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Farmington, Mi, Us

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I accepted this opportunity in February 2024, but organizational changes did not take place until June 2024. In this role my global team has tripled to support and lead the company's Software Defined Vehicle Process Method Tools program, focusing on the Process portion. Here I continue to focus on value-add items and processes to the engineering communities as well as design efficiencies and cost savings.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Fostering an environment of synergistic alignment among the various development and non-development teams successfully breaking down the misconceptions they had about each other and creating a collaborative environment where they both learn from and train each other.◆ More to come!RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership │ Budget Management | P&L Oversight | Product & Application Lifecycle Management (PLM & ALM) | Product Development Processes | Project Management | VA/VE | Team Management

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I accepted this opportunity in August 2021. In this role I managed a global and remote team to deliver various special projects relating to optimizing engineering efficiencies during the continued COVID times for our global electronics division. Here I focused on value-add items and processes to the engineering communities as well as design efficiencies and cost savings.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Fostering an environment of synergistic alignment among the various development and non-development teams successfully breaking down the misconceptions they had about each other and creating a collaborative environment where they both learn from and train each other.RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership │ Budget Management | P&L Oversight | Product & Application Lifecycle Management (PLM & ALM) | Product Development Processes | Project Management | VA/VE | Team Management

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I received this promotion in March 2020 right as Covid-19 was beginning to impact every area of life. I managed my global, and now remote, team to deliver on the development of next-generation airbag control modules focusing on value-added features as well as design efficiencies and cost savings.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Led my team in optimizing the current generation airbag control module platform design that reduced the bill of materials 2€ without violating any safety issues.◆ Identified need and assembled a matrixed global hardware team to assist with the efficiency and commonization of hardware design. Created the team and streamlined the design process, eliminating redundant work and duplicate designs while advancing my goal of breaking down siloes.RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership │ Budget Management | P&L Oversight | Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) | Next-Gen Product Development | Project Management | VA/VE | Test Validation | Team Management

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

This was a promotion in which I continued all my previous responsibilities and was designated the lead on the project to complete the development of the current generation airbag control module where I led a 100-person project team.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ◆ Led team to improve efficiency of the design process enabling the reuse of many design elements.◆ Played a key role in architecting the company’s feature-based development approach that established “feature teams” with members from every domain and across applications. We improved the design process by leveraging the expertise of team members.RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership │ Project Management | Product Development | Team Management | BOM Analysis

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I was chosen for this role because of how effective I was at uniting diverse cross-functional and cross-domain teams around a common goal. The company was looking for greater collaboration and coordination between the platform and application teams and I was chosen for this role to accomplish that goal.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Created a key contact list for every domain and every location easing the means by which information was shared, which sped up resolutions for the first time ever. The list was so successful other product lines have adopted it to enhance issue resolution and communication.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I was chosen for this role to unite a very territorial team of engineers across global locations. I led this team of hardware and systems engineers to create and release the full ECU system.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Fostered an environment of synergistic alignment among the engineering team successfully breaking down the misconceptions they had about each other and creating a collaborative environment where they both learned from and trained each other.RESPONSIBILITIES: Next-Gen Product Development | System Level Requirement Development | Training | Product Strategies | Project Management | Compliance | Process Development | Requirement Writing | Hardware Design

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

This was a promotion in title because of my high performance as Hardware Engineer. I performed the same duties as the previous role supporting the design of hardware work products for the next-generation airbag control module.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Played a key role in the design and launch of the Gen 7.2 modular software development board system for the entire passive safety engineering project.◆ Drove the design of inputs and outputs of switches and developed the interface for the software development system.RESPONSIBILITIES: Design Thinking | Validation │ Compliance | Process Development | Global Testing | Project Management

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I went as far as I could in the quality realm within TRW. I transferred into the role as a hardware engineer, which was basically an entry-level position, and quickly joined the airbag platform, hardware team. The company took a chance on me in this role and I have proven that I was more than ready for the challenge.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

This was my first position with TRW. I was brought on due to my electrical engineering and electronics background to serve as a quality engineer on-site at GM, a TRW first. I led a cross-functional team in root cause investigation for the warranty and zero mileage issues for braking systems.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS◆ Spearheaded deep dive investigations of emerging quality issues and created customer warranty databases to test and analyze returned field parts and claims. ◆ Launched the first hybrid slip control braking system for the Chevy Volt.RESPONSIBILITIES: Negotiations | Problem Solving | Root Cause Analysis

Southfield, Michigan, Us

I led cross-functional product teams in warranty issue resolution. The products we addressed spanned multiple product lines including HVAC, PTC, BCM, powertrain, alternators and starters. I was very effective in this role and enjoyed what I did. I contributed to the early detection and early resolution warranty databases across all American car groups.RESPONSIBILITIES: Training | Mentoring | Process Development | Quality | Negotiating

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Masters Of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering