{"id":10791,"date":"2019-02-12T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:48:14","slug":"sixty-second-interview-sylvester-holmes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/02\/12\/sixty-second-interview-sylvester-holmes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-Second Interview: Sylvester Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Black History Month, we are sharing some quick interviews from some of our African-American Leaders across all work groups\u00a0throughout the Envoy system. For this edition, we have Sylvester Holmes who is the general manager of Envoy operations at Nashville International Airport (BNA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you start out in aviation? Are you still in the same role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started in Aviation in 1978 with Delta Airlines, and\u00a0retired from\u00a0there in 2012. I have worked in cargo, ramp operations, customer service and flight services. I began my career with Envoy in 2015 as general manager\u00a0in Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (JAN). I am now the GM in BNA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the most rewarding part about your current role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most rewarding part of my job is sharing my knowledge and experience with young and upcoming leaders in our company. Mentoring is a big part my job that I truly enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does diversity mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diversity to me means getting the best of the best from\u00a0everyone involved;\u00a0total inclusion that forms different thoughts and ideas from everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one interesting fact about you that others might not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I secretly dream on being a stand-up comedian,\u00a0but I think I\u2019m too shy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Black History Month, we are sharing some quick interviews from some of our African-American Leaders across all work groups\u00a0throughout the Envoy system. For this edition, we have Sylvester Holmes who is the general manager of Envoy operations at Nashville International Airport (BNA). How did you start out in aviation? Are you still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":42059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[105,64,66,77,507,144,173,86,51,68,508,509,510,365,267,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}