SUMMARY:

• me is currently a senior - level Technology Manager at Confidential specializing in teh integration of technology and technical solutions into value streams, teams, organizations, and business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness in how teh business operates.
• me has been a senior level consultant and solution provider in teh past for over 18 years of my career and in this role me has served as a solution designer able to design, develop, and implement solutions (wif technology, analytics, and software) working alone or wif teams of people.
• My work experience includes more than 30 years in teh Information Technology, analytic computing, information analytics, manufacturing, and industrial/electrical engineering fields.
• me has worked primarily as a thought leader, technical lead, solution lead, and work director of technical projects/teams for teh last 15 years. Teh development work during that time has been piloting new technologies and specialized development for teams and projects me has been assigned. me is not afraid to jump in and take part in teh creation of solutioning when required.
• me has worked in many technologies, languages, development tools, and operating systems, analytic paradigms across an expanse of different types of businesses to develop teh transfer skills to be able to create problem solutions that can adapt wif teh changes in teh business and its operational environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Team Leadership
• Six Sigma Blackbelt
• Formal Leadership
• Team/organization building
• Technical leadership and competency across many applications, platforms, development paradigms
• Inventor and innovator
• AI / Machine Learning development
• End of Line (EOL) Technology and testing methods (for Honda/FCA)
• Continuous improvement focus
• ROI, risk management, cost avoidance focus
• Business relevance of solutions focus
• Fortune 500, 100, and 50 company experience
• Experience spans engineering, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, accounting, process engineering, consulting
• Teaching and Instruction

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Integration Technology Engineering Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Magna Exteriors Division Belvidere, IL/Toledo, OHIntegration Engineer department manager and senior - level 6 Sigma Blackbelt for world class $48B international automotive industry OEM parts supplier wif over 340 manufacturing plants globally (more than 200,000 employees worldwide). Primary duties include leading DMAIC / DMEDI / LEAN Blackbelt projects, 6 Sigma instruction & mentoring, technical software, industrial & electrical engineering and development, determination and implementation of tech integration solutions to meet organizational needs, organizational thought leadership,, solving difficult problems in manufacturing. Areas of focus include RFID, shop floor instrumentation and measurement systems,
• EOL and product test systems. Software technologies include SQL Server/MySQL, IIS, DOTNET Core, Unix, Prologic(tm) prolog, C/C++, ASP, JSP/JSTL/J2EE. Application/analytic frameworks include MRCQCS Quantum/Eigen computing simulation system, MRCDLT Deep learning suite & computation modeling suite, Minitab, Excel, and custom-developed analytic tools and models. Shop Floor electronic technologies include Modbus, CAN bus, LIM bus, various Balluff shop floor technologies.
• Activities include leading root cause & 6-Sigma blackbelt projects, industrial engineering, problem resolution of manufacturability and plant engineering issues, implementation of monitoring and instrumentation systems to assist plant product flow & improve product quality, partner & assist Confidential facility teams in problem resolution efforts, creation of analytics & dashboarding for Confidential teams, software/hardware engineering, and participate in IT & MES engineering strategy for facility. Projects include engineering support for Magna global product design, being a resource for composite lift gate manufacture from molding to assembly, deep learning computational modeling systems, data mining and informatics, advanced analytics, process engineering initiatives, robust engineering, product manufacturability improvement modeling, custom electronic hardware design & building to support production activities.

Lead Software Engineer/Development Team Leader

Confidential, Beloit, WI

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Web and Integration Technology Team leader (web, mobile, integration technologies).
• Lead team of 8 for a Web, WebSphere, and integrations software team in a $7 Billion company.
• Duties performed include staffing to demand, work schedule and assignment, develop and execute team strategy, technical stewardship/governance, and resolve issues wif execution of work.
• Department operational duties include coordinate analysis, design and limited development wif multiple teams including Business Integration, Quality Assurance, and teh Project Management Office.
• My team technologies included Java, JSP, JSON, JQUERY, DOJO, Camel, Spring, ActiveMQ, WebShphere, Tomcat, SAP BO, DOT NET 4.0/4.5 MVC, IIS, Classic ASP, HTML, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Drupal, DB/2 (iSeries), MS SQL Server, Linux, Microsoft Azure, VirtualBox VM, IBM iSeries system, and Rackspace.
• s include: Driving project to introduce GIT and workflow into ABC, implementation of a team development process, introduction of a release strategy and process, creation of teh after-hours support model and its leadership, piloting teh use of matrix (remote development resources) wifin ABC, and creation of L3/L4 subteam to address complex support issues and RCCA efforts to feedback into product improvement.
• Drove continuous improvements to fully utilize development resources capacity by understanding project turnaround, typical project size, WIP/demand from current data and demand signals, using metrics to fully understand team efficacy for both development and L3/L4 support activities.
• Used continuous improvement techniques to identify and eliminate operational waste, defects in development and deployment, and elimination of defects in interfacing wif adjacent teams.

Senior Technical IT Analyst/Business Analyst

Confidential,Beloit, WI

Responsibilities:

• IT Business Solutions Analyst/Software Engineer - Assisting facility as a trusted business adviser in selection and architecting of business solutions ranging from process changes, custom software development, to product selection.
• Primary duties were to architect solutions for a $250 million dollar discrete manufacturing facility using Oracle EBS and modification of existing systems to drive improvements in Shop floor activities and Quality team activities.
• Secondary duties involved custom software engineering & development to provide facility custom software products ranging from existing application enhancements, utilities, middle ware applications, and full applications as required (DOT NET, Java, SQL Server/Oracle DB technologies).
• Job role also included FME Facility Web Applications Owner - Lead web architect for FME company web applications and web development (DOT NET, Oracle OAF/BC4J, JSP, Tomcat, OC4J).
• Improvement focus was on FME Shop Floor Operations Team and FME Quality Team.  included teh effective modification of several shop floor systems to support needs, working close wif and supporting teh FME Continuous Improvement Team, and teh facilitation of teh MES software selection project to identify a suitable shop floor Manufacturing Execution System for teh facility.

