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Jamin Heldt, PE
Jamin Heldt likes to tell people he just happened to " land " in
aviation during his career.
Age: 33
Hometown: Winslow,
Indiana
Alma Mater: University of
Evansville
Fun fact about yourself: My
wife and I just celebrated our
first wedding anniversary!
Someone I look up to in the
industry: Without naming
specific names, the aviation
management team at our
company.
While studying civil engineering at the University of Evansville,
Heldt attended a career fair and spoke with someone about
the industry and it piqued his interest.
" I really do enjoy the technical aspect of civil engineering
design for airport applications, but I also think I work with
some great clients that are genuinely motivated to improve
their communities through aviation and their airports, " he
said. " I also would have to say that my coworkers that I deal
with on weekly basis are all great people to work alongside;
I'd say that's primarily why I've been with the same company
for almost 12 years. "
Heldt is a project engineer, project manager and section manager
for CHA Consulting Inc. (CHA), focusing on airports in the
central region. He has worked extensively on the design and
construction of aviation, municipal and transportation projects.
Heldt worked on numerous airside, landside and facilities
projects at more than a dozen airports. He was involved in the
installation of solar covered parking project at the Evansville
Regional Airport (EVV) where he served as the project's design
team leader for FAA coordination, electrical engineering and
construction phasing.
Heldt continues to serve as project manager at EVV on a
broad array of projects including airside aprons, taxiways,
runways and drainage improvements to landside terminal
and parking improvements.
" Most everyone that I know in my local community has flown
out of the Evansville Regional Airport or the other airports I
work with in the region. I really take a lot of pride in being
able to say that our company helped with that project or we
did the design for that project and explain to them how we
work with the airport, the FAA and state governments to not
only make improvements, but keep things safe.
He's the project manager for the new terminal site development
at Barkley Regional Airport (PAH). This $42 million project
includes site/civil design for a new terminal building complex
at a greenfield site within the current airport property.
Heldt led the task of reconfiguring the initial landside layouts
to allow for additional development opportunities. He was
instrumental in assisting the airport to gather both community
support and regulatory compliance for the program.
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Age: 37
Hometown: Edmond,
Oklahoma
Alma Mater: Dallas Baptist
University
Fun fact about yourself:
I'm a connoisseur of Dr.
Pepper and University of
Oklahoma football super-fan
Someone I look up to
in the industry: Larry
Studdiford
My favorite thing about
aviation is: It's a service
industry, where people help
each other literally take
flight every day!
Nathan Sims, MB
A summer job at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
(DFW) and the " addictive " world of an airport took Nathan Sims
from the path of working in federal law enforcement to aviation.
" I thought, 'well, this is just, you know, a job, it's a paycheck
to get me through school.' And I'm going to continue down
the path that I had intended, which my family is federal law
enforcement. And so that's kind of where I felt like I was destined
to be. But in a twist of fate, once you get out into the
airport and you start breathing in jet fumes, then you have a
hard time breaking free from that particular scene. It's very
addictive. And so, I just enjoyed it, " Sims recalled.
Moving into DFW's terminal systems IT group, he led the
deployment of the first-ever virtualized sort allocation controller,
enabling baggage sortation on virtual machines versus
physical servers in response to a major baggage disruption
caused by hardware failure.
" We faced a disaster recovery scenario with our baggage
handling system, essentially the sort controller cratered.
And so we couldn't sort bags in one of the five terminals and
that was quite a dire situation that we were working through.
And we had to basically come up with a creative solution to
address that scenario and restore service to help basically
Now, Sims is an aviation and federal project manager with
Burns & McDonnell, specializing in airport technology, security
and special systems.
Sims is currently commissioning the $2 billion concourse
expansion program and Great Hall at Denver International
Airport, leading the special systems and technology portions
of the project, including testing of the access control, video
surveillance and radio systems, as well as the master antennae
TV, local area network, Wi-Fi, telephones and more.
Additionally, Sims is commissioning multiple baggage handling
projects at DFW and is assisting the program management
team on the new terminal under construction at Columbia
Regional Airport in Missouri.
bring back online baggage sortation in that particular facility
for the airline and for the passengers who were checking
bags, " described Sims.
Sims also implemented the first airport common use baggage
reconciliation system in North America, utilized by over 15
international airlines, helping greatly reduce the number of
mishandled bags by automating the reconciliation process
and enhanced track and trace capability.
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