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Dallas, Texas, Us

Engineering organization leader responsible for directing all engineering activities, planning new R&D efforts, and managing staffing and resource needs based on project planning.• Manage engineering department through all project execution activities from initiation through tool validation.• Manage transition of new projects into manufacturing.• Supports sales department on technical acquisition of customers.• Consult with business development group on all new customer projects for feasibility.• Develop/maintain new material development roadmap.• Customer training on materials and manufacturing.• Developed engineering manual and organizational structure from inception through AS9100 certification.• Subject matter expert for all technical challenges and projects.

Parker, Tx, Us

Co-owner of a contract design, manufacturing, and supply chain services company.• Reduced the cost for devices under test for a large semiconductor manufacturer from $120/device to under $15/device with a minimum of 5,000 devices under test per type and in excess of 10 current different devices.• Developed/developing product roadmap strategies for companies developing a product for market to expand their options and introduced them to new industries.• Developed/developing new products for several local startups and large firms at significant savings compared to Tier 1 suppliers.• Driving new supply chain efforts for industrial, aerospace, and consumer products with a minimum of 25% cost of goods savings with equivalent or improved quality, domestically and internationally.• Consulting as the technical design house for companies looking to improve development capabilities, reduce cost, or add technical expertise.• Prepared documentation for patent submission.

Micro-PE holding company for local small-to-medium businesses (SMB's). Acquisition of cash-flowing businesses based on leveraged buyouts and improvement/management of operations to improve value and cash flow. Long holding timelines, capital return through cash flow within 3 years, usually 1-1.5 years, while maintaining value and growing the business.

Venture Studio: Bringing new products to market in anticipation of spinout or acquisition based on internal development and support of capital from small business grants and outside investors.Current product efforts: • Saas Product for Product Development• Biological Testing System• Consumer Medical Device• Infant Education Device• Consumer Lifestyle Device

Plano, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading and managing multidisciplinary engineering teams on multiple concurrent design projects and transitioning completed product designs into manufacturing. Responsible for initial customer interaction to define project scope, development approach, and initial prototype development.• Technically led proposal efforts to develop new products internally and externally including project costs, resource allocation, schedules, and risks.• Developed new process for aiding sales/marketing with proposal creation including development of product industrial designs and preliminary costs and schedules for pre-proposal efforts including translating customer requirements into development strategies for the engineering teams.• Co-Championed engineering reorganization to create distinct divisions responsible for sales/marketing support, project execution, and sustaining engineering.• Tactically led multi-disciplinary engineering teams to develop products for large aerospace companies with program timelines between 6 months – 2 years and budgets from $50K - $4MM and manufacturing revenue in excess of $5MM annually.• Created Project Engineer role playbook to lead and execute product development.• Resolved conflicts between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality to develop flight-worthy finished products.

Plano, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on design projects, individual design projects, and manufacturing rollout for a startup contract design company.• Championed engineering organization creation for startup.• Headed all new product development efforts with multi-disciplinary teams with projects ranging from $10K - $500K and program timelines up to 12 months.• Developed supply chains and manufacturing contracts for customer products, domestically and internationally.• Led proposal efforts for sales/marketing efforts.

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on design projects, individual design projects, structural analysis, and manufacturing rollout. As a manager-in-training, responsibilities include creating project cost and resource estimates and timelines for delivery to customer as part of the initial customer interaction and project evaluation.• Team leader of new-product design teams with design center revenues exceeding $10M/year. Projects ranged from $30K - $4M with timelines up to 24 months, including manufacturing transitions.• Expertly provided value engineering on multiple simultaneous projects which resulted in 25-50% improvements in part and manufacturing costs and ROI’s < 1 year.• Responsible for initial customer interaction and project follow through from establishing design focus and requirements through to the project closeout communications.• Accountable for establishing new design/analysis resource planning and testing protocols, resource/cost estimation for new project requests, and on-site international support for manufacturing.

Espoo, -, Fi

Responsible for modernization of the mechanical aspects of end-of-life elevator systems that improved functionality and decreased usage and maintenance costs for building owners.• Project manager for assignments from new products, field issues, and modernization retrofits for existing products.• Designed elevator components, performed structural calculations and verified that designs adhered to code.• Created an improved process to evolve from an outdated spreadsheet entry to a new programmable system for SAP data entry.• Managed component and process change activities.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Skyline Industries purchased by Goodrich in January 2008.Responsible for daily engineering tasks, from design, analysis, and manufacturing of commercial and military crashworthy seats and other helicopter structural components.• Obtained TSO (FAA commercial) and military certification for crashworthy seat designs and installations for helicopters (CH-46, CH-47, UH-1Y).• Designed, performed stress analysis, and executed certification tests of new crashworthy seat configurations for commercial and military applications as support for safety and functional certification• Led structural design and stress analysis efforts.• Designed specialized tooling for manufacturing operations which resulted in a minimum 10% decrease in manufacturing time. One process had a 95%+ improvement in manufacturing time.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Project Manager over a cross-functional team including Bell, Boeing, and Sikorsky engineers focusing on FAA-sponsored research into rotorcraft damage tolerance, reporting directly to FAA on project status and development.• Analyzed crack growth data, established rigid testing criteria, and evaluated ability to repair and damage tolerance for V-22 tilt-rotor Osprey and H-1 Huey and Cobra dynamic components.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering