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Provide technical and strategic consulting services to business deploying, using, or supporting autonomy.

Provide engineering services and mentoring to small and mid-sized technology companies.

Baoding, He | Hebei, Cn

Great Wall Motors is China’s largest publicly-traded automobile manufacturer and its largest SUV manufacturer. With the #1 car brand in China, Great Wall Motors produces over 1,000,000 vehicles a year for $15 billion a year in revenue, with 80,000 employees. I helped Great Wall open their Detroit office. The Detroit office was leading Great Wall's L4 & L5 autonomous driving effort, with testing in both the US and China, and additional team members in India. I helped this amazing team be as productive as possible and meet its targets: installing infrastructure and business processes, moving business and government relationship forward, strategic planning, establishing and delivering on goals.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Taught graduate-level Computer Science classes in Autonomous Agent Software and Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Supervised senior projects.

Singapore, Sg

QuEST Global Engineering, is a diversified Product Development company, employing over 10,000 professionals across the world with delivery centers in US, Singapore, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan and India.As one of three US General Managers, oversaw engineering teams in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte, South Bend, Greenville, Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles; with $25m profit and loss responsibility for five engineering centers. Also responsible for driving the growth of QuEST’s Embedded Software and Technology business in the United States.• Organically grew first organization 27% per annum and second organization 33% per annum.• Successfully opened QuEST's Indianapolis office, which now has 35 employees and is continuing rapid growth.• Established business with two new North American Embedded Systems clients.• Went from having 1 of the 3 most engaged centers in North America when I joined QuEST, to having 2 of the 3 most engaged centers in North America (average employee engagement has increased 18% in my centers since I joined QuEST).Direct organization performed engineering projects for GE Locomotives, Siemens, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Halliburton, Honeywell, Ford, Baker Hughes, GE Aviation, GE Power & Water, and GE Global Research.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Belcan Engineering's 3,500 employees provide Product Development services to some of the world's largest corporations.Oversaw delivery teams in Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Binghamton, Phoenix, and Seattle; with profit and loss responsibility for two engineering centers.• Managed the most profitable and fastest growing organization in the Cincinnati headquarters• Created business unit’s most profitable office.• Led team to grow direct organization by over 30% per year over an 8 year period, including double digit annual growth during the 2009-10 recession, to over 200 employees• Supported national organization growth from 600 to 1,000 employees in 5 yrs• Successfully acted as lead negotiator on multi-million dollar blanket agreements with Fortune-500 companies, 5 in aerospace and 1 in industrial-machinery, some focused on General Engineering others on Embedded Systems• Created business plans and directed national sales initiatives. • Opened new offices and expanded existing facilities, selecting property and coordinating with facility management and corporate IT. • Recruited and trained program managers, site managers, resource managers, and lead technical personnel. • Developed operational and financial reporting systems. • Facilitated acquisition and collaborative agreements.Direct organization performed engineering projects for GE Transportation, Rolls-Royce, The Central Intelligence Agency, GE Aviation, Proctor & Gamble, Honeywell, Smiths Aerospace, Aurora Flight Sciences, Amway, GE Global Research, Kodak, Lockheed-Martin, GE Power & Water, BAE, GE Wind, and Crane Aerospace.

A six-employee DARPA-funded business developing agile manufacturing processes using autonomous swarm coordination technology.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Taught Controls, Software Engineering, Multi-Agent Autonomy, Circuits, Scheduling Theory, Queuing Theory, and Manufacturing Technology. Research in Visual Programming Languages and Supply-Chain Optimization.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Provided an initial assessment of technologies required to implement the Air Force Virtual Manufacturing Initiative. On a 6 member team, wrote 13 million dollars in proposals to other government agencies, and wrote briefings for DARPA, the ManTech director, NIST, and the DOE.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Led teams to develop specifications for factory control software for various GM divisions and for the GM “Factory of the Future.” Collaborated with EDS for software implementation according to GM’s 5-stage software development process.

Niskayuna, New York, Us

Developed advanced controls software following GE’s Software Engineering processes.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Proposed Activity-Based costing structures for implementation in a divisions’ MRP system. Reviewed corporate cash management systems. Evaluated various companies for acquisitions potential.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

Louisville, Ky