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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Gathered requirements for embedded control systems from cross-functional stakeholders, including product management, engineering leadership, development teams, service, and system testing.
• Piloted an asynchronous requirements approval process and built consensus for its adoption, drastically improving the pace of requirements definition and jump-starting the work of development teams.
• Served as subject matter expert for controller HMI requirements across product platforms.
• Contributed to multiple rapid-improvement events (RIE) as part of the 2023 Value Stream Analysis (VSA) for the Controls department process improvement efforts.

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Delivered embedded software in a remote work environment for distributed control system consisting of three modules.
• Maintained Jira backlog by decomposing features into user stories, facilitating effort estimations, prioritizing stories, and generating product roadmaps, transforming scrum team velocity from 60% to 95% in 6 months.
• Participated in sprint planning and backlog grooming activities together with the Agile scrum master.
• Managed relationships with vendor development teams and oversaw routine BSP integration efforts.
• Navigated cross-functional engineering teams through critical troubleshooting efforts prior to field test and launch milestones, leveraging dashboards to convey real-time status reports to peers and leaders.
• Recognized for spearheading UX design and implementation for new LCD HMI display in just 3 months.

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Developed algorithms in Simulink, State Flow, and MatLab to meet control system requirements, in a remote work environment.
• Lead the team in documenting processes in a formal repository, generating dozens of peer-reviewed process documents in a steady effort over 18 months.

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

• Managed engineering design projects across multiple divisions, focusing on hand care products, serving as technical liaison between project managers and engineers on pipeline projects.
• Safeguarded $4M in business from major customer account by conducting thorough investigation of 35+ field-returned units, collecting on-site field data, and working closely with equipment vendor to analyze the data and.

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

• Designed and built universal test fixture for critical hand care dispenser, saving test engineers months of set-up time every year and propelling multi-million-dollar projects through the development pipeline.

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

• Designed a standardized dispense test system to replace legacy systems and oversaw the conversion, including software, hardware, data handling, and user interface components, providing a scalable solution for global.
• Cast vision for a new strategy to guide the use of LabVIEW in the Systems Engineering Lab (SEL). The strategy focused on developing standard programming practices and building a common software library. Executing on.
• Designed and built custom electro-mechanical test fixtures for pipeline projects, including writing control and data acquisition software for each fixture using LabVIEW and defining appropriate test objectives and.
• Communicated test results to customers to inform design decisions.