SUMMARY:

• Strong leadership and customer management skills with experience in problem solving, conflict resolution, and program management, including: proposals, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management
• Comprehensive experience in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Firmware/Software program development lifecycle, including: concept, design, hazard analysis, evaluation, regulatory submittal, market launch and ongoing product support
• Expertise in product design of metal fabricated and plastic molded parts with 3D CAD software
• Intercultural work experience with customers and manufacturers
• Top Secret and SCI Security Clearance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• DOORS, Atlassian Jira, Sprint planning, Bitbucket
• SAP ERP, SDLC, Planview, Daptiv, MasterControl
• CATIA, PTC Pro/ENGINEER, Solidworks, Autocad
• ENOVIA, Windchill, ANSYS, Flotherm
• Microsoft Office 365, Project, Labview, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed $12M program to bring systems up to date with modern day health care reform and comply with mandated next generation health insurance claims processing requirements.
• Facilitated requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, and deployments across 15+ application teams. Reviewed and approved application teams design and testing.
• Mapped cross application dependencies within Scrum and Waterfall teams ensuring design,development, and testing activities were aligned with critical path release dates.
• Worked with external business partner to modify and test their systems ensuring integrity of transactions sent to UHC.
• Responsible for all financial management (estimating, actuals, forecast), change control, issue resolution, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager of medical device development projects, including: bariatric hospital beds, patient handling slings, and therapeutic surfaces for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
• Led the engineering development of a $1.4 million bariatric hospital bed project that included four bed models with weight capacities up to 1,000 lbs., delivered on - time and under budget
• Developed patient handling slings on a $700k project for patients in acute and post-acute settings

Director of Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Leader of the Project Management team responsible for $10M LED billboard construction projects throughout the United States and Europe for: Clear Channel, CBS Outdoor and LaMar Lighting.
• Managed cost, schedule, engineering and installation of 7 LED advertising billboards in Germany, France and New York’s Confidential under an aggressive 5 month project schedule
• Led operations and logistics teams to successfully manufacture and deliver over $250k of LED billboard lights to 4 customers in under 3 weeks
• Ensured regulatory compliance of product integration for Underwriters Laboratories (UL), ETL and CE marking

Senior Mechanical Engineer/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed high Return on Investment (ROI) reliability improvement for a Logistics Engineering Change Proposal (LECP) projected to save $6.1 million over 7 years for the F-18 ATFLIR radar program. Analyzed ROI, assessed risks and opportunities, created a project plan, and successfully executed Gate Reviews with the Project Management Office (PMO) for formal proposal approval.
• Negotiated contract requirements, pricing, and quality provisions for a Statement of Work (SOW) with a major part supplier that spanned over 16 months. Effort resulted in a $200 thousand annual cost-savings and 20% improvement in Repair Turn-Around Time (RTAT).
• Mechanical engineering lead for a team of 12+ engineers under an aggressive project schedule to design, build, test, and integrate 6 unique test stations to support a cutting edge $1 billion sensor development program. Products were delivered on time and ahead of schedule.

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, analyzed, tested and produced mechanical enclosures for a $30 million gimbal radar development program to protect circuit cards, precise positioning devices and high heat components from damage.
• Designed mechanical layout and HVAC system for a $10M top secret Presidential vessel in conformance with JAFAN requirements, capable of cooling 10,000 Watts of heat
• Performed thermal analysis and optimized heat sink fin designs for high heat circuit card components
• Optimized isolator stiffness for fragile electronics by conducting random vibration testing 20Hz - 2000Hz

Project Manager, Sensor Systems

Responsibilities:

• Manager of Data Acquisition (DAQ) products that utilize electro-mechanical sensors for a variety of applications.
• Developed methods to alleviate motion sickness for Stryker military tanks during desert combat. Conducted Design of Experiments (DOE), using a sample of 20 volunteers and reported results to General Dynamics.
• Reduced road construction costs by 30% by planning and executing the design of roadbed temperature sensors that accurately predicted when a concrete mixture was adequately cured