Global Information Systems Senior IT Analyst

Confidential,Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Senior Systems Analyst and Development team leader for Confidential corporate Manufacturing Execution Systems Center of Excellence team (MES COE).
• MES COE team scope covered about 100 Confidential manufacturing facilities, subsidiaries, acquisitions, and green field manufacturing facilities (multi-theater responsibility) for a $60 billion dollar company.
• Technical duties include limited application development, Application Quality Assurance & testing, code review, change implementation, data modeling, technical feasibility studies, documentation, analysis & design, evaluate and recommend enhancements to current processes, disaster recovery planning.
• Leadership activities include estimating projects, problem (Root Cause Analysis) and incident resolution, providing technical development leadership for resources (CAT, Agency), overseeing development activities to meet deadlines, responsible for providing development technical leadership, work assignment.
• Customer activities include requirements gathering, technical specification development,, consultation, solution development, implementation planning and execution.
• Application Owner/Development Team Leader for teh All Quality Events/All Quality Analysis (AQE/AQA) manufacturing quality application, Application Owner/Development Lead for teh Enterprise Label Printing System (ELPS application) for emissions label printing (Java Development Teams).
• Global Application Owner for Enterprise 3rd Party Factory Systems (InfinityQS, PINpoint).
• s included teh improvement of 3rd party vendor relationships, communication and accommodation of vendor changes into Confidential change management, creation and facilitation of global governance of several plant automation systems products, improvement to quality of work delivered from development team products, reduction of work request turnaround, integration of team activities into facility processes for over 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide.

Sigma Blackbelt

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Fulltime transactional senior-level 6 Sigma blackbelt ( Confidential Technical Center 6 Sigma Corp COE) operating and executing projects wif value proposition in excess of $100K, leading teams, orchestrating and delivering, and performing special assignments at teh facility level.
• Developed functional/process and financial models for projects, calculated and tracked ROI expressed as level 1, level2, and level 3 benefits.
• Blackbelt skill set includes all available corporate black belts: DMAIC (process improvement), DMEDI (business process engineering), CPS ( Confidential corporate manufacturing process), and Lean manufacturing.
• Projects involved working directly wif departments including IT, HR, Accounting, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, R&D, and Purchasing.
• Lead and participated in project efforts to design and implement OEE and TPM processes and tools for teh Asia Pacific, North American, and European component/engine/machine development efforts for Confidential resulting in teh identification and elimination of waste in over 300 test cells across three worldwide theaters (AP, USA, EAME) saving millions of dollars yearly.
• Lead and facilitated projects for Continuous Improvement, new process development, process improvement, cost avoidance wif project benefits in excess of $5 Million dollars worth of level 1, 2, and 3 benefits.
• Functioned as a trainer for 6 Sigma more than 20 greenbelts and over 600 people for teh Continuous Improvement (CI) processes.
• Worked as an internal consultant on a special analyst team loaned out to teh many engineering groups wifin teh Confidential Advanced Component & Systems Division (ACSD) on projects effecting Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) and New Product Introduction (NPI). Most of these projects were focused manufacturability issues resolution, warrantee issue causes, and proactive reliability initiatives.

Research & Development Engineer

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Research and Development engineer for $4.8Bn research unit of a $50B company (Caterpillars’ Global Engine Development for North America - T&SD Global Metrology and Instrumentation DAS Team).
• s included creation of world-wide Confidential dealership Transmission Analyzer III tool, participant in creation of CADeT III DAS system and hardware development, creation of custom drivers for sophisticated instrumentation for use wif DAS systems, CAT ECM development tools (creation of map development tools), inventor of ML AI system for channel data interpretation and non-physics model virtual test cell.
• Technology included C/C++ (technical engineering programming, embedded programming), data link programming (ATA, CAN/J1939, and Confidential proprietary protocols), 1 Hz to real-time data acquisition data collection, Prolog.
• Inventor/Innovator: ed software patent 8,010,477 (Artificial Intelligence).

Independent Consultant/Custom Software development engineer

Confidential Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Full time work as an independent contractor for hire for 35 clients (revenue earned near $1,000,000.00).
• Special emphasis is on custom developed software for business and highly specialized custom systems (vertical enhancements, middleware, custom applications for web, database, desktop), system selection, application consultant, small business IT advisor.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Stellar Systems, Inc Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Full time work in a production development/consulting environment as teh senior technical programmer.
• Duties included problem analysis and business software solution providing for 150 clients (about 40 per year), PC/network hardware and software installation/support, project management.
• Experience included custom development (and vertical enhancement of present systems) in manufacturing, accounting, retail, realty, medical, food distributor industry, advertising, EDI solutions, business process improvement/ business process re-engineering, system selection, data integration, disaster recovery planning, forensic accounting, reverse engineering and modification of existing systems, database and client/server applications.

Staff Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Inc Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Staff applications programmer for a multi-million dollar molded rubber parts manufacturer.
• s included creation of custom shop floor ISO 9000 compliance software system, creation of special payroll commission calculation system, creation of EDI transaction processing system, administration of EDI system and nearly 50 trading partners.
• Technologies included Novel 3.x, OS/2, Windows, DOS, C++, MS VB, MS 8088 Assembler.

Dataprocessor/Programmer (Intern/temp)

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Data processor and programmer for multibillion dollar equipment manufacturer.
• s included assisting in streamlining tool control process, creation of utilities and reports for factory/shop tool control, data entry into IMS system.
• Technologies included Dbase III, IBM 390/IMS, MS DOS.