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Glendale, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Columbus, OH, United States

Dublin, OH, USA

Project Manager for contract providing support services to Honda Research and Development (R&D) Americas, Information Systems (IS) Division. Expert in Engineering Design Coaching, pivotal in generating 39% increase in revenue. Software architect for the automation of a core Honda Business Process.

Honda R&D Americas, Raymond, OH, USA

• Enabled Honda R&D America’s IS3 Department (Automation, Engineering Design Coaching, Product Model Operations, Spec Control, and Verification Support groups) to provide product specification control, product.
• Responsible for the design, development, and execution of training program aimed at producing coaching staff.
• Authored contract proposal leading to award. Worked with customer to clarify existing services and develop specifications for new services. Negotiated terms of service and budget resulting in streamlined contract to.
• Mapped workflow of core Honda Engineering Change (EC) Process for the development, test, and implementation of countermeasures. Process improvements essentially prevented Specification Notices from being released with.
• Guided development of Service Request forms for all processes: 1) defined approved channels for submitting Service Requests, 2) ensured submitted Service Requests included all required information, 3) instituted.
• Sought out as a Subject Matter Expert, delivered task-specific knowledge to team members for all facets of Managed Services.

Honda R&D Americas, Raymond, OH, USA

• Directed development of end user documentation and workshop presentation documents utilizing a powerful collection of software applications (Camtasia, Captivate, Emby, MediaWiki, MS SharePoint, Photoshop, PowerPoint.
• Led several user workshop presentations; provided training curriculum to project teams, including coaches and users.
• Simultaneously addressed shortfalls in trained coaching staff; responsible for training of over 1000 users to meet contract deliverables.
• Investigated multiple aspects of workshop effectiveness, including marketing, delivery, and long-term value, in order to optimize impact and efficiency of educational efforts.

Honda R&D Americas, Raymond, OH, USA

• Established project plan, including product implementation, to meet long-term automation goals. Identified sub-processes for automation, scoped the level of effort, and designed the system architecture, to include the.
• EC Process involved multiple software platforms and custom Honda applications: CATIA V5, ENOVIA V5, ENOVIA V6, Service NOW, New Engineering Worldwide System (NEWS), Check Save, Check Plot.

Alpharetta, GA, USA

Spent extensive time embedded with customer providing engineering design support. Facilitated PLM implementations and requirements management. Developed VB.NET applications.

Alpharetta, GA, USA

• Facilitated project planning and provided direct support for Plastipak based 3DExperience development environment installation, configuration, and maintenance. Developed Use Cases to facilitate customer and.
• Enhanced previously developed X-Cel Tooling unique VB.NET application to generate setup sheets for 3-axis and 5-axis Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines in Excel 2007 or 2010 based on CATIA V5R18 or V5R20.
• Independently developed an automated VB.NET application for Sikorsky to repeatedly generate Software Change Records saving a minimum of two man-days weekly.
• Led Customer Interaction with Six Flags Fiesta Texas Maintenance team to capture comprehensive operational maintenance needs with the goal to reduce workforce surges and create a streamlined optimum maintenance schedule.

Honda R&D Americas, Raymond, OH, USA

• Provided user support to engineering design team comprised of several divisions working on multiple projects. Created and presented workshops throughout the development process. Documented new tools, requirements and.
• Helped develop methodology to overcome dealership ordering system limitation without system modification. Affected activities from R&D through manufacturing to distribution.
• Formulated methods to improve efficiency of importing supplier data into the Honda system.
• Helped develop functional spec for custom tool automating a daily task, reducing team workload by more than one man/day daily and enabling process scalability.
• Delivered training and conducted workshops.

Alpharetta, GA, USA

Started with an educational background in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. Gained a proficiency in CATIA V5, ENOVIA V5 and achieved Dassault Systèmes certifications (CATIA V5 Part Design Specialist, CATIA V5 Assembly Design Specialist, ENOVIA V5 VPM Navigator Specialist). Embedded with customer to provide engineering design support..

Alpharetta, GA, USA

• Analyzed X-Cel Tooling unique VB.NET application and redeveloped source code based on best practices to eliminate coding inefficiencies. Allowed for the fully automated generation of Excel 2007 setup sheets for 3-axis.
• Created CATIA V5R18 models and drawings of galleys for Boeing and Airbus.
• Introduced new method to create cross-section view of individual component from assembly model. Reduced view creation time by ~90%. Eliminated rework necessitated by design changes.
• Established optimized process to migrate parts catalog from antiquated file storage to parametric models linked to design tables.
• Developed tools in Excel VBA to automate large portions of design table creation process and provide quality control tools to management.
• Premier design support for parametric model failure analysis and resolution.

M.S., Applied Mathematics

B.S., Mechanical Engineering