquid strip acid etch and alodine, prep mask prime and paint, layout paint scheme design for various corporate airplanes. maintain time allotted schedules. Operate man lifts. Spot in repairs and blending, wet sanding and buffing finish and detail.

8-29-05 to 7-29-06 Comtek Advanced Structures

Prepping and painting various aircraft parts and performing composite repairs. Using PPG paint system. Mixing paint, spot repairs and blending, Health and Safety Committee

8-13-04-to 8-25-05 Painter, Boeing Mesa AZ, Creative Human Resource Concepts

Contracted to Boeing to paint Apache Longbow Helicopters for U.S.,

Egypt, Kuwait and Israel Learning bond prep areas and the proper techniques in masking, mixing paint, priming, Painting and silk screening.

2-19-04 to 4-30-04 Paint code tech. Remedy Intelligent Staffing

Contracted to Sto Corp. duties to analyze raw materials for Quality Assurance,

Pull Orders for shipping, perform color matching and formulations for colors.

8-15-81 to 9-1-2003 Owner operator Av- Art of Arizona Inc.

Disassemble airplanes mask for strip acid etch, alodine, bondo and fiberglass repairs.

Prime, base coat, layout designs, mix paints, spot in repairs, blend colors, metallic and Basecoat Clear coat. Light maintenance, window replacements, control surface balancing,

Train employees on all strip and paint processes. Repair all shop equipment,

paint guns, pressure pots, and exhaust systems.

Have sprayed Binks conventional systems Accuspray HVLP, Devilbis, along with various types of paints, urethanes, enamels, Chroma Illusion, House of Colors Chameleon, Sherwin Williams 7000, Dupont Imron, Jet Glo, Acry Glo, Sterling, chromate, epoxy primers and also water base interplan.

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