Directly responsible for winning new business and developing repeat business.Manage product development execution with cross-functional global engineering team members. Manage stakeholders’ expectations including project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and deliverable.Manage projects to successful financial execution.Effectively develop and manage partnerships with manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers.Ensure designs are successfully introduced into Manufacturing. Contribute to the development of future company leaders.Accountable for the project P&L, AR, and sales forecasts ensuring variances are forecast.Create and own project proposals, which include the plan, schedule, budget, risks and assumptions. Participate in initial customer meetings, capabilities presentations, technical and business discussions.Develop project estimates considering feasibility, cost, schedule, capabilities, resourcing, and contract. Prioritize projects with directors and managers to ensure consistency with company objectives. Develop strategies and processes required to win new opportunities. Assign project team members assuring adequate leadership, experience, and technical expertise. Provide timely feedback regarding team member performance ensuring expectations are met and roadblocks removed. Execute conflict resolution and negotiation strategies to internal and external situations as required.

Developed new electro-mechanical & optical products containing holographic technology.Lead strategic planning activities with a cross functional team to evaluate and prioritize the project backlog and product line road-map. Created and maintained the rolling forecast and budget for product development. Lead voice of the customer actives and product demonstrations. Developed business justification and return on investment plans for development projects. Established & refined product specifications through trade studies and market feedback. Created 3D parametric solid models and production drawings using Solid Works CAD software. Developed and executed test specifications, plans and procedures for product verification. Interpreted large sets of complex manufacturing data into solutions to improve production yield. Lead pre-production manufacturing build activities and developed production workflows. Develop assembly processes incorporating custom test & assembly fixtures.Lead the implementation of ISO9001 development processes for engineering. Lead the implementation & ERP integration of an enterprise product data management system.

Structural design, analysis and product management of advance composite launch vehicle structures. Designed thermal management solutions for rocket nozzle control components.

Bumper Systems and Exterior Lighting DesignDesign engineer for 2003 Solara front bumper system, 2005 Avalon headlamps, and 2007 Tundra exterior lead.Negotiated and managed mass, cost, FMVSS and structural requirements with a cross functional team. Conceptual structural design based on clay style models, chassis and body components. Developed 3D Data CAD and Drawings, used for mass production tooling with CATIA V5. Designed for manufacturing process including plastic injection molding, stamping, chrome plating, aluminum vaporization, ED-Coating, masking and painting.Key contributor in supplier evaluation, selection and production troubleshooting.Lead "simultaneous engineering" groups with members of production, evaluation and design.Owned & maintained component schedules while tracking and reporting on open issues.Ensured high quality designs through DRBFM (Design Reviews Based on Failure Modes) {~DFMEA} Group lead for Catia V5 transition, ensuring consistent implementation of design philosophy and data management. Issued 1 United States Patent.

Creation of GUI and other data analysis tools, utilizing MATLAB, and MATHCAD.Created 3D models of structural components then created drawings from those models.Constructed 3D finite element models, in FEMAP, of spacecraft components and performed analysis and post processing using NASTRAN for satellite bus structures.Managed critical mass and power budgets for the ORBCOMM satellite bus.Designed spacecraft power system algorithms, including power loss and recovery management.Utilized commercial-off-the-shelf software tools, including Matlab and Microsoft Excel, to analyze spacecraft telemetry and test data files.Created a low cost test software solutions utilizing serial communications and analog to digital data acquisition cards in LabVIEW 5.1.Modeled and Managed requirements and trace-ability for the spacecraft communication system using a CORE (Vitech Corp).