SUMMARY:

• A Director level engineering leader, with over 16 years’ of electronics, software and electromechanical new product development (NPD) experience, in a global environment.
• Demonstrated success in utilizing large engineering teams in NPD management with customer focused solutions in various Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics and Medical industries.
• Change agent with high energy levels, a diverse expertise and a legacy of delivering high - impact projects producing outstanding business results.
• Capable of diving deep into issues and yet operating strategically.

AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE:

Leadership & Resource Management Process and Technologies improvement

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Hardware Design and Manufacturing

Technical Product Management Software Development Methodology

Simultaneous Project Mgmt. and Planning User Experience Design and Development

Firmware and Electronics Development Global Product Development and Launch

Director of Engineering RBC Medical Innovations, Lenexa, Kansas Jan 2018- Present

SKILLS:

Technical: Agile Software development, HMI design for touch screens, Technical project management, Embedded hardware design/manufacturing, Schematic/Printed Circuit Board layouts, Circuit prototype testing, System Benchmarking, Robustness validation test plans, DFMEA, DRBFM, DVPR, Bluetooth TM, Zigbee Pro, Interoperability test plans, Design of Experiments (DOE), Engineering and design standards for Mazda, Nissan, Toyota and Honda motors. Product Requirements Capture, CAN, RS485 MODBUS, VDA, Voice Recognition, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), PCB packaging, BT SIG, Motorola HCO8 family, Microchip PIC 24 family, Multi-signal electronic design, ECU based systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director of Engineering

Confidential, Trinity, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Engineering lead for onsite client process/talent/tool improvements, product management and engineering services.
• Working in foodservice, medical and utilities industry
• Prince Castle. Role as product mgmt./requirements capture for refrigeration company product line upgrade.
• Requirements capture for marketing, product, mechanical, software and electronics and test plan development. Prince Castle
• RBC Medical Innovations. Role as interim Director of Software Department leading team of 8 in energy delivery product development for medical industry engineering service company. Set up consulting network for flex staff, team talent assessments and instituted process improvements compliant to IEC 62304 and ISO 13485.

Design Engineering Manager

Confidential, St Petersburgh, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Management of 20+ embedded, software, mechanical and project managers providing engineering services in automotive, industrial, consumer and power industries with focus on DFM to acquire manufacturing sales.
• Engaged with each business unit to gather market information in order to provide new technology offerings and engineering services in response to a RFQ.
• Developed product strategies and product concepts to assist in gaining sales with staff management of Power Engineers, Hardware/Software Engineers, Mechanical Engineers and Project Managers for various Business Units.
• Trained underperforming project management team to effective utilization of PMP best practices

Strategic Controls Manager

Confidential, Trinity, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Transformed under-performing team, upgrading talent and applied best practices including continuous integration, scrum, source code archiving, issue tracking, code reviews, integration test/reliability plans, firmware/software release process, Touchscreen GUI development standards etc
• Led rollout of new agile methodology (DSDM), hardware selection and functioned as scrum master for the redesign of controller platform to a modular, extensible architecture that accommodates IOT integration and is backward compatible to legacy product lines.
• Led VA/VE analysis by working with sales and product management to develop funnel of R&D projects and establish yearly engineering priorities and budget allocation.
• Design/Product management for new IOT/SaaS connectivity application for controls based on VOC, value stream and ROI strategy, subsequently guiding department new hardware/software architecture design and incremental product improvements.
• External supplier acquisition, development, and management for onshore/offshore software engineering flex staffing.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Developed GUI and Android OS based tool for agile software development of new LCD functionality.

Lead Project Engineer/Manager

Confidential, Holland, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Various automotive based roles with increasing levels of responsibility as customer system design lead, earning 4 promotions in recognition of leadership, customer satisfaction, project management, technical ability and communication; being rated consistently as “exceeding expectations “
• Responsible for North America 10+ staffed engineering team for hands-free connectivity projects utilizing Bluetooth technology and customer technical point of contact for the Mazda Corporation.
• Developed project plans, project schedules, resource requirements, and economic analyses and appropriately applies applicable evaluation criteria to each assigned potential project prior to submittal into the Stage-Gate Process using automotive “waterfall” methodology
• Responsible for the verification, validation, interoperability and regression testing of hardware and embedded software to end user and automotive reliability requirements.
• Travelled yearly to Japan OEM technical centers to support sales team as technical support lead (Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Mazda) for new product sales support, training and awareness.
• Project management of team of engineers (Hardware, Test Development, Validation, Software, Audio/VR, Requirements, Project and Warranty Engineers) meeting automotive industry standards.
• Responsible for obtaining global agency/homologation compliance (FCC, IC, CE etc.)
• Developed prototypes for corporate Navigation product for sales properties, while guiding 3rd party partners to develop map databases, LCDs, VFDs based on iterative feedback from target customers.
• Developed/performed benchmarking activities and led subsequent change activity for Confidential telematics products

Embedded Design/Project Engineer

Confidential, Holland, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Organized and led regular meetings at customer sites in U.S. and Japan locations to support technical and manufacturing design reviews as well as in-vehicle product testing.
• Project technical lead of cross-functional groups for tracking and resolving issues involving, product feasibility, program quoting, styling, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), manufacturing process, package integration, software/schematic review, validation, program timing, program budget, safety review, and customer/supplier meetings.
• Led and designed software and hardware solutions for products include programmable garage door openers (Homelink TM), connectivity, trip computers, navigation devices and LCD/VFD displays.
• Onsite training of customers on the effect of Phone networks (GSM and CDMA) and the various cell phone technologies on a hands free system in an automobile.
• Design of component level embedded solutions (circuit, firmware, test) into automobile systems
• Worked with customer and fixed EMC emissions issues for low frequency magnetic fields.
• Product design and maintaining schematic, DFMEAs, BOMs for all components, fixing design issues found in validation and vehicle testing, and regular senior management reviews to report status.