SUMMARY:

• Exhibited leadership, program management and problem solving skills in industrial environments
• Broad knowledge of Agile practices (Certified Scrum Master) and leading multi - disciplinary programs including hardware and software components.
• Extremely process oriented and constantly driving improvements within the organization
• Extensive experience in technology and product development in Transport Refrigeration, HVAC and device manufacturing fields.
• Excellent communication skills perfected through leading worldwide global projects
• Demonstrated business competence through customer interaction, concept selection and market potential assessment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Mgmt: SAFe, Agile Project Management, MS Project, EPM, PPM, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Programming Languages: C#, C, C++, VC++, VB.NET, VB, Java, WML, PHP, Fortran, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Program Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed multi-million dollar global programs across US, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, India and China for Marine, Bus and Trailer product lines in the Thermo King Business unit.
• Launched a highly successful intelligent smart reefer solution for the European market in a short span of 6 months
• Worked with Product Managers to develop execution, commercialization and launch strategies and presented to senior leadership to seek business case approval
• Instilled strong customer focus through all levels of the teams to ensure no compromise on quality
• Worked with multiple cross-functional teams to mitigate and address risks and ensured that the programs’ Quality, Delivery and Cost goals were achieved.
• Communicated frequently with leadership team through weekly and monthly updates on projects to avoid surprises and incorporated their feedback early.
• Currently working on enabling global connectivity for trailer platforms both in North America and Europe, Middle East, Africa regions by developing Telematics solutions.
• Institutionalized scrum across the Quality and Reliability teams leading to increased transparency on projects, decrease in time to market and identification of risks and roadblocks in earlier phases.
• Directly managed and mentored multiple project managers and technical leads in leading projects using Confidential Product Development Process and project management principles

Technical Program Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed multiple programs with cross functional teams located across the globe to introduce new HVAC controls and sensors that included hardware, firmware and customer facing tool software components
• Focused on VPD (Velocity Product Development) - Completed projects on time or ahead of schedule making sure highly aggressive cycle times were met while adhering to strict budget restrictions
• Successfully led several projects through various internal and external audits (ISO, CMMi level 3, ASDP level 5- ACS software development process - Honeywell internal process).
• Partnered with marketing colleagues during customer visits to determine the market needs and enabled the teams to translate these to system needs and requirements for concept and product validation (Beta tests).
• Extensive experience dealing with product development and production at factories located in Mexico and US.
• Managed resolution of conflicts to keep the programs on track while working in a highly resource limited environment.
• Software project lead on highly critical program in the combustion business group
• Led team building events and motivational workshops to improve employee engagement within BCS scrum teams
• Effectively managed technical, schedule and quality risks by mitigating them in the early stages when possible and continuously monitoring them throughout the lifetime of the project
• As a Scrum Master led the scrum teams working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Release Train for achieving the desired results while keeping the focus on schedule to meet the NPI (New Product Introduction) deliverables
• Resolved dependencies and risks across global teams including China, India, Czech Republic, Mexico and US
• Significant experience in dealing with external resources and outside contracting design firms to develop consistent and intuitive user experience on products
• Managed the process for seeking UL, CE, CSA, etc certifications on several products and helped factories in Mexico to transition the product lines to be RoHS compliant
• Recognized as a leader for the Building Controls Solution (BCS) group and rewarded with the opportunity to attend and successfully complete Leadership Skills Workshop within Honeywell.
• As a SAFe Product Owner for the systems team made critical business decisions in several high visibility projects for the BCS group at Honeywell
• Coached and led several senior team members to deploy SAFe principles and improved the efficiency and timeliness of projects by 20%
• Effectively coached other business units (Homes, Global Field Devices, Novar, Phoenix Controls, etc) within Honeywell in implementing SAFe methodologies.

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Specified the system requirements and software architecture for HVAC control and integrated system solutions to meet market and customer requirements using VOC tools.
• Reviewed hardware and software designs for compliance with the identified requirements and architecture.
• Collaborated with engineering teams to develop and implement the software architecture using development tools and object oriented programming
• Participated in all aspects of product development including design, coding, test, customer release and support.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Awarded Next Level Achievement certificate for demonstrating efficiency and timeliness in completion of deliverables, and exceeding customer expectations.
• Successfully completed the design of human interface device (called eCDi) for the control system of various Digital and Analog Radio and TV Transmitter products launched by the company in FY2006 generating revenues of $77M.
• Designed and continuously improved the control system software (User level, Firmware - Embedded level) for Digital and Analog TV/Radio Transmitters based on Voice of Customer and marketing feedback.

Research Assistant

Confidential, SC

Responsibilities:

• Developed and successfully applied an algorithm for increasing the battery life of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks used for military and environmental applications.
• Analyzed the performance of a Reed-Solomon Encoder/Decoder using Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm through simulation