SUMMARY:

Project Manager/System Engineer with extensive background in project team leadership, project management, software / hardware design, and systems integration. Successfully led project teams that have developed products from concept to market release. Strengths in cross - functional team building, global communications, cost containment and value engineering. International exposure in Europe, Canada, China, and Japan.

SKILLS:

Manufacturing

Risk Management

Stage Gate

New Product Development

Engineering

Team Building

Team Leadership

Microsoft Project

Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Akron, OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the design, manufacturing and installation of curing presses.
• Provided customer interface to ensure project deliverables were completed and specifications were met.
• Planned for the installation of 12 curing presses at a green field site in Mississippi. Responsible for ensuring all material and personnel were on site to begin installation. Worked with automation provider to have engineers on site to commission the presses. First press was commissioned on schedule and allowed the customer to begin process qualification.
• Managed the installation and commissioning of 19 curing presses in South Carolina.
• Provided interface between installation contractors and customer. Managed the contract with installation provider.

Confidential, Solon, OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed the development of new products from project initiation to manufacturing release using Toll Gate process to manage execution.
• Create work breakdown structures, budgets, schedules, resource allocation, and risk management plans.
• Manage cross-functional teams across multiple geographic locations.
• Delivered a custom engineered system to Confidential .
• This system allows methane levels to be monitored in a gas storage field.
• The methane levels are transmitted back to a central server. The system was delivered on time and on budget.
• Completed the release of the Series 4000 Meter Transmission Unit (MTU). The MTU reads data from gas instruments and transmit the data to a central server. The release was completed on time to meet customer delivery commitments.

Confidential, Warren OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed the development of new products and engineered systems from project initiation to manufacturing release.
• Responsible for managing relationships between Confidential and external suppliers when integrating third party equipment into Confidential systems.
• Managed cross-functional teams across multiple geographic locations.
• Worked with sales and product management to manage customer relationships when delivering engineered solutions.
• Initiated the development of new products using critical path management and a stage gate process. Created work breakdown structures, budgets, schedules, resource allocation, and risk management plans. Managed cross-functional teams across multiple geographic locations to deliver the products.
• Assigned to improve the performance of the transponder reader used to determine the position of a remote locomotive in a switching yard.
• Developed solutions that greatly reduced the field faults. Used statistical analysis to demonstrate to the customer that the proposed solution resolved the problem. Improved system resulted in customer cost savings due to reduced down time.
• Delivered a custom engineered system to the Confidential Company. The system allows a crane operator to control multiple cranes using a single control unit.
• Delivered firmware upgrade ahead of schedule. Used 3D printing techniques to deliver a modified operator control unit in 10 days.

Confidential, Jeannette, PA

Project Leader - Controls Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Performed system engineering and project management tasks to facilitate the design and manufacture of automation systems used to control turbines, compressors, and turbine-generator systems manufactured by the Confidential .
• Developed processes creating greater efficiency for project execution with suppliers; enhanced efficiencies helped to successfully complete outsourced contracts in China.
• Delivered seven systems worth up to $2.5M in China and six systems worth $6M in Brazil by analyzing specifications, developing documentation, defining scope of supply, system connections and operations. Wrote Request for Quotations (RFQ), managed technical relationships of suppliers and final outcome of product to assure meeting design specifications.
• Point person for customer interface on all control system related issues for assigned projects worked throughout United States, Canada, China and Brazil.
• Created proposals and quotations to support the development of new domestic and international business.
• Coordinated the system integration testing of the control systems.
• Developed test plans and resolved any customer issues that arose during the testing phase.

Confidential, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed the development of new products from project initiation to manufacturing release using Stage Gate process to manage execution.
• Created work breakdown structures, budgets, schedules, resource allocation, and risk management plans.
• Managed cross-functional teams across multiple geographic locations.
• Partnered with marketing to develop product requirements.
• Managed the development of a high-volume production line for gas transmitters; product manufacture utilized Six Sigma methods to assure best product design.
• Appointed as project lead to design and develop extended range antenna that allowed reliable meter reading transmissions from meter pits; project was completed on schedule and on budget and enabled timely product delivery to meet fiscal year sales goals.
• Commercialized FixNet, a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) transmitter for water and gas meter reading operating on the Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) band. First system of its kind for company.
• Led total project team, developed and launched full project on time which enabled company to meet sales goals for the fiscal year.
• Managed outcome of multi-disciplinary team for project which commercialized FlexNet automated meter reading system which operates on narrow band license frequency and is current meter reading transmission standard.
• Developed the FlexNet cost reduced version of gas transmitter with $3.0M per year ongoing cost savings. Development and the manufacturing launch were completed on time.