Tyler brings 21+ years of aviation industry experience, including 11+ years leading talent acquisition functions inside major aviation organizations. His career spans every corner of the industry — from ground operations and corporate flight instruction to safety management and senior TA leadership at a regional airline and a national air medical operator.
Before founding MachTen, Tyler served as Director of Talent Acquisition for the Air division at Global Medical Response, leading recruiting across five brands for pilots, mechanics, and air medical crews. Prior to that, he spent nearly 11 years at Piedmont Airlines building the TA function from the ground up — developing programs with a 73% cadet conversion rate, a 95.7% AMT retention outcome, and a 78% placement rate for dispatch graduates.
Tyler's compliance background runs deep — he served as Manager of Safety Programs at Piedmont during the Embraer 145 fleet introduction and holds active certifications as an Argus PROS Lead Auditor and IOSA Auditor. He also spent years as a corporate instructor at Garmin International and held operations and compliance roles at Great Lakes Airlines and Air Midwest.
He holds a BAS in Technology Management and Professional Pilot Science from Kansas State University and is enrolled in an MS in Aeronautics at Liberty University. He holds a Private Pilot Certificate with Instrument Rating.