Profile / Key Skills

A program management professional with successful accomplishments in engineering program management, business operations, customer service, and product launches. Highly regarded for bringing organization to projects and businesses with the highest degree of attention-to-detail and customer satisfaction. Possesses excellent communication, planning, problem solving, and organizational skills. Professional History

Project Manager

Confidential

Manage a product improvement campaign at five GM engine plants in North America. Identify and track product issues and coordinate product inventory shipments of GM spindles between GM Powertrain, Apex Auburn Hills, and manufacturers in both Braunschweig and Westhausen Germany. Manage tracking information, replacements, and repair strategy. Work with Key Account Managers to address in plant issues. Prepare project status reports for GM and Apex management.

Engineering Business Coordinator

Confidential

• Liaison between Chrysler Electrified Powertrain and Chrysler Purchasing, Finance, IT, and Operations regarding budgets, invoices, and purchase orders PO .
• Prepared and presented a monthly budget status report to the department managers and director labor, ERD, and indirect material summary .
• Consolidated yearly ERD direct material spending needs for the department.
• Supported director, managers, and engineers by preparing executive summaries, payment schedules, check requests, charts of remaining planned spending, and analysis of remaining balances on PSP requisitions.
• Coordinated issuance of requisitions for direct and indirect material for the Electrified Powertrain department. Ensured part receipts and approved invoices. Worked with Finance, Accounts Payable and Supplier Accounts Receivable to analyze and resolve invoicing and payment issues.
• Prepared procurement requests for and managed all employee Purchased Service Personnel contracts for the department 45 PSP employees . Worked with Contract House Account Managers and Accounts Receivable on PO issuance and monthly reconciliation of invoices.
• Departmental representative for IT and software acquisitions. Prepared yearly summary report of software needs reviewed with director and managers to determine business critical priority and worked with IT and Operations to ensure all information was in place to process through the IT procurement system.

Customer Service / Mat'l Coordinator

Confidential

• Managed customer shipping releases and prepared packing slips and Advance Shipping Notices ASN's .
• Managed inventory records and invoicing.

Powertrain Coordinator / Data Analyst

Confidential

• Prepared cost studies and analyzed powertrain systems for cost reductions resulting in a 1.1 million annual savings. Teamed with finance to locate discrepancies in the powertrain financial control model, thereby identifying a savings of 50 per vehicle.
• Powertrain representative for pilot plant prototype builds. Worked with material control to solidify bill of material, supported builds, identified build issues, and worked with powertrain component engineers to coordinate availability of late product changes into the builds.

International Program Management / Launch Lead

Confidential

• Turned around a behind-scheduled, low-volume program by quickly building trust relationships with new colleagues and suppliers and bringing organization and discipline to the program.
• Organized and led weekly video design reviews for the global team, summarized meeting discussions, developed action plans, and followed-up with team members to review status and ensure program issues were being resolved, design changes were being made, and deliverables were being met.
• Served as the gas engine launch leader in Belgium for five months. Worked with the engine plant in England, the engine assembly supplier, and the cross-functional vehicle team in Belgium to schedule builds, identify assembly issues, manage containment actions, and implement corrective actions for a successful launch.

Component Design Engineer

Confidential

• Designed and released exhaust manifolds for truck applications. Worked with the exhaust manifold supplier, engine testing, designers, the engine plants, and the engine and vehicle program teams to address and resolve all exhaust manifold issues before releasing parts into production.
• Main point of contact for all exhaust manifold complexity at two engine plants approx 20 manifolds . Worked with suppliers and engineering to reduce complexity and create and incorporate part identification systems into each manifold, resulting in an annual cost savings of 450,000.

Program Management Engineer

Confidential

• Led the 4.6L car engine programs Crown Victoria / Town Car from the initial design phase to launch. Organized and led engine design reviews with component engineers and vehicle packaging to review and resolve all design and clearance issues. Managed prototype builds at the engine and vehicle plants.
• Designed, packaged, and released a secondary air system brackets, tubing, fittings, air filter which allowed the vehicle team to meet cold start emissions requirements.
• At manager's request, was placed in the engine launch leader position at another vehicle plant to resolve incumbent's unfinished tasks and to fix contentious relations between engineering office and plant.

Product Engineer

Confidential

Engine Design /Advanced Mfg / Engine Calibration /Warranty Claims Analysis / Quality Assurance