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San Francisco, California, US

• Leading a Mechanical Engineering team to create state of the art professional audio and video products
• Product, resource, and budget planning
• Creating and revising design and testing procedures
• Product design and testing
• Collaboration with Dolby manufacturing and contract manufacturers

San Francisco, California, US

• Mechanical Design of the first Dolby branded speakers ever sold: The CS136MH horn and CS136LF low-frequency cabinet make up the Dolby System 136 and System 133 that are intended for use in Premium Large Format Cinemas.
• Design loudspeaker and amplifier systems for the Cinema and Professional sound markets. Drive expansion of Dolby Atmos theaters with superior hardware.
• Create procedures for documentation, testing, quality, and manufacturing for Cinema Loudspeakers.
• Work with worldwide supply partners to manufacture custom drivers, molded plastic, sheet metal, and wood components for assembly in Dolby factories and contract manufacturers.

Olathe, KS, US

• Consistently introduce industry-leading GPS navigation and communications products to market on time, on budget, with no significant production problems and high customer satisfaction
• Lead mechanical design from concept to mass-production
• Design, fabricate, test, and support production of a wide variety of parts including die castings, machined parts, sheet metal, and molded plastic parts with minimal supervision
• Innovate and create new product categories for Garmin, such as vivosmart (a sleek, rugged, Bluetooth-enabled activity band with capacitive touchscreen and OLED display), wrist heart rate monitoring devices, the zūmo.
• Mentor and review designs for junior engineers
• Design FAA certified aviation products (high-reliability navigation equipment) including weather RADAR and Attitude Heading Reference Systems

Dulles, Virginia, US

• Transition military bullet production operations from batch-process to lean one piece flow.
• Increase operator efficiency by removing barriers to productivity.
• Redesign manufacturing equipment to meet above goals and help the company successfully navigate the transition from "cost-plus" to "fixed-price" government contract.

Akron, OH, US

• Custom machine modifications and process improvements for $4 million belt assembly cell with several novel features.
• Worked closely with Manufacturing Engineering and Union Labor to make product succeed.

Manhattan, Kansas, US

• Designed new mechanic’s hand tool for patenting and production
• Managed Pro/Engineer solid modeling project
• Designed and prototyped new type of plumbing tool

Detroit, Michigan, US

• Analyzed dimensional data with GM engineers to improve car build
• Helped develop new software for dimensional data analysis and SPC (6-sigma)
• Trained local and visiting engineers on use and capabilities of software