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Raymond, Ohio, United States

Responsible for coordinating the development of 2 future BEV's with JV OEM partner. Coordinating styling, design, and manufacturing for the cabin and front closures, ensuring construction alignment between divisions and companies, and guaranteeing all factory requirements are met.Managing a highly talented and diverse team of over 40 engineers in 3 design centers over 4 continents. Responsible for managing workload to meet project milestones and elevating critical issues with solutions to executives for quick resolution.

Raymond, Ohio, United States

Created a website for development teams to monitor their cost and investment by using interactive dashboards, allowing them to see real-time their status vs. target.Developed on-line tools for the team to balance their budgets by changing features, VA, countermeasure budgets and guarantee their running costs will meet project Cost,Weight, Investment targets.Standardized data input methods, created data models and tools for recording C/W/I for every part on the CBU by use of a custom GUI. Created user manuals and admin documentation for current and future teams.

Raymond, Ohio

Large Project Leader (LPL)- for the Light Weight Cabin project responsible for reducing weight in the cabin by 30% while maintaining crash performance and body rigidity. Responsibilities included setting construction for the entire cabin and leading a team of engineers from design concepts to a full BIW model ready for CAE analysis. Verifying crash performance and body rigidity through CAE. Correlating with factory associates to reduce manufacturing line impact. Summarizing costs and presenting regular status reports to Honda executives.

Raymond, Ohio, United States

Large Project Leader (LPL)- Responsible for identifying the root causes and countermeasures for the top manufacturing characteristics that were leading to lost units and downtime in current production facilities. This team reduced operating costs and improved vehicle quality.

Raymond, Ohio

Cabin Technical Expert. Responsible for steel, aluminum, and plastic parts in the cabin for all Honda R&D designed vehicles. Leading design engineers in maturing their designs with the stylists to achieve their artistic image and guarantee the feasibility of their concepts. Setting basic part and system construction. Checking engineering layouts and maturing the design. Collaborating with suppliers and Honda factory associates to guarantee quality. Authorizing drawing release. Coordinating with suppliers and the factory to guarantee smooth ramp up to start of production.

Raymond, Ohio

Upperbody Chief '14.5 Odyssey MMC. Responsible for leading a team of engineers to lighten the cabin and improve the crash performance. Calculating and reporting costs to keep project in budget. Setting schedules for drawing release to meet development milestones.

Raymond, Ohio

Design engineer in upper body and under body groups. Responsible for various comps on vehicles including; 98 Honda Accord 2 Door, 99 Acura TL, 01 Acura MDX, 01 Honda Civic 2 door, 03 Pilot, Honda Element for 03, 05, 06 and 07, 2006 Honda Pilot, 2009 Acura TL.Taking advanced sketches and clay scans from our styling group and confirming its feasibility for production. Then creating detailed concepts for the final construction. Building those models in Catia and negotiating with other groups to make the best optimized design. Finally creating the release drawings, confirming the performance through CAE, and supporting implementation all the way to mass production.

South Charleston, West Virginia

During my two summer internships, I developed Windows based application to perform fatigue analysis on pressure vessels in cyclic service according to ASME some. Created centrifugal pump database program in accordance with American Petroleum Institute standards. Performed finite element analysis of pump gears using ALGOR.

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

Activities and Societies: Member Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Society of Automotive Engineers. SAE Cargo Plane Team 1994, 1995..

Human Studies & Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Resident Advisor. Organized social and educational events for over 170 residents. Provided peer counseling.