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Dodge Center, Minnesota, United States

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Successfully executed new product programs ranging from $15 million to $20 million in investment.
• Managed activities of Product Line Management Team (PLMT) to deliver programs on time, on budget, with quality, meeting customers’ expectations of John Deere products.
• Developed the processes and tools required to deliver model year updates and yearly incremental value strategy.
• Reported Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to senior leaders on a monthly cadence.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Established the Large Tractor Program Management Office (PMO) responsible for assessing resources, investments, program scope, schedule, and risk to ensure the successful delivery of new product programs.
• Facilitated the business council responsible for governing the execution of all new product programs.
• Managed project teams responsible for improving delivery of new products to theappropriate manufacturing organizations.
• Directed Engineering Efficiency, Development First Pass Yield (DFPY), Speed to Market, and Virtual Engineering Capabilities and business improvement benchmarking activities.
• Conducted and managed process adherence audits to enterprise strategies, processes, tools, and goals.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Project manager responsible for the successful implementation of Program Integration Workshops (PIWs) within the Global Tractor Platform.
• Coached program managers and teams on the tools and techniques used in the early phases of program development.
• Assessed program readiness before leadership approval and program start.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Developed and documented the product planning process for global production solutions
• Worked closely with strategic marketing and division product line planners to align product plans that support customer solutions and production systems.
• Facilitated Product Opportunity Documents (POD) for solution-based businesses opportunities, including market share projections, projected product volumes, marketbased pricing estimates, R&D estimates, capital.
• Translated customer requirements into product definition and product specifications in the early phases of enterprise product delivery process (EPDP) with marketing, product planners, and engineering teams.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Facilitated activities regarding Product Opportunity Documents (POD). This includedmarket share projections, market volumes, R&D estimates, capital investment, resourceforecasts and resulting financial/budget.
• Managed the large tractor portfolio which includes the 5-year R&D, capital, and resource plans.
• Created and maintained the 10-year large tractor product vision.
• Project Manager on two successful strategic projects; Strategic Drivetrain Project and Tractor Value Project.
• Created and managed various databases that support the tractor business, key vehicle attributes database, competitive database, and sourcing database.
• Managed relationships with related industries and provided leadership in joint ventures/product expansions.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Managed customer survey process for tractor products including statistical analysis to provide customer and market insight and direction to business decisions.
• Presented findings and information to senior management for project considerationand/or corrective action.
• Supported Product Line Management Teams (PLMT) in the product delivery process (PDP) to ensure that future products meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Assisted with the writing of the strategic business plan for Waterloo Works on a yearlybasis.
• Successfully managed the development, training, and release of the Product Requirement Request (PRR) process for the global tractor platform.

Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States

• Oversaw the manufacture of products within established safety, delivery, quality, safety,and cost standards.
• Monitored and made corrections to stay within the department operating budgets.
• Directed factory wide Continuous Improvement (CI) process, 5S and reinstated the factory Value Added Incentive Bonus (VIB) which enabled the use of manpower planning tools to predict and schedule manpower.
• Assisted safety director in implementing a new injury reduction plan that reduced the injury rate by 50%.
• Assisted quality and manufacturing engineers in reducing the scrap rate to 10% of the operating budget.

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

• Implemented a product safety review process (HDRS) in 4 months with the main goal toreduce product customer safety incidents and product liability risk.
• Provided quarterly learning sessions for factory personnel in the areas of Product Safety, Product Liability, ISO & John Deere Standards, Homologation and AccidentInvestigation.
• Facilitated a team of engineers responsible for developing amendments to ISOstandards for Agriculture and Forestry Equipment.

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

• Ensured engineering solutions met and exceeded customer expectations, quality, reliability, and safety goals.
• Provided leadership and supervision to 6 contract engineers.
• Designed and integrated a low-cost inertia measurement system for auto guidancesystem using Rapid PDP process and HALT/HASS techniques.
• Developed three new processes for qualification of electrical components developed by outside suppliers and sub-contracted resources leading to a 27% reduction in product development cycle time.

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

• Developed an industry first and award-winning telecommunication product for management of equipment fleets.
• Redesigned the product verification and validation process for software and electronic components resulting in a reduction in cost by 45% and reduced cycle time by 65%.

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States

• Designed and managed large agricultural facility projects up to $5 million dollars in scale.
• Provided engineering services to local agricultural businesses and producers in the areas of waste management, storage and treatment, agriculture technology,environmental conservation, and facility permitting.
• Obtained appropriate permits from local, state, and federal regulatory agencies includingEnvironmental Assessment (EA), Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System(WPDES), Storm Water Pollution & Prevention permits.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Agricultural Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Agricultural Engineering