PROFILE

• Java based PLM PDM Software Development - Electronic Product Life Cycle - Crowd Sourcing Ideation DMAIC Lean Initiatives - KJ Events Compliance Initiatives - Program Management - Application Security - Project Execution Engineering Systems Integration - Legacy Systems Migration - Medical Device PLM - Low Cost Center Partnerships - Supplier Relationship Management - Shared Services Management - Agile SCRUM Development Methodology - SDLC
• Business-driven IT Professional with distinguished experience planning and leading sophisticated IT operations and technology implementations that have delivered outstanding returns. Leverage broad business acumen, technical expertise and analytical skills to achieve strategic IT objectives and articulate a future vision. Masterful at making assessments of IT operational challenges and for developing and leading the resulting action plans. A history building technology organizations, improving IT processes and providing mission-critical solutions on time and within budget. A powerful leader highly accomplished at developing and executing winning business strategies, optimizing performance, improving IT processes, resulting in bottom line profits and organizational excellence. Champion of professionalism, dedicated to building and motivating high performing teams that consistently meet or exceed corporate goals and objectives.

SUCCESSES ACHIEVEMENTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Introduced one of the company's most dramatic process improvements in the form of the engineering bill of material EBOM , serving as the digital backbone for transporting part data from engineering to ERP. Sanctioned the development of EBOM to ERP integrations to provide synchronous release of all related data to SAP and expanded this into the medical device area to streamline Mexico and China manufacturing.
• Charged with leading enterprise engineering Product Lifecycle Product Data Management software development, deployment user adoption of tools to manage all aspects of the electronic product life cycle. Foundational elements of these solutions include Enovia and Windchill PDMLink, with the development process following a structured phase gate approach with Project Action Committee PAC oversight.
• Negotiated large volume, multi-year software and service contracts with significant discount outcomes over 50 . Active in KJ events to define requirements and Crowd Sourcing ideation with tools including Spigot and Venture Spirit.
• Sponsor for LEAN initiatives greatly improving customer satisfaction and delivery to schedule and budget consistency. Staffed with a global team of 75 associates and a budget of 9MM.
• Participated in vendor steering groups and user conferences to remain current on the frequent changes in the PLM PDM industries and to influence vendor plans for the benefit of the company. Set as a high priority for direct reports and self a constant premium skills recruiting model as a means to avoid extended resource gaps due to attrition.
• Driver of a wide spectrum of compliance related initiatives including program management, application security, software development methodology, customer satisfaction and hazardous substances.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Member of the Engineering Tools team assigned to plan and execute Evovia V6 March 2015 V7 July 2015 upgrades. Responsible for Supplier Collaboration and Data Exchange including automated transmittal of specifications to suppliers, managing supplier qualification and automated uploading of supplier documents.

Confidential

Director, Engineering Systems Development Integration

• Led a team including Chief Technology Officers, Product Management Product Engineering in the rearchitecting of the Product Change Notification PCN process, a vital link to customers whereby critical part changes are communicated. Key improvements included global standardization of the process and documentation format with the incorporation of rich content including 3-D PDF's across a community of 600.
• Organized and lead a Configurable/Catalog Part solution deployment from pilot to production with enterprise adoption as the end goal. Engaged business unit leaders to commit resources to the pilot process and validate the solution which is expected to improve part family management dramatically by representing it in a catalog series.

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• Partnered with Tech Mahindra in establishing a low cost center based Prime Contractor program for all Product Life Cycle Enovia and Product Data Management PDMLink application development. The outcome was a consolidation of multiple contracts and numerous staff members into a single multi-displine team.

Confidential

Manager, Enterprise Engineering Systems

• Served as Program Manager in the development, deployment and sustaining actions for a custom Medical Device product lifecycle management application for the TE Medical business unit. Partnered with the Integware Corporation to leverage their Enovia based medical device solution competency, addressing the critical elements of DMR, DHF and CAPA. This solution today supports a global user community of over 500.
• Collaborated with Chief Technology Officers on usability enhances to the Global Material Selection System driving a 25 usage increase in preferred metals and resins.
• Established an Embedded Software Development community and convened a global summit to bring this group together for the first time. The outcome was the adoption of standard practices for embedded software development, testing and disaster recovery among these Agile SCRUM practitioners.
• Contributed to the content and planning of an internal Business Analyst certification program to normalize critical skills in the areas of voice of the customer capture, business requirements definition and value stream mapping.

Manager, Engineering Applications Services

• Delivered process consulting, design automation and end user support for CAE/CAD/CAM applications to a global used community of 5,000 engineering users. Managed global software license agreements and key supplier relationships resulting in multi-year contracts with substantial discounts.
• Established and led a 3-shift low cost center operation producing customer-view CAD models for the company's electronic catalog, increasing and sustaining a 30 increase in usage by an external customer community. Awarded Rand Worldwide preferred Pro/ENGINEER training including custom curriculum to support company standards and customizations.

Confidential

Manager, Engineering Manufacturing Systems

• Established a shared service model for engineering desktop provisioning and support that had previously been business unit centric and therefore inconsistent in levels of service and productivity. Continuously optimized and expanded this model to one affording significant economy of scale value that remains in place today as a best practice on a global scale.

Team Leader, CAD/CAM Integration

• Managed a CAD industry-wide benchmark, Next Generation CAD supplier selection and license provisioning process involving executive level participation from all business units. Assessed thirteen 3-D CAD companies resulting in the selection of a vendor that continues to serve TE Connectivity today. Delivered significant cost savings through single point of purchase budgeting and follow-the-sun globally managed license pooling.

• Awarded US Patent 4544220 for electrical connector having means for positively seating contacts.