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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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Created Project Engineer role playbook to lead and execute product development.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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