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Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Responsible for strategic development of key customer relationships in North America, Europe and Japan.

Windsor, Ontario

Provide the Dean of the Odette School of Business guidance, advice and dialogue to help the business school develop and achieve its strategic objectives through recommended lines of action based on strategic and operations information received from the schools management team. Voluntary engagement.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Responsible for activities to support the creation of a next generation business portfolio for the Sanyo Trading organization, primarily focused on automotive, as part of the company New Business Development team reporting to Japan based company Board Member. Role is to find, evaluate, strategize, benchmark and the introduce newly technology emerging companies (start up to mature companies) to the Japan based team for Japan OEM engagement.

Continuation of previous advanced development responsibility for Hematite NVH product portfolio.Added responsibility to drive increased value-added functionality for standard molded foam seating focusing on designing, developing, and testing alternative composite structures in seat comfort and creating integrated occupant comfort technologies.

Responsible for all operational and design development activities for vehicle underbody and under hood NVH product supply to NA OEM customers (Ford, FCA, Toyota, Lexus, Mazda, VW).

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to Group Business President as the leader of global applications engineering, core engineering and advanced engineering product development (while maintaining North America President role). Managed over 300 technical resources across 3 continents: North America, Europe and Asia. Developed next generation products for vehicle interior comfort and convenience applications for today and tomorrow.Global owner of technology vision and alignment group strategy for comfort, electro mechanical, pneumatic and motor based automotive products.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Full P&L responsibility for 4 plants in North America (2 Canada/1 USA/2 Mexico) supplying seat comfort products globally for the automotive industry.Responsible for Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, HR and Program Management Departments for NA directly. Indirect responsibility for Sales, Finance, Purchasing and Quality Departments.Led yearly 5-year plan strategy process to grow facilities on average of 10% per year for the past 10 years.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Full P&L responsibility for a growth orientated Tier 2 Company, reporting to the Company CEO.Responsible for Operations, Sales, Engineering, HR and Program Management, Purchasing and Quality Departments directly.Built relationship with Toyota Supplier Service Centre and started culture change from traditional batch operations to a lean focus built around Toyota Production Systems methodology at the Windsor plant. Now a Toyota Showcase facility and used by Toyota to demonstrate the culture of lean for other companies on their lean journey. Implemented the first business operating system at Schukra (ISOQuest). Now a standard for all global locations.Led the launch of the first ERP at Schukra (BPCS). Implemented an Oracle based team to maximize functionality.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Managed the design and delivery of seat lumbar assemblies in a Tier 2 environment. Responsible for the performance and delivery of CAD, R & D, Test Lab, Product Engineering and Program Management Departments.Implemented standardized Gate Review and PDP process within company.

Warren, Michigan, Usa

Managed all aspects of Seat Engineering design and delivery for Eldorado, SeVille, DeVille, Aurora, Riviera, Oldsmobile 88 Seat Systems and Bonneville Trim Systems.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Various development roles (Plant Supervisor, Manufacturing Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering Manager) in a soft trim and seat assembly environment at General Motors.