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Experience

Commercial Pilot, CFI, CFII, IGI. ATP Flight School, Sacramento Executive Airport (KSAC), 2025 to 2026: Private Pilot through CFII in 7 months.

Certificates and ratings

  • Commercial Pilot, Airplane Single Engine Land and Multi-Engine Land, Instrument Airplane
  • Flight Instructor, Airplane Single Engine (CFI)
  • Flight Instructor, Instrument Airplane (CFII)
  • Ground Instructor, Instrument (IGI)
  • Complex Airplane Endorsement

6 practical tests, all passed on the first attempt. No accidents, incidents or violations.

Flight time

Flight time in hours, current to September 28, 2026
TotalPICMulti-engineMulti-engine PICCross-countryNightActual instrumentSimulated instrument
240.3136.427.92.190.713.31.256.0

Aircraft and avionics

Cessna 172 Skyhawk and Piper PA-44 Seminole. Garmin G1000, GTN 650, GNS 430, Garmin G5 and analog instruments.

Before aviation

Information Technology Associate, Systems Programmer (IBM z/OS)

California Department of Technology, 2023 to 2025

  • Conducted code reviews to catch errors before changes reached production
  • Updated and maintained IBM z/OS code bases, with a focus on preventive maintenance

Information Technology Associate, Network Monitoring

California Franchise Tax Board, 2019 to 2023

  • Watched network health and alerted the team to major incidents, supporting Major Incident Management (MIM)
  • Communicated outage status updates to stakeholders during active incidents and served in an on-call rotation

Information Technology Associate, Field Office Support

California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), 2017 to 2019. Hired as Associate Information Systems Analyst; reclassified to Information Technology Associate.

  • Deployed to cities affected by disasters to set up network connectivity and printing for area field office staff
  • Provided on-site and on-call help desk support to emergency response teams working under time pressure

Resume available on request: tristen@tristenbohn.com