Managed the NPD process for two locations (Akron, OH & Ooltewah, TN) including leading the design team, prioritizing projects, setting and adhering to timelines, conducting project update meetings, controlling product and project costs, and launch. • Implemented 9 new products that grew Heavy NPD annual sales from $3M in 2011 to $17M • Worked with Marketing to evaluate submitted product ideas to identified the most efficient and acceptable products to expand the product portfolio and grow market share • Conducted brainstorming sessions to generate one concept per month of new products for marketing to validate industry needs • Effectively managed employees to utilize their different strengths in order to reduce project launch timing from 36 to 26 months • Identified gaps and improvements to the 5 year engineering strategy and developed Paladin Heavy’s engineering annual operating plan • Set goals and objectives and conducted semi-annual performance evaluations for the NPD design team • Held weekly project team status meetings to identify obstacles and countermeasures to assure timelines are maintained • Lead monthly executive product review to communicate sales success to plan of launched products, current status of active projects and list of projects in queue

Lead a team of 4 designers and fabricators to bring new products to market from concept design through prototype build and test to production release. • Secondary Inventor on US Patent Application US20120237292A1 • Lead the integration of joint venture operations in Europe and Asia in order to reduce product cost by 14% so price could be reduced in order to maintain market share and margin • Participated in the development of International Standards Organization ISO:13031 (quick coupler safety) • Introduced Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) into the “Heavy” division of Paladin reducing warranty of new product from 2.4% to 0.27% • Expanded Finite Element Analysis Capabilities of Paladin to include thermal & fatigue analysis in order to mitigate risk and further lower the potential occurrence of failure

Worked with Sales teams to conceptualize product design from the input of voice of customer. • Primary Inventor on US Patent #US8240970B2 & US9051716B2 • Conducted simulation, bench and field testing to analyze product feasibility, design, operation, performance and life • Pioneered Paladin’s use of Finite Element Analysis in order to increase product liability and control cost • Integrated and administered document management system (SolidWorks EPDM) into Paladin which gave the ability for multi-site collaboration within engineering and allowed multi-site manufacturing to operate off of a single print database

Responsible for modifying existing product lines to meet specific customer needs and improving manufacturability. • Reduced average design time from 16 hours to 2 hours through automation with visual basic • Evaluated Engineering Change Requests and implemented changes where applicable to eliminate manufacturing rework time reducing product cost • Reduced cost of product lines and inventory through designing for plant capabilities and streamlining material usage by using common components in similar weldments and assemblies