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North America Region Connected, Autonomous, Security, and Electrification(C.A.S.E.) technical lead for Manufacturing- Worked to develop a new system for the region to address WP29 and RSxWINs regulations- Addressed concerns with current date based Bill of Material system when addressing the WP29 regulations by assigning design change application to vehicle lots and specific VINs rather than to floating dates- Reduce regional workload for design changes by implementing a complete system- Developed training material and troubleshooting guides to assist production and local plant manpower in implemenation- Mentored and trained new regional electrical vehicle manpower- Worked with Research and Design for all new electrical vehicle technologies to reduce the impact to the factories and align the process for each factory to be the same- Coordinated local plant members, Information Technology, Research and Design, and Product Engineering to create optimal solutions for the overal companyWorked primarily in a remote capacity in this position.

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Lead regional activity for electrification implementation at the North America Factories- Worked with Global Honda to optimize cost for implemenation of Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrids and Electrical Vehicles throughout the factories in North America.- Coordinated with other OEMs to setup supply of batteries to factories- Provided technical assistance in researching regulations for transportation of lithium ion batteries, Integrated Power Units (IPUs) and full vehicles- Worked with logistics to understand thermal conditions in commerical trailers and impact to parts/completed unitsContinued previous Job of leading regional activity for Connected, Autonomous, Security and Electrification implemenation in the North America Region- Rolled out technology developed from previous job on vehicle cybersecurity to the rest of the plants in North America- Trained local factory leads on the new technology and how to diagnose issues- Worked as regional technical expert for issues encountered during assembly of vehicles which required additional support than local members had capability to diagnose

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Lead regional activity for New Electrical Vehicle Technologies in Assembly.- Coordinated multiple plants in programming of vehicle systems, flashing of ECUs and optimization of process in these areas.- Worked with research & design to align new technology introduction with the plants- Provided technical direction for research & design in regard to standardization of vehicle cybersecurity and production implemenation- Created technical training manuals, troubleshooting guides and implementation manuals for new vehicle technology in the plants- Worked with Information Technology, Assembly, Production, Research & Design and Engineering to develop the best solutions for all plants globally

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- Electrical, chassis and engine test specialist for the Acura NSX supercar.- Work to develop inspections for each model year and destination on a performance vehicle. Additionally, if new functions are implemented on vehicles, design new test to confirm functionality if required.- Analyze and help improve daily, weekly and monthly failures for Line End Tester. Work with associates if failures are associate controllable. - Assist in implement new equipment specifically when it comes to electrical and control items. - Support maintenance and downtime with area of expertise as required. - Analyze complex vehicle issues when related to electrical, engine and chassis items. - Study and understand new model items with respects to electrical, chassis, engine, and body categories.

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East Liberty Vehicle Quality - Work to develop LET inspections for each model year. Additionally, if new functions are implemented on vehicles, design new test to confirm functionality if required. - Helped to create Business Object environment for better reporting capabilities for LET failures. - Analyze and help improve daily, weekly and monthly failures for LET. Work with associates if failures are associate controllable. - Assist in implement new equipment specifically when it comes to electrical and control items. - Support maintenance and downtime with area of expertise as required. - Analyze complex vehicle issues when related to electrical, engine and chassis items. - Study and understand new model items with respects to electrical, chassis, engine, and body categories. - Department PLC Lead for ActivPlant. Implemented Ethernet/IP control network for communicating bits from all PLCs back to the Line Master and setup all bits for ActivPlant tracking on PLCs.

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July 2006 - February 2007Marysville Weld Quality - Helped in planning new Flexible Measurement System utilizing a robot to measure key areas of the welded body - Developed a Catia simulation to determine the Caster & Camber angles based purely on weld body data if all other parts were nominal - Helped implement a static measurement system on specific areas of parts which would later be applied to the final body.April 2007 - November 2007East Liberty Vehicle Quality - Assisted in developing inspections using the LET (Line End Testers) for electrical, engine and exhaust inspections. - Laid groundwork for SQL reporting system in order to increase capabilities and locate weak areas in LET function - Repaired LETs which were based upon Windows XP handheld systems.December 2007 - June 2008Engineering Group of America - Division 2 Electrical Design - Designed a replacement for obsolete Omron C200PC PLC being utilized by East Liberty Assembly. Replacement was a small form factor PC running DOS utilizing C program to communicate with Omron CS1 PLC over serial and a line master over a frequency hoping proprietary wireless protocol. - Additionally, developed HMI (Human Machine Interface) for Honda Manufacturing of Indiana's glass installation machine.

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Helped to create a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manipulation device residing inside a SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope). Project is known now as NxSEM and is one of the only MEMS manipulation devices that can not only capture video but also sound. The entire project is programmed using a version of National Instruments Labview.

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During my Co-op at Honda, I worked in Organizational Development helping to train maintenance employees on electrical and controls items. During my co-op, I became very proficient with Allen Bradley, Omron and Mitsubishi PLCs. I also worked to develop modular trainers which could be utilized with many different manufactures PLCs reducing the need to have specific trainers for each brand. Finally, I converted Allen Bradley code from 9 PLCs on a conveyor belt system to 1 Omron PLC and laid ground work for Mitsubishi PLCs to be accomplished the same way.

I've built, upgraded, fixed and maintained PCs, laptops, and servers for clients. I've worked on LANs and VPNs. I have extensive knowledge of Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, and Server 2000/2003. I have beginning skills with Linux including CentOS.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Diploma