SUMMARY:

• Accomplished project management professional and product design and development engineer with extensive strategy implementation, project management, and problem resolution skills and proven success in achieving company objectives. Adept at integrating key initiatives to complete projects timely.
• Excel at interacting with broad populations, including C - level executives, vendors, clients (sales), and key stakeholders.
• Evaluate current industry trends and best practices and use findings to design, develop and execute strategies to optimize products for productivity and efficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the solution of electronic control/calibration issues associated with engines/transmissions
• Manage the design & release of modules and sensors of Powerpacks
• Manage design & release of catalog of available parts and supplier interface
• Re-Flash modules with robust software as needed
• Conduct meetings to address electronic issues with design teams

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Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Close 2 cases per week-termed SUFS (Speak Up for Safety)
• Investigate failures of the Powertrain of all GM models, past and present
• Query staff engineers, obtaining pertinent information for my PowerPoint presentations to management
• Create Pareto charts, Excel spreadsheets to illustrate findings
• Order data requests, including Warranty, Legal, Vehicle Population, and Customer verbatims
• Travel as needed for vehicle accident reconstructions
• Download accident event data from black boxes of subject vehicles and analyze

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Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage whole car prototype testing for the Confidential Sentra and NV 200 Cargo/Passenger Van
• Use MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, as well as SharePoint to manage and follow the testing of engineers on systems such as Electronics, Audio/IT, Restraints, Safety, Side Impact crash testing and Confidential
• Optimize test schedules and prototype vehicle counts to lower department costs
• Report to Senior Management with weekly reports of test status
• Travel to Confidential Confidential in Confidential periodically for onsite test management of Confidential, Hoan-Bosai and Durability testing

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Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize the designs and monitor the designers of embedded powertrain control systems. MATLAB and C++ are the primary languages used to create these systems at Chrysler
• Schedule meetings to discuss software/control systems issues at a high level
• Meet manufacturing deadlines consistently
• Address field issues as well as future product designs
• Deliver timely documentation (e.g. meeting minutes, PowerPoint presentations) to senior management)
• Develop MS Project presentations to display scope/timing of software/control system projects for 3.0L, 3.2L and 3.6L V-6 engines
• Create Excel spreadsheets to track progress of software/control systems features, organized by feature teams and phase release

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Consulting Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Investigate, evaluate and report on losses due to industrial/manufacturing equipment failure, fire protection equipment failure, HVAC failure, Vehicle Accident Reconstruction (VAR), farm equipment failure
• Provided detailed recommendations for chassis component and sub-systems as well as negotiated customer test requirements
• Collaborate with key business partners (Zurich, CNA and various other insurance clients) to establish sound trial strategies, responses to discovery/document production requests and witness preparation
• Provide customer satisfaction by investigating complaints regarding chassis engineering issues and alleged product defects, providing guidance to legal counsel, market teams and dealers in product/ performance issues, and suggesting resolutions based on sound engineering and business practices
• Engineer, develop, build, promote and support product offerings that deliver great value to our market place

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Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully built and steered multiple teams to maximize performance in consistently delivering projects on time and within budget in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment requiring superior strategic planning, organization, and leadership skills.
• Performed a broad spectrum of duties, including managing component test request for office and residential furniture platforms while overseeing all phases of prototype testing in order to prove-out design proposals
• Led clients to optimize their operational and financial performance by strategically driving projects and steering initiatives to define and attain goals, measure results and build dynamic management and support teams
• Responsible for fasteners, ergonomics, aesthetics, materials, tooling, packaging of all furniture designs
• Acquired capital equipment and commissioned the manufacturing line for new furniture

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Design Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Applied dynamic strategic planning skills toward developing link based vehicular testing, production software calibrations, and test data reporting
• Actively liaised between various departments to develop, prepare and present technical reports detailing test results and future planning to upper level management, as well as product release status
• Met with clients to review statuses and provide expert recommendations in boosting operational efficiency of daily operations
• Reviewed and revised 3.7L, 4.7L and 5.7L front end accessory drive systems as we transitioned from the 3.9L, 5.2L, 5.9L and 8.0L engines
• Directed the dimension and material change for the alternator/AC/Idler pulley bracket, ultimately saving Chrysler over $1,000,000 over the lifespan of the bracket mounted Confidential of the older engines
• Changed from Aluminum to Magnesium alloy, saving 1.1 pounds and achieving a lower market spot price for the material
• Performed ongoing review and analysis of day-to-day 3.7L, 4.7L and 5.7L vehicle Confidential system design activities, in order to try to increase overall engine efficiency and reduce expense to the overall vehicle cost.
• Ensured testing met achieved FMVSS requirements, in accordance with client goals and objectives for 3.7L and 4.7L Confidential system
• Prioritized, planned and coordinated multiple simultaneous projects to maximize efficiency and achieve critical timelines, including executing a broad-spectrum testing plan (FMEA & DVP&R), developing budget allocations (MCM), and overseeing projects financial expenditures with supplies
• Innovated a wide array of system optimization proposals to Chrysler Engineering Management, as well as conducted analytical testing with suppliers on engine Confidential systems and engine powertrain systems to improve overall vehicle and component quality

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Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Optimized the processes that manufactured the battery cells that powered the EV-1 electric car, which was leased in Confidential
• Acted as liaison for the joint venture between Confidential and Energy Conversion Devices
• Developed new fixtures for rotating welding stations for improved production volume and improved manual stations for ease of use by operators
• Tested welding equipment used to weld conductive tab material to Confidential plates
• Troubleshooter for manufacturing equipment used in the formation of plates, replaced dies, initiated control sequences

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Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Executed ongoing quality assurance and diligently responded to and resolved management issues
• Maintained accurate and up-to-date logs on machine utilization and reports on progress of assignments including operating difficulties
• Conducted VA/VE analysis for fuel systems and components for Walbro Automotive Corp
• Troubleshot manufacturing equipment on the production floor. Performed PLC on manual and automated stations, using gauge R&R, pareto charts and other controls
• Introduced LabView to my supervisor, showing how we could use it to simulate failure mode on the manufacturing floor and in the fuel pumps once deployed
• Decreased incidence of flash on mating plastic parts of fuel filter by adjusting fuse/pulse of electricity
• Interfaced with vendors on procurement of capital equipment-vision equipment-power and free conveyor system, and sonic welding equipment
• Performed 8-D, DOE, to maintain precision manufacturing goals on manual and automated stations, replaced dies, initiated control sequences for individual manual manufacturing stations

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Engineering Intern

Responsibilities:

• During this foreign exchange internship between Confidential and Confidential (The Netherlands), I was tasked to design a new hand tool used in the manufacture of polymer/aramid fibers
• These fibers, spooled like thread on an industrial sized sewing machine in reverse, were used to reinforce roof paper, automotive tires and bulletproof vesting, for example
• A teammate and I designed a hand tool that could grab the thread as it was emitted from a spinneret at 5000 meters/second and “thread” or guide the fiber around the mandrels needed to maintain the tension in the system as the fiber approached the spools, all the while minimizing waste of the product