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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.• Triaged developer questions in real time across global time zones to unblock stories and meet program delivery schedules.• Participated in a Value Stream Analysis for the Controls department process improvement.

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 locate root cause.

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 significantly faster.

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 use. Took the lead on designing the graphical user interface (GUI), including wireframing, conducting user experience research, and implementing the GUI in LabVIEW. Final deliverables included a bill of materials (BOM), assembly instructions, user manual, technical specifications document, and LabVIEW executable file.• 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 this effort resulted in a streamlined onboarding experience for new engineers and empowered current and future SEL team members to build upon one another’s work.• 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 methods based on an understanding of customer needs.• Communicated test results to customers to inform design decisions.