Technical Program Manager Resume MI - Hire IT People

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Confidential, MI

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Manage cross - functional international teams to introduce new programs for OEM automotive customers. (Toyota)
Follow corporate product development (or applications) process including APQP & PPAP approval. Ensure the compliance of team members,
Establish and manage program budget.
Set team goals for timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.
Interact with all internal functions: design engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, marketing, and sales.

Confidential, Michigan

Product Development Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

Project manager responsible for leading global engineering resources and delivering a program from quote thru launch.
Project management (Task planning and tracking, and alignment with customer program timing).
Customer Interface for review of features, or in support of hardware deliveries and data collection in vehicles.
Manage list of features and changes for a given program.
Track resources required for product development.
Manage compliance with all required processes (Visteon or customer- APQP and PPAP)
Support preparation for all management reviews, technical reviews with product development team & customer.
Perform risk analysis on issues in the development of the product.

Confidential, Michigan

Sr Supplier Performance (quality) Engineer: Functions

Responsibilities:

Lead the PPAP (APQP), resolved conflicts between the PD, Purchasing, Plant, MP&L & Suppliers.
Lead SPE: Impact Assessment for all parts for new products, lead IMDS submission, participate in team meetings and provide updates of the program to the SPE team & PSW status to the Program leader.
Improve key Customer relationships in the Supplier Quality Area for successful execution of new product launches by meeting “0” PPM and “0” delivery concerns.
Meet PPM objectives for the suppliers.
Improve key internal relationships, by removing roadblocks and resolving escalated current production quality concerns for successful execution of new product launches & existing programs.
Support sourcing board with supplier assessment during supplier sourcing, Support purchasing in de-sourcing / re-sourcing suppliers.
On-site supplier assessments & technical audits. Evaluate technical and manufacturing capabilities and provide output to the purchasing and supplier quality organization.
Coach Suppliers to find the root cause for the quality rejects and work with them to close the QRs.
Mentor PD and Suppliers in design and implementation for the checking fixtures/gages.
Mentor/coach supplier engineers located at India, Mexico and China locations.

Confidential, Michigan

Sr. Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for IP development from Inception to launch for Chrysler, Nissan, GM programs.
Provided leadership role for department in educating engineers, manufacturing engineers, SDE engineering in assessing and correcting dimensional issues with components and assembly. Also provided for training and mentorship during department re-organizations and reductions. Trained four new engineers in product development during the last four years.
Conducted five Value Engineering/ Value Added workshops; generated business cases on all cost saving ideas by reviewing and analyzing the current product design, process, materials and suppliers: annualized savings ~110k.
Helped to improve interaction with TQCM/LCC India group. Took over mid-year and resolved communication and relationship issues. Brought LCC group to the required quality levels.
Improve financial bottom line focusing not only by reducing the initial cost but also by reducing the warranty cost and improving quality and customer satisfaction.
Helped to achieve reduction 0f 3MIS by 30% from 0.12 IPM to level of 0.085 IPM by 12/23/2009.
Supported to eliminate off standard and reworks by 20% from 2008 levels of $3.5k/m/plant-2009 target = $2.8k/m and supported manufacturing continuous improvement.
Helped to achieve 25PPM by redesigns to reduce field failures.
Reduced warranty costs by 25% from 2008 to $60K/m via: reduction of issues, re-binning to OEM.
Received “Spot Award” for ‘outstanding Nissan Current Model Leadership’.

Confidential, Orion, Michigan

International Liaison Manager

Responsibilities:

Establish program schedules and define plant functional resource requirements based on satisfying customer launch schedules.
Monitor open issues log for all the export programs and provide technical guidance.
Continuous monitoring of projects and resolution of schedule conflicts.
Provide regular reports in both structured and non-structured formats on project status and issues.
Vendor development in India, with procedures to check capability, quality and delivery of established and new vendors.