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EAC Emplyee of the Month

Amanda Doyle, Assistant PlannerScott Nestlerode, Lead Inspector

Scott received the "Employee ofthe Month" commendation for his

outstanding job managing paperworkfor multiple aircraft. Scott went above

and beyond the normal inspectionduties demonstrating excellence bothon the job and in classroom training

for processes and procedures.

Amanda's graceful and exceptionalperformance under extreme pressure anddeadlines has earned her the "Employeeof the Month" commendation. Within

just three days Amanda put together a 938card work package for a customer visit - atask that can usually take as much as twoweeks time. Amanda is also responsiblefor creating a matrix that lists all specialtooling and consumable parts neededthroughout an aircraft check directly

resulting in more efficient maintenanceplanning for aircraft managers and leads.

Dick Stratton, Senior Stores Clerk

Excellence in customer service hasearned Dick Stratton the "Employeeof the Month" commendation. A

true team player, his dedication andjob knowledge earned EAC highlyfavorable comments through recent

important audits. His "can do"attitude is a true asset to the EAC

community.

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Virgin America

United Pre-Award

Skybus Airlines

The QUality Assurance department takes a look at every aspect of our facility. We do this by conductingaudits of each department on a monthly basis. We make sure that we are following our written companypolicies, work instructions, procedures, FAA regulations, OSHA and New York State law. We also compareand match requirements from the Coordinating Agency for Supplier Evaluation Standard (C.A.S.E.) TheCASE standard is what most airlines use to determine whether they will allow us to work on their aircraft.By meeting and/or exceeding the CASE standards we are placed on their approved vendors list. In fact,since we are CASE registered some airlines may choose not to perform an audit of the facility and will just

send their aircraft to EAC based on our registry status.

Most often, however, airlines will want to come to our facility and perform on-site audits. Within the last five months we havepassed audits by the following airlines:

From A Quality Perspective

Lynden Air Cargo

DOT Team

FAA Team

TransAero Airlines

Gemini Air Cargo

Air Canada

World Airways

Omni Air International

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If we do not pass the audits we can not work on the customers aircraft, which is why our standard is audit ready always. If theprice between MRO's is a narrow margin, "Quality" can become the factor that entices the customer to choose Empire AeroCenter.

Lawrence Parris, Manager, Quality Assurance

Each quarter, I will be featuring an employee in a new section of the Tribute called "The WindowSeat." The selected employee will be chosen at random and volunteers are welcomed. This is myopportunity to share some information about your fellow co-workers with you. It is my hope that youwill find you have many things in common with the people that you spend so much time with eachday. Please enjoy this new feature in Tbe Empire Aero Center Tribute.

This quarter I bad the pleasure of learning more about Chris Jones (CJ). CJ is an Avionics Mechanic who bas been withEmpire Aero Center for seven months. He has been in tbe Aviation industry for 26 years. CJ lives in West Winfield, NY in thesame house be grew up in. He lives with his wife of an impressive 23 years and two children, one son, 16, and a daughter, 18.He has also coached N and Varsity football for the Mt. Markham School district for the last 10 years. Cf's music interestsinclude 70's Classic Rock Music, and Punk Music, with his favorite bands including Green Day and Dave Matthews Band.His favorite dish is Chicken Cordon Bleu tbat his wife makes. While he doesn't watcb much television he always finds timefor football and the occasional Sci-Fi program. His favorite movie is any of tbe Austin Powers series. When I asked CJ to giveus a quote he said, "Family is the most important thing to me, and I really enjoy working at Empire Aero Center."

The Window Seat by Christy Abend

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As a part of our continued effort to introduce Empire Aero Center and careers in aviation to local high schoolstudents, we are happy to welcome Ashley Armstrong to our facility as a participant in the Madison-Oneida BOCESProfessional Horizons Program. This program matches area high school students with companies in an effort toprovide mentoring and exposure to future career goals. Ashley comes to us highly recommended by Rome FreeAcademy where she is a junior this year. Her area of interests lies in Aeronautical engineering with a strong desire toenter the Astronautics program in the future. During her stay at Empire Aero Center, she was paired with LawrenceParrish, our Manager of Quality Assurance. Through her time spent with Larry, she was able to observe manyareas of the Aircraft Maintenance and Overhaul operation through a quality perspective. We hope that through thislearning experience, we can help Ashley in obtaining her future goals in aviation.

Members of the Rome City School District Civil Air Patrol Cadet Squadron Visit EAC

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Proctor High School Pre-EngineeringStudents TourEmpire Aero Center

In Empire Aero Center's continued effort to support theexploration and shaping of career paths of local studentstoward the study of aeronautical engineering, a group of pre-engineering students from Thomas R. Proctor High Schooltoured our facility recently. Through tours such as this, it ishoped that we can give local area students another choice ofstudy in aviation

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