2016 AMT Next Gen Award: Jesse Moore
Jesse Moore is 24 years old and started his aircraft maintenance technician journey as a junior in high school when he began taking Tulsa Technology’s aviation maintenance program for high school students. Once he moved to the adult program he quickly stepped up as a role model for all technicians, making conscious efforts to assist struggling students, practice good maintenance habits, and utilize exceptional critical thinking skills.
After graduation he joined the Tulsa Air National Guard as an Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist. For the next two years while he finished his Airframe and Powerplant certification at Tulsa Tech, he worked on Dassault Falcon Jets in Bartlesville, OK. After a deployment to Afghanistan, he became a field and airborne support team technician with Gulfstream Aerospace. His professionalism and technical abilities were quickly recognized while on a road trip to tend to a troubled aircraft and he was offered a position with a corporate flight department operating five Gulfstream aircraft. coordinating AOG troubleshooting, and helping revise policies and maintenance practices for arrival of new G650ER aircraft.
Moore credits Sheryl Oxley, one of his teachers at Tulsa Tech, as his mentor. Sheryl was also a great influence into his Air Force career.
During A&P school he worked as a mechanic on Falcon Jets, which is when he decided that corporate aviation was the route that he wanted to take. "After I received my A&P I got a job at Gulfstream Aerospace where I moved to Massachusetts from Oklahoma for, after six months I was asked to join the Gulfstream F.A.S.T. Team, I traveled around all over, never knowing where I would be dispatched to every morning."
While working at Gulfstream he was the recipient of several company awards such as the Mach 1, Mach 2, and a Mach 3 award. He also has received a service award for volunteering at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for the past five years and enjoys volunteering at any local airshow and aviation or community event.
Moore has attended advanced training at FlightSafety International on the GIV, G550, G650, G450/G550 Advanced Avionics/Troubleshooting, as well as G500/G550/G650 Engine Run and Taxi certifications.
Moore says his career goal is to become a maintenance director at a corporate flight department someday.