{"id":742,"date":"2011-12-17T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:19:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-17T18:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:19:49","slug":"piper-aircraft-appoints-aftermarket-business-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/piper-aircraft-appoints-aftermarket-business-director\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Piper Aircraft Appoints Aftermarket Business Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Vero Beach, Fla., Dec. 16, 2011 &#8211; Piper Aircraft, Inc., named aircraft customer support executive Wes Norris<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"155\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Wes Norris.jpg\" \/> as Director of Aftermarket Business. Norris joins Piper after a 31-year career at Hawker Beechcraft Corp. and leads Piper&#8217;s aftermarket business development office in Vero Beach, working with customers and dealers throughout the world.<\/p>\n<div>&quot;Norris&#8217; mission is to provide a high level of support to the dealer network in order to maximize the value proposition for the complete line of Piper products,&quot; said Piper Head of Sales Administration and Customer Support Lisa Giessert. Norris joins Piper following a 31-year career at Hawker Beechcraft where his most recent position was director of Customer Experience for that company&#8217;s completion center in Little Rock, Ark.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>&quot;Norris is a customer support leader with extensive hands-on experience in developing and leading customer focused teams that consistently produce improved customer satisfaction through utilization of Six Sigma process improvements specializing in parts support,&quot; Giessert added. &quot;Wes is a leader with integrity known as a customer advocate who ensures customer satisfaction success of the support network.&quot;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Among his past roles were; director, customer experience \/ completion center, director of new product development, senior manager of authorized service centers \/ warranty and manager of Arkansas assembly modification center. Norris is a pilot with 1,200 flight hours along with an instrument rating. He earned his master&#8217;s in business management along with a bachelor&#8217;s in economics from Friends University. He has also studied program management, supply chain management and is a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>About Piper Aircraft<\/div>\n<div>Piper Aircraft, Inc. is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida. A global force in aviation, Piper is an investment of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Brunei. The company offers efficient single-engine and twin-engine trainer, personal and business aircraft. With economical acquisition and operating costs, Piper airplanes deliver the best value available today and into the future. 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